"And as Vespasian drew nigh Rome, all the citizens came forth to meet him. . .Vespasian took displeasure with Agrippa upon the information of certain evil disposed persons that had slandered him, wherefore Vespasian put both him and his son Munabas to death.
This befel three years and a half before the destruction of Jerusalem. Moreover, before this deed, the continual sacrifice ceased for a thousand two hundred and ninety days, as it is written in Daniel Ch. 12. "And from the time that the continual sacrifice shall be taken away, and abomination shall be put into desolation, a thousand two hundred and ninety days."
"But this is it that I marvel most, that ye have read in the Book of Daniel and understand it not, which is now fulfilled in all points, and yet never a one of you doth mark it, the continual sacrifice is already ceased a good while ago, the anointed Priest is cut away and put down. These things, tho' they be most manifest, yet your hearts cannot believe them."
- Joseph Ben Gorion's, Yossipon
This befel three years and a half before the destruction of Jerusalem. Moreover, before this deed, the continual sacrifice ceased for a thousand two hundred and ninety days, as it is written in Daniel Ch. 12. "And from the time that the continual sacrifice shall be taken away, and abomination shall be put into desolation, a thousand two hundred and ninety days."
"But this is it that I marvel most, that ye have read in the Book of Daniel and understand it not, which is now fulfilled in all points, and yet never a one of you doth mark it, the continual sacrifice is already ceased a good while ago, the anointed Priest is cut away and put down. These things, tho' they be most manifest, yet your hearts cannot believe them."
- Joseph Ben Gorion's, Yossipon
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Apocalypse:
Old English, via Old French and ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apokalupsis, from apokaluptein ‘uncover, reveal’, from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover’.
to uncover or reveal (i.e. Revelation)
Daniel was told to seal up the words of the book until the 'time of the end'.
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. (Daniel 12:4)
John was told NOT to seal up the words of the book for 'the time is at hand' (the uncovering/revealing of the sealed book of Daniel).
And he saith unto me, seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
(Revelation 22:10)
Old English, via Old French and ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apokalupsis, from apokaluptein ‘uncover, reveal’, from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover’.
to uncover or reveal (i.e. Revelation)
Daniel was told to seal up the words of the book until the 'time of the end'.
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. (Daniel 12:4)
John was told NOT to seal up the words of the book for 'the time is at hand' (the uncovering/revealing of the sealed book of Daniel).
And he saith unto me, seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
(Revelation 22:10)
In A.D. 66 at the start of the Jewish revolt, Nero Caesar was in Greece building a canal. Concerning the construction of this canal, Cassius Dio writes..
“When the first workers touched the earth, blood spouted from it, groans and bellowings were heard, and many phantoms appeared. Nero himself thereupon grasped a mattock and by throwing up some of the soil fairly compelled the rest to imitate him.”
In recording this same event, Suetonius indicates that as Nero broke the ground the sound of a trumpet was heard.
"In Achaia he attempted to cut through the Isthmus and called together the praetorians and urged them to begin the work; then at a signal given on a trumpet he was first to break ground with a mattock and to carry off a basketful of earth upon his shoulders."
"..in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
1 Corinthians 15:52
“When the first workers touched the earth, blood spouted from it, groans and bellowings were heard, and many phantoms appeared. Nero himself thereupon grasped a mattock and by throwing up some of the soil fairly compelled the rest to imitate him.”
In recording this same event, Suetonius indicates that as Nero broke the ground the sound of a trumpet was heard.
"In Achaia he attempted to cut through the Isthmus and called together the praetorians and urged them to begin the work; then at a signal given on a trumpet he was first to break ground with a mattock and to carry off a basketful of earth upon his shoulders."
"..in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
1 Corinthians 15:52
One thing today's Christians struggle to understand, is that the Bible is a spiritual (not physical) book from beginning to end. It is about the transition from the old covenant (old heaven and earth), to the new covenant (new heaven and earth).
"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." (Hebrews 8:7, 13)
"For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." (Isaiah 65:17)
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. . . Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. (Rev 21:1, 3)
"The kingdom of God does not come with observation. . . It is within you!" (Luke 17:20-2)
Jesus is Immanuel, GOD WITH US!
"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." (Hebrews 8:7, 13)
"For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." (Isaiah 65:17)
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. . . Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. (Rev 21:1, 3)
"The kingdom of God does not come with observation. . . It is within you!" (Luke 17:20-2)
Jesus is Immanuel, GOD WITH US!
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70 A.D.
One thing today's Christians struggle to understand, is that the Bible is a spiritual (not physical) book from beginning to end. It is about the transition from the old covenant (old heaven and earth), to the new covenant (new heaven and earth). "For if that…
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
2 Corinthians 5:17
2 Corinthians 5:17
The third oldest Bible in the world features the four Gospels written in Koine Greek. It is known as the Codex Washingtonianus, the Codex Freerianus or the Washington Gospels, and is over 1,600 years old.
What makes this Codex special, is the passage inserted at the end of the gospel of Mark, known as the "Freer Logion".
In this passage, Jesus tells the disciples that the term of years of satan's power has been fulfilled, but that other terrible things draw near.
St. Jerome not only quoted this passage, but also reported that the Freer Logion appeared in the Gospel of Mark after 16:14 “especially in Greek codices.”
The number of these manuscripts that exist today and which are known to contain this interpolation is exactly one: Codex Washingtonianus
"Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out."
(John 12:31)
What makes this Codex special, is the passage inserted at the end of the gospel of Mark, known as the "Freer Logion".
