CNN
reported ‘Initial tests on the flight
data recorder recovered from downed Germanwings Flight 9525 show that co-pilot
purposely used the controls to speed up the plane's descent, according to the
French air accident investigation agency.The flight data recorder, or
"black box," was found Thursday by recovery teams that have spent
days since the March 24 crash scouring the mountainside in the French Alps
where the plane went down A statement from the BEA on Friday said its teams had
immediately begun to investigate its contents. The initial readout shows that
the pilot present in the cockpit used the autopilot to put the (airplane) into
a descent towards an altitude of 100 (feet) then, on several occasions during
the descent, the pilot modified the autopilot setting to increase the speed of
the (airplane) in descent," Evidence from the plane's cockpit voice
recorder, recovered swiftly after the crash, had already led investigators to
believe that Lubitz acted deliberately to bring down the plane, killing all 150
people on board.’
Many
years before, Roman Emperors performed gross notorious acts. Wikipedia says, ‘In 64 AD, most of Rome was destroyed in the
Great Fire of Rome which many Romans believed Nero himself had started in order
to clear land for his planned palatial complex. In 68, the rebellion of
"Gaul" drove Nero from the throne. Facing a false report of being
denounced as a public enemy who was to be executed, he committed suicide on 9
June 68 (the first Roman emperor to do so). His death ended the
"Julio-Claudian Dynasty"; Nero's rule is often associated with
tyranny and extravagance. He is known for many executions, including that of
his mother and the probable murder by poison of his stepbrother. He is
in-famously known as the Emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned. He was
rumoured to have had captured Christians, dipped them in oil, and then set them
on fire in his garden at night as a source of light.’
Easton’s
Bible Dictionary says ‘Herod the Great,
the son of Antipater, an Idumaean, and Cypros, an Arabian of noble descent. In
the year B.C. 47 Julius Caesar made
Antipater, a "wily Idumaean," procurator of Judea, who divided his
territories between his four sons, Galilee falling to the lot of Herod, who was
afterwards appointed tetrarch of Judea by Mark Antony (B.C. 40) and also king
of Judea by the Roman senate. He was of a stern and cruel disposition. "He
was brutish and a stranger to all humanity." Alarmed by the tidings of one
"born King of the Jews," he sent forth and "slew all the
children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years
old and under" #Mt 2:16 He was fond of splendour, and lavished great sums
in rebuilding and adorning the cities of his empire. He rebuilt the city of
Caesarea (q.v.) on the coast, and also the city of Samaria (q.v.), which he
called Sebaste, in honour of Augustus. He restored the ruined temple of
Jerusalem, a work which was begun B.C. 20 but was not finished till after Herod’s
death, probably not till about A.D. 50
#Joh 2:20 After a troubled reign of thirty-seven years, he died at Jericho amid
great agonies both of body and mind, B.C. 4 i.e., according to the common
chronology, in the year in which Jesus was born. After his death his kingdom
was divided among three of his sons. Of these, Philip had the land east of
Jordan, between Caesarea Philippi and Bethabara.’
Herod the Great’s son was Herod Antipas and he had John the Baptist
beheaded and later was responsible with Pilate in condemning Christ to die on
the cross, “Herod with his men of war set him at nought and mocked him, and
arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate. and arrayed him
in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.” This man was no
better than his father, and his son Herod Agrippa 1 was equally evil. He had
James the brother of John killed and intended to kill Peter also.
All these men were notorious in their villany, but none of them would
equal Judas Iscariot in what he did. He sold the Son of God for thirty pieces of
silver to the chief priests, and doing so he betrayed Christ with a kiss to
identify Jesus as the Son of God. Judas had been with the Saviour for three
years, he had seen Him give sight to the blind, to raise the dead, to hear His
teaching about Heaven and Hell. Yet he chose to betray Christ instaed of
serving Him like the other disciples did. Knowing what he knew and seeing what
he saw did not pursuade him to be a follower of the Lord for the rest of his
life. The remainder of his life prove to be very brief, just a few hours and he
was dead. He committed suicide, but before he took his own life he threw the
thirty pieces of silver back at the priests, in the Temple. The silver was blood money, it was useless
for Judas where he was going, and the priests could not put it back in the
treasury, so they bought a field with the money to bury strangers in.
Jesus Christ died at Calvary to deliver you from a lost eternity if you put your faith in Him and repent of your sin. 'Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved,' Acts 16:31.
Do not reject the Saviour or you will spend eternity in Hell, be saved today and spend eternity in Heaven. God bless.
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