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The Jewish War stretched across seven years and six months from the arrival of the Roman army in A.D. 66 to its conclusion at the fall of Masada. It was 42 months from the arrival of the Roman army and their foreign legions to the destruction of the Temple during the grape harvest in August of 70 AD.
Masada fell on April 16, 73 AD. Jewish zealots finally succumbed to the Roman siege at Masada after at least three years of resistance....
Between three and a half and four years after the start of the war, “in the middle of the seven,” Titus set up the abomination that causes desolation.
This event is recorded in The Wars of the Jews:
"Upon the burning of the holy house itself, and of all the building roundabout it, [the Roman army] brought their ensigns to the temple, and set them over against its eastern gate; and there did they offer sacrifices to them, and there did they make Titus imperator, with great acclamations of joy."
The Roman ensigns were symbolic images of Caesar and Rome, the beast of Revelation. Upon these ensigns were often hung a cast image of the reigning Caesar.
Therefore it is likely that the ensigns worshipped on the eastern wing of the temple contained an image of Caesar Vespasian, the beast whose wound had been healed.
These ensigns were objects of the cult and were often worshipped by the Roman army. This is one such example. In an outward display of worship, the Roman army offered blasphemous sacrifices to these images of the beast on the wing of the temple, specifically its eastern gate.
The fact that it was on the eastern gate is highly significant since the Messiah was to enter this gate in fulfillment of Ezekiel 44:2-3. As a side note, the entrance of a supernatural entity through this gate is recorded in Wars 6.5.3.293.
After this abominable act, the Romans destroyed the temple and went on a mass killing spree, hence Jesus’ warning to flee in the following verses. Remember Jesus told them to flee to the mountains. They went to Pella and avoided the tribulation.
With the temple destroyed, all sacrifices and grain offerings had permanently come to an end.
Masada fell on April 16, 73 AD. Jewish zealots finally succumbed to the Roman siege at Masada after at least three years of resistance....
Between three and a half and four years after the start of the war, “in the middle of the seven,” Titus set up the abomination that causes desolation.
This event is recorded in The Wars of the Jews:
"Upon the burning of the holy house itself, and of all the building roundabout it, [the Roman army] brought their ensigns to the temple, and set them over against its eastern gate; and there did they offer sacrifices to them, and there did they make Titus imperator, with great acclamations of joy."
The Roman ensigns were symbolic images of Caesar and Rome, the beast of Revelation. Upon these ensigns were often hung a cast image of the reigning Caesar.
Therefore it is likely that the ensigns worshipped on the eastern wing of the temple contained an image of Caesar Vespasian, the beast whose wound had been healed.
These ensigns were objects of the cult and were often worshipped by the Roman army. This is one such example. In an outward display of worship, the Roman army offered blasphemous sacrifices to these images of the beast on the wing of the temple, specifically its eastern gate.
The fact that it was on the eastern gate is highly significant since the Messiah was to enter this gate in fulfillment of Ezekiel 44:2-3. As a side note, the entrance of a supernatural entity through this gate is recorded in Wars 6.5.3.293.
After this abominable act, the Romans destroyed the temple and went on a mass killing spree, hence Jesus’ warning to flee in the following verses. Remember Jesus told them to flee to the mountains. They went to Pella and avoided the tribulation.
With the temple destroyed, all sacrifices and grain offerings had permanently come to an end.