Prophecy about rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem?

[ViaCrucis]

So where is the Antichrist going to be seated when he proclaims to be God ?

You mean the man of sin that Paul talks about? You'll note that Paul doesn't mention "the Antichrist". That term is only used in 1 & 2 John.

There have been a lot of opinions and attempts to understand who Paul is talking about, and what it means to say he will sit in the temple and proclaim himself god.

I don't claim to have a definite answer when two thousand years of Christians who have come before me have never had a single definitive answer to that question.

One interpretation is that the temple Paul refers to is the Church. For Paul God only had one Temple, and it was Christ and His Church--the old Temple still standing in Jerusalem was no longer God's House in Paul's theology.

Many of the Protestant Reformers came to view this passage, and several others, as references to the corruption that would enter into the Church through the innovation of the Papacy. Some neo-Protestants take this even further. That the Papacy was antichrist, because of the kind of power which the pope wielded at the time of the Reformation, and the corrupt use of that power.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[JohnClay]

Pete Hegseth floats third Jewish temple in unearthed speech: 'It could happen'

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth floated the possibility of a third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, according to a recently unearthed interview

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth floated the possibility of a third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, according to a recently unearthed interview.

"There’s no reason why the miracle of the re-establishment of the temple on the Temple Mount is not possible," Hegseth said during a 2018 speech at the Arutz Sheva conference in Jerusalem, according to the Times of Israel.

 

[Hazelelponi]

Hi I was under the impression that there are prophecies in Revelation about the temple being rebuilt. I think I saw it in "Left Behind" or a similar movie. I guess that's what God wants so does that mean Christians should support it? I also was under the impression that the recent formation of the nation of Israel was also a prophecy in the Bible.

There are 3 Temples of God that God approved the building of according to Scripture.

2 were made by human hands and both are destroyed, the last in 70 AD.

The 3rd Temple is the one God built through Faith in Christ, and it's the promised Temple made without human hands.

A Temple is a multifaceted place but mainly it's a seat of government and a place of earthly dwelling for God's Holy Spirit and a place for worship.

Gods Holy Spirit is given us through faith in Jesus and is the guarantor of our salvation, this means each individual Christian is a building block for the 3rd Temple, and together as a Church we are the Temple of the Living God.

We are the seat of God's government and house the Spirit of the living God.

It's no longer anything that man can build or even control.

"you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." 1 Peter 2:5


"For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit." Ephesians 2:18-22

The only way to get at the Temple of God on earth is to kill God's people. Literally.

Most people truly seem to misunderstand this point, the daily sacrifices are still going on through this Temple, but they are the kinds of sacrifices that are pleasing to God.

See Psalm 2:2-6

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”

I rather think it's probably irony because whenever the enemy gets mad enough to do just that, start killing God's people, more believers just replace the deceased and in greater numbers. The Lord Jesus Christ wins because His Holy Spirit is not actually a physical thing that can be fought, not without being regularly genocidal, and at some point that's just a bad look. Even unbelievers have a conscience.

 

[Diamond72]

Pete Hegseth floats third Jewish temple in unearthed speech: 'It could happen'

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth floated the possibility of a third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, according to a recently unearthed interview

www.christianpost.com

Now they are saying that they do not have to tear the Muslim building down. There is plenty of room for both on the temple mount. They say that the priests are trained and have all the utensils so that within 24 hours they could set up a tent and the sacrifices would begin.

I am pre trib & post millennial so I do not get to see all of the excitement. But I am still dispensationist which are usually pre millennial. Still we rule and reign with Him for 1,000 years.

 

[ViaCrucis]

Pete Hegseth floats third Jewish temple in unearthed speech: 'It could happen'

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth floated the possibility of a third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, according to a recently unearthed interview

www.christianpost.com

Proof that the spirit of antichrist is present in every age.

Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with the very tiny minority of Jewish people who want to rebuild the Temple. This is specifically in the context of Christianity. No Christian should want or support this, and it is deeply unsettling.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Hazelelponi]

Proof that the spirit of antichrist is present in every age.

Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with the very tiny minority of Jewish people who want to rebuild the Temple. This is specifically in the context of Christianity. No Christian should want or support this, and it is deeply unsettling.

-CryptoLutheran

I was listening to his speech and it sounds to me like he just doesn't understand the spiritual aspect at play here.

He was addressing the issue more as a matter of a free people being able to worship how they believe freely without interference from other people.

He just doesn't understand. We should pray God gives him greater understanding.

 

[Johan2222]

In Jerusalem I presume. If you mean where in the bible I get it from Daniel, not Revelation.

Daniel 9:27 says: “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

The deception that you are parroting was one of the favourite deceptions of the left behind series.

Jesus confirmed the covenant for one week, and in the midst of the week he caused sacrifice and offering to cease by the offering of his body once and for all, and for the overspreading of that abomination, he made the place desolate until the consummation, (which is now at the door) and that desolation, which was determined, was, and will be poured upon the desolate.

If you do a study of the phrase “the covenant” you’ll find that in every single place where it occurs in scripture it is referring to a covenant between God and man and if God was the author of confusion, perhaps he would make Daniel 9.27 the only place in scripture where he changed the definition of that term.

Jesus personally confirmed the covenant for the first 3 1/2 years of the week by himself, a week of years (7 years) and then he was crucified and he will confirm the second half of the week by empowering his two witnesses and they shall prophecy in the great city and after half a week (of years) they shall be killed and the peoples, nations, tongues and kings shall behold their dead bodies and not suffer their bodies to be put into graves.

As you should expect, believers are utterly unprepared for the reality of the truth that shall soon occur, neither shall it occur in Jerusalem.

 

[JohnClay]

About the West Bank and the US and Israel

Miriam Adelson - Wikipedia

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Miriam Adelson sought support from candidate Trump for Israel's annexation of the West Bank, pledging more than $100 million to Trump’s campaign in exchange for U.S. recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the region

I'm not sure if the temple has anything to do with the West Bank but I think it is at least near it. If they take the West Bank that would give them a precendent so that rebuilding the temple is not such a big step.
News from yesterday:
"In first since 2002, Israel sends tanks to occupied West Bank as 40,000 Palestinians flee"