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== "In three days I will rebuild this temple" == | |||
At the time, nobody had a clue what Jesus meant by this, but they understood him to say that he would destroy the Temple at Jerusalem | |||
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/2?19 | |||
John explains that only after the resurection did the apostles understsand what he meant. | |||
At his trial a witnesses accuses him of threatening to tear down the Temple | |||
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/26:60 | |||
though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two* came forward | |||
who stated, “This man said, ‘I can destroy the temple of God and within three days rebuild it.’” | |||
As witnesses to the Sanhedren, which was stacked against him, we infer that they were lying, but we may also see them as believing it. | |||
Destruction of the Temple Foretold: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/24 | |||
Jesus left the temple area and was going away, when his disciples approached him to point out the temple buildings. | |||
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* He said to them in reply, “You see all these things, do you not? Amen, I say to you, there will not be left here a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.” | |||
then the Great Tribulation | |||
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Jesus never threatened to tear down the temple. he warned about it. | |||
it's different from Sodom, which God struck down | |||
but even that we can see an event not of God's direct action but of his inaction. | |||
As God warned Abraham, so Jesus warned the Christians. The even will happen, and God will not stop it from happening (he could). | |||
So he didn't do it to punish the Jews. They brought it on themselves. He did bring salvation to some, Lot in OT, the Christians in 70 AD. | |||