The Last Temple (30 page)

• What was your understanding of Revelation before beginning this series? How has that changed?
  
• What was your reaction when Jerome refused his opportunity to murder Vitas? Why was Jerome so fiercely loyal to Vitas? Was his loyalty justified?
  
• How does Jesus’ death compare to Vitas’s crucifixion experience in this novel?
  
• Vitas conducts an elaborate deception to get to the bottom of the assassination of Helva. Were his methods acceptable? Did he make any errors in judgment or in conduct?
  
• Why does Vitas have trouble trusting in Jesus? How can we respond to people’s intellectual misgivings about Christianity? How can we respond to their emotional barriers?
  
• Christ’s prediction about the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple came to pass. What does this say about the promises of God yet to be fulfilled in the future? What are some of those promises?
  
• What makes Hezron a believer in the Christos? What happens to him as the result of that decision? How are Hezron’s sufferings similar to what many Christians experience in the world, even to this day?
  
• What is the significance of Valeria and Quintus’s act of washing Alypia’s feet?
  
• Who were the Sicarii? How was their way of violence different from the way of Christ? How does Christ want us to deal with evil in this world?
  
• What drives Vitas in the first section of this book (while he’s in Caesarea)? What motivates him in Rome? How do these motives affect your attitude toward Vitas?
  
• In Rome’s political environment, people had to carefully weigh their words. Have you ever been in a situation when you worried that your words might betray you? How did you work through that conversation?
  
• The politics of Rome were turbulent and dangerous. How does this compare to politics today? How should followers of Jesus interact with politics and culture?
  
• Do you agree with Titus: that he had divine help in the destruction of Jerusalem?
  
• Ben-Aryeh was willing to sacrifice everything to save what was most precious to him. What new perspective can we gain from Amaris’s final reflections about the true Temple?
  

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