See note Acts 2:461b. It was not only the early believers who were not clear concerning God's New Testament economy in relation to the Judaic temple; even the early apostles did not have a clear vision concerning God's abandoning of the Judaic things. Hence, even after God poured out the Spirit upon them on the day of Pentecost to initiate a new dispensation, they still would not separate themselves from the Judaic temple. At the initial stage God tolerated their ignorance in this matter. But this led to a mixture of the church with Judaism, which was not condemned by the early church in Jerusalem (cf. Acts 2:21:20-26). Eventually, the temple was destroyed by Titus with his Roman army in A.D. 70, as prophesied by the Lord in Matt. 23:38 and Matt. 24:2. That destruction cleared up the religious mixture.