Here's the link to the video from CBN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9UmYO0EtfU
Here's the links the person who responded posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enT0-OnpPHM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKwRyKCxKfc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hAL_phaNQE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc3tmu3HvYM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz8Za-LteHo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cREXQl96Gvg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH7OpuXblF8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cREXQl96Gvg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKHV4-tA8w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCEb5Op0KE
I asked why was the Temple torn down, not by whom. The crux of your argument appears to be that Muslims are bad, therefore the Jews are good and deserve the land of Israel and that's why Christians should support Israel and rebuilding the temple. The temple was torn down and the Jews were dispersed from physical Israel as Jesus said because of unbelief, disobedience and the murder of all of God's prophets, including the only Begotten Son of God, Jesus Himself:
Matthew 21:33 - 46 is clearly a parable given by Jesus to the Jews of what they did to all the prophets God had sent to them to correct their wicked behavior and what would happen to them if they did the same thing to Him:
Mat 21:33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
Mat 21:34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
Mat 21:35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Mat 21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
Mat 21:37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
Mat 21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Mat 21:39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Mat 21:40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
Mat 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
Mat 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Mat 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Mat 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Mat 21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
Mat 21:46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Take note that in Mat 21:45-6 the unbelieving Jews were already plotting against Him, also take note that in Mat 21:38-39 Jesus prophetically tells of His own death and betrayal by the unbelieving Jews, and in 21:40 He asks them what will God do to those wicked ones? And in response Mat 21:41 the Jews predict their own punishment, just as David did before Nathan the prophet:
"and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons" — If this answer was given by the Pharisees, to whom our Lord addressed the parable, they thus unwittingly pronounced their own condemnation: as did David to Nathan the prophet (2Sa_12:5-7), and Simon the Pharisee to our Lord (Luk_7:43, etc.). But if it was given, as the two other Evangelists agree in representing it, by our Lord Himself, and the explicitness of the answer would seem to favor that supposition, then we can better explain the exclamation of the Pharisees which followed it, in Luke’s report (Luk_20:16) - “And when they heard it, they said, God forbid” - His whole meaning now bursting upon them." (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Bible Commentary)
Jesus says in Mat 21:42-43 that He is the cornerstone which the builders rejected, and the Apostle Peter says it again Acts 4:11, and in 1 Pe 2:4-10 he lays out what it means:
1Pe 2:4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1Pe 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
1Pe 2:7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
1Pe 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
1Pe 2:10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Peter explains that Jesus is a "living stone", and rejected by the Jews to who He came to save, is made the Chief cornerstone of the "Spiritual house" of God, which IS the True Temple of God, which as it says in 1Pe 2:5 is also made up of believers "Ye also, as lively stones", who are also Temples of God:
1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Remember, Jesus said to the unbelieving Jews:
Joh 2:18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
Joh 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Joh 2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
Joh 2:21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
Joh 2:22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
Obviously the Jews in Israel don't believe in Jesus as their Messiah and don't understand what the true Temple of God is, but, you as Christians have no excuse, the scriptures are clear on this. Nowhere in the you tube videos was a Biblical case made for rebuilding a physical temple a third time, because it is not Biblically supported! If you believe the physical temple needs to be rebuilt still, in light of the Biblical evidence otherwise, you are victims of the Zionist propaganda machine which has distorted the Bible and caused false doctrines to be preached in the Churches, repent and come back to God.
"What Zionist ideology projects is a grotesque parody of the kingdom of God – a land without the temple, an earthly fullness without a heavenly focus. From the beginning it was not so. And if it be that a temple building is included in the plans of these modern architects of the kingdom, while they yet spurn the claims of Jesus, the promised seed of Abraham, the Christ of God, what is this but another Babel-tower, another titanic attempt to erect the cosmic focus by autonomous human effort, another repudiation of the grace of God and his redemptive provision of the true holy temple-city from heaven? Such a pseudo-temple the man of sin might occupy but the Son of Man, himself the true temple, would ultimately destroy it. Any response from the Christian community, dispensational or other, that does not challenge the Zionists’ appeal to God’s covenant with Abraham to justify the present Israeli occupation of Palestine represents a tragic failure to confront them with fallen man’s absolute lack, in himself, of claim on God’s covenanted kingdom and with the sinner’s desperate need to find restoration to God’s favor through Jesus Christ. To show sympathy to the Zionist in his defiant claim is to hide from him the gospel of God’s love and to encourage him on his unbelieving way to perdition apart from Christ, the sinner’s only hope." Meredith Kline, Kingdom Prologue (Wipf and Stock, 2006), p. 347.
Indeed, to support the Zionist's plan to rebuild the physical temple is to be an accomplice in their rebellion to God, their blood will be on your heads. The temple was merely a way for God to temporarily atone for the sins of the people through the blood of animals, until the time of Jesus:
Joh 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
When Jesus died on the cross the veil of the Temple tore in two!
Mat 27:50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
Mat 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Mat 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Mat 27:53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Mat 27:54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
"'And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom' — This was the thick and gorgeously wrought veil which was hung between the “holy place” and the “holiest of all,” shutting out all access to the presence of God as manifested “from above the mercy seat and from between the cherubim” - “the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest” (Heb_9:8). Into this holiest of all none might enter, not even the high priest, save once a year, on the great day of atonement, and then only with the blood of atonement in his hands, which he sprinkled “upon and before the mercy seat seven times” (Lev_16:14) - to signify that access for sinners to a holy God is only through atoning blood. But as they had only the blood of bulls and of goats, which could not take away sins (Heb_10:4), during all the long ages that preceded the death of Christ the thick veil remained; the blood of bulls and of goats continued to be shed and sprinkled; and once a year access to God through an atoning sacrifice was vouchsafed - in a picture, or rather, was dramatically represented, in those symbolical actions - nothing more. But now, the one atoning Sacrifice being provided in the precious blood of Christ, access to this holy God could no longer be denied; and so the moment the Victim expired on the altar, that thick veil which for so many ages had been the dread symbol of separation between God and guilty men was, without a hand touching it, mysteriously “rent in twain from top to bottom” - “the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was NOW made manifest!” How emphatic the statement, from top to bottom; as if to say, Come boldly now to the Throne of Grace; the veil is clean gone; the mercy seat stands open to the gaze of sinners, and the way to it is sprinkled with the blood of Him - “who through the eternal Spirit hath offered Himself without spot to God!” Before, it was death to go in, now it is death to stay out." (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Bible Commentary)
Amen, and truly He is the Cornerstone to the True Temple of God, and we believers are lively stones making up the true Temple:
Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
And now I've answered my own question, I ask you, or any other Zionist, another question: why does a physical temple need to be rebuilt?
Daniel Mark
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