45._ Destruction of the Temple

Now the Kingdom comes; but so that it be possible it is necessary that everything changes. The new wine cannot be kept in old winebags. The change will affect us: we must become, to make ourselves like children, to be born again; but also it will affect the world, to the structures, the institutions, the nations, history, the universe. Even "the stars will be swinged". So that it emerges God is necessary a cosmic change; in His supreme level of emergence are surpassed all the previous ones. The universe is trascended. The Kingdom of God is not of this world. The presence of God in this world is fleeting.

His symbolic presence in Israel no longer will be necessary, because now He will be made present really. At the moment "He is hidden", we see Him in darkness, like through a "dark crystal"; but in His Kingdom we will see Him face to face. The veil of the Temple will be ripped. The same Temple will lose its sense, because God will be present in all, for all, everywhere. The Old Alliance finishes, to open the way to the New one.

Israel, like selected town, like hermeneutic scope, is going to cede step to a new town of God: all the renewed humanity, the community of the saints. The old Temple will be destroyed to leave site to the new one; now it will be "house of oration, not lair of thieves". The old Jerusalem will be destroyed so that in its place the New Jerusalem is raised, glorious, "adorned like a bride" for her eternal wedding with God.

This was what all the prophets waited for, the accomplishment of the Promise.