You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
(f) God permitted the destruction of the Solomonic temple, which he would not have done had it been God's true temple.  The Herodian temple, which in time replaced it, was also destroyed by divine flat, Christ himself pronouncing the doom of it, and decreeing that "not one stone shall be left on top of another"  (Matthew 24:2), an inconceivable fate if that temple had indeed been the true house of God.