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Autumn-Smoke
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Yes, I do remember. I had thought to quote the rest of your post, which I omitted to do, but shall quote it now:
Here, then, from Jewish writings, not the Christian writings, are other signs which happened 40 years before the destruction of the 2nd Temple which Christians believe would show that God is the author of history and that He stopped accepting the Day of Atonement sacrifices, plus showed other signs to show that the sacrifices were completed in Y’shua.
We read in the Jerusalem Talmud:
“Forty years before the destruction of the Temple, the western light went out, the crimson thread remained crimson, and the lot for the Lord always came up in the left hand. They would close the gates of the Temple by night and get up in the morning and find them wide open”
(Jacob Neusner, The Yerushalmi, p.156-157).
A similar passage in the Babylonian Talmud states:
“Our rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot [‘For the Lord’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-colored strap become white; nor did the western most light shine; and the doors of the Hekel [Temple] would open by themselves” (Soncino version, Yoma 39b).
Never had these things happened before. Why now? The crimson cord had always turned white, the lot for the Sacrificial Goat had always come up in the High Priest’s right hand. How would you interpret these signs? Just something that the Jewish people made up? For what purpose? The Jewish people, if I remember correctly from my reading, are known for reporting history without slants to bias their own story. What would be the ex machina here?
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