This was during the time of the ROMAN siege of JERUSALEM:.
Before the siege:
The complete works of Josephus, page 582, 583
STORY BEGINS:
QUOTE:
A false prophet was the occasion of these people’s destruction, who had made a public proclamation in the city that very day, that God commanded them to get up upon the temple, and that there they should receive miraculous signs of their DELIVERANCE.
Now, there was then a great number of false prophets suborned by the tyrants to impose upon the people, who denounced this to them, that they should wait for deliverance from God; and this was in order to keep them from deserting, and that they might be buoyed up above fear and care by such hopes..
]Now, a man that is in adversity does easily comply with such promises; for when such a seducer makes him believe that he shall be delivered from those miseries which oppress him, then it is that the patient is full of hopes of such deliverance.
]Thus were the miserable people persuaded by these deceivers and such as belied God himself; while they did not attend, nor give credit, to the signs that were so evident, and did so plainly foretell their future desolation?
]Here is ONE of the signs that PRECEDED this invasion:
7 years before the SEIGE of JERUSALEM:
QUOTE from book:
There was one Jesus, the son of Anaus, a phebian, and a husband at the time when the city was in very great peace and prosperity, came to the FEAST whereon it is our custom for everyone to make tabernacles to GOD in the temple, began on a sudden to cry aloud.
“
A VOICE from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem, and the holy house, a voice a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against the whole people!”
This was his cry, as he went about by day and by night in all the lanes of the city.
However, certain of the most eminent among the populace had great indignation at this dire cry of his, and took up the man, and gave him a great number of severe stripes; yet did not he either say anything for himself, or anything peculiar to any that chastised him, but still he went on with the same words which he cried before. Here upon our rulers supposing, as the case proved to be, that this was a sort of divine fury in the man, brought him to the ROMAN procurator- where he was whipped till his bones were laid bare; yet did he not make any supplication for himself, nor shed any tears, but turning his voice to the most lamentable tone possible, at ever stroke of the whip his answer was ...
]“WOE, WOE, to Jerusalem!”
And when Albinus, the procurator, asked him, Who he was? And whence he came? And why he uttered such words? He made no manner of reply to what he said, but still did not leave off his melancholy ditty, till Albinus took him to be a madman and dismissed him.
Now during all that passed before the war began, this man did not go near any of the citizens, nor was seen by them while he said so, but every day uttered these lamentable words, as if it were his premeditated vow,
.“WOE, WOE to Jerusalem!”
Nor did he give ill words to any of those that beat him every day, nor good words to those that gave him food; but this was his reply to all men, and indeed no other than a melancholy presage of what was to come.
This cry of his was the loudest at the Festivals; and he continued this ditty for SEVEN YEARS, five months, without growing hoarse, or being tired therewith, until the very time that he saw his presage in earnest fulfilled in our seige, when it ceased; for, as he was going round upon the wall to the city again, and to the people, and to the holy house!”
]And just as he added at the last,
there came a stone out of one of the engines, and smote him, and killed him immediately; and as he was uttering the very same presages, he gave up the ghost…“ Woe, Woe to myself also!”
End of the TESTIMONY:
Blessings donna
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