**”Destroy this temple [ House of God] and in three days I will raise it up again.”**
He’s talking about Himself, not the temple in Jerusalem.
1 John 5:
1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
5 Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 6 This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that He has testified concerning His Son. 10 The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son. 11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
2 John 1:
7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. 9 Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.
“He’s talking about Himself, not the temple in Jerusalem.”
Ephesians 2:20-22-
” You have been built on the foundation of the emissaries[ apostles] and the prophets , with the cornerstone being Yeshua the Messiah himself.”
” In union with him the whole building is held together, and it is growing into a holy ‘temple’ in union with the Lord.”
[that invisible temple / house of God not made with hands that Yeshua himself is the builder of.]
2nd Cor.6:16-
“...for we are the ‘temple’ of the living God,-as God said,-I will dwell in them , and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
If you haven’t done so, I encourage you to read the entire post.-Thanks.