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A Four-Year Warning the security of their holy house ministrations, they said that,
The duality of the warnings was dissolved of its own in the first place, they felt a
that began being given by accord. quaking, and heard a sound as
God in 66 A. D. was four of a great multitude, saYJng,
years before the destruction We are told besides that "there 'Let us remove hence.'
of Jerusalem in 70 A. D. was a star resembling a sword
Based upon the many major which stood over the city, and a "Josephus adds: 'But these
unsolvable and accelerating comet, that continued a whole men interpreted some of these
problems facing the House of year." signals [the beginning of the
Joseph, it would appear there heavenly signs occurred in 66
will be little more than four Before sunsetting, chariots and A.D.] to their own pleasure,
years, or less, before destruc- troops of soldiers in their and some of them they utterly
tion also befalls the House armour were seen running despised, until their madness
of Joseph. about among the clouds." was demonstrated, both by the


Ancient History in Bible Light,
Dorothy Ruth Miller, Pages
260-261, "Fearful Sights and
Great Signs" (Luke 21:11).


"Yet the Jews who suffered in
the siege and destruction of
Jerusalem were not left with-
out warnings immediately
preceding the siege. Josephus
relates that before the revolt of
the Jews which occurred in
66 A. D. on the eighth ofNisan,
at the ninth hour of the night,
so great a light shone round
the altar that it appeared to be
"bright daytime which lasted The D y of Pentecost taking of their city and their
for half an hour." The scribes This Holy Day observed in own destruction."
interpreted this as an omen of Jerusalem in 69 A.D., played a
evil. very significant role for it was The same writer recorded the
on this Day the final warning prophesied destruction began
The same writer says that, came from God to the Jewish taking place on the night of the
"The eastern gate of the inner people of the impending Passover in 70 A. D. Jerusalem
Temple, which was of brass, destruction of their city. was conquered 134 days later
and vastly heavy, and had been by the Romans and the Temple
with difficulty shut by twenty Ancient History in Bible Light, of God was burned to the
men, and rested upon a basis Page 261, Miller: "Again on the ground (pages 260, 262).
armed with iron, and had bolts night of the last Pentecost ever
fastened very deep into the celebrated in the Sanctuary This night in their history
firm floor, which was there "as the priests were going should be considered with
made with one entire stone, by night, as their custom the Passover night in Egypt
was seen to open of its own was, to perform their sacred when the lives of the peoples
accord about the sixth hour of of Israel were spared due
the night." He says, "The men to having the blood of
of learning understood it, that the lambs splashed over the
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