BACKSTORY
For perspective, the beginning of the 1st century is when Jesus Christ was alive. The Jewish people at the time were being harshly ruled over by the Roman Empire and King Herod. this gave rise to many different groups of people.
You had the Pharisees that believed that God would save and free them because they were his chosen people.
You had the Sadducees that chose to cooperate with the Roman Empire.
You had the zealots that believed God wanted them to revolt against the Roman Empire.
You had the Herodions that were chill with King Herod.
And finally, you had the Essenes who wanted the Messiah to come and lead them in a battle against the Roman Empire.
Basically, there was a ton of division among the Jews, which started to create a lot of tension among them. When Jesus came, many of the Jews supported him, but many did not as there were so many different types of Jews around, and the Jews that didn't like him had a lot of power, which is what led him to be crucified.
The people who supported Jesus Christ were now known as Christians, and the people who didn't were still part of the Jewish faith.
Then, Rome got a new emperor named Nero and he was a horrible person to both the Christians and the Jews which got everybody really angry, so they started to protest the Romans like crazy. Then, a local governor named Florus stormed Jerusalem with armies and stole tons of stuff and took the lives of thousands of innocent people. Everybody got super angry at each other because of these Jerusalem conflicts.
Then, the Gentiles (people who didn't believe in God) got super angry at the Jews and took the lives of thousands of them, and then there were many more horrible massacres, totaling into the hundred thousands.
Then, the Romans ended up taking over Jerusalem and destroying The Temple. It was extremely horrible, costing probably millions of Jews their lives.
CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE
Now that we know the basic backstory, let's think about what the Christians did. What were they doing? Well, Paul was a a preacher of Christianity, and he was going out and about spreading Christ's gospel. Really, they weren't doing anything at all with the revolts. They were not involved at all. Jesus had prophesied of them, so they scattered, which is why Christianity is much more widespread than Judaism. Most Jews still live in Jerusalem because they mostly stayed put and endured through the crazy riots.
DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM
The destruction of Jerusalem most definitely made the Christians believe that Jesus was the Messiah as he had warned them to leave Jerusalem many years before, which was an important revelation that helped save their lives.
