The Machabees And Their Masada
by Sandra Pena de Ortiz
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The Machabees And Their Masada
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Sandra Pena de Ortiz
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A view from the natural plateau of the Masada National Park and the Dead Sea (seen from afar in the mid left) region in Israel. I visited this site during my tour through Israel on April, 2007. Masada is the ancient fortress built by King Herod the Great on top of a natural plateau overlooking the Dead Sea. It has been declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site (2001). Masada preserves i) a grand first-century Roman villa; 2) the remains of the most complete Roman siege system in the world; and 3) the story of the tragic events leading to the last chapter of the Great Revolt of the Jews against the Romans - the last stand of the jewish rebels, the Machabees, who became a symbol of the struggle fight for freedom from oppression.
Masada, pronounced Metzada, is in the Southern District of Israel, on top of an isolated rock plateau (similar to a mesa) on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert. The Masada National Park is Israel's most popular tourist site in which visitors have to pay to get in. The fortification, overlooking the Dead Sea, was built by King Herod the Great as a palace for himself between 37 and 31 Before the Common/Current/Christian Era (BCE). In 66 CE, a group of Jewish rebels, descendants of the Machabees, took hold of Masada. After the destruction of the Second Temple by Titus in 70 CE, additional rebels fled Jerusalem and settled on the mountaintop. This is one fulfillment in history of the great tribulation prophesied by Jesus Christ in Mathew 24, which will be fully consummated during the great tribulation at the end of the Age. In 73 CE, towards the end of the First Jewish-Roman War, these Machabee-descendants committed what history calls mass suicide in a prayerful and systematic fashion, rather than surrendering to the Roman troops of the Roman Empire. It was a fight to death for their freedom to worship God according to the way that had been revealed to them. Did they choose to deny their soul life in this age in order to gain it in the next one? Only eternity will tell us.
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Lianne Schneider
I read a number of books about Masada apart from what I learned in the Bible but it takes an image like this to bring the story to life. This is totally inspired and inspiring Sandra. F/L T
Barbara McMahon
Fantastic capture of this amazing landscape Sandra! Such history overlooking the Dead Sea. I would imagine that it was quite a moving site! l/f
Patricia Keller
Amazing work. Love to see this and to study all the details. So much to see and to behold. L/F/G/T
Lianne Schneider
The story of Masada is one of the poignant and dramatic in all of history. This is not as I imagined it but it makes the story even more alive and powerful. F/L
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