Way of Life:Hadrian: The Enemy of God

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The following is excerpted from Jews in Fighter Jets: Israel Past, Present, and Future , 550 pages, available from Way of Life Literature.
Sixty years after the destruction of the second temple under the leadership of Titus, there was a final Jewish revolt (AD 132-135).
Called the Bar Kokhba revolt, it was led by Simon ben Kosiba.
The occasion of the Bar Kokhba revolt was Emperor Hadrian’s (Publius Aelius Hadrianus) (r. 117-138) plan to build a Roman city over the ruins of Jerusalem. After its destruction in AD 70, it had not been rebuilt.
“This was typical Roman behavior: in previous ages Carthage had been razed and years passed before reoccupancy of the site was allowed. A similar fate had befallen Corinth” (Anthony Everitt, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome ).
Hadrian became emperor in AD 117, following Trajan... Read More

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