Flight of Christians from Mid-East Reaches Syria, What can you and I do?????
Hello. Christians have been persecuted ever since Pentecost as prohecied by our Lord Jesus. Christians are told to flee from those cities and places where they are being persecuted.
The most important NT biblical flight was that of the Christian Jews between 66 and 70AD
Matt 10:23 "Whenever yet
they may be pursuing/persecuting ye in this city,
be fleeing into the other.
For Amen I am saying to ye, not no ye should be finishing the cities of the Israel till ever may be coming the Son of the Man".
Matt 23:34 "Because of this behold! I am Commissioning toward ye Prophets and Wise-men and Scribes, out of them
ye shall be killing and ye shall be crucifying and out of them ye shall be scourging in the synagogues of ye, and
ye shall be persecuting/pursuing from City into City"
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Here is what the LORD says about "rebels/rebellion" and those that defy the Gospel of Jesus the Christ:
[I believe these verses are referring to the 1st century Jewish rebels that revolted against Rome in 66AD just before the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70AD:]
Isaiah 1:
23 -
Your rulers/princes are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them.
28 -
But rebels and sinners shall be broken together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
Ezekiel 20:38 - “
I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Hosea 5:2 -
The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter. I will discipline all of them.
Daniel 8:23 - “In the latter part of their reign,
when rebels have become completely wicked, a fierce-looking king, a master of intrigue, will arise.
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Jesus says they were going to see wars and hear of rumors of war associated with the Jewish rebellion in 66Ad.....
Matthew 24:6
6 “Yet ye shall be being about to be hearing
battles and tidings of battles, be seeing! be not be being troubled<2360>, for is binding to becoming,
but not as yet
the End<5056>
16
then those in Judea — let them be fleeing! into the mountains;
Mark 13:
7 “Yet whenever ye should be hearing
battles and tidings of battles, be seeing! be not be being troubled for is binding to be becoming,
but not as yet
the End<5056>
14 Then
those in the Judea, let them be fleeing into the mountains
Luke 21:
9 “Yet whenever ye should be hearing
battles and tumults<181>, no may be being frightened<4422>, for is binding these to be becoming,
but not immediately
the End<5056>
20 Whenever yet ye may be seeing Jerusalem being encompassed by armies, then be ye knowing! that nigh Her desolation.
21 then
those in Judea, let them be fleeing into the mountains;
and those in her midst, let them depart out; and those in the countries, let them not come in to her;
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Pella Flight Tradition
Capstone to the Fulfillment of Jesus Christ’s Olivet Prophecy
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Josephus is a must read for Jews, Muslims and Christians
Visual Timeline of the Roman-Jewish War ARTchive
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
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The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
While Jerusalem was a prey to these ferocious and devouring factions
, every part of Judea was scourged and laid waste by bands of robbers and murderers, who plundered the towns; and, in case of resistance, slew the inhabitants, not sparing either women or children. Simon, son of Gioras, the commander of one of these bands, at the head of forty thousand banditti, having with some difficulty entered Jerusalem, gave birth to a third faction, and the flame of civil discord blazed out again, with still more destructive fury. The three factions, rendered frantic by drunkenness, rage, and desperation, trampling on heaps of slain, fought against each other with brutal savageness and madness. Even such as brou't sacrifices to the temple were murdered. 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 an 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 consternation and terror which now prevailed induced many inhabitants to desire that a foreign foe might come, and effect their deliverance. Such was the horrible condition of the place when Titus and his army presented themselves, and encamped before Jerusalem ; but, alas ! not to deliver it from its miseries but to fulfill the prediction, and vindicate the benevolent warning of our Lord : "When
ye see (he had said to his disciples) the
abomination of desolation, spoken or by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place,
[11] and Jerusalem surrounded by armies (or camps,) then let those who are in the midst of Jerusalem depart, and let not those who are in the country enter into her," for " then know that the desolation thereof
is nigh." Matt. xxiv. 15, 21 ; Luke xxi.
20, 1-11. These armies, we do not hesitate to affirm were those of the Romans,
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Great vid on that great historical event: