During the period from Jesus’ ministry until the destruction of the Temple, Jewish society included a significant movement of Jews who believed that the Temple had to be destroyed in order to fulfill Daniel’s prophecies about God’s plan to end the known world. This Jewish movement intentionally provoked the Romans to destroy the Temple. God would not establish the new world until after the Temple had been destroyed, and only the Romans could destroy it.

This Jewish movement was extremely irrational, guided by ancient prophecies proclaimed by hermits who interpreted visions and dreams.

In the year 60 AD it was entirely possible for a society to be governed by the Romans and to maintain a national temple that the Romans did not destroy. Only Jewish society had a movement that believed its temple would be destroyed soon as a divine sign that God was about to establish Heaven on Earth.