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Bible Verses About The Second Temple

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  1. "Look! I am sending my messenger to clear the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Yes, the messenger of the covenant, in whom you take such delight - look! Here he comes," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot.

  2. Then the Adversary took him to the holy city and set him on the highest point of the Temple.

  3. Yeshua entered the Temple grounds and drove out those who were doing business there, both the merchants and their customers. He upset the desks of the money changers and knocked over the benches of those who were selling pigeons.

  4. He said to them, "It has been written, `My house will be called a house of prayer.' But you are making it into a den of robbers!"

  5. But he answered them, "You see all these? Yes! I tell you, they will be totally destroyed -- not a single stone will be left standing!"

  6. "So when you see the abomination that causes devastation spoken about through the prophet Dani'el standing in the Holy Place" (let the reader understand the allusion),

  7. "This man said, `I can tear down God's Temple and build it again in three days.'"

  8. At that moment the parokhet in the Temple was ripped in two from top to bottom; and there was an earthquake, with rocks splitting apart.

  9. As Yeshua came out of the Temple, one of the talmidim said to him, "Look, Rabbi! What huge stones! What magnificent buildings!"

  10. "You see all these great buildings?" Yeshua said to him, "They will be totally destroyed -- not a single stone will be left standing!"

  11. Every day I was with you in the Temple court, teaching, and you didn't seize me then! But let the Tanakh be fulfilled."

  12. All the people were outside, praying, at the time of the incense burning,

  13. When the time came for their purification according to the Torah of Moshe, they took him up to Yerushalayim to present him to ADONAI

  14. Prompted by the Spirit, he went into the Temple courts; and when the parents brought in the child Yeshua to do for him what the Torah required,

  15. Then he took him to Yerushalayim, set him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, jump from here!

  16. “Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Parush and the other a tax-collector.

  17. As some people were remarking about the Temple, how beautiful its stonework and memorial decorations were, he said,

  18. “The time is coming when what you see here will be totally destroyed — not a single stone will be left standing!”

  19. In the Temple grounds he found those who were selling cattle, sheep and pigeons, and others who were sitting at tables exchanging money.

  20. He made a whip from cords and drove them all out of the Temple grounds, the sheep and cattle as well. He knocked over the money-changers’ tables, scattering their coins;

  21. and to the pigeon-sellers he said, “Get these things out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market?”

  22. (His talmidim later recalled that the Tanakh says, “Zeal for your house will devour me.” )

  23. The Judeans said, “It took years to build this Temple, and you’re going to raise it in three days?”

  24. Then came Hanukkah in Yerushalayim. It was winter,

  25. and Yeshua was walking around inside the Temple area, in Shlomo’s Colonnade.