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Josephus writes about seeing horses and chariots in the sky over Jerusalem...........
Nah 3:2
The noise of a whip And the noise of rattling wheels,
Of galloping horses, Of clattering chariots!
Rev 9:9
And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle.
Rev 18:13
“and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men.
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A Realized Eschatology Interpretation and Commentary of 2 Thessalonians 1:7: According to v. 7 and Revelation 19:11-14, Jesus was to lead an Angelic Army in the Clouds at the Second Coming. An Angelic Army was seen in the Clouds in A.D. 66, at the Start of the Jewish War.
Verses 6-8 declare that God’s vengeance will begin “when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels (2 Thessalonians 1:7).” This prediction is elaborated upon in
Revelation 19:11-14:
I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. . . . He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
Verse 7 and
Revelation 19:11-14 are detailed descriptions of the first manifestation of Christ during the second coming in which Jesus is
seen coming on the clouds of heaven. In
Revelation 19:11-14, Jesus is seen riding a white horse at the head of an angelic army. These prophecies came to pass at the start of the Jewish revolt in A.D. 66:
[O]n the twenty-first day of the month of Artemisius [Jyar], a certain prodigious and incredible phenomenon appeared; I suppose the account of it would seem to be a fable, were it not related by those that saw it, and were not the events that followed it of so considerable a nature as to deserve such signals; for, before sunsetting, chariots and troops of soldiers in their armor were seen running about among the clouds, and surrounding of cities.
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A Preterist Interpretation, Exposition and Commentary of 2 Thessalonians 1:7: The Jewish Historian Yosippon adds the Fact that this Angelic Army in the Sky of A.D. 66 was composed of Soldiers that Blazed with Fire LITERALLY fulfilling 2 Thessalonians 1:7: “This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from Heaven in Blazing Fire with His Powerful Angels.”
The Medieval Jewish Historian Sepher Yosippon also mentions this angelic army seen at the start of the Jewish revolt in A.D. 66: “Moreover, in those days were seen chariots of fire and horsemen, a great force flying across the sky near to the ground coming against Jerusalem and all the land of Judah, all of them horses of fire and riders of fire.’4 In the above two excerpts, the Jewish historians Josephus and Yosippon describe an army of angels in the clouds just like the army Jesus led in Revelation 19:11-14 and 2 Thessalonians 1:7. In these two historical excerpts one can see how 2 Thessalonians 1:7 was explicitly fulfilled in A.D. 66 when “the Lord Jesus [was LITERALLY] revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.”
Yosippon adds the fact that this angelic army in the sky of A.D. 66 was composed of cavalry that blazed with fire LITERALLY fulfilling 2 Thessalonians 1:7:
“This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.”
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The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
Proof that Matthew 24 was fully fulfilled in 70 AD!
Also see: Rapture refuted
Our Lord adds
"pestilences" likewise. Pestilence treads upon the heels of famine, it may therefore reasonably be presumed, that this terrible scourge accompanied the famines which have just been enumerated. History, however, particularly distinguishes two instances of this calamity, which occurred before the commencement of the Jewish war. The first took place at Babylon about A. D. 40, and raged so alarmingly, that great
multitudes of
Jews fled from that city to Seleucia
for safety, as hath been hinted already. The other happened at Rome A.D. 65, and carried off prodigious
multitudes. Both Tacitus and Suetonius also record, that similar calamities prevailed, during this period, in various parts of the Roman empire. After
Jerusalem was surrounded by the army of Titus,
pestilential diseases soon made their appearance there to aggravate the miseries, and deepen the horrors of the siege. They were partly occasioned by the immense multitudes which were crowded together in the city, partly by the putrid effluvia which arose from the unburied dead, and partly from spread of
famine.
[6] - Josephus has collected the chief of these portents together, and introduces his account by a reflection on the strangeness of that infatuation, which could induce his countrymen to give credit to impostors, and unfounded reports, whilst they disregarded the divine admonitions, confirmed, as he asserts they Were, by the following extraordinary
signs :
5. "Soon after the feast of the Passover, in various parts of the country, before the Setting of the sun, chariots and armed men were seen in the air, passing round about Jerusalem. " Neither could this portentous spectacle be occasioned by the aurora borealis, for it occurred before the setting of the sun ; or merely the fancy of a few villagers, gazing at the heavens, for it was seen in various parts of the country.
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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.
Nevertheless, the city was at this time crowded with Jewish strangers, and foreigners from all parts, so that the whole nation may be considered as having been shut up in one prison, preparatory to the execution of the Divine vengeance ; and, according to Josephus this event took place
suddenly ; thus, not only fulfilling the predictions of our LORD, that these calamities should come, like the swift-darting lightning" that cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the West," and " as a
snare on all of them (the Jews) who dwelt upon the face of the whole earth " (Matt. xxiv. 27, and Luke xxi 35,) but justifying, also, his friendly direction, that those who fled from the place should use the utmost possible expedition.
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Matthew 24:3
Yet of Him sitting on the Mount of the Olives, the Disciples came toward to Him according to own saying "be telling to us!
when shall
these be being?
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what the sign of Thy parousia<3952> and
consummation<4930> of the Age?
Matthew 24 Mount of Olives and Titus' 10th Legion on Mt Olives 70ad
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APRIL, A.D. 70 - PHASE ONE
THE ROMAN ARMY ARRIVES AT JERUSALEM TO PREPARE THE SIEGE
The first night of Titus' encampment with the 15th, 3rd and 18th Legions, the 5th Legion arrived from Emmaus and set camp north of the city on Mount Scopus.
Later the next day, the famed 10th Legion (founded by Julius Caesar) marched in from Jericho and camped on the Mount of Olives, east of the city. Instead of waiting to starve the Jews into submission, Titus decides to assault many different parts of the city and overwhelm the defenders. Titus was early on in the middle of the fighting with his soldiers. At least two times, Titus and his detachment are surrounded by defenders, only to escape unharmed.
The first obstacle was the Third Wall, just to the north of the Jaffa Gate. The ground leading up to it was felled to provide clear fields of fire and to provide timber for siege equipment. Two of the Jewish factions fighting within the city agree to work together against the Romans, but a third continued to fight the other factions. Massive quantities of corn were destroyed in bitter factional fighting.
