Thursday 27 February 2020

Bible Prophecy On The Renewed Temple 2 Baruch 32:1-6

2nd Apocalypse of Baruch 32:1-6 On The Renewed Temple

chapter 8 is an account of the destruction of the temple 

8:1 "Now the angels did as he had commanded them, and when they had broken up the corners of the walls, a voice was heard from the interior of the temple, after the wall had fall saying:

2       'Enter, you enemies,
         And come, you adversaries;
         For he who kept the house has forsaken (it).'

3       And I, Baruch, departed. 4 And it came to pass after these things that the army of the Chaldees (that is the Romans) entered and seized the house, and all that was around it." (8:1-4)

Chapter 32:2-4 implies two destructions of Zion one which is recording the event of 70AD and the other that will happen in the last days

1 "You, however, if you prepare your minds to sow into them the fruits of the law, it shall protect you in the time in which the Might One shall shake the entire creation.  
2 For after a short time, the building of Zion will be shaken in order that it will be rebuilt. (the dome of the rock the abomination that causes desolation Matthew 24:15-16; Daniel 12:11)  
3 That building will not remain; but it will again be be uprooted after some time  (in the great earthquake of Zarch 14) and will remain desolate for a time. 
4 And after that it is necessary that it (the temple) will be renewed in glory and that it will be perfected into eternity.
5 We should not, therefore, be so sad regarding the evil which has come now (the destruction of the temple in 70AD), but much more distressed regarding that which is in the future (in the last days the time of Jacob's trouble Jeremiah 30:7 ). 
6 For there will be a greater trial than these two tribulations (The Fall of the temple to the Babylonians and the Romans) when the Mighty One will renew His creation. (2 Bar. 32:1-6)