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The Jewish Babylonian Talmud made an incredible admission about Jesus Christ’s arrival in the first century.
Composed in the fifth century AD by orthodox Jews, it is a written compilation of Jewish traditions that had been passed down through the centuries.
The Rabbis consider it as one of the most important sources of Jewish law and commentary.
Though the Talmud never acknowledges Jesus as the Messiah, it stated that a strange thing happened in the Temple coinciding with Jesus’ arrival.
The Talmud writes:
“The Sages taught: During the tenure of Shimon HaTzaddik, the lot for God always arose in the High Priest’s right hand; after his death, it occurred only occasionally; but during the forty years prior to the destruction of the Second Temple, the lot for God did not arise in the High Priest’s right hand at all.”
This strange event started taking place 40 years prior to the destruction of the Jewish Temple by the Romans in 70 AD.
This means it took place between 30 AD and 70 AD. This fits with the start of Christ’s ministry. Most scholars believe Jesus was crucified in 30 AD or possibly 33 AD.
One of the ceremonies that the High Priest conducted in the temple as part of Yon Kippur was the casting of lots for two goats mentioned in Leviticus 16. One lot would fall to a goat that would be for the Lord and sacrificed. The second lot would designate the scapegoat that would carry the sins of Israel into the wilderness of Azazel.
It was considered a good omen if the lot for the Lord came up in the High Priest’s right hand. Mathematically this had a 50-50 chance of happening as it occasionally did prior to 30 AD.
But between 30 AD and 70 AD, the lot for the Lord ominously fell to the left hand for 40 consecutive years.
According to Grok, the chances of this occurring were one in 1.1 trillion. If you were flipping a coin and wanted heads to come up 40 times in a row, you would need to flip it once per second, day and night, for 70,000 years.
So there was obviously some Divine intervention in the casting of those lots in the Temple.
So what was behind this ominous occurrence?
The answer is found in the Gospel of John.
After Jesus drove the money changers out of the temple, he was confronted by the Jewish leaders. They asked for a sign that He was sent from God.
Jesus replied that if they destroyed the temple, then in three days it would be raised up again in John 2:19. The leaders mocked Christ stating it took 46 years to build the temple.
But John adds this footnote in verse 21 that Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.
Jesus had replaced the Temple and according to the Babylonian Talmud it was confirmed in a very ominous way.
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