DESTRUCTION OF 2ND TEMPLE
TIMING
DETERMINING THE
CONSTRUCTION OF 3RD TEMPLE
Continuing in the Discussion about your Article. You started
off by mentioning your Times of Meditation and Study and that
it pertained to the Destruction of the Temple. One also was
reviewing the Portion of Scripture when Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. It is the Account of how at the Sheep Gate of 5
Columns, there was that Crippled Man there. He had been in
that Condition for 38 Years. Here is another example, in one’s
Opinion of how Numbers noted in the Text are Prophetic. How
so?
‘Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a Pool
with 5 Covered Colonnades, which in Hebrew is called
Bethesda. On these Walkways lay a Great Number of the
Sick, the Blind, the Lame, and the Paralyzed. One Man there
had been an Invalid for 38 Years.
When Jesus saw him lying there and realized that he
had spent a Long Time in this Condition, He asked him. Do
you want to get Well? -John 5:2-5
Realize that as it pertains to Israel’s Spiritual Condition,
at the Time of Jesus’ Visitation to them, as foretold by
Daniel among other Prophets, Jesus came with Grace, thus the 5
Pillars. If one can then exegesis the Theme to then apply a
Prophetic Correlation, the Crippled Man is Israel. He typifies
how incapacitated Israel had become due to Sin, because as
Jesus later in the Portion of the Chapter explains why. They,
the Jews ‘Missed the Mark’ despite having so much Divine
Revelation given to them like no other Nation on the Globe,
etc.
And 1 Point is that this similar Spiritual Condition can be
the case with one personally, and with the Church Body in
these Last Days. And some would argue, the Last Iteration of
the Church, that being Laodicea is exactly what the Crippled
Man typified. And? Well, the Numerical Value associated with
the Man was 38. And how is that then related to the Temple and
its Destruction?
Well, assuming the Year in which the Event occurred was 32 AD.
And if one interprets that the 38 Year Factor is how long from
then the Sin of Israel continued? It would be the Year the
Temple was Destroyed, 38 Years later in 70 AD. Coincidence?
One has commented on this Equation before, but in this case,
one just sees it as a possible Clue, though circumstantial,
that if 38 Years later when the Temple was indeed demolished
strengthens one’s assertion that 32 AD was the Crucifixion
Year.
32 AD Crippled Man, Grace + 38 Years Prophetic Factor = 70
AD Temple Destroyed
Offer of the Kingdom
Now, the Incident does not prove it was a Time Marker of
when the Crucifixion was, in 32 AD, if the Equation is True
leading to 70 AD. But how is the Crippled Man as a Type of
Israel, Prophetically? Note the Tone or Underlying Warning
Jesus gave the Man and what the Man did. The following is
one’s Conjecture. Apparently, the Condition of the Physical
Ailment was due to the Man’s Sins. And that could be applied
to National Israel. The Man gives a ‘Lame’ excuse, sorry for
the Pun about why he cannot get ‘Cured’. It just came to Mind
in how one would be saying it aside from the Context.
But is that not what Israel has done? In that it seeks to
justify itself and never take Accountability or Responsibility
for its Sin? Especially that of having rejected their own
Messiah? Sad. It usually has taken individual People like the
Prophets, i.e., Moses, Samuel, Daniel, Isaiah, to repent on
behalf of all of Israel, etc. So, Jesus then finds the former
Crippled Man in the Temple. And Jesus tells him to ‘Stop
Sinning’ or worse things will happen.
One has a Suspicion that the Man continued in his Sin. And
rather than seek to join Jesus and follow Him as many did, he
rather went to the Jewish Ruling Council to inform about
Jesus. So, in extrapolating the Prophetic Typology of this Man
being as an Israel, Jesus came and showed Grace. He healed
many and warned Israel to ‘Stop Sinning’. But Israel did not
and placed its hope on Moses and the Temple, just like Today.
