An interesting prophecy

My grandfather and I were talking about this prophecy over the weekend. He wasn't familiar with it, but I thought it would be interesting to share with others here:

49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. 52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.
 
 53 Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you. 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you-so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot-will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For she intends to eat them secretly during the siege and in the distress that your enemy will inflict on you in your cities. -Deuteronomy 28

and now from the Gospel of Luke:

20"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. 21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. 22For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. 23How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

It's interesting to note that not that long after Jesus spoke these words, a mere three decades later, the Roman general Titus laid siege to Jerusalem and ruthlessly destroyed it. Cannibalism was also fairly common toward the end of the siege. Not that it's the best source, but even Wikipedia has a reference to the fact that cannibalism was a problem in Jerusalem toward the end of the Roman siege here.

Perhaps it is just a coincidence, but I find it very interesting that Deuteronomy so clearly predicts the events of the Roman siege of Jerusalem, and Jesus warned those listening to Him that events had been set into motion that would fulfill the prophecy of Jerusalem's destruction as foretold in the Torah.

**UPDATE**: This comment thread certainly has proved to amusing. It's related to the subject of this post, though the one commenter "Javelin" really takes the gold for being such a superb troll.