There are 400 years of silence between the Old and New Testaments of the Bible; Jerusalem's history during that time period is fascinating. Study God's Word with us.

1. DR. Alfred E. Maese,
History of Jerusalem:
Between the Testaments

2. Alexander the Great [336-323 BC],
(Daniel 11:2 – 4 a)

3. “… was welcomed at the gates by the
high priest in his purple and scarlet
robes and all the Jerusalemites in
white. They led him to the Temple
where he sacrificed to the Jewish
God.”

4. By the time Jesus was born, all of the
known world spoke Greek.

5. Ptolemy II is found in Daniel 11:6.

6. “In seventy days the seventy scholars
[commissioned as translators] each
produced an identical translation.”

7. Ptolemy II allowed the Jews to have their
own “sub-nation” under his own power
(much like the American Indians and
their reservations today).

8. How the Jewish nation influences us
today:
Politics, Politics, Politics.

9. Nobel Prize winners: more than 22%.
Medical field: discovery of cancer detection,
penicillin of human consumption, among
many others developments.

10. Technology: Way ahead of Bill Gates and
Steve Jobs in the computer field (since the
1940’s and has continued to today.
Militarily: the Drone, the Uzi, and many
other military advancements.

11. Robotics: eco skeletons for paraplegics.
Biotech: smallest DNA computing system,
among many other accomplishments.