Mat 24:2 Do you not see all these things (referring to the temple]? Verily I say to you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

This begins Christ's last "sermon," the one that preceeds his death. The topic is the "end of the world."

This last sermon starts with te symbol of stone. The last chapter taught me how carefully and complexly Christ weaves his themes together, so lets talk about stone. Stone is the matter that we can turn into bread (Mat 4:3). This matter of the physical realm is what cause our deaths and what we are tempted to test God to protect us against (Mat 4:6). In a relationship, when one asks for bread, which is a metaphor for life, we do not give them a stone, which is mere matter (Mat 7:9). In a building, the physical matter that is regular makes the walls, but the odd physical facts that do not fit and we reject are the key stone to finishing the building (Mat 21:42).

So when Christ takes about the stones of a building being tossed down, he is talking about the decreasing importance of matter. This is easier for us to understand in the information age when mere sand, in the form of silicon chips, have become the most valuable matter. But in predicting the end of the temple, Christ is also predicting the end of the supremacy of the old rules of materialism.

Interesting, the term translated as "left" is the same term (aphiemi), which is usually translated as "forgiven" in the NT. So not one stone will be left upon another in the same way that we do not want our sins (or more precisely, errors) or our debts (or more precisely deficits) left upon anothers. Our errors and depts have been physical: they will not stand for all time.

The term translated as "thrown down" is kataluo, which means "to dissolve" or "to disunite." Christ's words in the Matthew only used this term once before. He said that he did not come to "destroy" the law but to fulfill it Mat 5:17 . So his prediction of the destruction of the temple is NOT a prediction that God's law, given in the OT, will be destroyed, but simply that the physical symbol of the law will be destroyed without destroying the law, which exists at a higher level than they physical.