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Jews actually believed in prayers for the dead
>2 Maccabees 12:42-46
They turned to prayer, begging that the sin which had been committed might be wholly blotted out.
… He (Judas Maccabeus) took up a collection… and sent it to Jerusalem to provide for a sin offering.
In doing this he acted very well and honorably, taking account of the resurrection.
For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead.
But if he was looking to the splendid reward that is laid up for those who fall asleep in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought.
Therefore he made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.

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But then the Pharisees banned all Greek literature because of the Jewish slaughter in the Roman-Judean war in 63-73AD. Maccabees was written in Greek and most Jews were Greek-speaking (and did not speak Hebrew like the old fashioned Pharisee religious jewish leaders); Jews converted to Catholicism and butthurt Pharisees ended up making their own Talmud.

Fun fact Macabees is the origin of Hannukah; so when they removed the bible, because so many Jews were celebrating Hannukah; they had to come up with a lore unrelated to Maccabees, which is where the story of the oil came from. But originally, the real story of Hannukah goes differently.

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3rd continuation:
Revelation 3:20 (KJV)
"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."

The remainder of the chapter talks about how horrible this will all be (from Jesus pov before crucifixion) and it was as horrible as he made it out to be. Historic stats show that Judea before the war in 66AD had 1,100,000 million Jews. After 70-73 AD, there were 303k left (20%), and for Jerusalem, there were about 600k-1.1 million; and about 2% remained alive (rest of 97,000~ were enslaved) These are not numbers to scoff at. This is the End times for the Jews that have passed.

By 70AD, the gospel had made significant progress in the entire 'world', in the Roman Empire and surrounding regions (whole world); Roman Empire (huge), Asia, Northern Greece Macedonia, Samaria, Syria, Cyprus, Modern Turkey, Southern Greece Achaia, Arabia. The bible will often use literary terms that are often mistranslated as literal (for example a global flood that science shows was local to Judea's continent, even other religions and pagan lore describe its "universality" as North America was not yet known)

The sun darkening , the moon not giving light, the stars falling, the heavenly bodies shaking; this is the eruption of Pompeii that ALL OF ROME/JUDEA felt and SAW. 7 yars after 73 AD when the war finished (Matthew 24:29 says Immediately after the distress of those days) (7 is completion) came the eruption in 79 AD
The Roman author Pliny the Younger witnessed the eruption from across the Bay of Naples and described the scene in letters to the historian Tacitus. His account is crucial:
>"A darkness… not like a moonless or cloudy night, but like the black of closed and unlighted rooms." (Letter 6.16)

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