Roman Madness at Masada
On Nisan 14 in the year 73 A.D., Jerusalem was quiet. Normally the city would have been full of Jewish pilgrims waiting in line for the Temple priests to sacrifice their Passover lambs. But on this day there were no pilgrims. There were no sacrifices. The priests were all dead, the people dispersed, the Temple burned to the ground. Almost three years earlier, four Roman legions, under the commandGet More Articles—Subscribe Today!
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1. Masada (in Hebrew) means Fortress (not “stronghold” as you have put it).
2. The belief in the Messiah (and the advent of a Messiah) was a very destructive belief (if not the most) in the Jewish faith. And probably- in any faith.
3. “Masada shall not fall again”. Right. But it is not only the arm soldiers who chant it. It is all of the Jewish people (citizens, women, youngsters, old) who came from the ashes of the holocaust, and now they have a country; the same country that was demolished by the Romans (under Adrian). We can only hope that this will be true.