Emphasis Preaching Journal
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The belief of a military apocalyptic Messiah that would come from the House of David was so dominant in Jewish eschatology that two Roman emperors in the first century ACE, Vespasian, who destroyed the Jewish Temple in 70, and Domitian in the year 90, ordered their soldiers to seek out and kill every male from the lineage of David. This occurred two to three generations after the execution of Jesus, the unrecognized Messiah by the Jewish elders. A stubborn religious belief held by the overseers of prophecy would not be reconciled to the facts of history.
