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The Destruction of Jerusalem

By: David M. Curtis

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The flight of the Christians from Jerusalem actually happened in 66 A. D. It was the destruction of Jerusalem that took place in 70 A. D.

 

The Flight of 70 A. D. -

A common mistake

I found this quote on another Adventist site.

"But pray ye that your flight be not in winter, neither on the Sabbath day." Matthew 24:20.Jesus asked his disciples to pray that in the flight from the doomed city of Jerusalem they would not have to flee on the Sabbath day. This flight took place in 70 A.D. (40 years after the Cross).”

Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

Luke 21:21 Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

Josephus is an eye witness of the destruction of Jerusalem. Here is what he records. Note: The events (not the dates) are also recorded in this order in the book Great Controversy.

66 Rebellion begins in Jerusalem
66(October 6,) Cestius Gaius gives up the siege on Jerusalem
66 AD Christians flee to Pella in Perea

                                                                                                                                                                 

Pella in Perea (Now Jordon)


67 (February) Vespasian arrives in Palestine
67 Vespasian conquers Galilee Samaria, and captures General Josephus. Josephus tells Vespasian that the Lord told him that he was to be the next Caesar. In later years this prediction would prove true. Josephus is taken care of the rest of his life because of this, which enabled him to write his history books that we treasure today.

68 (March) Nero is slain
68 (June 9) General Vespasian learns of Nero's death and immediately leaves to Rome. War in Palestine is once again stopped.

Between March 68 and October 69 there were three emperors. Vespasian was to be the winning person in this contest for the throne.

69 (October) Vespasian crowned Emperor

Some of the rubble that can be seen along the wall is from the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A. D. and 135 A. D.


70 (May 10) General Titus begins siege of Jerusalem
70 (July) Antonia Fortress Captured
70 (August 7) Sacrifices cease in the temple "for want of men"
70 (August) Temple burned to the ground
70 (September 2) Entire city captured
70 Jerusalem destroyed 1,100,000 Jews died, and 7000 Jews taken to other lands.

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Archeologist discovered in the late 1990's, that the coliseum of Rome was built by the treasure found in the Temple during the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. The rich Jews in Jerusalem stored their wealth in the temple. An inscription on the coliseum states that it was this wealth that built the Roman coliseum between the ten years of its construction 70 and 80 A.D.

Luke 21:5-6

5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, 6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

This is a stone that was found in the excavations.  Again, it comes from the Roman destructions.  It was the corner stone at the top of the wall in the first century.

For more than 14 centuries Jesus Christ had been a Good Shepherd over Israel. But alas the sheep no longer desired to be led to the living waters and the green pastures. They chose for themselves  the valley of the shadow of death. Time and time again, the Lord searched for this lost sheep and brought him back to the fold, and rejoiced over him as He would for His only son.

Here are the "Teaching Steps." It was on these steps that Jesus did much of his teaching and preaching.  (The hillside in the distance is the Mount of Olives.)

The heart of Jesus broke on the Cross as his people rejected Him, and chose for themselves a self-proclaimed "god" called Caesar as their king. Having no choice Christ gave Israel over to their new king, the Caesar of Rome, who would later come and plunder their land and leave it's capital city and temple desolate. In 70 A. D. Mount Zion, which at one time sat in glory and was known as the pleasant land, became something to hiss at.

"God withdrew His protection from them and removed His restraining power from Satan and his angels, and the nation was left to the control of the leader she had chosen . . . By their actions they had long been saying: "Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." Isaiah 30:11. Now their desire was granted. The fear of God no longer disturbed them. Satan was at the head of the nation, and the highest civil and religious authorities were under his sway." - The Great Controversy p. 28,29.

This area housed shops and money changers, the same as Jesus encountered.

