Destruction of God's Temple

This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. (Jeremiah 25:11 NLT)

This is what the LORD says: "You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again. (Jeremiah 29:10 NLT)

"Hear the word of the LORD, you nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands: 'He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over his flock like a shepherd.' (Jeremiah 31:10 NIV)

Today is Tisha B'av 9th Av 2021 (Saturday evening to Sunday evening).

On 9th Av 586 BC Jerusalem was destroyed and the Temple of God was burnt to ground. The God of Abraham had lost. Marduk (i.e. Baal), the chief god of Babylon had won. If you were a Jew at that time, how can you still have faith in the Word of God? How could you know that the Word of God is true?

The Jews of those days had no choice but to have faith in what was written in Deuteronomy and Jeremiah. When the seventy years were fulfilled and they could go back to Israel, they would know that the Word of God is true.

On 9th Av 70 AD Jerusalem was destroyed and the Temple of God was burnt to ground. From then till 1948, how would a Jew still have faith in the Word of God? How could you know that the Word of God is true? This second exile is not like the first where there is a seventy year period to look forward to.

The Jews had no choice but to believe what was written in the Tanakh, looking back at the fulfilled prophecies and looking forward to the unfulfilled prophecies.

For the LORD will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods made of wood and stone! (Deuteronomy 28:64 NLT)

Even though you are banished to the ends of the earth, the LORD your God will gather you from there and bring you back again. (Deuteronomy 30:4 NLT)

For the LORD will scatter you among the nations, where only a few of you will survive. (Deuteronomy 4:27 NLT)

The LORD your God will return you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will possess that land again. Then he will make you even more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors! (Deuteronomy 30:5 NLT)