What a glorious day it will be when Jesus returns and the people of Israel are saved. Zechariah 12:10 says:
I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of Grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn." (NASB)
More from the post:
Jesus became the one final sacrifice and the one final undying high priest
(Hebrews 7:24). He opened a “new and living way” (Hebrews 10:19-20) into the
most holy place in heaven for “all who would draw near to God through him”
(Hebrews 7:25). He became the mediator of the new covenant God had promised
(Jeremiah 31:31-34).
At this point the presence of God moved out of the
temple’s holy place into his people, whom Messiah had made holy. And he began to
move his people to take the gospel of the new covenant to all the peoples of the
world. The Presence was moving to the peoples.
The age of the temple was
over. The “copy and shadow” (Hebrews 8:5) was obsolete (Hebrews 8:13). Therefore
Jesus prophesied: “Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone
upon another that will not be thrown down” (Matthew 24:2). This was fulfilled in
AD 70.
For the past 13 centuries a mosque has occupied the temple’s
former site. It is not a sign of God’s endorsement on Islam. Rather, it is an
unwitting guardian of the new covenant reality. God wants the temple gone, not
because Judaism is destroyed, but because in Jesus it is fulfilled.
So when you see the Al Aqsa Mosque or the Dome of the Rock, pray for both Jews and
Muslims, that they will hear and believe the new covenant. For “the hour [has
come] when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will [they] worship the
Father” (John 4:21).
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