THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST - Volume 4 - THE GREAT TRIBULATION AND THE WAR OF AD 70

THE STONE COMETH

By: Delbert Young

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

We have quickly but methodically and with historical references, discussed The War of AD 70 and its relationship to the Great Tribulation and The Book of Revelation. Jesus spoke specifically about the land of Philistia and even more how Jerusalem and the Jewish temple would be laid barren and made desolate. Jesus also said this would happen to His generation, the generation to which He physically came and spoke. Jesus laid the great tribulation out in specifics. He told His disciples exactly what they should expect, how to know it was time, and when it was over, and Jesus was ruling from heaven. What Jesus told them about the desolation and great tribulation was to be repeated to all known nations as a witness proving when it happened, Jesus, the Son of man, was indeed seated in heaven. As the witness of the apostles and disciples progressed across the known world, the relationship between the Jewish nation and Rome deteriorated. Taxes, oppression, poor governing, the demand of Rome for the Jews to worship Caesar, etc. eventually brought rebellion and war. Jesus told his disciples seven issues would happen prior to the abomination of desolation and destruction of the nation. These are known as the beginning of sorrows: many would say they were the Christ; wars and rumors of wars; famines, pestilences, and earthquakes; the apostles would be arrested, beaten, hated, and killed; false preachers would deceive many; people would hate one another; and the gospel of the kingdom would be preached to the known world as a witness to the fact Jesus said the destruction of Philistia would happen. This would show it was of God and not of Rome. Every one of these seven beginnings of sorrows happened. At the exact time, the Roman armies invaded the land. Three Roman generals methodically took apart Philistia plundering every city exactly as Jesus said it would happen. The city of Jerusalem was sieged for around two years. Jerusalem fell. It was burned, and the Jewish temple of sacrificial worship was destroyed and dismantled exactly as Jesus said it would happen. Nearly 100,000 Jewish people died. Those not killed, were taken into slavery by Rome. No wonder Jesus wept over the nation. To this day, two thousand years later, the temple and Jewish worship system has not been restored and will never be. The war of AD 70 was the Great Tribulation Jesus warned of in Matthew 24:21. It was the end of the age (Mat 24:3). It is what The Book of Revelation is concerned with in Chapters 4-16.