Matthew 23:38
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Look, your house is left to you desolate.
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Behold, your house--the temple, beyond all doubt; but their house now, not the Lord's. See on Mat 22:7. is left unto you desolate--deserted, that is, of its Divine Inhabitant. But who is that? Hear the next words:
Open source ↗23:38 your house is abandoned and desolate: God would withdraw his presence from the Temple (Ezek 10:18-19; 11:22-23; cp. Matt 1:23), and both the Temple and Jerusalem would be destroyed.
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But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
“As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.
“Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”