The Poster Children of the Zealots

Brent: The zealots were like a, well, inor in our kind of medial world to day, we would call them insurgents. And so obviously, once they got control of the land, they handed it over to a priesthood that within 20 years had become completely hellenistic and corrupt. A lot of those am sexual pagan acts are going to take place, at the entrance of the tabernacle. So you can see this mixture of two different world views.