Re: 1st attempt to rebuild (3rd)Temple

Posted by Bible Probe on July 01, 2005 at 18:31:43:

In Reply to: 1st attempt to rebuild (3rd)Temple posted by Smith on July 01, 2005 at 18:27:50:

Flavius Claudius Julianus, emperor from 361-363 B.C.

God is very particular about when and by whom a Temple to Him is built.

Remember, God did not want David to build the Jewish Temple, but He did want his son Solomen to do it.... Jesus said the Temple would not be rebuilt until the End Days.

Both Christ and the prophet Daniel foretold not only its destruction, which was effected by the Romans under Titus, but its final ruin and desolation.
While Cyril was Bishop of Jerusalem, the apostate emperor Julian resolved to defy the words of Our Lord (Luke 21:6) by rebuilding the ancient temple of Jerusalem. He employed the power and resources of a Roman emperor; the Jews thronged enthusiastically to him and gave munificently. But Cyril was unmoved. Relying on the infallible truth of the scr1pture prophecies: as, that the desolation of the Jewish Temple should last till the end; and that one stone should not be left on another, Cyril wrote:

“The word of God abides,” he said; “one stone shall not be laid on another.”

The Jews of both sexes bore a share in the labor of rebuilding the Temple. Women helping to dig the ground carried out the rubbish in their aprons and skirts of their gowns. At this time, the Temple foundations and some ruins of the walls of the Temple still stood. Both Cyril and Eusebius say the inhabitants carried away the foundation and ruins stones for their private buildings. These ruins the Jews first demolished with their own hands, thus concurring with Jesus's prophecy. Then many thousands of Jews began to dig the new foundation. When the Jews tried to rebuild the Temple, history records that the combination of an earthquake in Jerusalem, Julian's death, and opposition from the rabbis (who were now the Jews' spiritual leaders in place of the former temple priesthood) put an end to the project shortly after work on it had begun.

Other reports by both Church Historian Sozomen in 439 A.D. and a pagan writer named Ammianus tells us that horrible flames came forth from the earth, rendering the place inaccessible to the scorched and frightened workmen. The attempt was made again and again, and then abandoned in despair. Soon after, the emperor perished miserably in a war against the Persians, and the Church had rest.

In addition to earthquakes and fiery eruptions, Christian writers tell us the Temple Mount was engulfed in storms, tempests, and whirlwinds, lightning, crosses impressed on the bodies and garments of the assistants, and a flaming cross in the heavens, surrounded with a luminous circle.
Bishop Cyril died in peace in 386, leaving behind his Catechetical Lectures (systematic teaching of the Church on the Creed and Sacraments), which are a precious monument of Christian antiquity. He lived to see the suppression and condemnation of Arianism at the end of his life.

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