What is "the new Rome"?

[anotherlife]

The Bible mentions The New Rome at a few places. What does it mean? Is it a reconstruction of the ancient Roman Empire? Is it the country of Romania? Is it France? What is The New Rome, and what is its role? When will/did it start and end?

 

[Treeshepherd]

I could be mistaken, but I don't think there is any mention of a "New Rome" in the Bible.

 

[OZman]

This may be what you are referring to.

Constantinople -- Ancient History Encyclopedia

 

[Treeshepherd]

The Rastafarians use the terms 'Babylon' and 'Rome' interchangeably. The imagery of Babylon in the Bible describes the world system, or human political order. The Rastaman seeks to align himself with divine order.

In the Gospel of John we see Pilate as a representative of Rome. Pilate is the local administrator of world political order. And then we see the Sanhedrin, representing the local ecclesiastical order. If you follow what John the Baptist was saying down by the river, then you get the sense that the Sanhedrin was also a worldly political order. Between Rome and the Sanhedrin, they choose to free the murderous Barabbas and murder the innocent Jesus.

The point is that there's an ongoing struggle between the world order and divine order.

"Let us go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the one that is yet to come." - Epistle to the Hebrews