The destruction of Jerusalem had profound effects on both Jewish and Christian thought. For the Jewish people, it marked a significant turning point, leading to the diaspora and the development of Rabbinic Juda
History records few events more generally interesting than the destruction of Jerusalem, and the subversion of the Jewish state, by the arms of the Romans. — Their intimate connexion with the dissolution of the Levitical economy, and the establishment of Christianity in the world ; the striking ...
Micah ministered during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah (Micah 1:1), in the latter part of the eighth century BC. Jerusalem indeed suffered multiple invasions and destructions throughout history, notably by the Babylonians (586-587 BC) and later by the Romans (AD 70). Skeptics ...
"Therefore thus saith the Lord God, As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem," &c. And it may be understood of mankind in general. We find man often in scripture compared to a vine. So ...
Demonstrators lift flags as they walk near the Israeli village of Moshav Shoresh on July 21, 2023, during a multi-day march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to protest the government’s judicial overhaul bill ahead of a vote in the parliament. Israel has been rocked by a months-long wave of ...
It ties into the rampaging swine (broad, profane) and the precious pearls they overwhelm (narrow, sacred), and of course the salt (narrow, sacred) that loses its value and thus gets trampled underfoot (broad, profane), and thus to the streets of "gold" in the New Jerusalem, which in...
sitteth in the temple of God— Exercises supreme and sovereign power over the visible church, as head thereof, even over all that profess Christianity. By thetemple of God,the apostle could not well mean the temple of Jerusalem, because he knew very well that would be totally destroyed ...
This new fundamentalism - which became known as dispensationalism - was particularly attractive in the United States where many former colonists had seen the War of Independence from Britain in millennial terms, with George III as the Antichrist and America as the New Jerusalem promised in the Boo...
As Christ looked upon Jerusalem, the doom of a whole city, a whole nation, was before Him—that city, that nation, which had once been the chosen of God, His peculiar treasure.
Shortly after this, Jerusalem and their Temple were destroyed, as a physical representation of God’s judgment against the Satanic Jews in the spiritual realm. However, this was not the final judgment. Paul, in his first letter to believers in the ci...