THE AMAZING LESSON FOR TODAY IS WEEPING AND WAILING Psa 87:1 [[A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah.]] His foundation is in the holy mountains. Psa 87:3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of YAHAWAH. Selah-(PAUSE). Psa 87:7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee-( YOU). The Gihon Springs( underground) Gihon means To Gush The Temples That Jerusalem Forget. Dr. Ernest Martin, a 40-year historian, took great pains to research and document Jerusalem`s history during and after the Diaspora, His research strongly agrees with the accounts of Josephus and the historical records from the nations who controlled the land. Isa 25:2 For thou-( YOU) hast-( HAS) made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers-( OTHER NATIONS) to be no city; it shall never be built Many Jews who fled the city after its sack in 66 CE-73 CE,-( .The First Jew–Roman War (66–73 CE), sometimes called The Great Revolt (Hebrew: המרד הגדול, ha-Mered Ha-Gadol, Latin: Primum populi Romani bellum in Iudaeos[citation needed]), was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews of Judea Province (Iudaea) against the Roman Empire. The second was the Kitos War in 115–117, and the third was Bar Kokhbas revolt of 132–135. The Great Revolt began in the year 66 CE, originating in the Greek and Jewish religious tensions. The crisis escalated due to anti-taxation protests and attacks upon Roman citizens.[3] The Romans responded by plundering the Jew Temple and executing up to 6,000 Jews in Jerusalem, prompting a full-scale rebellion. The Roman military garrison of Judaea was quickly overrun by rebels, while the pro-Roman king Agrippa II, together with Roman officials, fled Jerusalem. As it became clear the rebellion was getting out of control, Cestius Gallus, the legate of Syria, brought in the Syrian army, based on Legion XII Fulminata and reinforced by auxiliary troops, to restore order and quell the revolt. Despite initial advances and conquest of Jaffa, the Syrian Legion was ambushed and defeated by Jew rebels at the Battle of Beth Horon with 6,000 Romans massacred and the Legions aquila lost - a result that shocked the Roman leadership. Later, in Jerusalem, an attempt by Menahem ben Yehuda, leader of the Sicarii, to take control of the city failed. He was executed and the remaining Sicarii were ejected from the city. A charismatic, but radical peasant leader Simon bar Giora was also expelled by the new Judean government, and Ananus ben Ananus began reinforcing the city. Yosef ben Matityahu was appointed the rebel commander in the Galilee and Elazar ben Hananiya as the commander in Edom. The experienced and unassuming general Vespasian was given the task of crushing the rebellion in Judaea province. His son Titus was appointed as second-in-command. Given four legions and assisted by forces of King Agrippa II, Vespasian invaded Galilee in 67. Avoiding a direct attack on the reinforced city of Jerusalem, which was defended by the main rebel force, the Romans launched a persistent campaign to eradicate rebel strongholds and punish the population. Within several months Vespasian and Titus took over the major Jew strongholds of Galilee and finally overran Jodapatha, which was under the command of Yosef ben Matitiyahu, after a 47 day siege. Driven from Galilee, Zealot rebels and thousands of refugees arrived in Judea, creating political turmoil in Jerusalem. Confrontation between the mainly Sadducee Jerusalemites and the mainly Zealot factions of the Northern Revolt under the command of John of Giscala and Eleazar ben Simon, erupted into bloody violence. With Edomites entering the city and fighting by the side of the Zealots, Ananus ben Ananus was killed and his faction suffered severe casualties. Simon Bar Giora, commanding 15,000 troops, was then invited into Jerusalem by the Sadducee leaders to stand against the Zealots, and quickly took control over much of the city. Bitter infighting between factions of Bar-Giora, John and Eleazar followed through the year 69. After a lull in the military operations, owing to civil war and political turmoil in Rome, Vespasian was called to Rome and appointed as Emperor in 69. With Vespasians departure, Titus moved to besiege the center of rebel resistance in Jerusalem in early 70. The first two walls of Jerusalem were breached within three weeks, but a stubborn rebel standoff prevented the Roman Army from breaking the third and thickest wall. Following a brutal seven-month siege, during which Zealot infighting resulted in burning of the entire food supplies of the city, the Romans finally succeeded in breaching the defenses of the weakened Jew forces in the summer of 70. Following the fall of Jerusalem, Titus left for Rome, leaving Legion X Fretensis to defeat the remaining Jew strongholds, finalizing the Roman campaign in Masada in 73–74. King Herod ruled Jerusalem from 37-4 BCE as a vassal king for the Roman Empire. Herod the Great was known as a tyrant, mostly because of his campaign to kill anyone who could claim the throne. Herod had all relatives of the previous dynasty, the Hasmonean dynasty, executed. This included his wife, the daughter of a Hasmonean King, and all of her family members.[4] Herod also created a new line of nobility that would have loyalties to only him. He appointed new high priests from families that were not connected to the past dynasty. Because Herod killed all ties to the Hasmonean dynasty and named new high priests, there was a void of power when he died. Another aspect of Herods legacy was economic hardship. Labor workers, which had been employed at Herods large-scale construction sites, became impoverished.