In 3 days I will raise it up.
2,000 years ago, Jesus was a Carpenter, helping his family eke out a living. His First Presence was foretold by the Prophet Daniel and the ‘allotted timing’ of that Prophecy was rapidly coming to its conclusion of which, the fulfillment of the 70th week would begin in the fall of 29 CE, the Messiah would suddenly come to inspect the temple. In just a few years, he would approach his senior cousin of six months for baptism to commence his earthy ministry.
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me; and the Lord whom ye seek will suddenly come to his temple, and the Angel of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts.” (Malachi 3:1)
On finding the temple lacking, Jesus Christ prophesied the temple would be destroyed on more than one occasion. Jesus replied to them: “Tear down this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” (John 2:19) They sneered and mocked him for saying such a thing and therefore, the ridiculers were struck with blindness in understanding by their hard heartedness. For almost 2,000 years now, Jesus Christ has been raising up the temple since Pentecost 33 CE. Most cannot see, for such ones as unbelievers are not allowed understanding. Read (Daniel 12:10 and Jeremiah 5:21)
Also, certain ones were standing up and bearing false witness against him, saying: “We heard him say, ‘I will throw down this temple that was made with hands, and in three days I will build another not made with hands.’ (Mark 14:57-58)
Jesus could have stated (John 2:19) in several ways.
- in three days
- on the third day
- after two days
The question of how long a day is listed in the scriptures for all to see. “However, do not let this escape your notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” (2 Peter 3:8) 33CE + 2,000 yrs = 2033 – The allotted time will have ran its course and the opportunity for new partakers will have come to its conclusion. Since the 144,000 living stones will have been gathered and sealed by 2033, will there be a need to pass the emblems for new partakers?
“He will revive us after two days. On the third day he will raise us up, And we will live before him.” (Hosea 6:2) We will know, we will earnestly seek to know Jehovah. His going out is as certain as the dawn; He will come to us like a pouring rain, Like a spring rain that saturates the earth. (Hosea 6:3)
The temple of his body is Jehovah’s Arrangement in how honest hearted ones can approach Jehovah, and therefore can be referred as the Body of Christ, God’s Temple, the 144,000, the Israel of God, Congregation of God of which Jesus is the head and savior of this Body, to list a few expressions.
The pattern Jehovah uses can be repeated.
- First a warning.
- An allotted time is rendered,
- Nobody allowed to know the day or hour until it is about to happen. (Amos 3:7)
- Moments before it occurs God’s People are informed by the revealing of Prophecy. (Rev 10:5-10)
Examples are the 120 years that the were allotted in Noah’s days and Jesus Christ told his disciples, “For just as the days of Noah were, so the Presence of the Son of man will be. For as they were in those days before the Flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and they took no note until the Flood came and swept them all away, so the Presence of the Son of man will be.” (Matthew 24:37-39)
Prophecy lovers can also add 120 years to the time when the Gentile times ended in October of 1914. “On the testimony of two witnesses or three witnesses the matter should be established.” (Matthew 18:16)
Since these things are undergoing spiritual fulfillment, the Bible warns us that “Jehovah’s day will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar, but the elements being intensely hot will be dissolved, and earth and the works in it will be exposed.” (2 Peter 3:10)
“For the vision is yet for its appointed time, And it is rushing toward its end, and it will not lie. Even if it should delay, keep in expectation of it! For it will without fail come true. It will not be late!” (Habakkuk 2:3)
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