One day, as Jesus was teaching in the temple, He declared that the temple would become desolate (Matthew 23:37-38). After Jesus left the temple and was walking toward Bethany, by way of the Mount of Olives, some of the Lord’s disciples came to Him to call his attention to the temple buildings.
At the time of Jesus’ ministry, the Jewish temple in Jerusalem was one of the most magnificent structures on Earth. It was built with massive hewn stone that was expertly quarried to fit perfectly together. The walls of the buildings were adorned with gold in a gaudy manner. The gold plates on the eastern side of the main structure reflected the morning sun so that the temple could be seen from miles away.
No doubt, the disciples wanted to know how such an impressive temple could become desolate. Here was the Lord's response:
And He said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down.”Jesus’ prophetic words were fulfilled in 70 A.D. when the Roman general, Titus destroyed the temple. Because the walls of the structures were inlaid with gold, Titus burned the temple structures with such intense heat that the stones crumbled so the gold could be sifted from the rubble. This literally fulfilled Jesus’ words that “not one stone here will be left upon another”.
Matthew 24:2
There’s no way that Jesus or anyone else could have known this would happen unless God the Father told Him. You see, God tells us what will happen before it happens so that we might believe. This is why about one-third of the holy bible is God’s prophetic word, passed down to us through the prophets.
God bless,
Daniel
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