Why was it allowed to happen? Why should there be such destruction? The immediate cause was that there was rebellion and war against the Roman authority on the part of the Jews, and they had to be crushed; they had to be punished. The Roman Empire was relatively peaceful if all is well, but rebellion was crushed with great violence and cruelty. But why did God allow this to happen to the nation which he had privileged for so long? Because they had always been a rebellious people, killing the prophets and stoning those sent unto them, and now they were about to fulfil the Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen, which Christ had just given them, and to kill the Son also. God’s patience with them as a nation was exhausted. There would still be elect Jews saved, but the national covenant by which God dealt with them as a political entity was going to end soon. Salvation was always by faith, and those descendants of Abraham, who assumed they would be blessed because of their blood relationship with him, were no longer to be privileged. So in A.D. 70 their temple and their worship were to be brought to a close.