On this day in the Gospel
of Mark, Jesus talks about the end. He and
his disciples head toward Jerusalem.
They see the withered fig tree and Jesus uses the opportunity to teach
about the importance of prayer, faith, and forgiveness. “If you say to this mountain, “Be taken up
and cast into the sea,” and do not doubt in your heart, it will be done for
you.” In the court of the Jerusalem
Temple, he teaches on the importance of loving God with heart, soul, mind, and
strength, and loving one’s neighbor as oneself.
In the afternoon, they come out of the temple. One of his disciples commented on the stones and
buildings of the temple. They learn that
in their lifetime, the end of the temple would come to pass. And it happened for only the artificial temple
mount still stands today.
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| The Western Wall is only a portion of the entire wall of the Temple Mount. Herod the Great built walls around the high point of what is considered Mount Moriah. The area inside the walls was filled in and leveled so that Herod could build his massive temple courts and the temple itself . LFL (Summer 2018). |
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| LFL (Summer 2018) |
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