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Show OF JERUSALBN. DESTRUCTION their foundations. on this devoted city. wonder of the How fatal was the divine jud gment Five world; and months before it was the contained, at OL the siege, more than a millio the comn and a half of Jews, natives and visiters ; now it ea woe lay in total ruins, with not “one stone upon another ;”” as Christ had dehounced. These ruins Eusebius informs us he beheld. And Eleazer is introduced by Josephus as exclaiming; Where is our great city, whi ch it was believed inhabited.” The prophet Micah had predic God ted ; ‘* Therefore shall Zion for you r sakes be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the Lord’s the forest.” A Captain house as the high places of of the army of ‘Titus, did in fact plough where some part of the foundation of the temple had sto od, as the Talmud records, and thus fal_ filled this prediction. Jesus Christ had foretold of this destruction, that “there should be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world.?? And of the event Josephus says; “ If the misfortunes of all nations from the beg inning of the worid, were compared with those which befel the Jews, they would app ear far less.?? Again; ‘ No other city ever suffered such things ; as no other generation from the beginning of the world, was ever more fruitful in wickedness.”° Other parts of Jndea were still to be subdued. Macherus was attacked. Seventeen hundred Jews sure rendered and were slain; also three thousand fugilives taken in the woods of Jardes. Titus at Cresarea celebrated in great splendour the birth day of his bro- ther Domitian. Here a horrid secne, according to the bloody customs of those times, was presented. To grace this occasion, more than two thousand five bun- dred Jews fell; some with wild beasts; and the sword, by burning; some some by mutual by fighting combat with The Jewish commander, sixty Men, in number) consented to the horrid proposal, women, and children took their seats upon the ground, and offered their necks to the sword. men'were selected to execute the fatal deed. dreadiul work was done. chosen to execute the nine, Ten The One of the ten was then aud then himself. ‘The nine being put to death, and fire being set to the place, the last man plunged his dagger Into his own heart, Seven persons, (women and children,) found means to conceal themselves, and escape the ruin. When the Romans approached, these seven related to them these horrid events. Most of the remaining places now, through sullen despair, gave up all opposition, and submitted to the conquerors. ‘Thus Judea became asa desolate wilder- hess ; and the following passage in Isaiah had at least a primary accomplishment; ‘Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant ; and (he houses without man ; and the land be utterly desolate ; and moved man far away, and tn the midst of the land.” there the Lord have re- be a great forsaking A line of prophecies is found in the éacre d which relate to a signal temporal destruction oracles, of the most notorious enemies of the king dom of Jesus Christ. Those were to havea two-fold accomplishme nt; first upon the Jews; and secondly upon the great AntiChrist of the last days, iypitied by the infidel Jews. Accordingly those prophecies in the Old Testament are ever found in close connexion y ith the Millennium. The predictions of our Savio ur, in Matt. xxiy. Mark xii. and Luke xxi. are but a new edition of these sacred prophecies. This has been noted as “the destruc: lion of the city and templ e foretold,” It is so indeed, and more.—It is also a denunciati on of the destruction of the great Antichrist of the last this will appear in the follo days. The certainty of wine things, as New T'eslament Writers decide. The Thessalonians, having’ heard what our Lord denounced, that all those things he ° before they besieged. - army, was In despair, induced the garrison first to destroy their stores, and then themselves. The) (nine hundr ed and — oman left Jer usalem, not Oniy demolished the bui ldings there, but even dyo up Massada 7 PTS for life to du ngeon, their violent factious con tentions, 48 + Ihe ended JERUSALEM. =a a Thus OF pe Simon was scourged and executed as a maiefactor; and John was co mmitted Cente ee een a en —— — = ter which o~ STRUCTION 2 42 |