Fbco Sunday Sermons

Let me give you the historical setting of this story. Agrippa was the grandson of Herod the Great, who had ordered the death of the baby boys at the time of Jesus’ birth. One year before his own death, Herod the Great had Agrippa’s father, Aristobulus, put to death in a fit of paranoia. Agrippa’s father became the third son of Herod to die because Herod was afraid for his throne. (The Romans said it was safer to be Herod’s pig than his son.) Agrippa and his sister Herodius grew up in Rome. Herodius is the woman who married her uncle Phillip, then left him to marry her uncle Herod. John the Baptist was put to death for criticizing this palace soap opera. Agrippa spent his early years as a party boy in Rome, but he got in trouble for supposedly criticizing the Roman emperor, Tiberius, and was put in prison. His fortune changed when Caligula, one of his old party friends, became the next emperor. Caligula placed Agrippa in charge of two of Israel’s three provinces. He did so well governing these provinces that