Jerusalem, Israel — Tisha B’av, or (The Ninth of Av) is a day of mourning and fasting that commemorates numerous tragedies that befell the Jewish people throughout history. This day (Av 9) corresponds to our Gregorian calendar and begins on August 6th through the 7th day.
These are the seven (7) tragic events that befell the Jewish people throughout history:
1. The Ten Spies Reports
The 10 spies came back with a negative report which resulted in Israel falling into unbelief and ultimately wandering in the wilderness for 40 years. (See Numbers, 13-14)
2. The Destruction of the First Temple
The destruction of First Temple in Jerusalem which was built by King Solomon, was destroyed by the Babylonians on the 9th day of Av in 607 BC.
The destruction was led by Nebuchadnezzar II, who attacked and besieged the city of Jerusalem. It is estimated that at least 100,000 Jews died during this short time. Nebuchadnezzar’s army plundered the Temple and then set fire to it until it was ablaze.
3. The Destruction of the Second Temple
The destruction of the Second Temple which was built in 516 BCE, and stood for more than 400 years. According to history, It was destroyed in 70 CE by the Romans, led by the man who would become Emperor Titus.
Emperor Titus and his armies besieged Jerusalem and as a result, more than 2 million Jews living in the city died from disease, and starvation, or were murdered when the Roman armies entered the city. The other Jews were captured and enslaved by the Romans. The battle went on for over 3 weeks and on the 9th of AV, the Jews succumbed to the battle until the Second Temple fell upon the hands of the Gentile Romans and destroyed it.
The prophecies that Jesus gave specifically refer to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple that were indeed fulfilled in the first century. Note the following prophecies by Christ:
“Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!” (Matthew 23:36-38; see Luke 13:34-35 for parallel passage).
And when He approached, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. For the days shall come upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank before you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side, and will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation” (Luke 19:41-44).
4. The Expulsion of Jews in England
In 1290, the entire Jewish population of England (about 3,000 people) was expelled from the country on the orders of Edward I. Jewish people had only been in England since the Norman Conquest, invited to settle there by William the Conqueror. This happened on the 9th day of Av in the Jewish calendar.
5. The Expulsion of Jews in Spain
The “expulsion of the Jews” from Spain took place in the year 1490 and occurred on the 9th day of AV.
6. The Beginning of a Bloody World War I
On August 1, 1914, on the 9th of Av, Germany declared war on Russia opening the gates of fiery and deathful war which led to the First World War. As a result, many Jews were forced to flee their homes and the entire world was affected.
The end of World War I also brought with it a rise in antisemitism in both Germany and Russia during the 1917 Revolution and beyond. In this period, Christian hatred, antisemitism, and atheism spread in most parts of the world. Lawlessness increase.
7. The Tragic Events in World War II
Treblinka Death Camp began operating and the start of deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto on July 23, 1942, located in a forest northeast of Warsaw.
The operation began as a death camp and continued operating until October 1943. It just so happened that the date these operations began at the death camp was on the 9th of AV.
Is it all a coincidence?
At the time of this writing, Israel is on the brink of what could be a full-scale war with Islamic Jihad as 100 rockets or more have already been fired into the Jewish state and tensions are growing. But this particular date has a very nasty history for the Jewish Nation. This happened on the day of commemoration of Tishu B’ Av.
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