A hard head makes a soft bottom!

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Matthew 24:1–2 CSB

1 As Jesus left and was going out of the temple, his disciples came up and called his attention to its buildings. 2 He replied to them, “Do you see all these things? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down.”

Future

Matthew 24:15–16 CSB

15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand), 16 “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

Intro:

Watching movies all the way to the end until they tell you how everything ended up!!!

Lets see how the Israelites ended up!

Review!

Our bodies on the temple of God

The priestly office is no longer needed

The Law of Moses has been Fulfilled we are now under the Law of Christ

There are no longer any barriers to salvation: Social Status, Family Association, Gender or Ethnic

I. What God tears apart don’t try to put it back together again

Matthew 24:1–2 CSB

1 As Jesus left and was going out of the temple, his disciples came up and called his attention to its buildings. 2 He replied to them, “Do you see all these things? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down.”

(EXP)(3) Jesus is sitting on the Mount of Olives teaching his disciples. From the Mount of Olives the Temple is in full view.

prior to this in (1) Jesus just left the Temple and then his disciples ask him a question

His disciples came up and called his attentions to its building?

Seems as if the disciples were beginning to understand the temporary nature of the Temple based on what Jesus has been teaching them related to our bodies being the new tabernacle.

So they seem to wondering about the “necessity of a Temple” to worship God if our worship is now done in the body not necessarily a place. Then Jesus tells them:

(EXP)(2) “Do you see all these things? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here on another that wil not be thrown down.” Jesus begins to prophecy. I am sure the Disciples are thinking “How can this be!?” the Temple was built to withstand an attack. It is built high surrounded by valleys.

Jesus tells them “not one stone will be left here on another, that will not be thrown down” Meaning it will be essentially a total destruction.

Remember this is prior to his death and before the Curtain Tore.

Jesus died in the spring of 33ad during passover at this time the curtain was torn.

about 33 years later all Hell broke lose in Israel:

The siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), in which the Roman army led by future emperor Titus besieged Jerusalem, the center of Jewish rebel resistance in the Roman province of Judaea. Following a five-month siege, the Romans destroyed the city and the Second Jewish Temple.[1][2][3]

In April 70 CE, three days before Passover, the Roman army started besieging Jerusalem.[4][5] The city had been taken over by several rebel factions following a period of massive unrest and the collapse of a short-lived provisional government. Within three weeks, the Roman army broke the first two walls of the city, but a stubborn rebel standoff prevented them from penetrating the thickest and third wall.[4][6] According to Josephus, a contemporary historian and the main source for the war, the city was ravaged by murder, famine, and cannibalism.[7]

On Tisha B'Av, 70 CE (August 30),[8] Roman forces overwhelmed the defenders and set fire to the Temple.[9] Resistance continued for another month, but eventually the upper and lower parts of the city were taken as well, and the city was burned to the ground. Titus spared only the three towers of the Herodian citadel as a testimony to the city's former might.[10][11] The siege had a major toll on human life, with many people being killed and enslaved, and large parts of the city destroyed. This victory gave the Flavian dynasty legitimacy to claim control over the empire. A triumph was held in Rome to celebrate the conquest of Jerusalem, and two triumphal arches were built to commemorate it. The treasures looted from the Temple were put on display.[7]

The destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple marked a major turning point in Jewish history.[7][12][13] The loss of mother-city and temple necessitated a reshaping of Jewish culture to ensure its survival.

Rome dealt out its punishments with the battle concluded and the victors in charge. It is estimated by the ancient historians Tacitus (l. c. 56 - c. 118 CE) and Flavius Josephus (36-100 CE) that there were about 600,000 to 1,100,000 people killed in the siege. Males aged 17 and older were either put in hard labor camps or made to be gladiators. Women and children were sold into slavery. For the two leaders, Simon bar Gioras and John of Gischalla, Titus had other plans

You will notice in historical account a couple of key points:

The seige started during Passover April of 70AD

This would have maximized a high body count. Rome purposely waited for all the pilgrims from all over Judea, and other parts of the known world to get inside the city calls. Once they got inside the city calls. They cut off the supply lines for food & supplies. They also cut off the supply lines ammunition.

I don’t think it is a coincidence the seige started at the time passover was happening. This seige would have hinder the abilities of the priest to sacrifice animals.

notice this text from Josephus related to the attack strategy of the Romans.

The Works of Josephus: New Updated Edition Chapter 1: Concerning the Seditions at Jerusalem, and What Terrible Miseries Afflicted the City by Their Means

(16) for those darts that were thrown by the engines came with that force, that they went all over the buildings, and reached as far as the altar, and the temple itself, and fell upon the priests, and those that were about the sacred offices; (17) insomuch that in any persons who came thither with great zeal from the ends of the earth, to offer sacrifices at this celebrated place, which was esteemed holy by all mankind, fell down before their own sacrifices themselves, and sprinkled that altar which was venerable among all men, both Greeks and Barbarians, with their own blood; (18) till the dead bodies of strangers were mingled together with those of their own country, and those of profane persons with those of the priests, and the blood of all sorts of dead carcases stood in lakes in the holy courts themselves. (19

You will see the Romans were using their advanced technology to shoot spears over the walls of the temple reaching all the up to the Altar which was where the priest were doing sacrifices. All the way up to the Holiest of Holy. The Spears cut through the priest and all the worshippers in the Court of Men, The Court of Women and the Court of the Gentiles. They did it so fast the priest died before they were able to slay the animals. Rather than the animals blood spilled in the temple it was the blood of the priest and the people all co-mingled together.

