Amazing, how history repeats itself, coincidence? Maybe, but it sure does make you think. . .

On August 14th, our Jewish friends observed Tish’ah b’Av ("The Ninth Day of Av"). This is a special day of mourning, since on this day four tragedies occurred:

1. On this day the First Temple, built by Solomon, was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the Babylonian captivity began;
2. On this day the Second Temple, the one expanded by Herod and the one which was standing during Christ’s ministry, was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D., precisely as Jesus predicted (Luke 19:43, 44);
3. On this day Betar, the last fortress to hold out against the Romans in the Bar Kochba revolt, fell in 135 A.D.; and,
4. Jewish tradition also regards this date as the date the Children of Israel were prohibited from entering the Promised Land (Num 14:34).

It is a strange coincidence of history that both Nebuchadnezzar in his day and the Romans in theirs destroyed the respective temples on the same date on the Jewish calendar. And, as the rabbis remind us, "Coincidence is not a kosher word." . . . . this article continues here->A Prophetic Holiday:
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