Key: SCHAFF: “When the Lord open his mouth, we should open our ears and hearts”
THE TEMPLE. Matt. 24:1-2, Mk. 13:1-2, Lk. 21:5-6.
This discourse foretells the destruction of Jerusalem and the final coming of Jesus our Lord.
It begins with the destruction of the temple and ends with the Judgment of the nation’s Matt.
25:31-46. The prediction of the destruction of Jerusalem according to Matt. 23:37-39, Lk.
21:20-24, and that of the temple was fulfilled by Titus in A.D. 70, the details of which we shall
see later.
- The temple. Matt. 24:1-2. “And Jesus went out and departed from the temple…” He
had been in the temple, and now he is departing from the temple. This was the court
of the Gentiles and the court of Israel and never the central building and the
surrounding court of the Priests. Matt. 21:12.
a. “And his disciples came to him…” “He was going on his way, doubtless returning
to Bethany whence he had come that morning Matt. 21:17 f.; Lk. 21:37; and the
disciples interrupted him to show him the buildings of the temple” Broadus John
A.
I. Mk. 13:1-2, “great building” special attention is directed to the vast
‘stones’ Josephus says Herod build the sanctuary of stones that were
‘white’ and ‘strong’. He even said some of the stones were forty five cubits
long (eighty-five feet). Lk. 5-6-‘the temple was adorned with beautiful
stones’
II. ‘See ye not all these things’ This called attention to the vast and solid
mass of building
III. ‘There shall not be left here one stone upon another’, Jer. 26:18.
Josephus says (“war.” 7, 1, 1) that Titus finally ordered the whole city and
the sanctuary to be razed to its foundations, except three towers and part
of the western wall and all the rest of the city wall’ was so completely
levelled with the ground that there was no longer anything to lead those
who visited the spot to believe that it had ever been inhabited”
IV. ‘God does not live in temples build with hand’ Act. 7:47-48, Is. 66:1-2.
God called Solomon’s temple a house of sacrifice 2Chro. 7:12 and
promised to cast out the building from His sight if they follow idols 2Chro.
7:19-22, which he did 2Kg. 25:9, Is. 64:11. The end of the old order. Matt.
27:51, Heb. 9:1-11.
V. God has built His house from the day of Pentecost, the Church, and a
spiritual house. Eph. 2:19-22, 1Cor. 3:9, 1Pet. 2:5-9, 2Cor. 6:14-18. The
believers, born of the spirit with the divine nature, and has become God’s
righteousness by the work of redemption are; Christ, light and temple.
