JERUSALEM; ROME; REVELATION - The Preterist Archive

east side, nor the Danube on the north.... They have sought for another habitable Earth
beyond the Ocean, and have carried their arms as far as such British islands as were never
known before.... Do you also, who depend on the walls of Jerusalem, consider what a wall
the Britons had! For the Romans sailed away to them, and subdued them while they were
encompassed by the Ocean.” Josephus: Wars of the Jews II:16:4.
198 Indeed, right before the Pagan Romans’ destruction of the temple in Jerusalem
during A.D. 70, General Titus (who had together with his father Vespasian previously fought
against the Britons in South Britain) urged the besieged Jews to surrender. To them, Josephus
pointed out: “Have you stronger walls than we have? Pray, what greater obstacle is there than
the wall of the Ocean with which the Britons are encompassed - and yet they pay homage to
the arms of the Romans!” Ib., VI:6:2. Yet, even as he said that, the British King Venut(ius)
was blocking the Roman advance from Yorkshire across the Pennines into Cumbria - and the
resistance against the Romans in parts of Cumbria and especially Northern Scotland would
continue even decades later.
199 As the Pagan Roman Historian Tacitus himself admits, 90 the seven years 63 to 70
A.D. were “full of atrocious battles; of discord and rebellion; yea, horrible even in peace.
Four [Roman] princes...killed by the sword; three civil wars; several foreign wars, and mostly
raging at the same time.... Illyria disturbed; Gaul uneasy; Britain conquered, but soon
relinquished; the nations of Sarmatia and Suevia rising against us; the Parthians excited by the
deception of a Pseudo-Nero. Italy also weighed down by new or oft-repeated calamities;
cities swallowed up or buried in ruins; Rome laid waste by conflagrations; the old [Pagan
Roman] temples burned up; even the capitol [in Rome] set on fire by citizens; sanctuaries
desecrated; adultery rampant in high places. The sea filled with exiles; the rocky islands [like
Pandataria and Patmos] contaminated with murder. Still more horrible, the fury in the city [of
Rome]. Nobility, riches, places of honour, whether declined or occupied, counted as crimes;
and virtue sure of destruction!”
200. After the 68 A.D. death of Nero, Rome and the Roman Empire slid into a very
bloody civil war. Rome had finally crushed Southeast Britain in 62f A.D. But only at the
cost of almost one hundred thousand Roman soldiers!
201. Tacitus states: “Welcome as the death of Nero had been in the first burst of joy,
yet it had only roused various emotions in Rome.... Galba’s progress had been slow, and
blood-stained.... Macer in Africa, where he was undoubtedly fomenting sedition, was
executed by Trebonius Gautianus the Procurator who acted on Galba’s authority.... Vespasian,
a general of Nero’s appointment, was carrying on the war in Judaea....
202. “Otho’s had been...a riotous youth, and he had made himself agreeable to Nero by
emulating his profligacy. For this reason, the Emperor [Nero] had entrusted him [Otho], as
being the confidant of his amours - Poppaea Sabina the imperial favourite, until he [Nero]
could rid himself of his [Nero’s] wife Octavia. Soon suspecting him [Otho] with regard to
this same Poppaea, he [Nero] send him [Otho] out to the way to the Province of Lusitania,
ostensibly to be its Governor.... Many of the soldiers favoured him [Otho], and the court was
biassed in his favour because he resembled Nero” the then-deceased Caesar. “Nero had
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