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The Israeli emblem reminds us of a very sad story that happened a long time ago. In the year of 70 CE, a Roman general, named Titus, captured the city of Jerusalem, and his armies savagely destroyed the Holy Temple. They seized the golden Temple Menorah. To shame their unfortunate Jewish prisoners, Roman soldiers forced them to parade in chains through the streets of Rome carrying the captured Temple Menorah.

The Romans felt so proud of this triumph that they pictured the event on a monument called the Arch of Titus. Today, the Arch of Titus still stands in Rome, and the picture of the Menorah can still be seen. To the Romans, the story celebrated might and triumph, but to the Jewish people the story told the worst humiliation: the loss of independence in their homeland.
After almost two thousand years and much agony and bloodshed, the modern State of Israel reestablished the Jewish Homeland. Although the Temple and the Menorah were not actually rebuilt, The Jews felt that in a symbolic way, the Menorah had been saved from its ancient disgrace and restored to its original glory. The Jewish dream of independence and return has finally come true.

Titus was the Son of another Roman General named Vespesian!

Roman Emperors were always Veterans! There is a reason!

In actuality, the Israelites were oppressed by foreign powers for many years. Generations even.

From the days of Nebudchadnezzar, to Cyrus of the Medes and the Persians, and even Alexander the Great! The Seleucids, and others!

Ultimately the Romans put the Israelites under their mighty boot! Even the Romans could not outlast those jews!

Those jews should be interested in history.

It is fascinating stuff!

I am reminded of a metaphor. Moses parted the seas, and those jews walked through it.

It reminds me of another Sea!

Revelation 15:2
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
(Whole Chapter: Revelation 15 In context: Revelation 15:1-3)

Wouldn` it be interesting if the two seas were related somehow.

I was just thinking!