I need clear passage(s) that states that Babylon destroyed the Temple.
I’d say 2 Kings 24-25 paint a pretty clear picture:
[24:10] At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. [11] And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it; [12] and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign, [13] and
carried off all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house, and
cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the LORD, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the LORD had foretold. …
[25:1] And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it; and they built siegeworks against it round about. … [8] In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month – which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon – Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. [9] And
he burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. [10] And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard,
broke down the walls around Jerusalem. … [13] And
the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried the bronze to Babylon. [14] And they
took away the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the dishes for incense and
all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service, [15] the firepans also, and the bowls. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.
Also, I need clear passage(s) that state that Jesus is the Temple.
Jesus as the OT Temple, or Jesus as the NT Temple?
[Jesus said,] “I say to you,
something greater than the temple is here.” (Matt. 12:6)
Jesus answered them, “
Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he spoke of
the temple of his body. (John 2:19-21)
And I saw no temple in the city, for
its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. (Rev. 21:22)
Furthermore, in 1 Cor. 3:16-17, 1 Cor. 6:19, and 2 Cor. 6:16, Paul says that our bodies are temples of God and that the Church, corporately, is the temple of God (cf. Eph 2:19-22). If
we are temples (or the temple) of God, then Jesus, as the most excellent of all man, is the Temple
par excellance.
Also, I need clear passage(s) that compare Israel or Jerusalem with Egypt.
Can’t help you there.
