Early Church History 2
Rapture in Pella; Despair in Jerusalem
"The great city was split into three parts, and the gentile cities fell ... Large hailstones like huge weights (weighing a talent) came down from the sky on people, and they blasphemed God for the plague of hail because this plague was so severe."
Revelations 16: 19 and 21
J. Julius Scott: "Did Jerusalem Christians Flee to Pella?" 1998. Wheaton College
Eusebius' ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
Scythopolis, Wadi Jirm, Decapolis
Cestius' siege and defeat at Bethoron. "After the disaster of Cestius, many distinguished Jews abandoned the city."
King Agrippa. John of Gischala.
Essene Gate. Gehenna. Kidron Valley. Mount of Olives. Jericho. Pella
The Antonia. July 70 A.D. Bithynian Centurion
Jonathan and Prudens
Longus and Artorius
Mary of Betezuba
Fronto.
the Butcher's Bill: 97,000 captive; 1,100,000 killed
C.H. Spurgeon: The destruction of Jerusalem was more terrible than anything that the world has ever witnessed, either before or since. Even Titus seemed to see in his cruel work the hand of an avenging God.
"a voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the sanctuary, a voice against the bridegroom and brides, a voice against all the people. Woe to Jerusalem ..." "and woe to me." Flavius Josephus. "Prophets and Portent," Book VI. Chapter 5. Section 3. THE JEWISH WARS
Hegesippus (or Saint Ambrose) ON THE RUIN OF THE CITY OF JERUSALEM
85 AD Curse: "May the Nazarenes and the heretics be suddenly destroyed and removed from the Book of Life."
Saint Justin Martyr: DIALOGUE WITH TRYPHO THE JEW
Irenaeus of Lyons
Ebionites, Nazarenes
Revolt of Bar-Cochba in 133 - 135
Jamnia (Johanan ben Zakkai, student of Hillel)
Lydda (Eliezar ben Hyrcanus)
Hillel - Gamaliel I (taught Saint Paul) - Simeon II - Gamaliel II
Emperor Domitian and the sons of Saint Jude: "at the end of the aeon" to judge the living and the dead