Why I Am A Futurist

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Bowas wrote:

According to best estimates, there were 97,000 prisoners and 1,100,000 who perished. He also cites a widespread slaughter by the local populations elsewhere where the Jews were disliked including Damascus 18,000 plus their families and Egypt 60,000 plus families.

Best estimate of population of the entire planet in AD100 is <200,000. So it would be equivalent to @35,000,000 Jews being killed today. That is how large a number of people was slaughtered in ad70.

Neither is acceptable, but just to put a perspective on the magnitude of that massacre back then. Not to mention why that happened to them in that generation.
To take it a step further, if we are to tally up the population of "the world" as it is described in the Bible for this region at that time where the Jews lived (see verse), the massacre in AD70 is even far more horrific.

There was an estimated 70,000,000 people in THAT world at that time, and out of that 70 million, over 1 million Jews was killed, so it would have been the equivalent of 100,000,000 (1 hundred million) Jews killed, proportionately to our 7 billion population today

2 And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that ALL THE WORLD should be taxed.