“It’s like the Wailing Wall,” he told us, “Historically meaningful but not much to see.” <\/p>\n
That, coupled with the hefty $18 per person price tag for a boat ride out to Fort Sumter, had me thinking it was an attraction to be skipped. Daniel thought otherwise, so we decided to go anyway. <\/p>\n
Our friend from home turned out to be right in at least one respect. There wasn’t much to see at Fort Sumter. <\/p>\n
I told Daniel once we got back that this didn’t mean I was willing to skip the Wailing Wall if\/when we find our way to Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
The Wailing Wall is different, I explained. Sure Fort Sumter is an important part of our nation’s history, but the Wailing Wall is all that remains of the place GOD chose for His Name to dwell. <\/p>\n
Today, as I read the plans for the Tabernacle in Exodus and consider the Passion, I recall Christ’s words to the unbelieving mobs of Jerusalem: <\/p>\n
“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
\n~John 2:19 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe unhearing hearers protested the impossibility of rebuilding Herod’s temple in three days. <\/p>\n
And they were right. Herod’s temple, which took 46 years to build, now lies in waste for 1,943 years. The Wailing Wall is all that remains of that majestic temple. <\/p>\n
But that temple, majestic and meaningful though it may have been, was nothing compared to the temple Jesus spoke of. <\/p>\n
“For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily.”
\n~ Colossians 2:9 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe ultimate temple is Christ Himself. God in bodily form. God become man. <\/p>\n
This temple was destroyed a little less than 2000 years ago. This temple was rebuilt by His own strength only three days later. <\/p>\n
As much as I long to gaze upon the remnants of Herod’s temple in Jerusalem at the Wailing Wall, I long much more to gaze upon the Resurrected Temple, my LORD in the New Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.”
\n~I Corinthians 13:12 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n“Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.”
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