Book 6 CONTAINING THE INTERVAL OF ABOUT ONE MONTH. FROM THE GREAT EXTREMITY TO WHICH THE JEWS WERE REDUCED TO THE TAKING OF JERUSALEM BY TITUS. CHAPTER 1 THAT THE MISERIES STILL GREW WORSE; AND HOW THE ROMANS MADE AN ASSAULT UPON THE TOWER OF ANTONIA. 1. THUS did the miseries of Jerusalem grow worse and worse every day, and the seditious […]
WAR OF THE JEWS (1) – from the coming of Titus to besiege Jerusalem
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Book 5 CONTAINING THE INTERVAL OF NEAR SIX MONTHS. FROM THE COMING OF TITUS TO BESIEGE JERUSALEM, TO THE GREAT EXTREMITY TO WHICH THE JEWS WERE REDUCED. CHAPTER 1 CONCERNING THE SEDITIONS AT JERUSALEM AND WHAT TERRIBLE MISERIES AFFLICTED THE CITY BY THEIR MEANS. 1. WHEN therefore Titus had marched over that desert which lies between Egypt andSyria, in the […]
Omens of Destruction | Zechariah 11
October 4, 2012 by
Forty years before the destruction of the Temple … the doors of the Temple used to open of their own accord, until Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai rebuked them saying, “O Sanctuary, Sanctuary! why dost thou terrify thyself? I know well that thine end is to be destroyed, for Zechariah the son of Iddo prophesied concerning […]
Tisha B’Av – Mourning the destruction of the Temple | Zechariah 11
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According to a Jewish Lexicon Tisha b’Av (9th day of the fifth month in the Hebrew calendar), which commemorates the destruction of both the first and second Temple, is the most melancholy day in the Jewish calendar1. The Babylonians, under Nebuchadnezzar, destroyed the first temple on 9th of Av 586 BC and, by Divine providence, the Romans […]
They will look to me whom they have pierced | Zechariah 12
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Should Christians expect a mass conversion of Jews before the “second coming”? Many Christians believe in such a scenario partly on the basis of Zechariah’s famous prophecy: ‘I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to Me whom […]
The Redemption of Jews and Gentiles foreshadowed in Ruth
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The story of Ruth and Naomi is a beautiful picture of our redemption. It is the story of the grace and mercy of our Redeemer to both Ruth, the Moabite, who was far off and to Naomi, the Jewess, who was near but who had strayed from under the wings of the protection of her […]
The Leprous House
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And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, When you come into the land of Canaan which I give you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house in the land of your possession, and if he that owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, A […]
The Hope of Israel Part 2
October 4, 2012 by
ONE NATION UNDER ONE KING We will now consider the second part of Ezekiel chapter 37, the re-uniting of God’s holy nation under one King – a descendant of David (My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd). This is unquestionably a prophecy of the Messiah who would […]
The Hope of Israel | Ezekiel 37
October 4, 2012 by
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12) The modern Zionist movement was established as a direct response to anti-Semitism, born of the hope of establishing a Jewish state where Jews would be able to return to the land of their forefathers and live in peace […]
Song of Songs – How Great is the Love of God
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How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! (1 John 3:1-3). Who can fathom the depths of God’s love? His love is surely beyond human comprehension. In extolling the steadfast and unfailing love of God, the psalmist writes twenty-six times in Psalm 136 “His […]
