Jesus was not giving us a history lesson or talked about literal stones of the buildings. Rather he compared the stones with the people of the congregation which his body (Temple) represents. Of course, you are blindly looking for secular/carnal fulfillment just like the Jewish leaders of old and premillennialists.
I actually accept alot of what you say is truth spiritually. But that statement above just isn't right. Prophecy has many sides or dimensions and history and the prophecies can repeat themselves. No stone was left to the temple. He didn't mention that about Jeruselam although he said Jerusalem would be destroyed and it was.
The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times
Luke 21
5 Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said, 6 “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down.”
They are actaully looking at the physical temple and Jesus is talking about it.
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When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. 22 For this is the time of punishment in fulfilment of all that has been written. 23 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
History shows that Titus tried to preserve the Temple ordering his soldiers not to destroy or burn it. But their anger against the Jews was so intense and maddened by the resistance they encountered, they disobeyed the order and set fire to the Temple. There were great quantities of gold stored in the Temple for safekeeping which melted and ran down between the rocks and into the cracks of the stones. In their greed to obtain this gold they pried apart the massive stones, thus quite literally, not one stone was left standing upon another just as Jesus had said. The Temple itself was totally destroyed, though the wall supporting the area upon which the Temple was built was left partially intact and a portion of it still remains called the Western Wall. The wall wasn't part of the temple.
Deuteronomy 28
Blessing and Curses. Best to read all of 28
49 The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. 52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.
53 Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.
58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— 59 the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. 60 He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. 62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63 Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
64 Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. 65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. 66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see. 68 The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
So the destruction of Jeruselem and the Israel being scattered to the nations happened in 70 AD is 40 years from Christs ministry of which he was rejected. Which is about the time Moses didn't go into the promised land. Israel was given 40 years grace and of course the disciples new what was going to happen. But if you know the history of what happen around 70 AD Deuteronomy 28 is amazing writing.
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