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Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. His account of the honours given to Julius Caesar while he was alive states that in Rome they were already and unambiguously those of a full blown god(deus). In addition to Cicero's testimony historians tell us that following senate approval an ivory statue in the likeness of Caesar was to be carried at all public religious processions, and another statue of him was placed in the temple of Quirinus with the inscription "To the Invincible God." To the Roman people, Quirinus was the deified likeness of the city's founder and first King, Romulus. This act clearly identified Caesar not only on equal terms with the divine, but with the kings as well. Julius Caesar was assassinated 15th March 44BC and in 42BC was formally deified as the Divine Julius. His successor Caesar Augustus henceforth became Divi filius ("Son of the Divine One"), and some but not all Roman Emperors of the 1st to 4th centuries also claimed divinity, including Tiberius 14–37AD, Caligula 37–41AD, Claudius 41–54AD, Hadrian 117–138AD, Commodus 161–192AD, Constantine I 306–312AD, and Julian the Apostate 361–363AD. What a lot of ways there are to oppose God, and what a lot of authoritarians have been exalted and exalted themselves to divine status, so another Caesar won't be anything new. But what will be different about this one called "the man of sin" and "the son of perdition" and "that Wicked"? 2Th 2:3-4 (3) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (4) Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
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