In the old testament the temple was destroyed and later rebuilt. In the new testament it was hit by an earthquake, the veil was torn, and three days after Christs death was rebuilt in Christ at the resurrection. Since its new establishment the Temple, or Church, has had two notable additions added.
The first addition was Pentecost. A conversion of three thousand in one day and that started a fire of conversion through the Holy Spirit. This was established first with the jews in Jerusalem, Gods first chosen, and spread to the gentiles.
I would argue that the next major construction began in December, 1531. Mary appeared to Juan Diego in Mexico in an apportion known as Our Lady of Guadalupe. This vision lead to a Pentecost of three thousand conversions every week for ten years and resulted in the conversion of over one million indigenous people, a New Pentecost.
Since these additions there have been attempts to destroy the new temple. Christ established the new temple in himself and gave us the Eucharist making the new temple within his people, the Church. We are temples of the Holy Spirit. Anyone who commits Genocide is attempting to destroy the temple of God, vessels of his Holy Spirit.
Since Christ came in an order, first to the Jews and next to the Gentiles it seems fitting that evil would also follow that pattern. Hitler was the first major attempt at destroying Gods new temple. The Holocaust killed six million Jews.
This brings us to what appears to be the next attempt at destroying the temple. The rise of a war against Latinos in the United States and the attack of boats coming out of Latin America. The Devil has sown weeds into the harvest, those claiming to be Christian but hate their neighbors. Many have made themselves hypocrites, though their forefathers came from a foreign land they have taken indigenous people and have called them foreigners.
We are all foreigners to the Kingdom of Heaven. We are of the flesh, but just as Joseph adopted Christ as his son, we must accept Christ so that God will adopt us as his children. God, through his son, told us to love our neighbor and to love our enemy. We must end this before it goes too far. The only sign we should see is that of Jonah.
For Jonah took a message of repentance to Nineveh and turned Gods wrath from destruction and showed mercy. So should we love our neighbors and turn from this hate, for we are all foreigners, and deserve grace and mercy.
I pray this post is ridiculed as a crazy rant. That peace is found through Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, but the will of God be done and if such things are to happen then I will pray for those being persecuted under the guise of being prosecuted.