Sunday, September 22, 2013

To Those Who Say God has no eyes: and has no ears: What about this From Jesus?

     41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it 42 and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. 43 The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. 44 They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”

     bar-kochba-coin-small.jpg The Jewish Wars began in 66 A.D. and they were a direct revolt by the Jews against Rome’s authority. Titus with his Roman legions arrived at the outermost northern Wall of Jerusalem, the Passover of 70 A.D. The Romans built embankments of earthenwork, they placed battering rams and the siege began.

The Roman army numbered 30,000; while the Jewish army numbered 24,000. According to Tacitus they were 600,000 visitors crowding the streets of Jerusalem for the Passover. After five months the walls were battered down, the great Temple was burned down, and the city was left ruined and desolate, except for Herod's three great towers at the northwest corner of the city. These served as a memorial of the massive strength of Jerusalem's fortifications which Titus of Rome had brought to rubble.

The legions of Rome brought the captives to Caesarea and after over one million Jews were killed, 95,000 captives were taken as prisoners, and among them was Josephus, the ancient Jewish historian. According to Eusebius, the Christians saw the might of the Roman army and through prophetic warning, fled to Pella.
     
     It is us who at times haven't any eyes or ears to hear what our God is saying.  Are we too busy with our life to distill down words like these and begin to fathom just how accurate and precise our God is in our world?  Only 33 years had passed since he spoke these words.  How swift is our God to fulfill his promises? And when will he return again?  Keep the lamps burning......
     For those not acquainted with his promises I enjoin you to look into your heart in the quiet times and search out his doings.  You won't be disappointed at all!

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