Raising This Temple in Three Days
"Jesus Chasing the Merchants from the Temple" by Quentin Matsys Click here to listen to this sermon. So the Jews said to Him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:18-19). Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! When I was in high school, Hal Lindsey and his best-selling book, The Late, Great Planet Earth , were causing quite a stir. Using a method of biblical interpretation that compares supposed end time prophecies in the Bible with then-current events, Lindsey attempted to predict future scenarios resulting in the rapture of believers before the tribulation and the Second Coming of Christ. Although Lindsey did not claim to know the dates of future events with any certainty, he suggested that Matthew 24:32-34 indicates that Jesus’ return might be within “one generation,” or forty years, of the rebirth of the nation of Israel in 19...