Baptists and Futurism

Job8 said:

3RD TEMPLE = ANTICHRIST'S TEMPLE (plans to rebuild it in Jerusalem are under way)
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thess 2:3,4).

4TH TEMPLE = CHRIST'S MILLENNIAL TEMPLE
Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle... And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places...Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. (Ezek 41:1;43;7,10).

Since the third temple will be desecrated thoroughly by Satan and the Beast, it will be unfit to remain a temple, and will probably be destroyed in the earthquake which will shake Jerusalem (Rev 11:13). Therefore a fresh, new and holy Temple will be built according to Ezekiel's pattern (which has never been built before).

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Job8 said:

Those millions of "temples" are purely metaphorical and represent the Body of Christ.

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Bluelion said:

We are God's temples He lives in each of us and no its not metaphoric.

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Job8 said:

Bluelion,
Christians are not composed of either earthly or heavenly "bricks and mortar". That is purely a metaphor in view of the fact that (1) there was a real "bricks and mortar" Temple is Jerusalem for hundreds of years which was then rebuilt, (2) there will be another "bricks and mortar" Temple during the reign of the Antichrist, and (3) there will be a fourth "bricks and mortar" Temple in Jerusalem during the Millennium.

There is also presently a true heavenly Temple and Sanctuary (in Heaven).There will come a day in the future when that heavenly Temple will not be necessary, and that is what Revelation is talking about. It is really important that we do not confuse and confound all these temples. The Christian as a "temple" of the Holy Spirit does not replace actual temples in God's plans and purposes.

As for your idea of "cleansing" a Temple which was defiled with the Abomination of Desolation, why would God even desire to have such a building "cleansed" when it was corrupted through and through, and God was blasphemed with unspeakable blasphemies in that corrupted Temple? You seem to forget what He did with Solomon's Temple when it had been utterly defiled.

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Bluelion said:

Two different things I quoted revelation. I was speaking to the fact we are the temple of God. The Body of Christ what do you think that means? I was not speaking of Solomon temple at all. I was speaking of the true temple, which is God's children. Yes i do remember when they desecrated the temple what they did they did a re-dedication. I guess you don't understand what Hanukkah is. Maybe you did not Here but the Greeks did defile the temple.

http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/102911/jewish/What-Is-Hanukkah.htm

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