A Historical Prophetic Day of Calamities – The Ninth Day of Av!
July 26, 2007
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I have guesstimated, for some time now, that at some point in time between 2008 and the end of 2012 it is likely Israel will be attacked from the north by Islamic nations, at which time Jerusalem will fall to their armies, and Israel will be driven into the Negev Wilderness. The five year time window is a guess on my part, no more and no less. But when the attack does occur, whether or not it falls within the time window I have guesstimated, is not nearly as important as the fact the Scriptures say IT WILL HAPPEN, and they are quite clear that Jerusalem will fall to the Islamic hoard as they push Israel south into the Negev. My guess, as to the timing of the attack, is based on the way Middle East events have merged toward an anticipated climax since the beginning of this century.
Zechariah 13:8 to 14:2 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. [9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. [1] Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
I am fully cognizant that the timing of this event is speculative, and readily recognize it to be so, but as long as I am speculating, I might as well give you my opinion as to the date I believe Jerusalem will fall – Not the specific year, mind you, but the date befitting the historical time of great calamities – My speculative time is that, when Jerusalem does fall, it is likely to fall on the Ninth of Av, at some point in time between 2008 and the end of 2012.
The following information from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, gives an excellent account of the calamities associated with the Ninth of Av.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tisha B’Av, or the Ninth of Av, is an annual fast day in Judaism that falls in July or August.
Its name denotes the ninth day (Tisha) of the Jewish month of Av. The day has been called the “saddest day in Jewish history”. When the ninth of Av falls on the Sabbath, the observance is pushed off until Sunday the tenth (although that day is still referred to as Tisha B’Av).
Destruction of the Temple
The fast commemorates the destruction
of the First and Second Temples.
Those two events occurred about 656 years apart, but on the same date
In connection with the fall of Jerusalem, three other fast-days were established at the same time as the Ninth Day of Av: these were the Tenth of Tevet, when the siege began; the Seventeenth of Tammuz, when the first breach was made in the wall; and the Third of Tishrei, known as the Fast of Gedaliah, the day when Gedaliah was assassinated (II Kings 25:25; Jeremiah 41:2).
From Zechariah 7:5, 8:19 it appears that after the building of the Second Temple the custom of keeping these fast-days was temporarily discontinued. Since the destruction of Jerusalem and of the Second Temple by the Romans, the four fast-days have again been observed.
THE FIVE CALAMITIES
According to the Mishnah (Taanit 4:6), five specific events occurred on the ninth of Av that warrant fasting:The twelve scouts sent by Moses to observe the land of Canaan returned from their mission. Two of the scouts, Joshua and Caleb, brought a positive report, but the others spoke disparagingly about the land which caused the Children of Israel to cry, panic and despair of ever entering the “Promised Land”. For this, they were punished by God that their generation would not enter the land. Because of the Israelites’ lack of faith, God decreed that for all generations this date would become one of crying and misfortune for their descendants, the Jewish people. ( See Numbers Ch.
13–14)
The First Temple built by King Solomon and the Kingdom of Judah were destroyed by the Babylonians led by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE and the Judeans were sent into the Babylonian exile.
The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, scattering the people of Judea and commencing the Jewish exile from the Holy L
and.
Bar Kokhba’s revolt against Rome failed in 135 CE. Simon bar Kokhba was killed, and the city of Betar was destroyed.
Following the Roman siege of Jerusalem, the razing of Jerusalem occurred the next year.
According to the Talmud in tractate Taanit, the destruction of the Second Temple began on the ninth and was finally consumed by the flames the next day on the Tenth
of Av.
Later calamities on the ninth of Av
A large number of calamities also occurred on the ninth of Av:
In 1290, King Edward I signed an edict to expel the Jews from England
Sabbatai Zevi, the false Jewish messiah, was born on Tisha B’av in 1626.
In the First World War, Germany declared war on Russia on August 1, 1914, Tisha B’av.
On July 31, 1941 coinciding with Tisha B’Av, under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring ordered SS general Reinhard Heydrich to make all the necessary preparations for the Final Solution.
The first transports reached Treblinka and the extermination of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto began on July 23, 1942.
Some calamities that occurred shortly before or after the ninth of Av:
The Alhambra decree expelling the Jews from Spain went into effect on July 31, 1492, the 7th of Av 5252, two days before Tisha B’av.
In 1955, El Al Flight 402 was shot down over Bulgarian airspace on the 8th of Av.
The AMIA Bombing (Asociación Mutua Israelita Argentina) by terrorists in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 and wounded more than 120, occurred on July 18, 1994, the 10th of Av.
The Gulf War began on August 2, 1990 – the 11th of Av – with the Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq.
It ended on Purim.
The Second Lebanon War began on July 12, 2006, the 16th of Tammuz, and continued until 14 August 2006, the 20th of Av.
Israel’s unilateral disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip and northern [[Samaria] began on 15 August 2005, the 10th of Av. This event is sometimes described as a “calamity”, although many would disagree. It was originally due to commence the day before, on the 9th of Av, but was deliberately postponed to avoid coinciding with Tisha b’Av.
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