I wanted to say something about how i see the relation of Jesus and the roman empire. I dont think that Jesus’ teachings were against worldly imperialism. In the 1. Testament God uses the empire of Babylon to dicipline the jews. He is even calling Nebukadnezar his servant alltho the guy surely had pagan tendencies to say the least. Israel was enslaved by the babylonic empire, as Israel had been enslaved by the egyptian empire. So now it became wrapped by the roman empire. It seems, that there is a scheme in this, where God is actually putting his chosen ppl into the social body of a dominant wordly empire, to conquer and transform this empire from within, keeping all the goods, that it has come up with, but overcoming and casting aside the paganism and the unholy tendencies. In fact, that is exactly what the church had done with the romans. She conquered this empire from within by the death of many, who sacrifized themselves. But the general concept of the wordly emperor who would serve as a second force was not cast aside. In fact, the church later on welcomed the idea of the emperor as the protector of the church and even granted this title as you will know.