To the Jewish nation in the time of the Messiah our Lord Jesus the Temple at Jerusalem was the very centre of Jewish life, culture and worship. The temple was a magnificent structure, and it made the people of Jerusalem and in Israel felt secure because they had the temple which they thought would stand forever. Religious people always feel secure when they have religious buildings to worship in and a religious system of rules and regulations.
In the Old testament times before the destruction of the Temple God had sent prophets to turn his spiritually backslidden people back to Himself and the people had persecuted and killed them eventuating in the destruction of the temple and the devastation of the city of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586BC.
Now the people in Jesus time had a rebuilt temple which was something to behold. It was grand in its structure and throughout the temple was much gold. However, the nation had rejected God’s final offer of salvation in the Messiah our Lord Jesus and the whole nation was under the judgement of God. They had the Biblical Mosaic system of Judaism still operating but the temple worship was void of the Spirit of God…
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