📜 **Timeline: Persecution of Yeshua’s Followers (33–70 AD) by Jewish and Roman Authorities**
**(Based only on Hebrew and Aramaic truth – No Greek lies, no inherited sin doctrine)**
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### 📅 33–36 AD: Temple Leaders and Greek-Speaking Jews Attack the Truth
**Main Persecutors:**
🔹 *Sanhedrin* – Hebrew elite, rejected Yeshua’s call to repentance and restoration.
🔹 *Hellenistic Jews* – Greek-speaking Jews using the LXX attacked “The Way” with lies and violence.
**Key Events:**
* **Yeshua’s Execution (\~33 AD):** The Sanhedrin declared Him a threat. Rome enforced it, but it was **not** a sacrifice for sin. *Ezekiel 18:20* says **every person dies for his own sin**.
* **Peter & John Arrested:** For healing and teaching in Yhwh’s name—not blood, but obedience.
* **Stephen Stoned (\~35–36 AD):** Killed by LXX-following Jews. He spoke Aramaic truth (*Daniel 7:13–14*) and rejected Greek corruption. Paul (Saul) approved his death.
**True Message Under Fire:** Obedience to Yhwh. No sacrifice. No inherited sin. Just return to the Torah.
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### 📅 36–44 AD: Paul (Saul) Begins His Attack for Jew-Greeks
**Main Persecutors:**
🔹 *Paul (Saul)* – Worked for Greek-speaking Jews, not the Temple.
🔹 *Sanhedrin Leaders* – Sought to silence those who exposed Temple hypocrisy.
🔹 *Herod Agrippa I* – Political puppet who killed to gain favor.
**Key Events:**
* **Paul’s Persecution (\~40–44 AD):** Chased, jailed, and killed Hebrew followers of Yeshua—not on Temple orders, but **on behalf of Jew-Greeks who used the LXX**.
* **Scattering of the Remnant:** Followers fled to Samaria, Galilee, and beyond—taking the truth with them.
* **James (Zebedee) Executed (\~44 AD):** Killed by Herod to please the Sanhedrin and the crowds.
**True Message Survives:**
*The Way* did not follow Paul’s gospel. They followed *Ezekiel 18:20*—sin is personal. Yeshua was their priest-king, not a lamb.
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### 📅 44–60 AD: The Way Hunted by All Sides
**Main Persecutors:**
🔹 *Sanhedrin & Pharisees* – Angered by Gentile inclusion without circumcision.
🔹 *Roman Governors (Felix, Festus)* – Used detention and pressure to keep order.
🔹 *Paul’s New Role* – Now teaching Greek lies: salvation by blood, not by Torah.
**Key Events:**
* **Apostles Beaten & Falsely Tried (\~50s AD):** Hebrew teachers attacked in synagogues by LXX followers.
* **Paul Detained (\~57–60 AD):** After switching sides, he spread a **Greek-friendly gospel**—atonement, grace, belief-only salvation.
* **Rome Begins Watching:** The Hebrew message of obedience, kingdom, and no Caesar began raising alarms.
**True Message Under Fire:**
*The Way* rejected Paul’s doctrine. They clung to Torah, prophecy, and the original covenant—not church, not Rome, not Paul.
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### 📅 60–70 AD: The Final Blow and the Remnant’s Escape
**Main Persecutors:**
🔹 *Rome (Nero, Vespasian)* – Feared rebellion, crushed all non-Roman faiths.
🔹 *Zealots* – Wanted war, hated “The Way” for not joining their bloodshed.
🔹 *Ananus II (High Priest)* – Killed righteous men who spoke against injustice.
**Key Events:**
* **James the Just Murdered (\~62 AD):** Stoned for warning the people to repent—not for preaching Greek ideas, but Hebrew truth.
* **Nero’s Fire Blame (\~64 AD):** Followers of *The Way*, not Christians, were burned for rejecting Roman gods.
* **Pella Escape (\~66–70 AD):** Those who followed Yeshua’s warning left Jerusalem. The Temple fell. But the true believers lived—just like Noah.
**True Message Lives On:**
*The Way* obeyed Yhwh’s voice. They rejected lies, and blood doctrines—and walked out alive.
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### 🔥 Final Word: The Way Remains
✅ They rejected:
❌ The Greek Septuagint (LXX)
❌ Paul’s gospel of blood
❌ Inherited sin
❌ The Roman Church
✅ They clung to:
📖 *Ezekiel 18:20* — “The soul that sins shall die.”
📖 *Daniel 7:13–14* — Yeshua given dominion, not death.
📖 *Genesis 6–9* — The obedient remnant survives.
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📛 They were not “Christians.”
They were **followers of The Way**—the ancient Hebrew path of obedience, truth, and faith in Yhwh alone.