Siege of Jerusalem

So as we enter 5787 and enter into rest and righteousness, we are entering into a year where we are remembering the reason we have brought the vow of access from heaven to earth is because of the shed blood of jesus christ over the next 10 days as we enter into september 21st the day of atonement we will be positioning ourselves to remember the shed blood of jesus remember there is no temple in jerusalem regardless of whether or not there's going to be a few that are blowing a trumpet During a time where there needs to be some silence, they're saying that there could possibly be a temple reconstruction.

Listen, the temple was destroyed back in A.D. 70, but there is one who has risen, died, buried, resurrected and ascended.

And he has put his Holy Spirit inside all of us that are the temple of of the lord okay so you carry the temple of the lord so for the next 10 days you're going to consecrate yourself as the temple of the most high god all right and as you're doing that you're crossing into a year of rest and righteousness how are we resting because of what jesus has done all right he's the fulfillment of the temple all right and then we're gonna remember that during the feast of tabernacles which is gonna start september 25th through october 2nd where we remember that Jesus tabernacles amongst us.

He is tabernacling with us.

Many preachers sadly today and churches neglect the subject, skip over it, but this is obviously very important to the Lord Jesus that we understand it.

Second point, Matthew and Mark emphasize the tribulation period, whereas Luke majors more on AD 70.

We have two events, uh, in the Olivet Discourse.

We have a near event as from the standpoint of Christ and the apostles taking place, uh, at, in AD 70, not too, uh, long after, uh, the ministry of Christ, and then we have, uh, the Word of God taking us forward into the future, uh, to the tribulation.

And as we'll talk about in a moment, this is not an uncommon feature in Bible prophecy.

Very often, there is a near event or a close event which in a way foreshadows a greater event that's coming later.

All right? So we have Matthew and Mark emphasizing the tribulation period more so, whereas Luke majors more on what takes place at AD 70.

He specifically mentions the armies surrounding Jerusalem.

And after the seven woes, Jesus laments.

He weeps over the destruction of Jerusalem.

He says the temple itself will be destroyed and not even one stone will be left on top of another.

So we'll see this play out in the Olivet Discourse and we'll see it play out in the fifth seal in Revelation.

And the people of the town break down the doors.

This is A.D. 70.

The destruction of the temple, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the fulfillment, at least in part, of the prediction of Jesus of God's judgment.

The people who were originally getting this letter are suffering, and the suffering is real.

Full preterism is the heretical position.

The full preterist sees their view of this book is that this book was written specifically in regard to events that took place in John's day and age, culminating with the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, and it denies any future relevance to Christians beyond A.D. 70.

They have to date it around AD 70 because that's when Jerusalem was destroyed and they claim that that's when Jesus came back and so now we're living in an age when Jesus won't come back according to the full preterist.

Preterist takes the words, the things which must soon happen from verse 1 and the words the time is near from verse 3 as indications that everything that has been recorded in the book of Revelation was fulfilled in John's time.

We've studied all those books.

Now we're going to preach and go through his last book.

He wrote this around A.D. 95, not A.D. 70, A.D. 95.

That lines up historically with the words of Irenaeus, who was a disciple of Polycarp of Smyrna, who had been a personal disciple of the Apostle John.

Of course, Jesus prophesied its destruction, declaring that not one stone would be left on another.

That came true when the Romans sacked Jerusalem a few years later in A.D. 70 and utterly destroyed the temple.

And that was actually the greatest of the catastrophes in Jewish history when the people of Israel were sent to 2000 year of exile.

About 60 years later, the Roman Emperor Hadrian banned all Jews from the province.

You can read this in Josephus, The Wars of the Jews.

The Siege of Jerusalem caused a famine.

There was no food.

The same thing happened with the fall of Samaria in 720 BC.

He also addressed the sign of his coming in the end of the age.

Well, we know from history that Jesus' prophecy regarding the temple was fulfilled in A.D. 70, when Titus and his Roman legions destroyed not only the temple but the city of Jerusalem.

But Jesus' response to the second question takes us beyond the age of the church to a future time when all of Israel will recognize and accept the one whom they've pierced.

Historically, this has never happened, but it will.