OUR FATHER WHOSE SENT HIS SON TO SAVE THE WORLD

In the book of Matthew chapter 24 verses 1 - 2, the Lord Jesus, having castigated the religious leaders in the temple, departed from there and as they went, the disciples were showing Jesus the buildings of the temple in all their glory.

The Lord gave them a grave prophecy by saying that as improbable as it seemed at the time, every one of the massive buildings of the temple would be  torn down to the foundation leaving no stone standing on another.

This prophecy was fulfilled about 40 years later in the year 70 AD when the Roman army, after a long siege, sacked the city of Jerusalem and tore down every stone of the temple.

1 Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

With the loss of the temple, the customary and religious practices of Judaism halted and went into a state of dormancy with no temple sacrifies and dedications.

To replace the lost religious functions, the religious leaders of Israel devised a system of traditions that laid out a variety of substitutionary practices that have been observed by the disperate groups of the children of Israel since that time.

However, there are multiple prophetic references to a rebuilt temple and the resumption of the original religious practices that will be one of the harbingers of the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.

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