The World in the Bondage of Egypt: Under the Triumphal Arch of Titus, Paperback/Chad J. Schafer
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Description Finally, a work that places antiquity's Triumphal Arches in the context of their origins and why this is not only history past but present. Furthermore, the context of these monuments are anything but naive displays of grandeur--they were erected to demonstrate the triumph of the victor over the conquered. What is most fascinating is the original Roman Arch of Triumph fully developed by General Titus to commemorate the Roman Empire's victory over Judea and the commencement of the diaspora of the Jews circa 70 AD. The authors "connect the dots" whereby the Kingdoms of the World under the "Bondage of Egypt" from whence Israel's First Exodus took place have been at deliberate odds with the Kingdom of God. Alas The Second Exodus - the Greater Exodus culminates at the "end of the age" in which "God's Elect" from both Israel, primarily the House of Judah, and "those called out from among the Gentiles" - that "multitude among the nations" which is prophetically labeled the "Fullness of the Gentiles" - reach their zenith. Indeed, this is not an abhorrent teaching found within British Israelism or a Noahide derivative--or for that matter, for those in the know, some form of Hebrew Roots. No, this is the eternal purpose of the Almighty who purposed through His Messiah, the Deliverer Who shall come "out of Zion" to rescue His ancient people and those brought into the "Commonwealth of Israel (again, those from among the nations--the Gentiles--a "people for His Name") AND to make of these "two house" - these "two sticks" - one nation, one peculiar people - distinct but not separated for eternity Yes, this is an intense commentary based of extensive biblical passages which confirm the New Covenant and its Everlasting Covenant of Peace between these two which was won in atonement at the Cross nigh 2, 000 years ago - but, as the reader shall discover, the "enemy of our souls" has heretofore kept the "faithful son" and the "prodigal son" - jealous and apart, the one from t