"And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple. (2) And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down."
It is worthy our observation, that this was the last visit Jesus made to the temple. So that when he left it, it was to return no more. And when Jesus left it, the glory was departed from it. The Prophet Haggai was commissioned by the Lord, to tell the people, that the glory of this latter house should be greater than the former. And it was made so in the presence of Jesus when he entered it, in substance of our flesh. Haggai 2:9. But when the Lord of his temple departed, then what Jesus said in the close of the foregoing Chapter, was fulfil, led: your house is left unto you desolate. Matthew 23:38. What a precious thought to all his redeemed; Jesus never leaves them! Hebrews 13:5; Matthew 28:20. This prediction of Jesus, we are told, was literally fulfilled when Titus sacked Jerusalem. For though the stones of the temple, were some of them of an enormous size, yet so it was, not one of them but what was broken or thrown down. The prophet Micah, had said, Zion should be ploughed as a field. Micah 3:12. And here was the accomplishment, Reader! what an awful thing is it, even considered only in a temporal point of view, am I as it respects nations to slight Jehovah's Christ? And how awful, in the day in which we live is it, to consider what a Christ despising generation is the present.