jose from Brazil
March 20 at 12:54 am
This text Matthew chapter 23 sounds so jewish, mentioning the honor of the altar and the temple in Jerusalem, I know Jesus was under the yoke of the law also, but to his own. The temple was the heart of the jewish law. Without a temple, you can take out almost the entire book of Leviticus. Jesus preached being on the law of Moses to the israelites. Without a temple, no levites, no priests, and no righteousness and judgement seen from the law, justification was there reached with sin offerings, that should be approved by God. Israel survived the lack of temple in Jerusalem praying in its direction, as Daniel. Those are worldly things, the physical temple. We are the temple. God inhabits us. But what about the insult to God with the disrespectful treatment to Jerusalem and His temple? Should we say : "We don't need that anyways"? I don't think that's even some grieve or pious sentiment by that. Rome desecrated it. Jesus says God inhabited it in Matthew 23.
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