Matthew 24:2 … All will be thrown down (12/31/16)
“Truly, I tell You, not one stone will be left here upon the other;
all will be thrown down.” ~ Jesus (Matthew 24:2)
This verse contains three implications of note:
01) It is a general reference to the latent impermanence of all moments and all matter within them (in a similar vein to the Buddhist beliefs about the same – beliefs which were already popular along the Silk Road that connected Judea & China in Jesus’ day, and thus beliefs with which Jesus was almost certainly familiar) …
02) It also alludes to the overall inevitability of the collapse of religious dogma. Not only was this collapse foretold in the Old Testament scriptures (scriptures with which Jesus was quite familiar – see Isaiah 54:10, also Jeremiah 31:31-34 + Hebrews 8:8-13), but it was also a collapse easily predictable to anyone having Jesus’ level of understanding of human sociology & the human psyche …
03) It is also a specific reference to what his imminent crucifixion would do to the Jewish religious structures of his day.
Note that he quite obviously did not anticipate the later magnitude of Paul’s missionary work – neither the magnitude of Paul’s lack of comprehension of the Way of Love, nor the magnitude with which Paul was able to spread his “false gospel” during his life, nor the magnitude with which a large portion of humanity would then go on to cling to Paul’s gospel and thereby reject Jesus’ own Gospel of Christ. Maybe Jesus was simply naïve in this regard – or maybe he simply had a far greater Faith in his message and in humanity overall. Either way, he obviously drastically overestimated the ability of humans to choose Love over fear — at least as far as present day humanity is concerned … But then again, we are still a very young species, and we are currently behaving in a manner that is rapidly bringing on a mass extinction event that will undoubtedly “throw down” the majority of all we have built so far, and the majority of those “left behind” will undoubtedly be forced to learn from our current mistakes if they are to survive at all — so maybe we will wake up to Jesus’ Way after all. Maybe it will simply take a bit longer than Jesus planned.
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