Israel is an ancient civilization with a history of 3300 years. As early as the 13th century BC, the Hebrew ancestors of the Jews, led by their chief Moses, fled Egypt and established their own kingdom in the Canaanite region. In terms of strength, the state of Israel was weak, and except during the reign of King Solomon, it was generally a vassal of other great powers.
In 63 BC, the Roman general Pompey led troops into Jerusalem. From then on, the state of Israel (the Jewish state) became a province of the Roman Empire, and millions of Jews became the slaves of the Romans. For the Jews, the Romans had "only" two demands: order and taxation. As long as these two basic standards of Rome were not undermined, the provinces could enjoy the "peace" of Rome.
To put it bluntly, as long as you obey the roman decrees and pay a part of the taxes to Rome, you can get the so-called protection. This is Rome's naked imperialism. In order to maintain their rule in Judea, the Romans installed Herod as a puppet and ruled together with the Roman governors.
Although Roman rule seemed to be lenient, the Jews did not obey Roman rule from the beginning. They were always looking for an opportunity to eradicate the Roman Twelfth Legion, which was stationed on their own land. In 4 BC, the Jewish rebels were the first to attack and launched a rebellion in Jerusalem, killing all the Romans in sight. However, the Romans were too strong, and the uprising was quickly suppressed, with 2,000 rebels crucified.
Although the uprising was quelled, the anger of the Jews was never extinguished. In their hearts, the rebels were heroes, and Herod, who worked for Rome, and the tax collectors were out-and-out traitors. In the lower classes of Jews, there was an organization called the Fenridges, who were perhaps the world's earliest terrorist organization, and they went around assassinating the Romans and their lackeys in the hope of using this method to restore their homeland.
The Roman rule in Judea seemed calm, but in reality it was like a boil. Around 30 A.D., before the passover, a traditional Jewish festival, Jesus Christ arrived in Jerusalem. At that time, Jesus was already very famous among the Jews and was said to be the true Savior of Jews, the Messiah.
According to the Jews, God will send a Messiah to lead the Jews to happiness and strength. In the eyes of the Jews, the Messiah must have been a great king who would lead the Jews to defeat Rome and become the true Lord of the world. Thus, when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, he was greatly welcomed, including a large number of Jewish rebels. Even Jesus' famous disciple, Judas, may have been a rebel.
In Jerusalem, the rebels continued to use implicit or explicit means to hope that the abbot would rebel against Rome. Yet Jesus was not the military leader the Jews imagined, and what he wanted to save was not the nation of Israel, but the human heart. That's why he said in the temple:
Caesar's deeds belong to Caesar, and God's deeds go to God.
Even so, Jesus was unable to persuade the Jewish rebels, who gradually turned against Jesus. In Jesus' view, the ultimate tragedy of the Jewish nation was unavoidable.
Thus Jesus wept before Jerusalem and to the temple, the most holy place of the Jews:
In Jesus' view, neither Jerusalem nor the temple could be separated from the fate of destruction.
Because of Jesus' resolute attitude toward the Jewish uprising, which eventually aroused the envy of the rebels, they found the opportunity to arrest Jesus. In order to prevent a rebellion in Judea over the jesus issue, the Roman governor Pilate was forced to accede to the Jewish rebels' request to execute Jesus. Eventually, Jesus was crucified.
Just 40 years later, Jesus' prophecy came true. In 69-70 AD, the Fenrui suddenly launched a large-scale uprising, in which almost all Jews participated. Under the attack of the Jews, the elite Roman Twelfth Legion was severely damaged, and even the eagle flag, which must not be lost, was also lost.
The news of the Jewish uprising shocked Rome, and the Roman Emperor immediately dispatched his troops and sent a powerful army to suppress the uprising. In the face of the mighty Roman legions, the Jewish revolt was simply vulnerable. Eventually, the rebels, along with 1.1 million Jewish people, were besieged in the city of Jerusalem. Jesus' prophecy was fulfilled.
In October 70 A.D., the Romans invaded Jerusalem, killing every man and burning every house, and the temple was burned by Roman soldiers. At that time, the Jews stored a large number of gold and silver vessels in the temple, and these vessels were melted in the fire and seeped into the crevices of the stone. In order to find the gold and silver, the Roman general ordered his men to dig up all the stones on the Temple Mount. In this way, the prophecy of Jesus "" was fulfilled.
This uprising dealt a devastating blow to the Jews, and millions of Jewish people were slaughtered and enslaved by the Romans. In 132 AD, the Jews launched another Revivalist uprising, but this one failed. In order to kill a hundred people, the Romans expelled the vast majority of Jews from Israel. From then on, the Jews became a nation that had lost their homeland until 1948, when Israel was restored again.