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- Let us now look at the historian Josephus, and the historical fulfilling of these amazing events. Here is a timeline, showing the violent and dramatic events leading up to the destruction in A.D. 70.
- In A.D. 33-34, Stephen was martyred, and Christians across the Roman Empire, and especially in Israel, were heavily persecuted.
- In A.D. 41, Caligula, that psychopathic emperor, was murdered - answering to the wars and rumours of wars that would follow.
- In A.D. 43, Emperor Claudius starts conquest of Britain, leading to Boudicca's revolt in A.D. 60. There would be wars and rumours of wars in distant lands.
- In A.D. 54, the Emperor Claudius was poisoned by his wife, succeeded by her son Nero, another psychopath.