Romans (Zerah-Judah)

Much can be said, drawn not only from Scripture but from history and archaeology, to demonstrate that the Israelites were one and the same with the Phoenicians of history, who were the people who settled not only much of the North African coasts and Spain, but also the British Isles, the northern coasts of Europe, the coasts of Anatolia (Turkey today), and also made up much of the original “Greek” and “Roman” populations, all of these having their roots in both Israelite, other Semite, and the Japhethite tribes of Genesis 10.

Blindness

Matthew 8:10 And hearing Yahshua marveled and said to those following: “Truly I say to you, from no one in Israel have I found such faith!

Christ seems to have meant Israel in the geographic sense here, or possibly in a sense referring to those of Judaea who had kept the law and the prophets. While many Greeks, Romans, Kelts, etc. were indeed descended from Israelites dispersed long beforetime, who had for the most part already forgotten their identity in their blindness, as Paul said in his epistle to the Ephesians, they were alienated from the civic life of Israel, and therefore being divorced from Yahweh they truly were not counted as Israel. As Hosea says, they were His people, but they were called “Not His people” until the time when they would accept Christ and be reconciled to God.

Acceptance of New Testament

The Romans clearly had Christian assemblies even before Paul of Tarsus travelled there - in fulfillment of the tents of Judah being saved first. As Christ warned that the truth of the gospel divides even families against one another, and thus it was in the pagan Roman world when in many cases these things actually did happen. They serve as an example for us today.

Culture

Military

See Roman military

The Roman army was constructed from men all over the empire, and the Romans purposely used men from areas other than where they were stationed, to decrease the likelihood of insurrection.

Slavery

After razing and conquering a settlement, it was customary for the Romans to sell the surviving populace into slavery, such as when they had razed Corinth.

Individuals in the New Testament

• Centurion - It is not certain that he is a Roman or a Greek. The Roman army was constructed from men all over the empire, and the Romans purposely used men from areas other than where they were stationed, to decrease the likelihood of insurrection. The centurion may have been from one of any number of the White Adamic nations.