is it true that the Romans were the ones who originally sacked Jerusalem and kicked the jews out?

Question

i heard that this happened 3 or 4 generations after jesus and the apostles... and so i was wondering, is it true that the romans looted the city and forbade the jews to return? and, when were they allowed to go back?

Answer 1

There have been several military engagements between the Jews and the Romans:

The Roman general Pompey subdued Judaea in 63 BCE (after which it became a client kingdom)

In 6 CE, the emperor Augustus deposed king Archelaus, and his governor of Syria, Quirinius, established the province of Judaea (which became a prefecture)

In 66, a serious rebellion started, which led to the destruction of the Temple (September 70); this war was described by Flavius Josephus in his Jewish War

A little later, the Romans took the fortress Masada (in 74) in 115, the Levantine Jews revolted against emperor Trajan when the emperor Hadrian forbade circumcision, Simon bar Kochba started a Messianic war, which lasted until 136. It meant the end of the multiform Judaism of the first century.

Answer 2

Hello, Ether:

Yes it is true, in AD 70, but what most Christians do not know today is that Jesus foretold that destruction of Jerusalem.

The Christians listened attentatively as Jesus gave the signs proceding the temple's destruction, and "there will not be one stone left upon another." He foretold the AD 66 siege by the Roman general, Cestius in Matthew 24:15: "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation [Rome], spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place [That is Jerusalem] , (whoso readeth, let him understand)." Then it was time for God's people to flee Israel. They did, even those who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls hid them and left.

Interestingly, when Cestius besieged Jerusalem in AD 66, then his troops quickly fled for no apparent reason and the Jewish troops cut apart his flanks. This allowed the Christians an opportunity to flee uninhibited by either the Jewish or Roman army--"Don't look back, Jesus had warned." They took their possessions and relocated out of Israel--never to return until 1948--"when the fullness of the Gentiles has come."

Those who did not listen to Jesus were jubliant--they had apparently defeated the massive Roman Empire. "God is with us," they shouted, "Isreal is once more an independant nation." However that elation only lasted four years.

In AD 70 the Roman emperor's son, Titus, returned. He did not flee, and over a million Jews perished. Josephus says the crucified bebellous Jews were placed on crosses so close together one could almost not walk among them. The temple was then burnt, and the foraging troops pulled the foundation stones apart looking for melted gold in the crevises. Jesus words that "Not one stone will be left upon another" was literally fulfilled.

The good news is, Not one Christian that followed Jesus' warnings was killed. Let that be a lesson to trust our Leader. He has given us other prophecies to prepare us for the end of days. One was never to be understood "until the end of the days", and it is unimaginably important.

You can read this Online, Ether, at www.revelado.org/revealed.htm. It will build your confidence in God's leadings and helpl prepare you for future events.

Blessings and AGAPE love, One-Way

Answer 3

The Jews rebelled against Rome and in 69 a.d. ce whichever you prefer Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and tore down the temple and scattered the Jews. They were dispersed throughout all of the Roman world and slowly trickled back until may of 1948 when they were granted statehood by the United Nations.

Answer 4

Yes, they did sack the city about 37 years after Christ's death in the year A.D. 70, but they weren't the first ones to overrun, occupy or disperse the Jews. They were the fifth nation to do so, but they were the only ones to do it so thoroughly. Jewish historian Flavius Josephus who witnessed the Diaspora (dispersal) of that day said that "Roman soldiers climbed over heaps of bodies in pursuit of fugitives." The Jews that weren't killed were scattered all over the globe. They began going back shortly after WWII (during the early 40's) thanks to a boon or grant given to a Jewish scientist named Chaim Weizman who developed the first smokeless gunpowder using acetone. It helped decrease the amount of smoke created by numerous battlefield explosions so that troops could see one another better and not accidentally kill each other. He asked the British government if it were possible to return to the Jewish ancestral homeland which by the time of the Roman Empires' collapse was in the hands of modern Turkey and captured from them by General Allenby, ending 400 years of Turkish Ottoman rule. After a lot of heated debate and manmade borders between Jewish and Arab states, modern Israel became established, and God restored the homeland in every way! In a very short time, the desert began to respond to cultivation efforts and could actually sustain life again (according to God's promises)! On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel became a fact when their constitution was ratified and recognized by the League of Nations (forerunner to the United Nations).

Answer 5

No, the Babylonians did that many centuries before the Romans did, and Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.

Answer 6

Yes it's all true...
The Arch of Titus in the Roman forum beside the colluseum in Rome still stands today commemorating the victory.

Answer 7

The Hebrews were subjugated through more of their history than they were sovereign. The Babylonian Captivity in the sixth century BC occurred when Rome was a tribal city-state.

Answer 8

nicely, in the event that they worship Jesus then they might have been switched over to christianity... which ability they gave up Judaism.. which ability they're no longer Jew yet now Christians.... i think of by utilising definition of the words Jew and Christian, the respond is not any. this is a extra precise question - Will each and all of the Jews ever convert to Christianity? i think of that's the question you have been attempting to ask.

Answer 9

yes it is. the emperor Titus sacked Jerusalem in AD 70 after it was occupied by Jewish rebels in AD 66.

if you want to know more try this

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Jerusalem#Destruction_of_Jerusalem

Answer 10

Yes, all true. Others did as well