Mat 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
How does that strike you?
The disciples wanting to
take the Lord Jesus on a sightseeing trip, and show Him the buildings of
the temple!
That is where their eyes are, that is what they are
thinking to be important, that is their idea of impressiveness,
importance, greatness and grandeur....
You know what follows through
Matthew 24.
We see that material and temporal things according to this
world’s ideas and standards of greatness and even of the religious
world’s standards, are the things which govern the mentality of these
disciples after all this time.
There is something there so deep-rooted,
so inveterate, so persistent.
We do not judge them, we are just like
them.
However spiritual we may think we are, the fact remains that we
are tremendously influenced by temporal standards.
It is a continuous
battleground as to how things stand in this world before men, and even
as to what the great religious leaders, and even evangelical leaders of
our time regard as the important thing.
It has a good deal of influence
with us.
The Lord makes His pronouncement about that.
The
whole thing is going to be completely disintegrated.
And it is on a
mountain that He takes up this whole question, and you cannot get away
from the fact-however it may be chopped up by those who are
interested in these things-that at least the first part of this
chapter relates to Jerusalem, and what comes out is that it is going to
be broken up, shaken to its foundations and will totter to the ground.
All that which they thought so great and so permanent is going.
All
that which they thought so established here will not have one stone
left upon another.
On the Mount He begins to show the disintegration of
the one in order to make room for the other.
On the Mount heaven
touches earth and from there the heavenly dispensation is clearly in
view.
~T. Austin Sparks
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