MASADA Message for Today? - Keith W Stump - January 1981

Keith W Stump

One of the most dramatic episodes in Jewish history is now a television miniseries. Few realize that television movie-makers are portraying a calamitous event 19 centuries ago which in many respects will be replayed in the years just ahead-but with a very different conclusion! Year after year the Romans had tightened their grip on Judea. One restrictive decree after another had pushed the Jews of Judea closer and closer toward the brink of rebellion. Events finally came to a head in the spring of A.D. 66. The Roman imperial procurator, Gessius Florus, seized the vestments of the Jewish High Priest during the annual Passover celebration and demanded payments from the temple fund! That was the last straw. The Jews erupted into general revolt-defying the military might of the entire Roman Empire! In response, the Roman general Titus, son of Emperor Vespasian, finally swept into Judea with his legions. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library