Matthew 24, The Study of End Times Part 2 – Not One Stone Left

Matthew 24:1 “And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

Jesus told Hs disciples not one stone would be left upon another that all would be thrown down.  Approximately 40 years later the Temple was torn down and destroyed.  Not one stone was left upon another.  However, this system must not only be removed from the earth (literally) as it was in 70AD.  It must be removed from our hearts, from the earthen vessels.  Every stone must be torn down of the Old Covenant and we must come to worship God in the New by the Spirit!

I do not believe God has plans to establish another Temple as the one in the Old Covenant, a physical temple made of stone and wood.  In fact I believe that God and the Lamb are the Temple of the New Covenant.  Revelation 21:22 “And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.” 

I believe that you and I and all the believers are established in this Temple, built up in Him for a Holy habitation of the Lord, and are made the temple of the Living God (II Corinthians 6:16).  I believe we are swallowed in God and the Lamb and made one in Him in the New Covenant, as Jesus declared in John 17:23 “I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;”

Ephesians 2:20 “And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.