InChristAlways
May 28th 2005, 12:49 PM
Hi. I have a question concerning the 2nd temple. Why did God through Cyrus command a temple to be rebuilt just so He could destroy it in the 1st century?
I believe it was so God could glorify Himself through that destruction as told in Ezekiel 39 and Daniel 11 and Malachi and thus deliver Daniel's people, those that believed unto the Cross of Jesus Christ, the savior and King of Israel. Any views on this topic? Thanks and blessings.
Daniel 9:24 " Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy. 25 "Know therefore and understand, [That] from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until messiah the prince, [There shall be] seven weeks and then sixty-two weeks; The street["broad place"] shall be built again, and the wall["gold"], Even in troublesome times. 26 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it [shall be] with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
Matt 23:1 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, 2 saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. 36 "Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. 37 " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under [her] wings, but you were not willing! 38 "See! Your house is left to you desolate; 39 "for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, 'Blessed He who comes in the name of the LORD!' "
Malachi 2:1 "And now, O priests, this commandment is for you. [i]2 If you will not hear, And if you will not take [it] to heart, To give glory to My name," Says the LORD of hosts,
Malachi 4:1 "For behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up," Says the LORD of hosts, "That will leave them neither root nor branch.
I believe it was so God could glorify Himself through that destruction as told in Ezekiel 39 and Daniel 11 and Malachi and thus deliver Daniel's people, those that believed unto the Cross of Jesus Christ, the savior and King of Israel. Any views on this topic? Thanks and blessings.
Daniel 9:24 " Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy. 25 "Know therefore and understand, [That] from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until messiah the prince, [There shall be] seven weeks and then sixty-two weeks; The street["broad place"] shall be built again, and the wall["gold"], Even in troublesome times. 26 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it [shall be] with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
Matt 23:1 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, 2 saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. 36 "Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. 37 " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under [her] wings, but you were not willing! 38 "See! Your house is left to you desolate; 39 "for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, 'Blessed He who comes in the name of the LORD!' "
Malachi 2:1 "And now, O priests, this commandment is for you. [i]2 If you will not hear, And if you will not take [it] to heart, To give glory to My name," Says the LORD of hosts,
Malachi 4:1 "For behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up," Says the LORD of hosts, "That will leave them neither root nor branch.