THE PENALTY FOR ADULTERY WAS DEATH BY STONING and/or BURNING -The city of Jerusalem was BURNED and destroyed by large STONES! By Tuese Ahkiong

THE PENALTY FOR ADULTERY WAS DEATH BY STONING and/or BURNING

-The city of Jerusalem was BURNED and destroyed by large STONES!

By Tuese Ahkiong

 

 

Leviticus 20:10  ‘If there is a man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, one who commits adultery with his friend’s wife, THE ADULTERER AND THE ADULTERESS SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH.

Leviticus 21:9’ Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by HARLOTRY, she profanes her father; she shall be BURNED WITH FIRE.

Did you noticed that the O.T. JUDGMENT FOR ADULTERY IS DEATH, typically by STONING and/or  BURNING?

Is this not what John records would happen to the harlot city? Josephus gives an account of talent stones catapulted against Jerusalem.  History records that Temple was set on fire by the Romans.  

Commentators usually quote 'Diodorus Siculus' (19:45), who mentions. as something marvellous, hailstones of a mina in weight; the mina being one-sixtieth of a talent; and also the account of Josephus, who speaks of stones a talent in weight being thrown by machines at the siege of Jerusalem (see Wetstein, ad loc.). "The men," though not pointing to any particular group of men who have been definitely mentioned, nevertheless necessarily refers to the wicked, were are the object of this punishment. "Hail" is frequently mentioned as a judgment of God and is added here to heighten the general effect of the description 

Israel was the bride of YHWH who committed adultery with pagan gods.  Scripture describes idolatry as adultery in the sense that Israel would worship other gods or commit adultery on The One and Only True God, YHWH.  Israel was unfaithful to YHWH.

Revelation 16:21  And GREAT HAILSTONES, ABOUT ONE HUNDRED POUNDS EACH, FELL FROM HEAVEN ON PEOPLE; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.

Revelation 17:15-16 And he said to me, “The waters which you saw where the HARLOT sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.  16 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the PROSTITUTE. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and BURN HER UP WITH FIRE,

Since YHWH Judged Jerusalem in such a way,

what did Jerusalem represent?