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NASB | John 2:19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 2:19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." |
Subject: third temple built before Jesus returns? |
Bible Note: Hi Cheri, While full details of the Passover are not included mention is made of the feast of the Passover (Ezekiel 45.21). They are to 'have the Passover'. It is the only Feast he actually mentions by name. He would not need to spell out the details. As you are aware Ezekiel gives little detail of the feasts. There was no need. Israel were fully familiar with them. I presume you are suggesting that the Passover sacrifice and the sacrifices of the Day of Atonement being omitted are connected with Christ having died as our Passover and Atonement? But if that were so we would expect no mention of a sin offering either. But the sin offering is prominent, as is the need to make atonement (43.21, 26; 44.29; 45.17, 19, 22, 23, 25). Thus we may see this latter as confirming the opposite to your suggestion, that it does not have in view the death of Christ except as something yet to come :-)))). But I do see as very significant that there is no suggestion anywhere that the Temple should be built. It did not need to be built. It came down on a mountain specifically outside Jerusalem as his full explanations make clear. God was again present among His people, not in Jerusalem, but in the land of Israel. Only the altar was required to be built. Before the new Temple was built this would be extremely important to the returning exiles. They could build an altar. They had no wherewithal to build a Temple. In Him. |