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The passage is as follows:
15So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), 16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house. 18And let no one in the field return for his cloak.
19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! 20Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again. 22 If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.
The trouble is, that verse 21 is manifestly false. Something over a million Jews were killed in the War of 66-73 AD - but about 6 millon Jews were killed in the Shoah, and the tyrannies of Stalin and Mao are reckoned to have killed 60 million & 90 million people respectively. Nor are these the only blood-lettings that can credibly be estimated to have killed more people than were killed in the Jewish War.
Clearly it would be wrong to underestimate the atrocious suffering undergone by the Jews during the Jewish war, but nothing can alter the fact that other calamities have killed far more people than the Jewish War did. WW2 Is estimated to have killed about 50 million people altogether; that enormous figure hardly supports the idea that the Jewish War was a period of suffering so great that it would never be equalled or surpassed.
So what do people think about that verse ?
15So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), 16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house. 18And let no one in the field return for his cloak.
19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! 20Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again. 22 If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.
The trouble is, that verse 21 is manifestly false. Something over a million Jews were killed in the War of 66-73 AD - but about 6 millon Jews were killed in the Shoah, and the tyrannies of Stalin and Mao are reckoned to have killed 60 million & 90 million people respectively. Nor are these the only blood-lettings that can credibly be estimated to have killed more people than were killed in the Jewish War.
Clearly it would be wrong to underestimate the atrocious suffering undergone by the Jews during the Jewish war, but nothing can alter the fact that other calamities have killed far more people than the Jewish War did. WW2 Is estimated to have killed about 50 million people altogether; that enormous figure hardly supports the idea that the Jewish War was a period of suffering so great that it would never be equalled or surpassed.
So what do people think about that verse ?