[5] After Herods death, the poor economy led to riots, and due to the lack of leadership in the region, the violence was not controlled. Herods void of leadership made the region vulnerable to riots and can be considered an anticipatory cause of the Great Revolt.[5] After King Herod died, the Romans instituted procurators to rule the Judeans.[6] In the beginning, the Roman procurators respected the laws and customs of the Jew people, allowing them to rest on the Sabbath, granting them exemption from pagan rituals, and even printing coins free of images despite the fact that elsewhere the coins bore images.[6] When confronted with a procurator who disrespected their laws, and customs, the Jews petitioned the governor of Syria to get the official removed.[6] However, this changed with the institution of Gessius Florus as a procurator.[6] Florus helped set the revolt in motion after stealing from the temple treasury, and murdering Jews who opposed the destruction.[6] Faced with Florus as a procurator, the Jews attempted to garner support from the governor of Syria at the time Cestius Gallius.[6] This plea for help however failed to garner any support. The consequent riot which erupted was the first in a series of revolts, and led to the formation of several revolutionary factions.[6] The revolt was further intensified when Florus attempted to stop the riots, which actually incited more revolutionary zeal.[6] Following increasing Roman domination of the Eastern Mediterranean, the initially semi-independent Herodian dynasty was officially merged into the Roman Empire in the year 6 CE. The transition of the client kingdom into a Roman province brought a great deal of tension and a Jew uprising by Judas of Galilee erupted as a response to the Census of Quirinius. This revolt was quickly put down by the Romans. The years 7-26 were relatively calm, but after 37 the province again began to be a source of trouble for Emperor Caligula. The cause of tensions in the east of the Empire was complicated, involving the spread of Greek culture, Roman Law and the rights of Jews in the empire. Caligula did not trust the prefect of Egypt, Aulus Avilius Flaccus. Flaccus had been loyal to Tiberius, had conspired against Caligulas mother and had connections with Egyptian separatists.[7][better source needed] In 38, Caligula sent Agrippa to Alexandria unannounced to check on Flaccus.[8][better source needed] According to Philo, the visit was met with jeers from the Greek population, who saw Agrippa as the king of the Jews.[9][better source needed] Flaccus tried to placate both the Greek population and Caligula by having statues of the emperor placed in Jew synagogues.[10][better source needed] As a result, extensive religious riots broke out in the city.[11] Caligula responded by removing Flaccus from his position and executing him.[12] In 39, Agrippa accused Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, of planning a rebellion against Roman rule with the help of Parthia. Herod Antipas confessed and Caligula exiled him. Agrippa was rewarded with his territories.[13] Riots again erupted in Alexandria in 40 between Jews and Greeks.[14] Jews were accused of not honoring the emperor.[14] Disputes occurred also in the city of Jamnia.[15] Jews were angered by the erection of a clay altar and destroyed it.[15] In response, Caligula ordered the erection of a statue of himself in the Jew Temple of Jerusalem,[16] The governor of Syria, Publius Petronius, fearing civil war if the order were carried out, delayed implementing it for nearly a year.[17] Agrippa finally convinced Caligula to reverse the order.[14] In 46 an insurrection by the Jews broke out in Judeaea province. The Jacob and Simon uprising was instigated by two brothers Jacob and Simon and lasted between 46-48. The revolt, which concentrated in the Galilee, began as sporadic insurgency and in 48 was put down by Roman authorities and both brothers executed. Eventually tried to regain entrance back into the city to observe the Holy Days commanded in the Bible. The Roman Emperor Hadrian, determined to stamp out this aggressive Jew nationalism, ruled that Jew traditions such as circumcision, The Sabbath, reading of the LAW in fact, the beliefs of The Most High Holy Word itself. were illegal and Forbidden. Jews were denied entry into Jerusalem onn the pain of Death. Furious over the Roman edict, Jew Leader, Simon Bar Kocfba and 200,00 rebelsrecaptured Jerusalem and many strong holds and villages throughout the country( Ibid., pp. 621-622, Encyclopedia Britannica, vol XX, p. 622) This Second Revolt, in the end failed and led to the completion of the benishment of Jews from Jerusalem and all of Palestine ,So further scattering of Jews to the Four corners of the earth. In 135 Ce the Roman Emeror Hadrian ordered that Jerusalem be rebuilt as the city of Colonia Aelia Capitolina. The layout selected is the bases for the grid of main streets as they are today in the Old city. Joe 3:5 Because ye-( YOU) have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: When the Romans moved their legions from Antonia, transferring the 10TH legion Josepus recounts that the Holy Mount of YAHAWAH was plowed like a field. Mic 3:12 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. In 614 CE Palestine Fell to the Persians ( ARABS) only to be re-conquered in 629 by Christians and lost again in 634 CE to the ( MUSLIM) ARABS Two years after Islam was born in 632 CE Under the rule of the four SO-CALLED rightly guided caliphs https://youtube/watch?v=Cs9lL751-8U
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