Jesus said "break down this temple and in three days I will build it" John 2:19
I have just received an inspiration about the three days.
It is the custom to believe he meant he will raise himself (or be raised - depending on perspective*)
The temple pictures the place where God rests in a person. Jesus being the best example of it. God rested in members of Israel and it is how Jesus became present. And then he died. But he said he must die as a seed dies (changes) so that more will grow. It was his death that strenthened everyone believing in him.
That is what he meant. As in Israel God's will was done; so in the death of the Christ God's will is done through those believing. Believing in him was changed by the antichrist (as Paul said there were many even then) into believing in his return. He is power. Why must he return?
Hebrews 6:4-6
King James Version (KJV)
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Hebrews 10:29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
See how believers are sanctifed by the blood of the covenant? Some people want him back thus treating the blood of the covenant as something unholy.
*the thread isn't about that OK?
I have just received an inspiration about the three days.
It is the custom to believe he meant he will raise himself (or be raised - depending on perspective*)
The temple pictures the place where God rests in a person. Jesus being the best example of it. God rested in members of Israel and it is how Jesus became present. And then he died. But he said he must die as a seed dies (changes) so that more will grow. It was his death that strenthened everyone believing in him.
That is what he meant. As in Israel God's will was done; so in the death of the Christ God's will is done through those believing. Believing in him was changed by the antichrist (as Paul said there were many even then) into believing in his return. He is power. Why must he return?
Hebrews 6:4-6
King James Version (KJV)
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Hebrews 10:29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
See how believers are sanctifed by the blood of the covenant? Some people want him back thus treating the blood of the covenant as something unholy.
1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, hath a word of Jehovah been unto Zechariah, son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, the prophet, saying: 2Jehovah was wroth against your fathers wrath! 3And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts. 4Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me an affirmation of Jehovah. 5Your fathers where [are] they? And the prophets to the age do they live? 6Only, My words, and My statutes, That I commanded My servants the prophets, Have they not overtaken your fathers, And they turn back and say: As Jehovah of Hosts designed to do to us, According to our ways, and according to our doings, So He hath done to us?
*the thread isn't about that OK?