In this passage, Jesus tells the disciples that the term of years of satan's power has been fulfilled, but that other terrible things draw near.
St. Jerome not only quoted this passage, but also reported that the Freer Logion appeared in the Gospel of Mark after 16:14 “especially in Greek codices.”
The number of these manuscripts that exist today and which are known to contain this interpolation is exactly one: Codex Washingtonianus
"Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out."
(John 12:31)
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"Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest." (Micah 3:12)
"And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down." (Mark 13:2)
Indeed, not one stone was left upon another. The city was plowed up by Titus, and again, 60 years later, by Hadrian.
*Be sure and read the historic accounts in the attached photo*
"And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down." (Mark 13:2)
Indeed, not one stone was left upon another. The city was plowed up by Titus, and again, 60 years later, by Hadrian.
*Be sure and read the historic accounts in the attached photo*
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And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed out of the winepress, as high as the bridles of the horses, to the distance of one thousand six hundred stadia. (Revelation 14:20)
This verse seems to have been literally fulfilled when thousands of fugitives from Gadara were cornered by the Roman army at the Jordan River. For miles along the Jordan, the men of Gadara could not cross the river as a result of a strong current due to recent rainfall. There, the men of Gadara “sustained the darts that were thrown at them as well as the attacks of the horsemen who beat many of them, and pushed them into the current.” (Josephus: Wars of the jews)
The Jordan River is 251 kilometers long which is exactly 1,600 stadia.
Josephus says “And the Jordan could not be passed over, by reason of the dead bodies that were in it, but the lake Asphaltitis [the Dead Sea] was also full of dead bodies, that were carried down into it by the river.”
This verse seems to have been literally fulfilled when thousands of fugitives from Gadara were cornered by the Roman army at the Jordan River. For miles along the Jordan, the men of Gadara could not cross the river as a result of a strong current due to recent rainfall. There, the men of Gadara “sustained the darts that were thrown at them as well as the attacks of the horsemen who beat many of them, and pushed them into the current.” (Josephus: Wars of the jews)
The Jordan River is 251 kilometers long which is exactly 1,600 stadia.
Josephus says “And the Jordan could not be passed over, by reason of the dead bodies that were in it, but the lake Asphaltitis [the Dead Sea] was also full of dead bodies, that were carried down into it by the river.”
70 A.D.
And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed out of the winepress, as high as the bridles of the horses, to the distance of one thousand six hundred stadia. (Revelation 14:20) This verse seems to have been literally fulfilled when thousands…
"With thousands of bloodied corpses flowing from the Jordan into the Dead Sea, this bitter sea had truly lived up to its name both literally as the Dead Sea and symbolically as the Red Sea, having been made red with the blood of the dead." - Steve Gregg, ed., Revelation: Four Views a Parallel Commentary
The sea literally became blood. (Revelation 8:8)
The sea literally became blood. (Revelation 8:8)
"On the eighth day of the month Xanthicus, and at the ninth hour of the night, so great a light shone round the altar and the holy house, that it appeared to be bright day time; which lasted for half an hour. This light seemed to be a good sign to the unskillful, but was so interpreted by the sacred scribes, as to portend those events that followed immediately upon it." (Josephus, Wars, Book 6, Section 288)
"And when he opened the seventh seal, there came silence in heaven about half-an-hour." (Revelation 8:1)
"And when he opened the seventh seal, there came silence in heaven about half-an-hour." (Revelation 8:1)
Who was Mystery Babylon, Mother of Harlots?
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem;
Thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by. . . and in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Ezekiel 16:2, 3,15 , 22
I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters; with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. . .and upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth.
Revelation 17:1 - 2 , 5 - 6
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem;
Thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by. . . and in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Ezekiel 16:2, 3,15 , 22
I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters; with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. . .and upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth.
Revelation 17:1 - 2 , 5 - 6
70 A.D.
Who was Mystery Babylon, Mother of Harlots? Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy…
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Revelation 18:3
Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:13 - 14
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, and cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
Revelation 18:11 - 13 , 20 , 24
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zechari´ah son of Berechi´ah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon THIS GENERATION.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate!
Matthew 23:34 - 37; 38
Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Revelation 18:19
Revelation 18:3
Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:13 - 14
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, and cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
Revelation 18:11 - 13 , 20 , 24
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zechari´ah son of Berechi´ah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon THIS GENERATION.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate!
Matthew 23:34 - 37; 38
Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Revelation 18:19
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According to 1 Enoch 10.12, the judgement was to occur seventy generations from Enoch, during which time the angels who sinned against God were to be kept in bonds until the day of consummation, the great judgement in which the age shall be consummated. 16.1-2
It should be noted that according to Luke, who claims to have "traced the course of all things accurately from the first", there are exactly seventy generations from Enoch to Jesus Christ. In other words, it would not have been presumptuous for Jude to claim that 1 Enoch addressed the concerns of the Christians to whom he wrote. The generation of Jesus Christ had not yet passed away. 70 AD was within that context. (See Jude 1:6; 14-15)
"And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the consummation of the ages did come." (1 Corinthians 10:11)
"Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?" (1 Corinthians 6:3)
It should be noted that according to Luke, who claims to have "traced the course of all things accurately from the first", there are exactly seventy generations from Enoch to Jesus Christ. In other words, it would not have been presumptuous for Jude to claim that 1 Enoch addressed the concerns of the Christians to whom he wrote. The generation of Jesus Christ had not yet passed away. 70 AD was within that context. (See Jude 1:6; 14-15)
"And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the consummation of the ages did come." (1 Corinthians 10:11)
"Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?" (1 Corinthians 6:3)
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