But every Christian is an Overcomer for God; literally an Israelite.
That doesn't mean we can assume that it will be Christians who will build a third temple .
Jews are not likely to let Christians build, what they see as God's house. Christianity started as a Jewish sect.
Also, do you know your ancestry?
As far back as the 1600s, yes.
Genetic maths show that everyone alive today, must have some of Abrahams genes
I am pretty sure that any genes that Abraham passed on will be so minute as to be almost invisible - that's if they exist at all.
and as a Christian you are Abrahams descendant by faith. Galatians 3:26-29
That is still a long way from saying that there will be a third temples which will be built by Christians.
Ezekiel Chapters 37 to 39 give detailed prophecies of Gods peoples restoration into all of the Holy Land.
But Jesus didn't say any of this.
He talked of his return and told parables about the need to be ready. At no point did he say that Jewish, and Gentile, Christians would one day head to the Holy Land to build another temple and offer animal sacrifices.
The only thing Jesus said about the temple was that it would be destroyed one day - and it was.
Immediately the Christian will OBJECT. Is not the Church the House of God? And does God live in a House made with hands?
No, he doesn't - he lives IN his people, and has done since Pentecost.
This He finally achieves in the Church. But ... in the process of recovering man, God did TWO things;
He dwelt WITH them to have His presence on earth, and for this a House of a special construction was needed'
Why?
The Word became flesh and was tabernacled among us. The only "house" that God had was the body of Jesus - Jesus didn't own a house.
During His first sojourn on earth, this God-Man Jesus had nowhere to dwell (Matt.8:20; Lk.9:28). His rightful place as God would have been the Temple in Jerusalem,
He didn't come to earth to dwell in a palace or man made temple.
He was king - the cross was his throne and his glory.
but He is driven from there under threat of death by the rulers of Israel.
If Jesus had come to earth to live in the temple he would have lived there. No threat would have been able to stop him from fulfilling God's will
But at the end of the age, this God-Man will become the ordained, accepted and anointed King of the whole earth by military defeat of His enemies. The question is then, "WHERE WILL HE LIVE PHYSICALLY, AND OF WHAT TYPE WILL HIS HOUSE BE?
Will he live anywhere?
The throne of God is in heaven.
Ezekiel answers this. The House in which Emmanuel (God with us) will live must fulfill a number of qualifications.
Why?
It must be in Jerusalem
It must be a Palace fit for the greatest King ever to live
It must be a House that reflects the accomplishments of this great King
It must be a House that allows the correct service to such an Holy One
It must be a House that everyone of every nation can come up to pray, worship and have audience with Emmanuel
Why?
So when God sends His Son the second time as military Commander to retake Government of this earth, in His righteousness and justice HE MUST VINDICATE HIS SON IN PROPORTION TO WHAT HE LOST THE FIRST TIME.
Jesus didn't lose anything the first time - you, yourself have said that he set it aside.
And Jesus was thoroughly vindicated by God by the resurrection, Romans 1:4.
Before his ascension he said that ALL authority had been given to him
The House that Jesus will live in must reflect Who He is and what He has done Isaiah 2:1-5, Zechariah 14:16-21
It is a humbling thing but Jesus lives in us.
WE are his witnesses to who he is and what he has done - light to the world, salt of the earth, bearing fruit only by remaining in the Vine.
