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According to the Talmud, the Jewish Temple started exhibiting a series of negative omens "forty years" before its destruction in A.D. 70. I wonder what other event occurred around the same time? 🤔 
![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJhp11W8AAFgvz.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJhp11W8AAFgvz.jpg "SHA-256: 27bfbd38e7d4db4b097972eba169317ecaf0ef5f9ef0bc18ae9a7b737358ad0d")

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The tractate Yoma 39b describes how the Yom Kippur scapegoat was no longer accepted by the Lord: 
![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJhyUVWUAAu11P.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJhyUVWUAAu11P.jpg "SHA-256: e76a80a21e17730c3ce5d54f3d7f52d16382884ebdd6c949de4f614ae2fb7be9")

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It continues: 
![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJiHj5XkAAJQEo.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJiHj5XkAAJQEo.jpg "SHA-256: 9c0bd250141984875b4b7e6ad5e26214452479c5c607132ede432d5c278cce9c")

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The same Jewish rabbis, relying upon an allegorical interpretation of Hosea 6:2, claimed that the Messiah was to appear 2,000 years after the age of the Patriarchs, but he is late "due to our many sins" (Sanhedrin 97a, Avodah Zara 9a).
![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJUWHCWsAAOaHg.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJUWHCWsAAOaHg.jpg "SHA-256: b8798185996c0facc2ea018da848bd7cfaa431108059756bb2802864134dbcaf")
![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJZig0XEAA4Zyv.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJZig0XEAA4Zyv.jpg "SHA-256: 637b449d662f37f1cfc795b1a8d455c1f1d3d52cc50796571a3401a49d76ca58")

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Another school of thought believed that the Son of David would come during the sixth millenium, paralleling the creation of Adam, which took place on the sixth day of Creation (Genesis 1:26-28) and would be followed by a thousand years of sabbatical rest. (Ramban, Commentary on Genesis 2:3)
![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJabvJXIAAwJoQ.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJabvJXIAAwJoQ.jpg "SHA-256: e3dd1f0ad0fc6bc98a977df37877ebe5e91b8d19e9803aed9b105387a358ec3b")

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There was great debate in antiquity over the dating of the sixth millenium. According to the chronology of the Septuagint (the oldest copy of the Jewish Scriptures) the sixth millenium corresponds to the years 500 BC-500 AD.

However, in the Masoretic edition of the Old Testament used by the post-Temple rabbis, the lifetimes of the earliest patriarchs at the time of their begetting sons consistently lack 100 years, amounting to a 1,500-year discrepancy with the Septuagint. According to ancient Christian writers, this was a deliberate falsification to obscure the fact that the Messiah had already come in the first century.
![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJgCvtWAAAFJ5r.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJgCvtWAAAFJ5r.jpg "SHA-256: 9cfd603edf01b8cad37215074589f75292fdaa9c3efd124154618e6e7f349a60")

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But it can be proved that Christ's birth occured in the sixth millenium in another way too. The 7th century Spanish bishop Saint Julian of Toledo understood the "ages" to mean "generations", of which five preceded the coming of the Messiah:  
![https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJgpN6XcAAXuAh.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpJgpN6XcAAXuAh.jpg "SHA-256: 21c28ec6dcae40494a1b6a83c23e7be02dff1eb135aa94b4b654fd548e003929")