In this powerful episode of The Scepter of Zion, Ruben B takes us back into the Colosseum—
not as tourists, but as witnesses.
Was Rome just building entertainment…
or was it building a throne for its own ego?
Ruben exposes how the Colosseum became Rome’s loudest sermon:
funded by the sacred spoils of the Temple of Solomon,
built by the hands of tens of thousands of enslaved Hebrew captives,
and designed to turn covenant treasures into imperial spectacle.
What once symbolized worship and holiness was repurposed to glorify empire and entertain the masses.
Yet the stones still remember.
From there, the episode widens to the fall of Rome itself—not as a single event, but as a long unraveling:
Political instability and assassinated emperors
Economic collapse, heavy taxation, and reliance on slave labor
Moral corruption, bread-and-circuses, and spiritual decay
Overexpansion, mercenary armies, and loss of purpose
Ruben shows that Rome didn’t just fall militarily.
It rotted spiritually—from the inside out.
Then the scene shifts from the arena to the inner arena of the soul.
Through a vivid parable of ego versus spirit, Ruben paints the emperor not just as a man on a throne, but as a picture of us:
Ego stepping out with armor, applause, and “look at me.”
Spirit entering quietly, without crown, without performance—just light.
Ego can win the fight, he reminds us.
Only spirit can win the meaning.
From there, we meet Hannibal Barca of Carthage—North African general, war-elephant strategist, and divine rod of correction. His campaigns expose Rome’s fragility, greed, and arrogance, foreshadowing the eventual collapse of the empire that thought it could never fall.
Ruben walks us through the Punic Wars—Rome versus Carthage,
Europe versus Afro-Semitic power,
iron empire versus seafaring civilization—
and shows how Rome gained the world but lost its virtue.
Finally, he draws a bold and sobering parallel between ancient Rome and modern America:
History doesn’t just repeat in headlines.
It repeats in hearts.
This episode asks:
What happens when kings forget their crowns?
When leaders lose their identity?
When nations exalt ego and forget the Source?
This isn’t just about Rome.
It’s about the empire inside us—and the call to return to sacred authority before we crumble.
This is The Scepter of Zion,
where history, spirit, and truth converge…
and where the kingdom isn’t just coming—
it’s already rising, one awakened voice at a time.
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