![]() They catapulted the hooks up onto the cliffs to PULL DOWN THE STRONGHOLDS. These were ships with huge grappling hooks that he sent in 11 directions to attack the strongholds. He designed and built special MIGHTY WEAPONS to attack their bases rather than the individual pirates. They offered him whatever he needed and gave him 3 years to fix it. The problem was so serious that the Senate commissioned top general Pompey to deal with the problem. Rome's normal approach to warfare failed, their weapons ineffective, because this was a different kind of army- more of a 'underground' gorilla operation. The problem was urgent and could not be avoided. There was by 67 BC an army of 10,000 Pirates that had brought Rome to its knees by cutting off its supplies. Even after successful skirmishes their bases were intact and secure and the root of the problem had not been touched. All the efforts to defeat them on sea failed. They would come out of the strongholds, raid the ships, steal the food and retreat back to their secure stronghold high up on the cliffs. The pirates had high rock forts (120 of them) called STRONGHOLDS - these were their Bases. Palestine was the food basket of Rome and the supply ships had to go past the rocky Cilician cliffs. There had been a longstanding and growing pirate problem. This was the most dramatic episode of its history and he would have known it well. Paul used a war from the recent history of his native Cilicia to illustrate our spiritual warfare. THE PIRATES OF CILICIA (2Corinthians 10:3-6) The Pirates of Cilicia (Pulling down Strongholds) Pictures Of Salvation (Types and Shadows).The Gospel of John Commentary Chapters 1-11 (by chapter). ![]() Positional Truth - Who We Are In Christ.
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