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Luke
23:33 says, “Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves
and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming… Then shall they
begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us (as in Revelation 6:16)… For
if they do these things (like crucifying the innocent) when the tree is
green, what shall they do when it is dry (like when a future famine hits
Jerusalem as in Revelation 6:6 and Zechariah 6:6)?” Josephus
(Wars of the Jews, 6.9.4) says that in 70 AD “…the entire nation was
now shut up by fate as in prison, and the Roman army encompassed the city
when it was crowded with inhabitants. Accordingly, the multitude of those
that therein perished exceeded all the destructions that either men or God
ever brought upon the world…” “Now every
one of these died with their eyes fixed upon the temple, and left the
seditious alive behind them. Now the seditious at first gave orders that the
dead should be buried out of the public treasury, as not enduring the stench
of their dead bodies. But afterwards, when they could not do that, they had
them cast down from the walls into the valleys beneath.” He
says (Wars 5.12.3-4), “…when Titus, in going his rounds along those
valleys, saw them full of dead bodies, and the thick putrefaction running
about them, he gave a groan; and, spreading out his hands to heaven, called
God to witness that this was not his doing; and such was the sad case of the
city itself. But the Romans were very joyful, since none of the seditious
could now make sallies out of the city, because they were themselves
disconsolate, and the famine already touched them also.” Famine increased to
where a medimnus of wheat sold for sold for a talent (Wars 5.136 &
Revelation 6:6). The
valley south of Jerusalem’s wall is called the Valley of Hinnom or Gehennah,
allegedly where Judas Iscariot died and was buried, where trash was burned
and where the undesirable stench in Jerusalem was quenched. Dante,
in his Divine Comedy, portrays Judas as having descended to the
lowest layers of this Gehennah, where he and the two assassins of Julius
Caesar are being clawed and chewed by Satan who has three heads. Dante was
joking, but the Christian world took him seriously; and gave the kings an
excuse to torture their dissenters. They believed in dual fulfillment. The greater we make God in with our imaginations, the greater we create God in our own image. |
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