Dale Ridge church of Christ

It was at Masada, a natural hill fortress in the eastern Judean desert on the Dead Sea coast, that the Jews made their last stand against the Romans in the Jewish revolt of A. D. 66-73. The conquering Roman general, Flavius Silva, standing in the midst of the lifeless fortress, is reported to have uttered these hollow words of victory, “We have won a rock in the middle of a wasteland on the shores of a poison sea.” After more than two years of arduous labor and at the cost of many lives, the final victory proved to be quite …

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