Jesus talked about stones, yes? Men will stumble over this stone that was rejected and be broken. The "rejected stone" has no real meaning to YOU, but every jew alive THEN knew he was referring to the non-square stone that was to be the keystone of the arch in solomon's temple. This is a whole mini-story in masonry.
This non-square stone was thus thrown into the scrap pile, and later retrieved to become the most important stone of all. He was of course referring to his own crucifiction and being retrieved from the "scrap pile" of the grave(again covered over with a STONE).
And whosoever this STONE falls upon will be crushed. How many have FOUGHT with Jesus, and been CRUSHED? Kinda hard to defeat the TRUTH, yes?
A house built upon sand is usually washed away by the storm, but a house built upon a ROCK weathers all he storms.
Upon this ROCK(Peter)will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
He who offends one of these little ones who believes in me, it would be better for him that a millSTONE be cast around his neck and he be thrown into the sea.
See this great temple? Not one STONE shall stand upon another after that TIME. He was of course referring to the Roman conquest, the diaspora, and the destruction of the temple in 70 AD. Now all the jews have left is the western(wailing)wall.
And yet did you know that the cornerSTONE of the third temple was recently laid on the temple mount? And that there is an earthquake fault running directly under it? The righteous jews are praying MIGHTY HARD for that earthquake to occur(God bulldozing the islamic temple thereon).
As you may know, the plates meet to the east of jerusalem, thus the dead sea, far below sealevel, as they grind past each other. There is a "zipper" effect, earthquakes move along the fault line much like a zipper unzips.
For several years now, earthquakes have been moving west north westward thru turkey at a certain rate. The next ZIP is under the bay just south of Istanbul. That means that soon enough that GREAT CITY will be completely leveled.
This coming quake may also be under the temple mount, thus the destruction of the AlAqsa mosque, thus the third temple will be built quickly by the jews. I saw their plan in LA once at a jewish gathering, they've had it explicitly designed for YEARS.
Ah yes, the jews...Stiff necked to be sure. Once had the HONOR to sit next to Haddasa Ben Ito, acting justice of the Israeli Supreme Court. She was the only survivor of her large, extended polish family(they got her out before hitler invaded). Kindest, most loving eyes I've ever seen.
She was giving a lecture(typical spiel, fast english like moshe dayan)at a Denver University. In the middle of it here comes these 3 LEBANESE stomping in with fatigues on, yelling curses at her. UH OH, I thought, out comes the AK47s(get ready to DUCK, they're only 15 feet away).
But no AK 47s, just yelling back and forth between them and the jewish half on the other side of the auditorium, as she finished her speech. She forgot her pinned-up map on the stage so I retrieved it and gave it to her as she left. The rabbi said to her, as she left, just like old times haddasa, yes? Anyway, a true daughter of Israel, one of the most beautiful people I've ever met in my whole life.
Well, enough STONES for today....
Timer,
Thank you for your reply. It was a pleasure to read and I feel like I've been introduced to a brand new person.
I'd like to comment on your reply but I'm zapped. It was a really busy day today. I'll try to answer it tomorrow so thank you again.
Hello Timer,
Yes Jesus did talk about stones and or rocks and said that He would be a "stumblingstone" in end times. He'll be that stumblingstone as many will believe the false one, who comes first (at the 6th trump, 6th seal and 6th vial) is the True Jesus. They'll follow the fake unknowingly because they haven't been taught or read God's warning about that very event.
I like your analogy of the stone being thrown into a scrap pile. Another thing to consider with the stone is that the pyramid doesn't have it's capstone. Could it be waiting until the 2nd advent?
The scripture you quoted of "Upon this ROCK(Peter)will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it", I have studied lately. I always assumed that Peter was the rock but learned that isn't so. Matt.16:18
"And I say also unto thee, that thou are Peter, and upon
this rock I will build My church; and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it"
Peter, Petros, does mean rock, stone but he was loose and movable. When He stated "upon this" it was very emphatic, as though pointing to Himself. Christ was the foundation, the builder, not Peter. He was the foundation stone and the rejected stone. (Companion Bible)
I thought it was an interesting lesson and pass it on to you to see what you think about it.
I have another belief about the 70AD destruction of the
temple. As the wailing wall still stands there are still some stones upon another so I don't think this was what Jesus referred to. The chapters that contain this teaching (Luke 21, Matthew 24 and Mark 13) are all about the end times. That is the subject being carried forward so when He speaks of "no stone left upon another" He refers to the destruction of Jerusalem at the end of days.
I didn't know about the cornerstone recently being laid. That is so interesting but how in the world did they accomplish this? Your earthquake information was interesting too. I know that Biblically there will be a huge shaking so it looks like things are really lining themselves up for that event doesn't it? As you say, "God bulldozing the Islamic temple" and won't we all shout for joy.
I really enjoyed your telling of the meeting you had with Haddasa Ben Ito, acting justice of the Israeli Supreme Court. That was quite an honor and I'm glad to hear there were no AK 47's.
Thank you for telling me about all of this Timer and I look forward to your next post.