c.
Time does not permit the telling of their story, but it, too, is tragic.
VIII. Here is a personal question for you.
A.
How did you feel when you saw the smoldering remains of the World Trade Towers as the rescuers began to pick their way through the rubble?
C.
Imagine a whole city, and that it was your home, and that it was the place where the Lord God had established the Temple to bear His Name.
1.
Nebuchadnezzar has burned it all.
2.
How would you have felt had you been a Jew watching all the destruction as it came down upon and around them?
D.
To the Jews of the Old Testament, Jerusalem's fall was the loss of everything!
1.
It was the loss of their temple.
2.
It was the loss of their priesthood.
3.
It was the loss of their sacrificial system.
4.
It was the loss of their capital city Jerusalem.
a.
Even though the President of the United States, the Queen of England or any one else from any other country denies Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, that does not matter.
b.
JERUSALEM HAS EVER BEEN AND SHALL EVER BE THE
CAPITAL OF ISRAEL and from there (Jerusalem) shall the entire world be ruled and that rule will not be from anyone the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has not given it to.
c.
The ruler of the world is and will be of the seed that Jehovah God has chosen.
5.
It was the loss of their nation.
6.
It was the loss of large numbers of their loved ones.
7.
It was the loss of their freedom of choice. For the survivors of the destruction, it meant a forced march of about 2,000 miles to Babylon, where they then had to live in exile, servitude, and misery.
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