Jesus’ numerous predictions concerning the coming destruction of Jerusalem, Edwards says ( The Miscellanies, 1153-1360 , #1316) demonstrate that Jesus is a prophet. Plus, in prophesying the end of Jerusalem, Jesus was also prophesying the end of the old order of worship and priesthood, and thus a demonstration that Jesus was the Messiah:
“The circumstances and incidents of this great event were such as remarkably showed it to be the mind of God that the Mosaic dispensation should be abolished, and to show that God thenceforward [would] have no more regard to the peculiar institutions or promises of it; besides the consequence in the blotting out the family of Aaron and tribe of Levi by the confusion of their tribes, and their temple and land being so long in desolation, and the people in dispersion, by which means God has now made it impossible for the rites of that dispensation to be upheld for a much longer time than ever they were attended, which is a great testimony from heaven that that dispensation is at an end and, consequently, that the Messiah before that had appeared, and that the doctrine of Christ—in which he taught that the time was come that men should no more worship in that mountain, nor Jerusalem, but should worship God in spirit and in truth—was the word of God, and that he was the Messiah.”
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