In addition to predicting the complete destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 40 years before it actually happened just as He’d predicted, Jesus also predicted the survival and thriving of the early church that’s been previously described. When Peter made his famous declaration that Jesus was God’s anointed One, the One they’d been waiting for, the Son of God ~ Jesus confirmed that Peter was right about that, and on the basis of that declaration, He was gonna build His ekklesia ~ and the gates of Hades (a place of death) would not prevail against it. Death wouldn’t stop it; not His death, and not any of His Apostle’s deaths. Nothing was gonna stop it. The Jewish Temple is gone, as is ancient Judaism. And the Roman Empire is gone too. And nowadays both Jerusalem and Rome are filled with Christian tourists, and crosses that commemorate Jesus. And people name their children Peter and Paul ~ and they name their dogs Caesar and Nero.
