Use some commonsense brother.
The Jews are not going to destroy their own city and Jesus did not and will not destroy Jerusalem. No need in falling off the trail with the incorrect temple sidetrack.
Not only you lacks commonsense but also lacks spiritual discernment like many people here. So exactly HOW did the Jewish people destroy the CITY at the CROSS?
Pay attention carefully, if you have spiritual ears to hear...the Jews destroyed the City in the
exact same way the City was prophesied to be destroyed. They destroyed the Sanctuary in the
exact same way the Sanctuary was prophesied to be destroyed.
By the people of the Prince, their Messiah,
in the killing of Christ. ...as was prophesied:
Daniel 9:26
- "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined."
Acts 2:36
- "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ."
The churches are ambiguous about Israel rejecting Christ and destroying the physical temple, but God is not ambiguous about it. As was prophesied, it was the
people of the prince, Messiah, who destroyed both city and sanctuary. Even as the leaders of Israel asked a sign demonstrating that he had the power or authority to cast out of the Temple, and Christ answered, "
Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up!" That was
the sign they requested, and we all know what that meant, even though they were blinded and did not.
John 2:18-21
- "Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
- Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
- Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
- But he spake of the temple of his body."
Christ is the
only true Holy City, and the
only true Holy Temple that was destroyed, and the
physical representations merely were types of Him. Christ "IS" the City and Sanctuary by whom, and in whom all His people live and move and have their being. He is not a city made of physical wood and stone today any more than the Lord's Holy Mountain is the elevated hill located in the Middle East called Mount Zion. He is the true city
of promise versus the physical city that merely
represented it before the cross. The question is, which one did the people of the Prince Messiah destroy?
Likewise, to Abraham was the promise made, and he sought the spiritual city, while the Scribes and Pharisees sought the physical. That's why they couldn't understand how Christ
was not talking about a Temple that took 46 years to build, even though He had just thrown the buyers and sellers out of that Physical Temple and they were asking for a SIGN that he had power to do this. He replied, Destroy
this Temple and I will
rebuild it in 3 days. Same with them destroying the city.
Hebrews 11:8-10
- "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
- By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
- For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God."
The
Holy City of promise can only be established in Christ. But this stone the builders rejected is become part of another building of God. The original builders (Jews) having rejected Him as the foundation of their City and Sanctuary. So they (His people) destroyed him, and with Him the Holy City and Holy Temple. They don't have it anymore, much less saw it destroyed in AD 70. Again, it comes back to our perceiving the spiritual, versus looking for the carnal or physical fulfillment, even as Israel made the
same mistake in doing. Even as some Churches today are looking for physical fulfillment in 70AD or a future Peace and Safety in Physical Israel. The same mistakes over and over again. There is nothing new under the sun.
Isaiah 40:1-2
- "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
- Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins."
God was not talking about physical city here. The Israelites were always looking for a Messiah to set them free from the captivity or bondage of the Romans who ruled over them. They were always looking for a earthly Messiah to establish a physical political kingdom and rule from Physical Jerusalem. They were always looking for a Messiah that would end war and establish a physical Peace and safety in the Middle East--and because they were, they
totally missed the
True Messiah who would free them, who would
reign in the kingdom of Israel, and give them
real Peace and Safety. Yes, Jerusalem would have peace. But not the sin-cursed city in the Middle East. It was
NEVER the Jerusalem below, which was of the captivity; it was the only Holy City of prophecy, wherein God's people could ever find true peace and safety. The city wherein they would have their warfare cease,
is in Christ. Not in that sin-cursed city in the Middle East, but in a city whose builder and maker is God.
But they summarily rejected that city. God allowed them to destroy the city which was called by His name, as well as the Temple called by His name. When they destroyed or cutoff Christ, they destroyed both city and sanctuary
exactly according to the prophecy of Daniel 9. Their (
the people of the Prince) house was then left unto them desolate. Not in AD 70, but
when they did this. Christ says so unambiguously:
Matthew 23:37-28
- "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
- Behold, your house is left unto you desolate."
Why does Christ speak to a City except that the city be
a people,
not buildings, not literal stones, but
the people inhabiting that city? Hello? Is He judging a physical city? Is He talking about the people who would destroy Him when He spoke of the Temple, or the literal building that they would "
presumably" destroy? He's talking about the same city that Daniel 9 prophesied that they (His people) would destroy, and that desolations were determined upon. It was because they rejected their Messiah, the Prince, and they killed Him (
as they had done the prophets God had sent before Him). It wasn't destroyed years later when the Romans sacked the place. But
when they destroyed Christ. Right at the Cross! Christ "IS" the City wherein righteousness dwells as sure as He is the Holy Temple. That's how the Holy City can come down from Heaven, because it is Christ that is our conurbation, city, habitation, metropolis, where we live and breathe and have our being.
So when you ask, "
How did the Jewish People destroy the City AT THE CROSS," the answer is clear. The Holy City that is called by God's name and the Sanctuary of sacrifice were representations of Christ.
He is the antitype, the
true Holy dwelling place and
true place of worship, the
true Holy City and
Holy Temple. ...
if we will receive it. When they destroyed Christ, they destroyed both city and sanctuary. That was when Christ took their kingdom represenative and gave it to New Testament congregation... in three days. They destroyed neither in AD 70. How then is a Holy City of God destroyed that wasn't Holy anyway in AD 70, nor of God, and a Holy Temple that isn't Holy, nor of God?
Makes no sense! So much for your common sense!
