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== "In three days I will rebuild this temple" ==

At the time, nobody had a clue what Jesus meant by this, but they understood him to say that he would destroy the Temple at Jerusalem
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/2?19
John explains that only after the resurection did the apostles understsand what he meant. 


At his trial a witnesses accuses him of threatening to tear down the Temple

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/26:60
though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two* came forward
who stated, “This man said, ‘I can destroy the temple of God and within three days rebuild it.’”

As witnesses to the Sanhedren, which was stacked against him, we infer that they were lying, but we may also see them as believing it.  

Destruction of the Temple Foretold: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/24
Jesus left the temple area and was going away, when his disciples approached him to point out the temple buildings.
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* He said to them in reply, “You see all these things, do you not? Amen, I say to you, there will not be left here a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.”

then the Great Tribulation

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Jesus never threatened to tear down the temple.  he warned about it. 
it's different from Sodom, which God struck down
but even that we can see an event not of God's direct action but of his inaction.

As God warned Abraham, so Jesus warned the Christians. The even will happen, and God will not stop it from happening (he could).

So he didn't do it to punish the Jews. They brought it on themselves. He did bring salvation to some, Lot in OT, the Christians in 70 AD.