Romans Treated Jerusalem Exactly as Carthage

When they took Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the Romans treated the city in practically the same way they treated Carthage when they took it more than two centuries earlier.

After the Roman legions subdued all resistance in captured Carthage in 146 BC, commission of ten senators arrived from Rome, ordering Roman commander Scipio to destroy whatever remained of Carthage and decreed nobody was allowed to settle there or rebuild.

It is claimed that Roman forces then sowed the city with salt – which was at the time not an uncommon practice in the ancient Near East. The objective of this ritual was similar to sprinkling with holy water by Christian priests - purifying or consecrating an enemy city captured by the victors.

This claim is hotly debated by historians; however, I believe it to be true. For a very serious reason – Carthaginians practiced genuine devil-worshipping and human sacrifice of children so ghastly and appalling that they horrified even the Romans for whom even the extreme brutality was standard operating procedure.

Destruction of the city (it burned for 17 days and whatever remained was razed to the ground), massacre of the Carthaginians enslavement and expulsion of its population were so horrific, that it has been labelled a genocide by some.

Jerusalem suffered practically the same fate. With the city's fall, Roman commander Titus ordered the whole city and (especially) the Second Temple to be razed to the ground, leaving intact just the western wall to safeguard the Roman garrison stationed there.

However, all the rest of the wall encompassing the city was so completely leveled to the ground as to leave future visitors to the spot no ground for believing that it had ever been inhabited.

According to some accounts, the territory of the destroyed Temple was then… sowed with salt. Just like in Carthage where the temples were burnt, destroyed and their territory sowed with salt.

Why did Roman treat Jerusalem exactly the same as Carthage? It appears that after the Jews rejected Christs, the Church of Moloch (that practiced essentially the same religion as the Carthaginians) somehow hijacked the “Jewish energy channel” and made it work for the Devil filling the world with demonic energies.

In other words, in 30 – 70 A.D. the Second Temple worked exactly like the ones in Carthage two centuries earlier. The Romans somehow got wing of it – and ruthlessly solved the problem exactly the way they did 200 years earlier.