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• That Roman Empire would bring an end to the Jewish priesthood, to the Law of Moses. It would crush underfoot the saints - first with the killing of Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah, then by persecuting and killing Christians to the death, and then by systematically killing Jews in a massive anti-Semitic assault across the whole of Israel from the north to the south, finally ending in the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70, followed by the destruction of the last stronghold of Jewish resistance at Masada, in A.D. 73.
• These events are described in detail in the historian Josephus’ famous description of these incredible and shocking events - The Wars of the Jews. Josephus was an eye-witness of these events. He personally started fighting against the might of the Roman army, but then later was captured and became the official historian for the Romans. Josephus’ works provide harrowing details of the terrible events of the siege against Jerusalem, and the triumphant victory of the Romans against Jerusalem.