For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.' Luke 19:41-44 'If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. So, after eighteen hundred years, the solemn marble commemorates a tragedy than which calamity was never more complete! Ĭlose up of the Golden 7-branched menorah carried off by the Roman legions in 70 AD,

Its noble sculptures, unfortunately, have not been well preserved, but still within the vault can be traced the sevenbranched candlestick, the golden table, and the sorrowful train of Jews, as the captives bear the desecrated relics of the destroyed Temple beneath the cruel eyes of their conquerors. Its beautiful proportions make it one of the most interesting monuments of the eternal city. The arch of Titus still spans the ancient Sacra Via at Rome, at the top of the Velian ridge. The Roman soldiers carrying spoils from Jerusalem, the Menorah and The Table * * The 'table' originally provided for the second Temple had been taken away by Antiochus Epiphanes (about 170 BC) but another was supplied by the Maccabees. * When the temple was plundered by Antiochus Epiphanes, the candlestick was taken away (1 Macc 1:21) after the cleansing, a new one was made by Judas Maccabeus (1 Macc 4:49,50). The Arch of Titus with its Menorah Relief are high on the list of importance in the study of Biblical Archaeology because it stands today as a testimony that the words of Jesus miraculously came true. Titus on his 4-horsed chariot with soldiers. The whole procession is about to enter the carved arch on the right which reveals the quadriga at the top, This group of soldiers is just a few of the hundreds in the actual triumphal procession down Rome's Sacred Way. The soldiers carry signs commemorating the victories which Titus had won. The Romans are in triumphal procession wearing laurel crowns and the ones carrying the Menorah have pillows on their shoulders.

The Temple Menorah* and the Table** of the Shewbread shown at an angle, both of solid gold, and the silver trumpets which called the Jews to the festivals. This wall relief on the Arch of Titus reveals one of the most troubling scenes in all history, Roman soldiers carrying spoils from the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. The destruction of Jerusalem happened in 70 AD when the Roman legions sacked Jerusalem and returned to Rome with the spoils, from the wealthiest city in the Roman Empire, Jerusalem. This painting of the Arch of Titus Menorah Relief reveals Roman soldiers carrying the spoils of the Jewish Wars. Could this be the greatest testimony to the words of Jesus in all of Biblical archaeology?

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