Posted on 11/26/2019 2:08:05 PM PST by Perseverando
"Let us go up at once, and possess the land; for we are well able to overcome it," shouted Joshua and Caleb, after they spent 40 days spying out the Promised Land.
But the other ten spies gave a bad report, causing the Israelites to lose heart. This sad day was Tisha B'Av - the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av.
As a result of their doubt, the Israelites wandered in the desert 40 years.
Tisha B'Av in the year 587 BC was the day the Babylonians destroyed Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, and carried the Tribe of Judah into captivity.
Tisha B'Av in the year 70 AD was the day the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
Rome's destruction of the Jerusalem began four years earlier, in 66 AD, when Roman Emperor Nero appointed General Vespasian to put down a revolt in Judea.
Soon after Nero's order, Rome experienced chaos with the year of four emperors.
Nero committed suicide in 68 AD.
His successor, Galba, was assassinated within 8 months, in 69 AD.
His successor, Otho, committed suicide within 2 months.
His successor, Vitellius, was executed within 8 months.
Vespasian was the next Emperor and his son, Titus, continued the conquest of Judea.
Titus surrounded Jerusalem and starved inhabitants for months.
Titus ordered Jewish deserters from Jerusalem to be crucified around the walls.
By the end of July, 70 AD, the Roman Army broke through the walls.
The Second Temple was destroyed on Tisha B'Av, 70 AD.
By September 8, 70 AD, all of Jerusalem was completely conquered.
Historian Josephus recorded that over a million Jews were killed in the siege.
According to historian Eusebius, Romans hunted down and killed all descendants of the royal line of David.
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On a lighter note, no Palestinians were harmed.
We are 26 months into The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, Chapter 12. It seems to cover the entire transition period to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the start of His Millennial Kingdom. Folks, it’s all TRUE. Get right with Jesus, and buckle up!
Not sure if chairman Arafat would have objected.
“According to historian Eusebius, Romans hunted down and killed all descendants of the royal line of David.”
That doesn’t seem right. Rome didn’t touch the exiled community established in Babylon, which maintained a line of “exilarchs” of Davidic descent for about 2 millennia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exilarch#Holders_of_the_office
I’ve met or heard of several people in my travels that have claimed descent from King David, at least one of whom claimed to have a documented family line.
They weren’t invented until about 1902 years later.
“In 135 AD, the Greek “Syria Palaestina” [a] was used in naming a new Roman province from the merger of Roman Syria and Roman Judaea after the Roman authorities crushed the Bar Kokhba Revolt...
...Around the year 390, during the Byzantine period, the imperial province of Syria Palaestina was reorganized into Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda[21] and Palaestina Salutaris.[21]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_%22Palestine%22
“I will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel.” I don’t think it’s an coincidence the Islamic world that hates Jews has been mired in barbarity for a thousand years, or that that England, which offered haven to Jews for centuries, became the most powerful empire on earth, or that the United States, which more recently succored Jews, emerged in the last century as a world power. As British attitudes toward Jews faded, likewise did their empire. As the U.S. attitude toward Israel wanes, it also trembles on the edge of ruin. I don’t think in either case this is by accident.
good stuff — keep posting!
““I will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel.” I don’t think it’s an coincidence the Islamic world that hates Jews has been mired in barbarity for a thousand years, or that that England, which offered haven to Jews for centuries, became the most powerful empire on earth, or that the United States, which more recently succored Jews, emerged in the last century as a world power. As British attitudes toward Jews faded, likewise did their empire. As the U.S. attitude toward Israel wanes, it also trembles on the edge of ruin. I don’t think in either case this is by accident.“
and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Amen!
That’s great, but has nothing to do with my post.
There’s a website devoted to those who have reasonable claim to Davidic descent.
Rabbi Yosef Dayan in Israel has pretty good records about his family’s Davidic descent.
No, of course not.
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