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Jesus of Nazareth: His TREATMENT of ROMAN GOVERNORS and MILITARY OFFICIALS.

Jesus of Nazareth. NOT racist, political, culture agenda driven, social agenda activist, religious sect leader, secular nation defender, theocracy promoter, religious hypocrite, religious charismatic Mammon and glory seeker, abettor of lawless rioters and criminal elements, fanatical supporter of total sexual freedom… for the “KINGDOM” he preached is “NOT OF THIS WORLD… NOT FROM HERE” (John 18.36) and NEITHER WAS HE, NOR IS HE!

What kind of “Jesus follower” are YOU?

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Astonishing NEWS! A Galilean Sea FISH Pays Taxes for Jesus and Peter!

Jesus teaches that pastors, preachers, priests, all other Christians, and all other people should pay the TAXES and TRIBUTE they owe.

A painting of a fisherman kneeling on the shore of a lake andremoving a coin from a fish's mouth.

The place where these events took place? Capernaum, a city on the Sea of ​​Galilee.

What was the tax to be collected? Two drachmas per person for the maintenance of the temple in Jerusalem.

Should Jesus have paid the two drachmas? NO. Rabbis were exempt, and Jesus was a rabbi.

Why did he pay them? To avoid offending the tax collectors.

Where did he get the money? He says to Peter: “Go to the sea, cast a hook, and the FIRST FISH that you catch, take it, and when you open its mouth, you will find a stater; take it and give it to them for me and for you.”

An image of several coins from 1st-century Rome.

Matthew 17:24-27. “Stater, the equivalent of four drachmas.

A CHALLENGE to Pentecostals and other religious people who claim miracle-working powers today: IMITATE that MIRACLE of finding fish with money in their mouths to pay taxes! Instead of extracting tithes and offerings, obligatory today in the Common Era according to them, from the pockets of parishioners subjected to Old Testament laws abolished on the cross of Christ, let them go catch FISH that have money in their mouth to pay the taxes they owe! Assuredly, they have never been able to demonstrate such power over nature and material things!

Do pastors, preachers, evangelists, priests, prophets, prophetesses, and self-styled apostles of present times pay taxes? It is well known that great numbers avoid paying them in a thousand devious ways.

"Breaking news! Jesus of Nazareth confounds the Pharisees and Herodians again. He orders the Israelites to pay tribute to the Roman conquerors."

An artistica painting of a group of 1st-century Israelite men, including Jesus of Nazareth, discussing the payment of tribute to Rome.

“Show me the tribute coin. Whose image and inscription is thisRender to Caesar the things that are Caesar's."

They asked him, “Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?” Jesus said to them, 'Show me the tribute coin.' And they presented him with a denarius. Then he said to them, 'Whose image and inscription is this?' They said to him, 'Caesar’s.' And he said to them, 'Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.' When they heard this, they marveled, and left him and went their way.” Matthew 22:15-22

“But Rome uses tribute for MANY EVILS!”

The Christian’s duty, everybody’s duty, is to pay the legislated taxes. Romans 13:6-7. If they are misused even for evil purposes, he/she is not guilty.

Author: Homer Dewayne Shappley

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