Jesus Prophecy Fulfilled: Jerusalem's Destruction Would Be Like The Days Of Noah

Discover the fulfillment of Jesus' Prophecy that  Jerusalem's Destruction Would Be Like The Days Of Noah

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Discover the fulfillment of Jesus' Prophecy that  Jerusalem's Destruction Would Be Like The Days Of Noah.

Jesus' Prophecy About The Days Of Noah Before Jerusalem's Destruction

Jesus warned about a time of peace and safety with no sign of the impending destruction. Just as in the days of Noah, a preacher of righteousness, the warning would be given.

However, the people would not pay heed to the warning and would be destroyed - just like the people of Noah's era.

The destruction would be like a flood. However, the Lord spoke about Sodom, which was destroyed by fire. This is another prophetic warning about the fiery destruction of Jerusalem.

Mat 24:37
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Mat 24:38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

Mat 24:39
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Luk 17:26

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

Luk 17:27

They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. (period of peace and safety)

Luk 17:28

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

Luk 17:29

But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

Luk 17:30

Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Luk 17:31

In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. (flee when you see the abomination of desolation)

Luk 17:32

Remember Lot's wife. (fire was in Sodom and she looked back)

Luk 17:33

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

Luk 17:34

I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

Luk 17:35

Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Luk 17:36

Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Luk 17:37

And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

Josephus' Account about Jesus the Prophet who mapped Noah the preacher of righteousness

Keypoints about the prophet:

• His name was Jesus - mapping Jesus and His message & mapping Noah.
• He began to warn about the destruction four years before the war - when the city was in very great peace and prosperity.
• Time - Feast of Tabernacles - everyone is in Jerusalem. There is also an ironic contrast since booths are built at this time, but they will be destroyed in just 7+ years.
• He began suddenly and went all around the city by day and night.
• He was arrested and brutally beaten. 
• This cry of his was the loudest at the festivals; and he continued this ditty for seven years, and five months; 
• The period of his prophecy therefore included the revolt and war = 3 years, 5 months = 1260 days on God's Calendar. 
• Thus he was present in Jerusalem for the entire duration of the war.
• It was supernatural - he never grew hoarse or tired.
• He was eventually killed by a Roman weapon of war.

The Prophet's Prophecy - Source: The War - Book VI - Chapter V

But what is still more terrible; there was one Jesus, the son of Ananus, a plebeian, and an husbandman, who, four years before the war began; and at a time when the city was in very great peace and prosperity; came to that feast whereon it is our custom for every one to make tabernacles to God in the temple, (17) began on a sudden to cry aloud,

 “A voice from the east; a voice from the west; a voice from the four winds; a voice against Jerusalem, and the holy house; a voice against the bridegrooms, and the brides; and a voice against this whole people.” 

This was his cry, as he went about by day and by night, in all the lanes of the city. However certain of the most eminent among the populace had great indignation at this dire cry of his; and took up the man, and gave him a great number of severe stripes. Yet did not he either say any thing for himself, or any thing peculiar to those that chastised him: but still went on with the same words which he cried before. 

Hereupon our rulers, supposing, as the case proved to be, that this was a sort of divine fury in the man; brought him to the Roman procurator. Where he was whipped till his bones were laid bare. Yet he did not make any supplication for himself, nor shed any tears: but turning his voice to the most lamentable tone possible, at every stroke of the whip his answer was, 

“Woe, woe to Jerusalem.” 

And when Albinus, (for he was then our procurator;) asked him, “Who he was? and whence he came? and why he uttered such words?” he made no manner of reply to what he said: but still did not leave off his melancholy ditty: till Albinus took him to be a mad-man, and dismissed him. 

Now, during all the time that passed before the war began, this man did not go near any of the citizens; nor was seen by them while he said so. But he every day uttered these lamentable words, as if it were his premeditated vow: “Woe, woe to Jerusalem.” 

Nor did he give ill words to any of those that beat him every day, nor good words to those that gave him food: but this was his reply to all men; and indeed no other than a melancholy presage of what was to come. This cry of his was the loudest at the festivals; and he continued this ditty for seven years, and five months; without growing hoarse, or being tired therewith. 

Until the very time that he saw his presage in earnest fulfilled in our siege; when it ceased. For as he was going round upon the wall, he cried out with his utmost force,

 

“Woe, woe to the city again, and to the people, and to the holy house.” 

And just as he added at the last, “Woe, woe to myself also,” there came a stone out of one of the engines, and smote him, and killed him immediately. And as he was uttering the very same presages he gave up the ghost.

Lessons to be learned from Jesus the prophet 

• God always sends warnings before destruction, even for unrighteous nations.
• There will be witnesses in Jerusalem before the War of Armegeddon.
• Historically, we remember Jeremiah and other prophets warning during the period of the first destruction.
• Jesus also maps the two witnesses who will prophesy 1260 days during the final war against Jerusalem:

Rev 11:1

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

Rev 11:2

But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

Rev 11:3

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.