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' "


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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...