Luke 21:37 Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives, 38 and all the people came early in the morning to hear him at the temple.
During the last week of His ministry, Jesus spent a lot of time at the temple. The chapter begins with his comments about the widow giving all she had for the poor, leaving her with less than enough for herself. She had come to the temple to truly worship God and demonstrate her faith in Him. Jesus wanted them, and us, to think about the purpose of the temple and our responses there.
The discussion then turns to the temple itself and its grandear. Jesus shocks his followers when He announces that in the not-so-distant future Jerusalem would be invaded and the temple leveled. In a description that is paralleled by the wearing out of our bodies, Jesus talks about the signs of this coming destruction and then of His coming again. Just as signs of His coming increase, the signs of our temple-our bodies- falling apart increase. We should take these signs not as a reason to fear and flee, but to prepare and trust in God.
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