From the Gospel of Matthew    21 

house is forsaken and desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again, 

until you say,  Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.  '    

(Mt 23:37 39). 

    Jesus says that Jerusalem will not see him again until it praises Him by 

saying,  Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.  But Palm 

Sunday, when the people of Jerusalem praised God in these words, was 

described in an earlier chapter (Mt 21:9). In this way, Holy Scripture 

indicates to us that Jerusalem will still today not see Jesus until it praises 

Him in those words. Therefore, by this saying, Jesus is predicting that 

Jerusalem and Israel will convert to Christianity before His  Return. This 

occurs many centuries before His Return, during the reign of the great 

monarch. 

    In this passage, Jesus is also referring to the sinful time prior to the reign 

of the Antichrist. Jerusalem's house is the Third Temple of Jerusalem, 

which will be left desolate and forsaken beginning at that time. Jerusalem's 

house is also an important center of worship in the Catholic Church that will 

be built in Jerusalem in the 2040's. 

    The Church in the 24th and 25th centuries will still have the city of Rome 

as its center of authority, but Jerusalem will become the center of worship in 

the Church.  This  begins as early as  2009/2010,  and reaches fruition in the 

2040's  during the reign of the great monarch.  When Jesus speaks to 

Jerusalem, He is also speaking to the Church, the new Jerusalem. When 

Jesus says to Jerusalem,  your house,  He is also referring to the chief 

buildings of the Church, the Christian version of the Temple of Jerusalem. 

In the years leading up to the reign of the Antichrist, the Church's center of 

authority in Rome will be desolate and forsaken.  And, in A.D. 2430, just 

before the start of the Antichrist's reign, the Church's center of authority of 

in Rome, and its center of worship in Jerusalem, will be destroyed. Then, 

the Pope will be killed and will not be replaced before Christ Returns. 

The Destruction of the Temple (Mt 24:1 2) 

     Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to 

point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, `You 

see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one 

stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.'   (Mt 24:1 2; cf. Mk 

13:1 2; cf. Lk 21:5 6). 

    Jesus predicts the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem. He does not 

merely predict that Jerusalem will be conquered in war, but that the Temple, 

the center of the Jewish faith, will be completely destroyed. Some say that 

this prediction has come true, because the Temple which Jesus looked upon 

(the Second Temple of Jerusalem) was mostly destroyed sometime after His