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• In the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, Josephus estimates that almost 1.2 million people were killed. In a final end to the destruction of the Jews’ aspirations to live as a free people in Israel under the Roman Empire, Masada was subsequently destroyed in A.D. 73. Masada was that fortress near En-Gedi close to the Dead Sea. It was the last bastion of Jewish resistance. Thus, forty years after the death of Jesus at the hands of the Romans, all Jewish resistance was destroyed, all hope had ended, and the law of Moses had come to an end.
• Let us walk through Matthew chapter 24, where the events leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple are depicted in graphic detail. That coming terrible judgement was foretold by Jesus himself.