The temple will be rebuilt by the Jews with the intention to worship the One True God.
Wrongo. The temple was already rebuilt by Christ at the Cross. Didn't you read the Scripture?
Joh 2:19-21
(19) Jesus answered and said unto them, D
estroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
(20) Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
(21) But
he spake of the temple of his body.
Mat 21:42-43
(42) Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures,
The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
(43) Therefore say I unto you,
The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
The temple of Christ's body represents the congregation of Israel, first the Old Testament Jews and then the New Testament Gentiles, the church. The Old Testament congregation (The Jewish builders) fell along with Christ since they are the ones who rejected Messiah the Prince and did destroy the temple (Christ), and in three days, Christ rebuilt it and it is now a temple where the head of the corner stone now since the Cross.
The Church is the New Testament Temple where the stones (believers) are built together. Again, didn't you read the Scripture?
Eph 2:19-22
(19) Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
(20) And
are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
(21) In whom all the
building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
(22) In whom
ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
See, , this is a temple where Jesus Christ himself is the chief corner stone just as Matthew 21:42-43 said!
So your fantasy of a future physical temple being rebuilt in the Middle East to fit your indoctrination is
NOT what God was prophesied about. This Scripture above already refuted your position. That is biblical facts!
After about 3 years, the Antichrist will commit the transgression of desolation - making the temple desolate from the worship of the One True God.
Huh? It is not a physical temple! It is the New Testament congregation, the church, where the antichrist will sit (rule) in. It is the
holy temple on this side of the Cross just as Scripture stated above! Read Scripture again.
It continues downhill from there with the Abomination of Desolation statue image setup on the temple mount.
The abomination of desolation is a physical statue. Sigh... No...
Mat 24:15
(15)
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand: )
Please note why Jesus said, "whoso readeth, LET HIM UNDERSTAND." Why do you think Christ said this? Could it be because He knows that it is difficult to understand and the unfaithful will view it as too complicated? Indeed, God is encouraging the faithful "who read" to understand that it is NOT that simple! That is the whole "POINT" of that extra encouragement of "whoso readeth, let him understand" what abomination of desolation and the holy place really is! It is not physical temple as MOST thought. It take more to read and only can be understand by the Spirit of Christ.
The prophecy of Matthew 24 is of a Great end time apostasy, a great falling away of the New Testament Congregation, the church, brought about by a spiritual army, which is worldwide and deadly. It speaks of a falling away and apostasy in God's house on the scale of Israel's fall. So yes, it is true, it is distinctive, but it is not exclusive. Judea represents the new testament congregaiton where Christians need to flee from unfaithful congregaiton when they "see" the abomination of desolation:
So exactly what is abomination of desolation?
Personally, I don't think that there has
ever been a time when the Church (as a whole) was in
worse straits than it is in our time. The decadence and decline in our Churches today is (as far as I'm concerned), unprecedented. There are things happening in our day on a massive scale across nations that have never happened before in the Church. Because there are so many more Churches all over the world, and yet with so great a number there are so "few" that are even remotely biblical. Thus the degradation and spread of confusion are multiplied. So much so that even
unsaved people recognize the immorality and hypocrisy of the Church. And it is for this reason God released Satan, to bring the nations of the world against His congregation. As Biblical history has shown before, it is because His congregation has removed His righteous judgments, and replaced them with their own beliefs and preferences. Just like Old Israel did.
Ezekiel 5:5-9
- "Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
- And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
- Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
- Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
- And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations."
Likewise, because of the abominations in the congregation today, God will execute judgments on it in the midst of the nations. And as Israel didn't "recognize" her sins against God, neither do the Churches today! So it shouldn't be a surprise that most people will not see the signs of the great apostasy. God intervenes and sends strong delusion that they BELIEVE A LIE (2nd Thessalonians 2:11). For example, they believe their doctrines of devils are perfectly biblical, and their Church is still a Church of God, even though they serve the man of sin seated there. As in Christ's first advent, "Who would believe the Report?"
The problem is that the Church has deteriorated so far today, that people's perspectives of a good Church are skewed. They now judge faithfulness by where their Church stands, compared to other Churches, rather than by where it should be. Things like allowing even casual divorce are
"rampant" in almost
all Churches, with no sign of revival. This liberal view of divorce would have been "almost" unheard of in a Church forty years ago. Even an unfaithful one! Yet today, this is considered a "small thing" and nothing to get all twisted in a bind over. That's how far the Church has fallen. There is tacit support in the Churches for tolerating homosexual/transgender behavior, which would generally have been unheard of just a few short years ago. The Church has been slowly acclimated to the view that making judgments against this lifestyle (sin) is somehow unchristian (if you can believe that). There is little understanding that God is a God of judgment, and not a God that loves the wicked. That those who do evil are not loved in the sight of the Lord.
Malachi 2:17
- "Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?"
Like never before, the Church has changed in that there is no "real" love for the God of judgment.
The Church compromising with works-based gospels or doctrines is widespread, even in "many" so-called reformed Churches. The
false gospel of Dispensationalism is the dominant Church teaching by a wide margin. The Church has never been so devastated by this worldwide confusion about Christ's Kingdom. And in doctrine after doctrine, this is the case.
1st Timothy 4:1
- "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;"
What are seducing spirits, and doctrines of Devils? It is the spirit of antichrist, the spirit of disobedience (Ephesians 2:2), and doctrines that are adversarial to God's righteous laws.
And it continues to worsen, as when Satan is cast down to earth, he incarnates the statue making it appear to come to life - and demand everyone worship the statue image or die.
Huh? Satan comes down from heaven to get into a physical statue and start speaking? And all people on earth will be shot to death if they do not worship the statue? Sigh...
It's so ridiculous that I will not discuss this tonight.
