📜 **🔥🔹 What Really Happened: 71–140 AD — The War Against the Hebrew Way**
*Based on history, not church myths — no Greek lens, no Roman lies*
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📆 **71–85 AD – The Hebrew Followers Regroup**
After the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD, Yeshua’s Hebrew followers — called **Nazarenes** — regrouped in **Pella** and other areas east of the Jordan.
✦ They were led by surviving disciples of Yeshua, not Greek converts.
✦ They kept the **Torah**, **Sabbath**, **circumcision**, **kosher laws**, and followed the teachings of Yeshua as the promised Redeemer of Yhwh.
✦ They had no New Testament — only the Hebrew Scriptures and Yeshua’s words in Aramaic and Hebrew.
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📆 **81–96 AD – Titus and Domitian: Roman Persecution Increases**
🔥 **Domitian** (81–96 AD) demanded emperor worship. Anyone who refused — especially those who followed **Yhwh alone** and kept Torah — faced arrest, exile, or death.
✦ Hebrew scrolls, family genealogies, and writings of Yeshua’s disciples were destroyed.
✦ Hebrew believers were hunted down as threats to Roman unity.
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📆 **85–95 AD – Hebrew Followers vs. Paul’s New Assemblies**
Two paths became clear:
1. **Torah-Keeping Disciples** (Peter, John, Thomas, Matthew) — preserved the original Hebrew faith.
2. **Pauline Churches** — Gentile-led groups preaching “freedom from the law.”
⚠️ Conflict grew between the two — the Hebrew Way was called “heresy,” while Paul’s followers gained Roman favor.
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📆 **90 AD – Birkat HaMinim Curse Added to Jewish Prayers**
The Pharisees inserted a **curse against the “Minim”** (heretics) into synagogue liturgy.
✦ Targeted Nazarenes who followed Yeshua.
✦ Anyone who confessed Yeshua in synagogues was cursed and expelled.
✦ The divide between rabbinic Judaism and the Hebrew followers of Yeshua widened.
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📆 **95–110 AD – Greek Leadership Expands**
Leaders like **Ignatius of Antioch** (around 110 AD):
✦ Rejected the Torah, Sabbath, and circumcision.
✦ Taught **bishop authority** instead of Yhwh's commandments.
✦ Promoted separation from anything “Jewish.”
🔄 Hebrew traditions were labeled “obsolete” — Greek writings replaced Hebrew scrolls.
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📆 **96–117 AD – Emperor Trajan’s Crackdown**
🔥 Persecution spreads beyond Judea.
✦ Roman governors (like Pliny the Younger) were ordered to kill Yeshua-followers unless they cursed His name.
✦ Scrolls were burned.
✦ Believers went into hiding or were martyred.
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📆 **110–130 AD – Nazarenes Go Underground**
Now rejected by both Rome **and** the rabbis, the Hebrew followers refused to join Paul’s Gentile movement.
✦ They met secretly.
✦ They passed on Hebrew teachings by memory or hidden scrolls.
✦ Their writings remained in **Hebrew and Aramaic** — not Greek.
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📆 **132–136 AD – Bar Kokhba Revolt & Hadrian’s War on Hebrew Identity**
🔥🔥 **Hadrian's persecution** was catastrophic.
✦ **Sabbath**, **circumcision**, **Torah reading** — all banned.
✦ Hebrew scrolls were **burned**.
✦ Synagogues were destroyed.
✦ **Jerusalem renamed Aelia Capitolina.**
✦ A pagan temple to **Jupiter** was built over the ruins of Yhwh’s House.
✦ Jews banned from entering their own city.
🎯 All who clung to **Torah**, **Sabbath**, and **Yeshua** as Redeemer were targeted.
✦ Many Hebrew scrolls — and the original words of Yeshua — were lost or buried.
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📆 **By 140 AD – Greek Christianity Replaces the Hebrew Way**
To survive, Gentile churches (like Rome and Alexandria) **abandoned the Hebrew identity**.
✦ Torah was rejected.
✦ Yeshua was redefined through a Greek lens.
✦ The “church” replaced “The Way.”
✦ The original disciples were nearly erased from history.
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📌 **BOTTOM LINE — THE ERA OF ERASURE (71–140 AD):**
Rome tried to **erase all Hebrew identity** — both Judaism and the true Way of Yeshua.
🔥 The destruction of scrolls, persecution of Torah-keepers, and replacement of Hebrew truth with Greek ideas nearly wiped out the original faith.
📜 What survived was **not** the faith of Yeshua — but a new religion built by men.