Siege of Jerusalem

I found it interesting when the discussion about the Christians in Jerusalem fleeing before the siege from Jerusalem going to the mountains in Pella by following Jesus instructions.  Jesus told the Believers in Luke 21:20-21, that when Jerusalem was surrounded by armies, to flee the city for safety.  The source that was discussed was in the writing of Eusebius, Book III, 5.1  page 86.  I just had to look it up and see what it said.  This is what I found.  Eusebius gives another reason why Jerusalem was destroyed at that time.  He said that the Jews were going to kill the apostles but the war came first and saved the apostles and Christian’s lives.  God does work in many ways.

Blessing

Stephen

Vespasian commits the care of the war against the Jews into the hands of Titus.   He says “after the ascension of our Savior, the Jews, in addition to their wickedness against him (Jesus), were now incessantly plotting mischief against his Apostles.  The rest of the apostles who were harassed in numerable ways,  with the view to destroy them, and driven from the land of Judea, had gone forth to preach the gospel to all nations.”  “The whole body, however, of the church at Jerusalem, having been commanded by a divine revelation, given to men of approved piety there before the war, removed from the city, and dwelt at a certain town beyond the Jordan, called Pella.  Here, those that believed in Christ, having removed from Jerusalem, as if holy men had entirely abandoned the royal city itself, and the whole land of Judea, the divine justice, for their crimes against Christ and his apostles, finally overtook them, destroying the whole generation of these evildoers from the earth. 

(Luke 21:20-21 NIV)  "When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. {21} Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city.