I understand that Jesus was actually weeping aloud, ‘aux sanglots’as it is said in French. He was heartbroken. At Lazarus’ grave, He was moved to tears sharing human sorrows with many others! But outside Jerusalem Jesus was sobbing all on His own, for he alone knew its past and future. Previously He said: ‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you; you will not see me again until you see me until you say. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ (Matthew 23.37-39)

The total destruction of Jerusalem happened in AD 70. Towards the end of the Judean War, fought by Titus who was Cesar from 79 to 80 AD. I quote the following written by Dean Farrar in his book- ‘The Life of Christ.’ ‘Titus had not originally wished to compass the city, but was forced, by the despair and obstinacy of the Jews, to surround it, first with a palisaded mound, and then, when the vallum (rampart) and agger were destroyed, with a wall of masonry. He did not wish to sacrifice the temple – nay, he made every possible effort to save it -- but he was forced to leave it in ashes. He did not intend to be cruel to the inhabitants, but the deadly fanaticism of their opposition so extinguished all desire to spare them, that he undertook the task of well-nigh exterminating the race – of crucifying them by hundreds, of exposing them in the amphitheatre by thousands, of selling them to slavery by myriads. Josephus tells us that, even immediately after the siege of Titus, no one in the desert was around him, would have recognised the beauty of Judea, and that if any Jew had come the city of a sudden, however he had known it before, he would have asked, “what place it was”? And he who, in modern Jerusalem, would look for relics of the ten-times-captured city in the days of Christ, must look for them twenty feet beneath the soil, and will scarcely find them. In one spot alone remain a few massive substructions, as though to show how vast is the ruin they represent, and here on every Friday, assemble a few poverty-stricken Jews, to stand each in the shroud in which he will be buried and wail over the shuttered glories of their fallen and desecrated home.’ End of quote. Jesus saw it all no wonder he sobbed as He did. When God forsakes the devil does not spare the victims, for after all the carnage, millions were sent to the furthest boundaries of the Roman Empire.

There is much more one could say about this subject, but all I will say is that the only people that, in God’s economy, are aliveforever, (as quoted in the previous Link: ‘that those who liveshould no longer live for themselves but for Him who died for them.) are the true Christians who have been born again and ‘have passed from death unto live, and from Satan to God!’ It follows that they are the only ones ‘that can now live for Him who died for them.’ As say the Holy Scriptures: ‘For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance; that Christ died for us according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the scriptures.’ (1 Corinthians 15: 3-5) The men of the world, on the other hand, live in death only to their own ends and have, as ever, no time or room, either for God and Jesus Hid Son!

Therefore, Jews and Gentiles need to come alive, and believe that only faith in Jesus Christ offers this exit from this eternal globalcondemnation, into life by faith in Jesus Christ. This modern idea that had won over the whole world, that all faiths are different ways to the same God, that is bad news straight from hell itself, deadly poison; for Jesus says: ‘I AM the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father (God) but by me.’ You cannot afford to wait till the end of time and hope for the best on judgement day, because one has to know now, and Jesus made this assurance possible, only true Christians, made anew, by the power of the Holy Spirit, know the difference and have unshakable hope for eternity!