“and that was the city destroyed by the great army standing against the people of God (the Jews).”
And then Jesus appeared in the air with his army of saints and angels, and destroyed 1/3 of that army with the sword that proceeded from his mouth, right?
this is after, as we have read in Dan 12:7, Rev 11:17-18 how God's rage against those who did not follow His old covenant is wrought.
the entire book of revelation talks of the end of Jerusalem -- refer to NoDRdee's post
Revelation chapter 11. The chapter begins with John being told to measure the temple (v. 1) and this temple is in the holy city (v.2). These are clear references to Jerusalem. This also helps in dating the book before the destruction of AD 70, when the temple was destroyed. Imagine John being told to measure something which his 1st century readers all understood was no longer in existence!Christ is in heaven NOW, ruling NOW.
,bR>Chapter 11 continues with the story of the two witnesses of God, and their deaths at the hand of the beast, after which John records, And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which is mystically called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified (v. 8). First, in both Deuteronomy (32:28-33) and in Isaiah (1:10), God refers to the Jewish people, and Jerusalem in particular, as Sodom, and Ezekiel 23 links Israel to her harlotries in Egypt. So, there is precedent for Johns use of these names to describe what had once been the city of God. But if there is any doubt where this evil takes place, John clears it up with his reference to the city where also their Lord was crucified. Jesus was not crucified in Rome, or in Berlin, or in Moscow, or in Washington, D.C. Our Lord was crucified in Jerusalem, and this is the city God has prepared for destruction in the book of Revelation