The Coming Capture of Jerusalem
Channel: Galen Currah
Date: 20/08/2015

The Coming Capture of Jerusalem
An interpretation of the Holy Bible
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August 2015

The city of Jerusalem has been captured at least 22 times in history, and is soon to be captured again. Five of those calamities were predicted by biblical prophets.

1. Between 1550–1400 BCE, Jerusalem became a vassal to Egypt.
2. After the 12th century BCE, Jerusalem was known as Jebus and its independent Canaanite inhabitants were known as Jebusites.
3. About 1000 BCE, King David's sacked of Jerusalem, which came to be called the City of David, becoming the capital of the United Kingdom of Israel.
4. In 586 Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians conquered Judah and Jerusalem, laying waste to Solomon's Temple. Predicted by Isaiah 39:1-8. “Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house … shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD. And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
5. In 198 BCE the Seleucids under Antiochus III took Jerusalem and Judea from Ptolemy V Epiphanes. Daniel 11:30-31.
6. In 63 BCE, Pompey the Great captured Jerusalem and the Hasmonean throne extending the influence of the Roman Republic.
7. In 6 CE Judea came under direct Roman rule as the Iudaea Province.
8. In 70 CE the Romans undertook to completely destroy Jerusalem, following the first Jewish revolt. Daniel 9:26. 
9. In 135 CE, the Romans supressed the second Jewish revolt, renaming the city Aelia Capitolina. 
10. In 614 CE, following 21 days of siege, the Sassanids captured Jerusalem, slaughtering tens of 1000s of Christians.
11. In 629, the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius reconquered Jerusalem.
12. In 638 CE, the Arab armies of Umar ibn al-Khattab retook Jerusalem.
13. In 1073 Jerusalem was captured by the Seljukid commander Atsız.
14. In 1099 Jerusalem was conquered by Crusaders.
15. In 1187 the city was wrested from the Crusaders by Saladin.
16. In 1229 Jerusalem peacefully reverted to the crusading Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.
17. In 1244 Jerusalem was sacked by the Khwarezmian Tatars. 
18. In 1247 the Tatars were driven out by the Ayyubids.
19. In 1517 Jerusalem and environs fell to the Ottoman Turks.
20. In 1917 the British Army, led by General Edmund Allenby, captured the city.
21. In 1948 Israeli and Arab forces divided the city.
22. In 1967 Jordan attacked Israel, which, in turn, captured the entirety of Jerusalem.
23. In the end-times, Judah will be invaded by then nations and Jerusalem will be captured.  Zechariah 14:1-2
“It is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.” Revelation 11:2
24. After the 1000-year reign of Messiah Jesus, Gog of Magog will attack Judea and Jerusalem as the last human revolt against God, forever. Revelation 20:7-9; Ezekiel 38:8
Then will return Messiah Jesus to rescue Jerusalem. Zechariah 14:3-4
Finally, a New Jerusalem will descend from heaven, an eternal dwelling place for God and humans. Isaiah 65:17-18; Revelation 21:2-3