{"id":6169,"date":"2015-08-15T18:23:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T18:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=6169"},"modified":"2015-08-15T18:23:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T18:23:33","slug":"destroying-the-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/6169\/destroying-the-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroying the Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">At the end of Mark, some false witnesses accuse Jesus of saying &#8220;I will tear down the temple&#8230;&#8221; but did Jesus ever say that?\u00a0 In Mark 13 he says that &#8220;no stone will be left on another&#8221; but he didn&#8217;t say he would be the one to tear it down.\u00a0 \u00a0I can&#8217;t find in the gospels where he ever said that. It sounds close but the meaning is so different.\u00a0 Amazing how words get twisted.\u00a0 Ironically, THEY were the one who destroyed the temple to which he was referring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">te.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Token,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>No, Jesus never threatened to tear the temple down, either his own or any other one.\u00a0 But those false witnesses used some of the words he said, which lent some credence to their lie.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>The most effective lies always have elements of truth in them.\u00a0 Two of the three things the serpent told Eve in the garden of Eden were factually true, and the third thing he said was kinda right.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Jesus didn&#8217;t fall for the trap.\u00a0 He stayed quiet and let them do what they were determined to do to him.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of Mark, some false witnesses accuse Jesus of saying &#8220;I will tear down the temple&#8230;&#8221; but did Jesus ever say that?\u00a0 In Mark 13 he says that &#8220;no stone will be left on another&#8221; but he didn&#8217;t say he would be the one to tear it down.\u00a0 \u00a0I can&#8217;t find in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}