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Matthew 23:38

 

 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. Luke 21:22

"Terrible were the calamities that fell upon Jerusalem when the siege was resumed by Titus. The city was invested at the time of the Passover, when millions of Jews were assembled within its walls. Their stores of provision, which if carefully preserved would have supplied the inhabitants for years, had previously been destroyed through the jealousy and revenge of the contending factions, and now all the horrors of starvation were experienced. A measure of wheat was sold for a talent. So fierce were the pangs of hunger that men would gnaw the leather of their belts and sandals and the covering of their shields. Great numbers of the people would steal out at night to gather wild plants growing outside the city walls, though many were seized and put to death with cruel torture, and often those who returned in safety were robbed of what they had gleaned at so great peril. The most inhuman tortures were inflicted by those in power, to force from the want-stricken people the last scanty supplies which they might have concealed. And these cruelties were not infrequently practiced by men who were themselves well fed, and who were merely desirous of laying up a store of provision for the future." - The Great Controversy p. 31.

 

But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. Luke 21:23

"Thousands perished from famine and pestilence. Natural affection seemed to have been destroyed. Husbands robbed their wives, and wives their husbands. Children would be seen snatching the food from the mouths of their aged parents. The question of the prophet, "Can a woman forget her sucking child?" received the answer within the walls of that doomed city: "The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people." Isaiah 49:15; Lamentations 4:10. Again was fulfilled the warning prophecy given fourteen centuries before. The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, . . . and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates." Deuteronomy 28:56, 57." - The Great Controversy p. 31.

"The slaughter within was even more dreadful than the spectacle from without. Men and women, old and young, insurgents and priests, those who fought and those who entreated mercy, were hewn down in indiscriminate carnage. The number of the slain exceeded that of the slayers. The legionaries had to clamber over heaps of dead to carry on the work of extermination."--Milman, The History of the Jews, book 16.
 
 

 

 

The Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. is an example of what will happen to 1000's of Cities around the world in the LAST DAYS!

 

 

 

“Christ presented before them an outline of the prominent events to take place before the close of time. His words were not then fully understood; but their meaning was to be unfolded as his people should need the instruction therein given. The prophecy which he uttered was two fold in its meaning: while foreshadowing the destruction of Jerusalem, it prefigured also the terrors of the last great day.”  - The Great Controversy p. 25, 26

"The Saviour's prophecy concerning the visitation of judgments upon Jerusalem is to have another fulfillment, of which that terrible desolation was but a faint shadow. In the fate of the chosen city we may behold the doom of a world that has rejected God's mercy and trampled upon His law. Dark are the records of human misery that earth has witnessed during its long centuries of crime. The heart sickens, and the mind grows faint in contemplation. Terrible have been the results of rejecting the authority of Heaven. But a scene yet darker is presented in the revelations of the future. The records of the past,--the long procession of tumults, conflicts, and revolutions, the "battle of the warrior . . . with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood" (Isaiah 9:5),-- what are these, in contrast with the terrors of that day when the restraining Spirit of God shall be wholly withdrawn from the wicked, no longer to hold in check the outburst of human passion and satanic wrath! The world will then behold, as never before, the results of Satan's rule.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But in that day, as in the time of Jerusalem's destruction, God's people will be delivered, everyone that shall be found written among the living. Isaiah 4:3. Christ has declared that He will come the second time to gather His faithful ones to Himself: "Then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." Matthew 24:30, 31. Then shall they that obey not the gospel be consumed with the spirit of His mouth and be destroyed with the brightness of His coming. 2 Thessalonians 2:8. Like Israel of old the wicked destroy themselves; they fall by their iniquity. By a life of sin, they have placed themselves so out of harmony with God, their natures have become so debased with evil, that the manifestation of His glory is to them a consuming fire." - The Great Controversy p. 31.

  •  Terrible shocks will come upon the earth, and the lordly palaces erected at great expense will certainly become heaps of ruins.--3MR 312.
    When God's restraining hand is removed, the destroyer begins his work. Then in our cities the greatest calamities will come.--3MR 314.

  • The end is near and every city is to be turned upside down every way. There will be confusion in every city. Everything that can be shaken is to be shaken and we do not know what will come next. The judgments will be according to the wickedness of the people and the light of truth that they have had.--1MR 248.

  • O that God's people had a sense of the impending destruction of thousands of cities, now almost given to idolatry.--Evangelism 29.

  • The time is near when large cities will be swept away, and all should be warned of these coming judgments.--Evangelism 29.

 

                           

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