I'd like to know how the people living back then would have viewed words like "desolation" of the land ,what it meant to them in real terms. Did it mean total destruction and nobody living there or something like damaged by warring armies and no structure left to organize daily life like there used to be .
This is where I wonder if we today can say for certain that the scriptures are totally literal and accurate or not .
Scholar I did not respond a few days ago been away from the computer.