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Yaddy
Saturday, April 29, 2023
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Jerusalem and the temple
According to biblical accounts, it took Solomon 7 years to build the Temple, lasting from the fourth to the eleventh year of King Solomon’s reign.
In 586 BC, the Temple was plundered and destroyed to its foundations by Nebuchadnezzar. Everything was transported to Babylon, the holy vessels and all the ornaments of gold, silver, and brass.
The Temple was rebuilt between 516 BC and 70 AD, known as the “Second Temple.” It was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, during the Jewish revolt of 66-70 AD against Roman rule.
2 Kings 25 8 On the seventh day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, Nebuzaradan, adviser to the king and commander of his army, entered Jerusalem. 9 He burned down the Temple, the palace, and the houses of all the important people in Jerusalem, 10 and his soldiers tore down the city walls.
11 Then Nebuzaradan took away to Babylonia the people who were left in the city, the remaining skilled workers, and those who had deserted to the Babylonians.
12 But he left in Judah some of the poorest people, who owned no property, and put them to work in the vineyards and fields.
2nd destruction of the temple ( eye witnessed by Josephus) This attack was made upon the first day of the month Panemus [Tamuz] [A.D. 70]. When the banks were completed, and the battering rams brought, and could do nothing, Titus gave orders to set fire to the gates of the temple. In no long time after which the holy house itself was burnt down, even against his consent.
And now the soldiers had already put fire to the gates; and the silver that was over them quickly carried the flames to the wood that was within it: whence it spread itself all on the sudden, and caught hold on the cloisters.
Upon the Jews seeing this fire all about them, their spirits sunk, together with their bodies: and they were under such astonishment, that not one of them made any haste, either to defend himself, or to quench the fire: but they stood as mute spectators of it only.
However, they did not so grieve at the loss of what was now burning, as to grow wiser thereby for the time to come.
But as though the holy house itself had been on fire already, they whetted their passions against the Romans. This fire prevailed during that day, and the next also. For the soldiers were not able to burn all the cloisters that were round about together at one time, but only by pieces.
3. But then, on the next day, Titus commanded part of his army to quench the fire, and to make a road for the more easy marching up of the legions;
Then we read in Daniel ch 9 verse 26” “Then after the sixty-two weeks, the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary
The people of the prince who is to come,, Anti- Christ,( the Romans destroyed the city and sanctuary, ( the temple)so the prince to come, comes from the Romans?...
Blessings...
Yaddy
In 586 BC, the Temple was plundered and destroyed to its foundations by Nebuchadnezzar. Everything was transported to Babylon, the holy vessels and all the ornaments of gold, silver, and brass.
The Temple was rebuilt between 516 BC and 70 AD, known as the “Second Temple.” It was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, during the Jewish revolt of 66-70 AD against Roman rule.
2 Kings 25 8 On the seventh day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, Nebuzaradan, adviser to the king and commander of his army, entered Jerusalem. 9 He burned down the Temple, the palace, and the houses of all the important people in Jerusalem, 10 and his soldiers tore down the city walls.
11 Then Nebuzaradan took away to Babylonia the people who were left in the city, the remaining skilled workers, and those who had deserted to the Babylonians.
12 But he left in Judah some of the poorest people, who owned no property, and put them to work in the vineyards and fields.
2nd destruction of the temple ( eye witnessed by Josephus) This attack was made upon the first day of the month Panemus [Tamuz] [A.D. 70]. When the banks were completed, and the battering rams brought, and could do nothing, Titus gave orders to set fire to the gates of the temple. In no long time after which the holy house itself was burnt down, even against his consent.
And now the soldiers had already put fire to the gates; and the silver that was over them quickly carried the flames to the wood that was within it: whence it spread itself all on the sudden, and caught hold on the cloisters.
Upon the Jews seeing this fire all about them, their spirits sunk, together with their bodies: and they were under such astonishment, that not one of them made any haste, either to defend himself, or to quench the fire: but they stood as mute spectators of it only.
However, they did not so grieve at the loss of what was now burning, as to grow wiser thereby for the time to come.
But as though the holy house itself had been on fire already, they whetted their passions against the Romans. This fire prevailed during that day, and the next also. For the soldiers were not able to burn all the cloisters that were round about together at one time, but only by pieces.
3. But then, on the next day, Titus commanded part of his army to quench the fire, and to make a road for the more easy marching up of the legions;
Then we read in Daniel ch 9 verse 26” “Then after the sixty-two weeks, the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary
The people of the prince who is to come,, Anti- Christ,( the Romans destroyed the city and sanctuary, ( the temple)so the prince to come, comes from the Romans?...
Blessings...
Yaddy
Thursday, April 13, 2023
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Sunday, April 2, 2023
Have you tasted Jesus?
A well-respected scholar and avowed atheist was speaking at a large outdoor picnic. He spoke for two and a half hours attempting to prove that the resurrection of Jesus was false.
He quoted scholar after scholar and book after book.
He concluded that since there was no such thing as the historical resurrection, the religious tradition of the church was groundless emotional nonsense because it was based on a relationship with a risen Jesus, who never rose from the dead in any literal sense. He then asked if there were any questions.
After about 30 seconds, an old preacher stood up.
"Sir, I have one question," he said as all eyes turned toward him.
He reached into his sack lunch and pulled out an apple he had been eating.
"My question is a simple question," he said before taking another bite of the apple.
He continued, "I haven't read all the books you have, and I can't recite the Scriptures in the original Greek." He took a couple more bites of the apple and said, "I don't know a thing about Niebuhr and Heidegger."
He finished the apple and said, "All I wanna know is: this apple I just finished, was it tart or sweet?"
The speaker paused for a moment and answered in exemplary scholarly fashion, "I cannot possibly answer that question, for I haven't tasted your apple."
The white-haired preacher dropped the core of his apple into his crumpled paper bag and said calmly, "Neither have you tasted my Jesus."
Have you tasted Jesus?
"Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him. If you have, rejoice in the hope of the resurrection that your faith in Him brings." - Psalm 34:8
Blessings...
Yaddy
He quoted scholar after scholar and book after book.
He concluded that since there was no such thing as the historical resurrection, the religious tradition of the church was groundless emotional nonsense because it was based on a relationship with a risen Jesus, who never rose from the dead in any literal sense. He then asked if there were any questions.
After about 30 seconds, an old preacher stood up.
"Sir, I have one question," he said as all eyes turned toward him.
He reached into his sack lunch and pulled out an apple he had been eating.
"My question is a simple question," he said before taking another bite of the apple.
He continued, "I haven't read all the books you have, and I can't recite the Scriptures in the original Greek." He took a couple more bites of the apple and said, "I don't know a thing about Niebuhr and Heidegger."
He finished the apple and said, "All I wanna know is: this apple I just finished, was it tart or sweet?"
The speaker paused for a moment and answered in exemplary scholarly fashion, "I cannot possibly answer that question, for I haven't tasted your apple."
The white-haired preacher dropped the core of his apple into his crumpled paper bag and said calmly, "Neither have you tasted my Jesus."
Have you tasted Jesus?
"Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him. If you have, rejoice in the hope of the resurrection that your faith in Him brings." - Psalm 34:8
Blessings...
Yaddy
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