I hope you don’t get annoyed at my questions. But this is a big question I’ve had for a while. When He foretold of “see this temple here, these stones they are all coming down(falling down). Not one stone left upon another that isn’t turned over.” To me he was speaking of Luke 2:34-35 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; [35] (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
My question is …if God destroys. Why in every place it speaks of to destroy, it says to give it over to satan for the destruction?
Whoa.... this is a big question. At the time- it was incomprehensible because of the enormity of the temple that Herod had built. But Simeon, in recognizing who this child would someday become- he is quoting from Isaiah 8.
That the child would grow to become the stone that causes many to stumble.
And this is they association made-- that 'people' are building blocks in this temple, or house of God-- that Kingdom not made of human hands, rather a spiritual realm made of human "stones." Living stones, I think Paul mentions. Maybe it's shocking to consider, but Jesus taught us that the kingdom was within. That the kingdom was a spiritual 'thing' that was somehow (conceptually) expanding and growing within us (those who accepted him). That we were like tents, or tabernacles, or temples where God resides--- taking it far beyond the concept that Moses understood-- that God lived in a box that he carted around and that only he could commune with Him. Jesus taught something far different.... that we could think of God as our Father-- and consider Him that way-- that those 'in Him' were a part of His kingdom, a part of Him and that as we were in God, God would be in us... Christ in us, us in God, God in us-- unity. Many people talk about it, few believe it.
As far as the rising and falling of many-- it's no different than what Jacob saw on that ladder. Spiritual ascending and descending- because inside-- we are spiritual.... just temporarily residing in these 'houses' made of human building materials. Wood and skin and stone.