Jesus, Jerusalem’s Destruction, and Israeli Politics
“The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days” (Luke 5:35). Today in Israel is a day of fasting and mourning. On this day, long ago, the king of wicked Babylon began the siege of Jerusalem, which would ultimately lead to the destruction of the God’s House and the brutal exile of God’s people. ”Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his arm