About 70 AD the Roman army moved to block the exits to the walled city of Jerusalem. Christians remembered Christ’s warning that if they saw Jerusalem being surrounded, they should flee.......The Romans started their movement close to the time of the Passover. The Torah and Talmud required all able bodied males old enough to walk distance to go to Jerusalem for Passover week. Some brought their families. According to Hebrew records they were allowed to camp outside the walls of Jerusalem during second temple Passover festivals.
The Romans trapped much of the Jewish nation. Many starved to death during the siege. Older people were executed. The younger were enslaved. The temple was burned and torn down.
Jesus has not yet returned.
Indeed.
Take a look at Matthew 22:7 and Revelation 9:21, including a video of that 70Ad siege by the Romans.......
I view 70AD Jerusalem as that great City in Revelation[but that is for another topic..
Which Great City is symbolized in Reve 11:2-8 and Reve 18?]
John 11:48 "If ever we may be letting Him thus, all shall be believing into Him,
and shall be coming the Romans and they shall be taking away of us and the Place and the Nation."
Matthew 24:
6 “And you will hear of
battles and rumors of battles. See that you are not troubled;for all these things must come to pass,
but the end is not yet.
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I would say that occurred during the 1st century Jewish/Roman Wars in Israel, up to 70AD Jerusalem.
Note Matthew 22:7
Matthew 23:35 "So-that may be coming upon ye all just blood being poured out upon the land, from the blood of Abel the Righteous-one, till of the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom
ye murder<5407> between the sanctuary and the altar
1 Thessalonians 2:
15 Of the also
the Lord Jesus killing<615> and the own of them prophets, and us persecuting; and to God no pleasing and to all men against,
16 forbidding us to speak to the nations/gentiles that they may be being saved, into the to fill up of them the sins always. Outstrips yet upon them the wrath into a finish/end/teloV <5056>.
James 5:6 Ye condemn, ye murder<5407> the Righteous-One, not He is resisting to Ye.
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Matthew 22:7
The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers<5406> and burned their city.
Revelation 9:21 And not they reform/repent out of their murders<5408>, nor out from their sorceries,.....
Revelation 18:
18 And they cried, observing the smoke of Her burning, saying, "What is like to the great City?"
19 and they cast dust upon their heads and cried, lamenting, weeping and mourning, saying, "Woe! woe! the great City! in which are rich all those having ships in the sea, out of Her preciousness, for to one hour was She was desolated.
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The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
History records few events more generally interesting than the destruction of Jerusalem, and the subversion of the Jewish state, by the arms of the Romans. -- Their intimate connexion with the dissolution of the Levitical economy, and the establishment of Christianity in the world ; the striking verification which they afford of so many of the prophecies, both of the Old and New Testament, and the powerful arguments of the divine authority of the Scriptures which are thence derived...........
The dead bodies of priests and worshippers, both natives and foreigners were heaped together, and a lake of blood stagnated in the sacred courts. John of Gischala, who headed one of the factions, burnt storehouses full of provisions ; and Simon, his great antagonist, who headed another of them, soon afterwards followed his example.
Thus they cut the very sinews of their own strength. At this critical and alarming c onjuncture
, intelligence arrived that the Roman army was approaching the city.
The Jews were petrified with astonishment and fear ; there was no time for counsel, no hope of pacification, no means of flight:-- all was wild disorder and perplexity :- nothing was to be heard but "the confused noise of the warrior, " -- nothing to be seen but garments rolled in blood," -- nothing to be expected from the Romans but signal and exemplary vengeance. A ceaseless cry of combatants was heard day and night, and yet the lamentations of mourners were still more dreadful..............
The day on which Titus encompassed Jerusalem, was the feast of the Passover ; and it is deserving of the very particular attention of the reader, that this was the anniversary of that memorable period in which the Jews crucified their Messiah ! At this season multitudes came up from all the surrounding country, and from distant parts, to keep the festival. How suitable and how kind, then, was the prophetic admonition of our LORD, and how clearly he into futurity when he said "Let not them that are in the countries enter into Jerusalem." Luke xxi. 21
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Visual Timeline of the Roman-Jewish War
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Roman: Emperor Nero |
General Vespasian |
General Titus | The Roman Army || Jewish: General / Historian Josephus |
Factional Leaders in Jerusalem ||
Administrators of Roman Judea Targets:
Jerusalem |
Herod's Temple // Maps of the Roman Invasion // Theological Timeline
CHRONOLOGY IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING THE WAR
Stage 1: Murder of James the Just, "Opposition High Priest" ; Irrevocable Split: 62
Stage 2: General Revolt in Jerusalem ; Zealot Occupation of Masada: August-September 66
Stage 3: The Campaign of Cestius Gallus and the Defeat of the Twelfth Legion: October-November 66
Stage 4: End of Collaborative Government, Priesthood ; General Flight: November 66 - March 67
Part 6: Vespasian Subdues Northern and Western Palestine: December 66 - December 68
Part 7: Three-way Power Struggle within Jerusalem After Roman Retreat: January 68 - May 70
Part 8: Romans Breach City Walls and Leave Jerusalem Desolate: May 10 - September 10, 70
