Prophecy 1. Destruction of the Jewish Temple.
And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.(Matthew 24:2)
See also Luke 19:41-44 for more detail of the destruction of the temple prophecy.
Fulfillment.
The Romans invaded Jerusalem in August of A.D. 70, after a five-month siege. A full account of the bloody conflict is found in Josephus (Wars V, VI). The temple was destroyed on the 10th day of the 5th month, according to Jewish tradition — ironically, the same day of the year upon which Nebuchadnezzar had burned down the first temple, some 656 years earlier! (also prophesied, back in the day)
Notice, the disciples of Jesus were looking at the adorning stones on the buildings outside of the temple when Jesus spoke this prophecy. This clearly indicates that the buildings Jesus referred to as to be left without one stone upon another, were exclusively on the temple mount. And indeed, they were all thrown down and it was recorded by Josephus, an eye witness, who states that the city was razed-even with the ground and only part of the western city wall was left standing—-however, this wall is not to be confused with the western wailing wall of the temple mound. Josephus says nothing was left standing at the temple mound, only the enemy’s camp.
Each and every stone was removed to extract the molten gold that had penetrated down among them when the temple was burnt by the Romans.
Prophecy 2. Dispersion of the Jewish People
“Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods-gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”- because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.” (Deuteronomy 28:64-67) and several other places as well.
Fulfillment.
“For 1,900 years from the destruction of the Second Temple (70 A.D.) to the establishment of the modern State of Israel (1948), the Jewish people have wandered literally around the world. This wandering was usually precipitated by intolerable spiritual and/or physical persecution. The scope of the Jews’ nineteen hundred year exile is reflected in the lands from which they were, en masse, expelled.
“For example, in the third century (CE) they were expelled from Carthage (North Africa), in the fifth century from Alexandria (Egypt), in the sixth from provinces in France, and in the seventh from the Visigothic Empire. In the ninth century they were expelled from Italy, in the eleventh from Mayence (Germany), in the twelfth from France, the thirteenth from England, the fourteenth from France, Switzerland, Hungary, Germany, and in the fifteenth from Austria, Spain, Lithuania, Portugal, and Germany.
“In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Jewish populations were expelled from Bohemia, Austria, Papal States, the Netherlands, the Ukraine, Lithuania, and Oran (North Africa). In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries they were expelled from Russia, Warsaw (Poland), and Galatz (Romania). In the twentieth century all Jews living in Nazi controlled lands were relocated, and from 1948 to 1952 hundreds of thousands of Jews managed to escape from the lands of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.” – Jacob Leschinsky, The Jewish Dispersion.
Prophecy 3. Aliyah – Return of Jews to Israel
For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land (Ezekiel 36:24).
see also: Jeremiah 16:14–15; 23:3, 7–8; 29:14; 31:7–8 and Isaiah 43:5–6.
Fulfillment.
Over the past 120 years or so, more than 3.5 million Jews have immigrated to the Land of Israel from all over the world—from the north, south, east, and west—in literal fulfillment of God’s promises.“Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store” (Weekly Standard, 5/11/1998).
Against all odds, the Jewish people have once again returned to the “land of milk and honey” promised by God in Exodus and as exclaimed by prophets throughout the Old Testament. As you read this, there are Jews on flights returning to their homeland. See: https://www.icej.org/blog/what-does-the-bible-have-to-say-about-the-return-of-the-jews-to-their-homeland/
https://www.jewishagency.org/the-jewish-agency-summarizes-a-decade-of-aliyah/
