Back to category: Religion Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. WHEN THE COOKIE CRUMBLES Key Phrase: Without love there is no security Key Verse: Luke 21:5-7 "Some were speaking of how the Temple was adorned with precious stones and votive offerings. He said, 'These things you are contemplating-the day will come when not one stone will be left on another, but it will all be torn down' " ----------------------------------------------------- The disciples must have been shocked when Jesus told them that the Jewish Temple would be destroyed. Begun forty or more years before and still unfinished, it was already in its own way, one of the "wonders-of-the-world." Some of its huge blocks of green marble were nine feet wide and seven and one-half feet high. Portions of the walls were covered with gold plate; the rest was sparkling white. Inside were the ornaments and votive offerings, permanent memorials placed there by the rich and famous: a chain given by Agrippa; a golden vine by Herod the Great; a table by Ptolemy. The Temple was so large and magnifi... Posted by: Geraint Watts Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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