Yes, I read your whole post, including your additional arguments beyond casualty counts and Josephus.
But even taking those broader factors into account, your conclusion still does not hold up. Nothing you presented demonstrates that the events in first-century Judea constitute the worst time in world history in any objective or consistent sense of the language being used. That claim goes far beyond what the evidence can reasonably support.
You can argue intensity, significance, or theological meaning—but “worse than ever before or ever again” is a categorical statement, and what you’ve cited does not justify that level of absolute comparison.
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Sorry, that’s not correct!”
History doesn’t “prove” a particular interpretation of biblical prophecy in the way you’re claiming. You can try with data points, but the MEANING of prophecy is still an interpretive question.
Also, pointing to the destruction of Jerusalem and saying it automatically confirms a specific prophetic framework is a conclusion, not a fact. You still have to demonstrate that the text is actually referring to that event in the way you assume—something you haven’t established.
No it is not for the Jews in the first century as you think! Clearly you do not even understand what winter and sabbath the Lord really talked about.
It is for the New Testament during the little season of Satan loosening, prior to the Second Coming. Here is a spiritual education for you that concerns the CHURCH!
Winter in scripture is the time of hardship, deprivation and storms where there is a lack of stores in the field. It is a time when all the harvest is done and there can be no more increase. A time when the work in the field has ended. Like the Sabbath, it signifies a time of rest, when the earth rests from its work.
And I also think that (Like the Sabbath in Matthew) it also symbolizes
a time when salvation has ended on earth and there can be no more work in the field. It is because Christ has secured all Elect through the testimony of Two Witnesses that you need to read Revelation 7:1-4. After this will be no more fruits of the field to harvest. It is the time when no man can work to bring an increase. Selah!
Song of Solomon 2:11
- "For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;"
Here God is illustrating that the rain of the winter storms is past. The time of privation and hardship is gone, and with summer comes flowers and new life. But winter preceding it is illustrated as tempest, storm, trouble, a time when life is dorment. That's why I believe Matthew 24 warns, "pray our flight be not in winter."
Jeremiah 8:20
- "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved."
This is what it is talking about. A period when time has run out for man to be delivered or saved. Pray that man's flight from Judea is NOT at a time when salvation has ended and no man can work. Because if we are not saved then (
Revelation 7:3), we will be under judgement and wrath of God. Selah!
Pray that your flight not be on the Sabbath is NOT directed to the first century Jews, but to the New Testament Church AFTER our working with the great commission is over. The Church should pray it's flight is not on the Sabbath (day of rest). For the sabbath is a day when no man can work because the Church's testimony is finished (Revelation 11:7). A day that Christ foretold when the candle would be put out, and sacrifice and offering would cease. Do you realize this?
John 9:4-5
- "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
- As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
This is a Sabbath day, when all work ceases.
Selah!
To think that Christ was prophesying about a Old Testament day, which He fulfilled by going to the cross, as a coming future event, is
confusion. Christ came as our Sabbath of rest. When He died, the Old Testament Sabbath had no more significant anymore than the Old Testament Sacrifices did, or the Old Testament Holy Days did. To think they still are valid is a serious error in understanding the "shadow" nature of the seventh day Sabbath. It looked forward to Christ! Why would God then continue to prophesy of a Jewish Sabbath that he already fulfilled in His Son? LOL! It makes no sense. It's like those claiming He prophesies of a rebuilding the temple. No He didn't, He is the foundation stone of the rebuilding. It had nothing to do with a pile of bricks or physical stones in Jerusalem! Or of a re-institution of animal sacrifices! No, that would be a rejection of Christ and confusion of the nature of prophecy. Because He has FULFILLED all those things AT THE CROSS! That's what the AD 70 crowd cannot seem to get straight. The types or shadows [skia] were finished or completed, not in AD 70, but when Christ died.
In this light, the instruction to pray that “your flight will not be in winter or on the Sabbath” is
NOT about preserving an ongoing Jewish calendar obligation. Rather, it highlights urgency—that salvation and the sealing of the elect occur before the closing of that redemptive window. Revelation 7:1–4 depicts the sealing of God’s people before the unfolding of final judgment.
Thus, “those days” refer to the climactic period following the completion of the Church’s testimony through the Two Witnesses, and the subsequent “little season” of Satan’s activity after the redemptive work has reached its ordained fullness. For example:
Rev 11:7-8
(7) And
when they shall have finished their testimony, the
beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall
make war against them, and
shall overcome them, and
kill them.
(8) And
their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Rev 20:3
(3) And
cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him,
that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and
after that he must be loosed a little season.
After God has completed the sealing of all His elect, Satan is released for a “little season.” During this final period, spiritual warfare intensifies as the beastly power is manifested through multitudes of false prophets and false christs. Their aim is to oppose the true testimony, suppress it, and “overcome” it in the sense of silencing the witness of God’s people in the Church!
At that point, in God's eyes, the Church’s testimony is complete—“they have finished their testimony”—and the work of proclamation reaches its ordained end. This is the moment of rest from labor, as the witness is no longer ongoing in the same sense.
This “little season” marks the
climactic escalation of tribulation, described as
more intense than any preceding period in history. It represents the final concentrated opposition against the truth before the consummation of all things.
Therefore, this has nothing to do with your precious 70AD and 1st century interpretation nonsense. This is not what Christ talked about because you lacks spiritual ears.