(18) The Jews thought themselves better than others nations, so to have your blood mingled with that of prostitutes & foreigners would have been the ultimate disrespect for them.

But since they didn’t get the message from God that this gospel is going to all nations, and there is no superior nation God gave them an object lesson. What better way to learn “From one blood did God make the nations” than letting you die with your blood mix with other nations.

Saints God is teaching through judgement.

Saints I have a million dollar Question? If the veil had torn in 33 AD how were they performing passover during this seige?

They Repaired the Veil. After that cataclysmic supernatural events: Lets go back real quick

Matthew 27:51–53 CSB

51 Suddenly, the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth quaked, and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs were also opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. 53 And they came out of the tombs after his resurrection, entered the holy city, and appeared to many.

The minute our Lord shout “Its finished” The temple veil ripped from top to bottom, There was an Earth Quake, Rocks were split.

Tombs were opened up(4 ton) Rocks covered tombs in the ancient world.

Ole Saints that people knew died came out of their graves

These Saints didn’t stay in the cometary they entered the holy city during Passover, and appeared to many!!!

Dear Lord!!!! Isn’t that enough proof that the Law of Moses and the Religious system of the OT was not fulfilled.

Yet: The Religious leaders look at all that happened and still repaired the veil so that could return to their Traditions, and the Traditions of the Father.

Application

Saints when Jesus tells you something is over!!!! Don’t try to repair the veil!!!!

Saints when you have been saved from something, and you go back to your former way of life. You are behaving just like these Jews!!!!

Like the Jews we love to hold onto the familiar rather than embracing the New Life that Jesus had called us to!!

Future:

God through this Military seige made it real clear. The Law of Moses is dead. Titus burned everything leaving only the Western Wall which exist to this day. You can see it online. The Temple was totally destroyed Like Jesus said “not one stone will be left on another!”

This seige also forced the remaining Jews and Christian who lived in Jerusalem to leave. This is one of many scattering of the Jews.

Since they didn’t get the message I am going to save those of other nations how about now you get to go live with them cause I dun kick you out of Jerusalem.

And less you try to come back I am going to do something else.

Dome of the Rock, shrine in Jerusalem built by the Umayyad caliph ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān in the late 7th century CE. It is the oldest extant Islamic monument. Explore the history behind the Islamic shrine Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Learn about the Dome of the Rock, the oldest extant Islamic monument, which was completed in 619–692 in Jerusalem.(more) The structure is situated on a flat elevated plaza known to Muslims as al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf (“The Noble Sanctuary”) and to Jews as the Temple Mount (the site where the Temple of Jerusalem once stood). According to Muslims, the rock above which the dome is constructed is the spot from which the Prophet Muhammad was taken up into heaven for an encounter with God

Currently the oldest and third most important religious site in all of Islam is located right on the Temple Mount.

You would think this factors would be enough to convince the Jewish people “The veil is broken!” “Moses has been replaced by Jesus!”

God has given them so many Signs.

Let’s see how they are doing in the near future:

Matthew 24:15–19 CSB

15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand), 16 “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. 17 A man on the housetop must not come down to get things out of his house, 18 and a man in the field must not go back to get his coat. 19 Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

(15) Daniel predicted a time when “the abomination of desolation” happened in the holy place. Daniel is describing a future date from his prediction.

What is the abomination of desolation?

Daniel’s prophecies about the abomination of desolation seemed to have at least a partial fulfillment in 167 BC when a Greek ruler by the name of Antiochus IV desecrated the temple in Jerusalem. Antiochus called himself “Epiphanies” (“illustrious one” or “god manifest”). He set up an altar to Zeus over the altar of burnt offering, and he sacrificed a pig on the altar. Antiochus went even further in his atrocities, slaughtering a great number of the Jews and selling others into slavery. And he issued decrees forbidding circumcision and requiring Jews to sacrifice to pagan gods and eat pig meat.

This event happened before Jesus was born, so when Jesus said “so when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place”

Jesus is saying there will be another one who will desecrate the holy place just like Antiochus IV in the future. When this happens it will be an indication to you that Tribulation is going to explode exponentially.

that leads to another question:

How can another abomination of desolation happen if the dome of the rock is sitting on top of the temple?

Saints are things starting to make sense with the war in Israel. The Jews want totally control of the whole region without any impediments.

There are currently religious groups in Israel training priest and raising animals that can be slaughtered when Israel regains control of the whole temple mount.

Through all the lesson, through the persecution the Israelites are still trying to construct and repair a system that Jesus was already fulfilled.

What can we learn about human nature from the Jewish experience?

Man is desperately wicked and deceitful above all things

Man will stubbornly hold on to their sins even when those sins are destroying them

When faced with truth man will often ignore, or justify their own shortcomings

Jesus said it best when talking about the Pharisees in Matthew 13:15

Matthew 13:15 CSB

15 For this people’s heart has grown callous; their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back— and I would heal them.

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