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Prophet: Moses Written: As early as 1400 BC Moses describes a cycle of punishment and restoration for the land and people of Israel, especially within the book of Deuteronomy. During a time of punishment, the people would be forced into exile and the land itself would become desolate: The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger. - Deuteronomy 29:23 (NIV). I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled. . . . Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. - Portions of Leviticus 26:32-33 (NIV). Afterwards, as Moses also informed the people of Israel, God would restore his people and his land. The prophecies involving the desolation of the land of Israel were fulfilled to such an extent that it has attracted the attention of writers and historians since ancient times who documented its desolation. One of the earliest writings to describe the desolation of Israel comes from Josephus, who witnessed the destruction of Israel during the first century at the hands of the Roman army. As Rome's legions suppressed a Jewish uprising to re-establish sovereignty for Israel, they cut down trees to build bridges, towers, battering rams and other machines of war, while systematically destroying the country city by city: "And truly the very view itself of the country was a melancholy thing; for those places which were before adorned with trees and pleasant gardens were now become a desolate country every way, and its trees were all cut down: nor could any foreigner that had formerly seen Judea and the most beautiful suburbs of the city, and now saw it as a desert, but lament and mourn sadly at so great a change: for the war had laid all the signs of beauty quite waste..." - Josephus, Wars of the Jews, Book 6, Chapter 1. - Research and commentary by George and Raymond Konig of www.AboutBibleProphecy.com Copyright ©2001-2008 George Konig and AboutBibleProphecy.com. All rights reserved. Questions? Comments? Criticisms? Email us at: abpquestions@yahoo.com |
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