Part 14 (2/2)

3) _The Maccabean dynasty_ Judas refused the title of king, but his farees assumed a royal state, and finally the royal title In the year 143 B C Jewish liberty was fornized, and the Maccabean princes ruled for a time over an independent state Between 130 and 110 B C Edom, Samaria, and Galilee were added to Judea The latter province had been known as ”Galilee of the Gentiles” (Isa 9 1); but by degrees the foreigners withdrew, and the province was occupied by Jeere as devoted and loyal as those of Jerusalem

[Illustration: ROMAN EMPIRE]

4) _The rise of the sects_ About B C 100 the two sects, or schools of thought, the Pharisees and Sadducees, began to appear, though their principles had long been working The Pharisees (”separatists”) sought for absolute separation from the Gentile world and a strict construction of the law of Moses, while the Sadducees (”moralists”) were liberal in their their theories and in their lives

4 =The Roman period= (B C 40-A D 70) It is not easy to na of the Roan in B C 63, when Poonist of Julius Caesar) was asked to intervene between two claimants for the Jewish throne, Hyrcanus and Aristobulus Pompey decided for Hyrcanus, and aided hied and took Jerusalem, and then placed Hyrcanus in power, but without the title of king Froh not nominally, in control of affairs

1) _Herod the Great_ We assign as the date of the Roman rule 40 B C, when Herod (son of Antipater, an Edoeneral of Hyrcanus) received the title of king froarded as a part of the Roe, and one of the most unscrupulous He ruled over all Palestine, Idumea (ancient Edom), and the lands south of Damascus

[Illustration: PALESTINE IN THE TIME OF CHRIST]

2) _Herod's tehly hated by the Jews, less for his character than for his foreign birth To gain their favor he began rebuilding the te after his death, which took place at Jericho about the ti of the Jeas born (Matt 2 1, 2)

3) _The tetrarchies_ By Herod's will his dos,” a title for a fourth part of a kingdo Judea, Idumea, and Samaria; Antipas (the Herod of Luke 4 19, 20; 23 7-11) receiving Galilee and Perea; and Philip (Luke 3 1) having the district of Bashan About A D 6 Archelaus was deposed, and a Roman, Coponius, was appointed the first Procurator of Judea, which was made a part of the prefecture of Syria The rest of Jewish annals belongs properly to the New Testaradual =PREPARATION FOR THE GOSPEL=, which was steadily advancing

1 =There was a political preparation= Six centuries before Christ the world around the Mediterranean was divided into states, whose normal condition ar At no time was peace prevalent over all the world at once If Christ had come at that time it would have been ih war and conquest But kingdoms were absorbed into eer conception of the nation than its predecessor Froested states in the assyrian Empire to the orderly, assireat advance Christ appeared at the only point in the world's history when the great nations of the world were under one government, with a system of roads such that a traveler could pass from Mesopotamia to Spain and could sail the Mediterranean Sea in perfect safety

2 =There was a preparation of language= The conquests of Alexander, though accomplished in ten years, left a deeper impress upon the world than any other two centuries of history They gave to the whole of that world one language, the noblest tongue ever spoken by huh Alexander Greek cities were founded every-where in the East, Greek kingdoms were established, the Greek literature and the Greek civilization covered all the lands

That was the language in which Paul preached the Gospel, and in which the New Testae of the ancient world in which the thoughts of the Gospel could be readily expressed While each land had its own tongue, the Greek tongue was cooing on there was another in progress at the saht point to the history of the Israelites fro; but we refer now to their special preparation for their mission after the restoration, B C 536 There was a divine purpose in the division of Judaism into two streams; one a little fountain in Palestine, the other a river dispersed over all the lands Each branch had its part in the divine plan One was to concentrate its energies upon the divine religion, to study the sacred books, to otry, narrowness, and intolerance kept them from destruction; the other branch was out in the world, where every Jewish synagogue in a heathen city kept alive the knowledge of God, and dissehtful, spiritualbetter than heathenisave the Gospel, but the Jews of the dispersion carried it to the Gentiles, and each synagogue in the foreign world became the nucleus of a Christian Church, where for the first time Jew and Gentile met as equals

4 Finally, there was the =preparation of a religion= The Gospel of Christ was not a new religion; it was the new developion As we study the Old Testaious plane There is an enlargement of spiritual vision between Abraham and Moses; between Moses and David; between David and Isaiah; between Isaiah and John the Baptist Pharisee and Sadducee each held a share of the truth which eht of both sects The work ofof the Lord, and just when revelation was brought up to the highest level, when a race was trained to apprehend and proclaie had been created and diffused to express it, when the world was united in one great brotherhood of states, ready to receive it--then, in the fullness of times, the Christ was manifested, who is over all, God blessed forever

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QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW

With what history is that of the Jews interwoven during this period?

What was the political condition of the Jews at this time?

What are the four periods of this history?

Who were the rulers of the Jews during the first period?

What building was erected after the return froreat deliverance was effected by a woman?