September 24, 2013 – 2 Maccabees 4:23 – 4:50

The politics of who the high priest and leader of the Jews sound a lot like politics in Illinois and the US. The people are in charge, do whatever they want, get into trouble and instead of getting in trouble, payoff the person above them and get off scot-free. And the person that gives the most money is the one that gets the office. It is funny that Jason loses his office, which he got by devious ways, gets booted simply because the guy he sends to the king, wows him and offers more money. Then he is simply made the high priest. Thinking about that and the way that is made gives you some background into the politics that was going on when Jesus came and the high priest and leaders that He was dealing with. We are always told about the high priest being corrupt, but until you look at this, you don’t really understand what that means and how involved Rome was in keeping who they wanted in charge.