The destruction of the Temple, twice, once destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 587 BCE, once destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, is key to Christ's prophecy in Matthew 24. Why? Because no other (third) Temple has been rebuilt since then.


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Tisha B'Av, lit. "the ninth of Av", is an annual fast day in J..., on which a number of disasters in J... history occurred, primarily the destruction of both Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in Jerusalem.


Matthew 24 starts with the context of Christ's prophecy:


Matthew 24:1-3 Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”


Then Jesus Christ speaks about a series of events, those of the End Times. But there are these other verses in John 2:


John 2:18-21 The J... then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” But the temple he had spoken of was his body.


The Temple was not destroyed yet a second time when this scene took place. Nevertheless, Jesus Christ says, 'destroy this Temple'. That was a prophecy! But no other Temple was rebuilt in three days in 70 CE, of course. The Christians obviously thought about the symbolical rebuilding of the Temple through Christ's resurrection, Temple said to be his body (hence its resurrection).

However, Christ's words are sharp. He said 3 FULL DAYS, not within three days, not at the third day. He died at the end of the first day and reappeared at the beginning of the third, when He resurrected, hence around TWO FULL DAYS.

Given that Matthew 24 is a prophetic chapter for the End Times, one could easily assume that these 3 FULL DAYS would regard this remote period in the future. One also would consider the time maker of AV 9 of the destruction of the Temple of both occurrences (587 BCE, 70 CE).

This is extraordinary that the 'moving' date of AV 9 (July 18 in 2021) falls 3 full days before Prince George's birthday (July 22) and that the 'moving' date of Eid al-Adha, celebrating Abraham's son / lamb sacrifice (July 20 - July 23) falls exactly for that same birthday.

In both case, we talk about THE BODY OF CHRIST...RETURNED!


Now, THE THIRD TEMPLE is of utmost importance in the prophecy. Both the C Tradition and the J Tradition talk about this Third Temple. There are discussions about whether this Temple would be physically or symbolically built, and whether it would be before, during or after Christ's (the Messiah's) return.

Here are two interesting articles showing the references used by those Traditions.

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My answer is 'all of the above'...depending on how one interprets the Scriptures. It is first symbolical at the arrival of the Two Witnesses with Christ, then real when the New Jerusalem is built for 30 years after the 7 plagues (including the War of Armageddon with God and Magog), while Christ had already returned, but has not started His reign in it yet.

Many people could wonder why in heaven John of Patmos wrote this in Rev 11 just before addressing the Two Witnesses sent by God:


Rev 11:1-2 I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers. But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.


We are here at the very beginning of the Little Open Scroll (Christ's prophecy seen from the human standpoint), like Matthew 24:1-3 above starts with the context of the destruction of the Temple...not happened yet when Jesus Christ talks.

In other words, the prophecy says that the coming of the Two Witnesses (just following in Rev 11:3) is concomitant of the rebuilding of the Temple to be measured, aka the THIRD TEMPLE to come in the future as the New Jerusalem's Temple (there is no Temple to measure on earth yet).

BUT, here, the angel asks John to measure ONLY the inner court where the Two Witnesses, only, belong to...since the antichrist must come before the whole Temple has to be fully built. The Gentiles here are Christ's followers of the Great Multitude, not chosen yet, unlike the Two Witnesses.

In the meantime, in Matthew 24, after a series of situations describing our present, Christ says:


Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.


The 'end' to come is the reign of the antichrist. But those who preach the gospel of the kingdom (of God), BECAUSE THEY JUST SAW IT, are the Two Witnesses who happen to make their testimony (they are not witnesses for nothing) in Rev 11 too, until the antichrist 'kills' them (the same order in Matthew 24):


Rev 11:7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them.


To make a long story short, Christ prophesied the Third Temple in two episodes: once, SYMBOLICALLY in Heaven, at the arrival of the Two Witnesses; once, PHYSICALLY on earth, the 7 plagues have passed. As a matter of fact, Rev 11 ends with the last and 7th Trumpet, finishing the End Times!

Therefore, the construction of the New Jerusalem and its (THIRD) Temple can start.

All of this to say that, after 3 FULL DAYS, from July 19 to July 21 (after AV 9), comes the birthday of Prince George, the NEW BODY OF CHRIST, which coincides with Rev 4 & 5, the souls swap of the Two Witnesses in heaven, along with their future children (including Prince George Christ), and the coming of THE THIRD TEMPLE, first symbolically, then physically.

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