Did you know that over one million people died during the siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD? Guess how many of them were Christians? Basically zero, according to the historian Eusebius.
Why? How did this miracle happen? Because Jesus warned them it was coming 37 years before it happened!
Jesus' Warning about the Approaching Destruction of Jerusalem
Jesus warns his disciples about the approaching destruction of Jerusalem. Jesus' warning occurs in the Gospel of Luke 21:20-24:
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it; for these are days of vengeance ... they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive among all nations; and Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles ...
The Destruction of Jerusalem was catastrophic. The Jewish historian Josephus records that over one million people died, many of them burning alive, in the fall of Jerusalem.
Josephus also records that most of those that perished were Jews.
The heat of the fires was like the fiery furnace. Archaeologists are still finding coins that melted in the burning of Jerusalem.
Eusebius on the Destruction of Jerusalem
Eusebius, a Christian historian, describes what happened to the Christians during the Jewish Revolt and Roman destruction of Jerusalem. He confirms Josephus estimates of the million that perished. Not only was it mostly Jews that died, but few, if any, Christians perished. They remembered Christ's prophecy and his specific warnings.
Here is an excerpts from Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, Bk. III, Chapter V, The Last Siege of the Jews After Christ:
3. But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella. And when those that believed in Christ had come thither from Jerusalem, then, as if the royal city of the Jews and the whole land of Judea were entirely destitute of holy men, the judgment of God at length overtook those who had committed such outrages against Christ and his apostles, and totally destroyed that generation of impious men.
4. But the number of calamities which everywhere fell upon the nation at that time; the extreme misfortunes to which the inhabitants of Judea were especially subjected, the thousands of men, as well as women and children, that perished by the sword, by famine, and by other forms of death innumerable, all these things, as well as the many great sieges which were carried on against the cities of Judea, and the excessive sufferings endured by those that fled to Jerusalem itself, as to a city of perfect safety, and finally the general course of the whole war, as well as its particular occurrences in detail, and how at last the abomination of desolation, proclaimed by the prophets, stood in the very temple of God, so celebrated of old, the temple which was now awaiting its total and final destruction by fire, all these things any one that wishes may find accurately described in the history written by Josephus.
5. But it is necessary to state that this writer records that the multitude of those who were assembled from all Judea at the time of the Passover, to the number of three million souls, were shut up in Jerusalem "as in a prison," to use his own words.
You can read more from Eusebius' account here.
False Dating of the Gospels
Sadly, modern Biblical "scholars" argue that the Gospels must have been written after 70AD since Jesus predicted the events of 70AD. They are basically saying Jesus could not have made such a prophecy. When will they learn?
Of course, Jesus can prophesize. He is far greater than the greatest prophet. He is God.
But, also, which is really sad, the coming destruction of Jerusalem was predicted by many. Everybody saw that one coming.
It was the specific details that Jesus provided that allowed the Christians to get out of town just in the nick of time.
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