Friday
Read Mark 13:1-8
13 As Jesus was leaving the Temple, one of his
disciples said, “Look, Teacher! What wonderful stones and buildings!”
2 Jesus answered, “You see these
great buildings? Not a single stone here will be left in its place; every one
of them will be thrown down.”
3 Jesus was sitting on the Mount of
Olives, across from the Temple, when Peter, James, John, and Andrew came to him
in private. 4“Tell us when this will be,” they said, “and tell us
what will happen to show that the time has come for all these things to take
place.”
5 Jesus said to them, “Be on guard,
and don’t let anyone deceive you. 6Many men, claiming to speak for
me, will come and say, ‘I am he!’ and they will deceive many people. 7And
don’t be troubled when you hear the noise of battles close by and news of
battles far away. Such things must happen, but they do not mean that the end
has come. 8Countries will fight each other; kingdoms will attack one
another. There will be earthquakes everywhere, and there will be famines. These
things are like the first pains of childbirth.
Think
The woman had just put in her last two coins. Vast amounts of money had been spent to make
the temple beautiful; I wonder how much was spent to help the poor?
The promised destruction of the temple seems to be in response to the fact
that it doesn't do what it is meant to be doing.
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