However, since the Ruling Council rejected Jesus’ Offer of the
Kingdom there and then, that came along with Redemption, the
Sin of Israel continued. And ultimately, that led to what the
Jews trusted in, did and will again with. It will be the 3rd
Temple and the Reestablishment of the Mosaic Law. As you all
know, one’s Interpretation of the ‘Covenant with the Many’
will be how the AntiChrist will re-institute the Covenant,
which is that of Moses, and confirmed during the Dedication of
the 3rd Temple, etc.
But what Israel trusted in, Moses and the Temple was what was
lost it in its Destruction in 70 AD, exactly 38 Years from the
Time and Place Jesus had healed the Crippled Man, ‘Crippled’
Israel, i.e. The Jubilee Year was proclaimed, Luke 4:17-19 and
what that brought to Israel, a 5-Fold implication of Grace.
1. To preach
Good News to the Poor.
2. To proclaim Liberty to the Captives
3. To recovery of Sight to the Blind.
4. To release the Oppressed.
5. To proclaim the Year of YHVH’s Favor.
Rewards and Crowns
Thus, the Passage is very sobering in that the Spiritual
Application can apply to one’s Life individually, and the
Church Body. In Revelation, the Warning is also given out to
the 7 Churches in how if there is no Faithfulness and
Obedience, the Testimony of that Light can be and will be
removed. It is not about losing one’s Salvation, but in regard
to one's Testimony being compromised and how the Rewards and
Crowns can be lost, etc. Now to those that are skeptical about
if Jesus was and is the Messiah in fulfilling the Jubilee? It
is was even John the Baptist asked in Matthew 11:4-6.
‘Are You the One who
was to come, or should we look for someone else?’ Jesus
replied. Go back and report to John what you hear and see:
1. the Blind receive Sight,
2. the Lame walk,
3. the Lepers are cleansed,
4. the Deaf hear,
5. the Dead are raised,
6. and the Good News
is preached to the Poor.
Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of
Me’.
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Lastly, one wants to comment on who will be the 2 Witnesses?
That has been the Question for nearly 2000 Years. And there
are Good Arguments to read about. The 2 Main Contenders are
Moses and Elijah. One would concur. But here in the same
Chapter of John 5, there is perhaps another Clue as to the
Identity of 1 of them, Moses. And this is said by Jesus. Of
course, it is one’s Interpretation. But why would one be
convinced that Jesus is referring to how Moses will be 1 of
the 2 Witnesses during the Tribulation Period.
Consider the Present Tense of how Jesus stated that ‘It is
Moses that accuses, still’. Now, some may rightly note that it
could be interpreted as, ‘Ah, it is the law that is accusing
the Jews’. True. There is that layer of Application, but one
is more convinced that it is because Moses is still alive and
will be the one that will directly accuse Israel and the
AntiChrist. It will be like in the Times with Pharaoh at his
Courts and to include all those 10 Plagues and Blood Moons,
etc. Perhaps. But it will be an Amazing Spectacle to see,
hopefully from Heaven’s Perspective after the Rapture Event.
‘Do not think that I
will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses,
in whom you have put your Hope.
If you
had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote
about Me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how
will you believe what I say?’ -John 5:45-47
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Books
THE 3RD TEMPLE
The Olivet Discourse foretells a Prophetic Outline that
involves the Restitution of 3 Factors that have to be in place
before Jesus' 2nd Coming, 1 is the 3rd Temple. It is
ready.
DAILY SACRIFICES
The purpose of this Book is to present a case for the
Redemption of Israel of how the Rededication of the
Altar of Sacrifice is directly related as the Precursor of
coming 3rd Temple.
CRUCIFIXION 32 AD
When was Jesus Crucified? Was it in 30 AD? 31 AD, or 33 AD?
This has been 1 of the most Profound Questions, that has been
Debated since the Church Age started with Jesus' Death. Can
the Year be Determined?