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I'm starting to change my mind about the End Times (help!)

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So then who are the Jews who will return from all directions and eventually accept Christ?
 
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There have been a good number of Jews over the years who have accepted Jesus as Messiah. Including 3,000 on the day of Pentecost alone. Why is this seen as only a future thing?
 
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The tone in those verses is that Jesus lamented over it, not that he desired to destroy the temple, nor city.

In John 2:16, that same temple, Jesus called as "my Father's house".

John 2:16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
 
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You won't find anything in the new testament about a 3rd temple being built. To say there will be one is to add to the Bible.
There has to be a temple built in order for the daily sacrifice to begin again - so the time of the end vision of the little horn stopping it can take place.

Daniel 8:11-17.
 
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So then who are the Jews who will return from all directions and eventually accept Christ?
Some may be Jews, as Paul says: only a remnant of [Jewish] Israel will be saved. Romans 9:27, but mostly the people who will go to live in all of the holy Land, are the faithful Christian peoples, from every tribe, race, nation and language. John sees then there in Revelation 7:9
 
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There has to be a temple built in order for the daily sacrifice to begin again - so the time of the end vision of the little horn stopping it can take place.
Right; and it will be we Christians who will build the new Temple. Zechariah 6:15 and the Prophecies of Ezekiel 40 to 48.
Jesus will Return to it and will reign from it. Isaiah 2:1-4, Zechariah 14:16-21
 
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I've come to the belief that the emperors were under demonic influence during their reigns.

I also believe the man of lawlessness to be Nero. 2 thessalonians was written around 51-52ad. Nero wasn't in power yet, but he was being trained. He was an evil man being restrained by his mother and two tutors. He eventually has his mother and one of the tutors executed. The other tutor was exiled. With them out of the way, Nero could do whatever he wanted. And he did.
 
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Right; and it will be we Christians who will build the new Temple. Zechariah 6:15 and the Prophecies of Ezekiel 40 to 48.
Jesus will Return to it and will reign from it. Isaiah 2:1-4, Zechariah 14:16-21
Ezekiel 45:15 Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the people, declares the Sovereign Lord. 16 All the people of the land will be required to give this special offering to the prince in Israel. 17 It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.

Why would sacrifices and offerings be made in the future "to make atonement for the people"? Will the blood of Christ somehow no longer be sufficient to make atonement for people's sins?
 
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There has to be a temple built in order for the daily sacrifice to begin again - so the time of the end vision of the little horn stopping it can take place.

Daniel 8:11-17.
The first temple wasn't even standing when Daniel wrote that. But the second temple was a future temple when he wrote it. Why don't you believe he's talking about the second temple?
 
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Right; and it will be we Christians who will build the new Temple. Zechariah 6:15 and the Prophecies of Ezekiel 40 to 48.
Jesus will Return to it and will reign from it. Isaiah 2:1-4, Zechariah 14:16-21
Why would Christians build the temple so that sacrifices can start again? That would be spitting in the face of Jesus.
 
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The temple is 2Thessalonians2:4 is the time of the end temple which the little horn (the Antichrist person) will stop the daily sacrifice.
How could such a temple qualify to be called "the temple of God"? In what sense would it be God's temple?
 
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Why would Christians build the temple so that sacrifices can start again? That would be spitting in the face of Jesus.
Exactly. I can't believe any Christian would not understand this.
 
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The first temple wasn't even standing when Daniel wrote that. But the second temple was a future temple when he wrote it.
There was not temple standing during the time of the Babylonian captivity agreed.

But "time of the end" is a term that fits with other bible passages... such as in Daniel 12:4, and Daniel 's contemporary Ezekiel in Ezekiel 38:4 and 38:16.

4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
 
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What Paul wrote about in 2 Thess 2 was about "the temple of God". The physical temple standing at that time was no longer "the temple of God" at that time, so you should consider what Paul would have called "the temple of God" at that time.
 
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What Paul wrote about in 2 Thess 2 was about "the temple of God". The physical temple standing at that time was no longer "the temple of God" at that time, so you should consider what Paul would have called "the temple of God" at that time.
Fair enough. That's a relatively new thought that I'm still working through. I heard Phil Kayser teach on it and it seemed reasonable.
 
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Why would sacrifices and offerings be made in the future "to make atonement for the people"? Will the blood of Christ somehow no longer be sufficient to make atonement for people's sins?
Why would Christians build the temple so that sacrifices can start again? That would be spitting in the face of Jesus.
Jesus did atone for our sins, but we keep on sinning! He does not keep on dying, and the fact is we must continue to ask for forgiveness.
I do not claim to know how the requirements of God for our redemption works, but I do know that many scriptures say there will be a new Temple and sacrifices and offerings will be made in it.
Remember; God does not change, He wanted sacrifices before and He will do so again. Isaiah 56:7, +

Denial of plainly stated scriptures is not a good look and to make nasty comments about a Prophesied Temple in Jerusalem during the end times, is foolishness.
 
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You've received a lot of good advice here, I just say that there are good scriptural places to land between dispensationalism and preterism.
 
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What Paul wrote about in 2 Thess 2 was about "the temple of God". The physical temple standing at that time was no longer "the temple of God" at that time, so you should consider what Paul would have called "the temple of God" at that time.
This idea simply does not hold water. Paul's prophecy proves that there will be a new Temple and it will be dedicated to God. Proved by how the Anti- Christ stops the offerings; Daniel 9:27 and desecrates it by sitting in the holy of holies. 2 Thessalonians 2:4
Ezekiel 43:1-4 shows h that the Glory of God will be in the new Temple.
 
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