Destruction of Our Temple

The texts of the Roman Catholic Lectionary today are not historical records. The imagery of the Book of Revelation provides mush fuel for the imagination to explore the sense of a Divine harvest of the fruit of the earth. The psalmist imagines the earth responding with great praise to the return of the Lord for judgement. The judgement of God is a characteristic that we expect of the Divine. The “good” will have their day is a sentiment that is perhaps too over desired by the faithful. Our understanding of the judgement of God is dim. The imagery we rely on is open to much interpretation. The “prediction” of the end times including the destruction of the Temple in Luke’s Gospel is confused by the likelihood that the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (70CE) was likely complete when the Gospel was written. The Temple which risks or is destroyed is the Temple we are... of the indwelling Spirit. This destruction of the inner Temple is as frequent as wars, hurricanes, earthquakes and storms... a daily or weekly occurrence. The great change in the faith of the Hebrew people which was precipitated by the actual Temple raising by the Romans is significant. The faith of Christians that the inner Temple, though destroyed is able to be re-built through the abundant and ever available mercy and forgiveness of God.