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FaceBook is full of posts about Tisha B'av, the day Jews remember the destruction of both the first and second (really third) temples in
Jerusalem. Full of self-pity over the tragedy, but not a word about
*why* the temples were destroyed.

The Old Testament is clear that God allowed Solomon's temple to be
destroyed by the Babylonians because of the sins of the Jews. In fact,
Ezekiel actually describes the ways in which the temple itself was being desecrated by heathen worship and then the glory of God departing from
the temple. All that the Babylonians destroyed was a building, for God
was no longer there.

The New Testament makes it clear that the Third temple (Herod's, which
took the place of Zerubabel's second temple) was destroyed because the
Jews rejected the Messiah. In fact, as Pompey showed, God had departed
from the Second temple years before and never returned to the Third, for Pompey entered the Most Holy Place and marvelled that the Jews showed
such respect to an empty room - no statue, no idol, not even the Ark of
the Covenant.

So Tish B'av is a memorial to Jewish apostasy and to God's judgements on
them for their disobedience and rebellion. See Deuteronomy 28.

God bless,
Kendall K. Down
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On 23/07/2026 16:43, Kendall K. Down wrote:

The New Testament makes it clear that the Third temple (Herod's, which
took the place of Zerubabel's second temple) was destroyed because the
Jews rejected the Messiah.

Just a follow-up to that thought. Some may object that there was a
significant gap between the crucifixion of Jesus and the destruction of
the temple - approximately 39 years separate the two events. However we
find the same sort of gap with regard to the first temple.

2 King 24:3 links that first destruction to the sins of King Manasseh,
yet there are 56 years between the death of Manasseh and the destruction
of the temple - and I suggest that the period was extended by that much because of the reforms of good King Josiah. Unfortunately there was no
such reforming monarch after the death of Christ.

God bless,
Kendall K. Down
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