Third Temple

[Widlast]

Just to get some other opinions on this. I read in so many places, where it is stated that the third temple will be built in the end times, and that the antichrist will come into it and say he is God.

Was not the Third Temple established when Jesus answered the Question,"what sign are you going to give us, and he answered, destroy this temple and in three days rebuild it", which was the three days before he rose and the temple being Him and those who believe in him? Aren't we the third Temple?

All the materials, vestments, and whatnot have already been gathered and made ready. Some Israeli authorities want it built where the Al Aqsa Mosque stands now (on the Temple Mount.
There have even been several Red Heifers born (the first in centuries) so they can dedicate the Temple. It'll happen in a few years.

 

[parousia70]

If a temple in which the 'man of lawlessness' sits is called the temple of God, then it's either a future event or a past one. So, if you can show the 'man of lawlessness' has come and gone, then your assumption would most likely be accurate, but if he is yet to come, then your assumption would most likely be inaccurate.

Paul's passage in 2 Thess 2 shows that the event was already underway. The son of perdition was already alive. He was at that time being restrained from his takeover of the Temple. This shows without question that it was a first century event. It is important to note that this was fullfilled entirely within a decade of Paul's writing to the Thessalonians.

The jewish Zealot-leader Manahem and his followers murdered the High Priest, robbed the Roman garrison, and siezed the Temple to start the armed Revolt in AD 66 from the Temple headquarters in Jerusalem. The victory over the Temple priests and rulers appeared to many to be God's blessing and purpose for the Revolt against Rome. The Zealots had been trying to gain control of the whole Nation and the Temple from about the time of Christ's birth. Menahem was a third generation terrorist rebel and was the son (or grandson) of Judas the Galilean rebel mentioned in the book of Acts.

Menahem is a CENTRAL figure to the Revolt and is considered one of the most powerful Jewish Messiahs of the 1st century for having successfully raided the Masada armory, securing an armed jewish force to fight the Revolt against Rome from the headquarters of the Holy Temple! Entirely apocalyptic.

The Nation had become a hotbed of Revolt-styled apocalypticism, and Josephus blames the Zealots as THE incendiary group among the Israelites that ignited the tinderbox and ruined the whole nation.

King Manahem of Israel literally fulfilled the sign of 2 Thess 2:4-7 and ordered the commands that locked the Nation into its final course of ruin and Revolt.

The Roman Armies came at that time to surround Jerusalem, and in response to all this and the Christians heeded the signs and fled Jerusalem according to Luke 21:20-22 and 2 Thess 2:4.

 

[parousia70]

All the materials, vestments, and whatnot have already been gathered and made ready. Some Israeli authorities want it built where the Al Aqsa Mosque stands now (on the Temple Mount.
There have even been several Red Heifers born (the first in centuries) so they can dedicate the Temple. It'll happen in a few years.

Where are the priests today who will identify the rest? Do they know where the Urim and Thummim are (Ez. 2:63)?

 

[Steve Petersen]

Paul's passage in 2 Thess 2 shows that the event was already underway. The son of perdition was already alive. He was at that time being restrained from his takeover of the Temple. This shows without question that it was a first century event. It is important to note that this was fullfilled entirely within a decade of Paul's writing to the Thessalonians.

The jewish Zealot-leader Manahem and his followers murdered the High Priest, robbed the Roman garrison, and siezed the Temple to start the armed Revolt in AD 66 from the Temple headquarters in Jerusalem. The victory over the Temple priests and rulers appeared to many to be God's blessing and purpose for the Revolt against Rome. The Zealots had been trying to gain control of the whole Nation and the Temple from about the time of Christ's birth. Menahem was a third generation terrorist rebel and was the son (or grandson) of Judas the Galilean rebel mentioned in the book of Acts.

Menahem is a CENTRAL figure to the Revolt and is considered one of the most powerful Jewish Messiahs of the 1st century for having successfully raided the Masada armory, securing an armed jewish force to fight the Revolt against Rome from the headquarters of the Holy Temple! Entirely apocalyptic.

The Nation had become a hotbed of Revolt-styled apocalypticism, and Josephus blames the Zealots as THE incendiary group among the Israelites that ignited the tinderbox and ruined the whole nation.

King Manahem of Israel literally fulfilled the sign of 2 Thess 2:4-7 and ordered the commands that locked the Nation into its final course of ruin and Revolt.

The Roman Armies came at that time to surround Jerusalem, and in response to all this and the Christians heeded the signs and fled Jerusalem according to Luke 21:20-22 and 2 Thess 2:4.

It is interesting that from the start of the Revolt (66 CE) to the fall of Masada (73 CE) was seven years. The Temple was destroyed half-way through, in 70 CE.

 

[parousia70]

The Temple was never about redemption.

Of course it was... it Pointed TO Christ. Always did.

and Now that The Christ is Come, the Shadow is Gone.

 

[SeventyOne]

Paul's passage in 2 Thess 2 shows that the event was already underway. The son of perdition was already alive. He was at that time being restrained from his takeover of the Temple. This shows without question that it was a first century event. It is important to note that this was fullfilled entirely within a decade of Paul's writing to the Thessalonians.

The jewish Zealot-leader Manahem and his followers murdered the High Priest, robbed the Roman garrison, and siezed the Temple to start the armed Revolt in AD 66 from the Temple headquarters in Jerusalem. The victory over the Temple priests and rulers appeared to many to be God's blessing and purpose for the Revolt against Rome. The Zealots had been trying to gain control of the whole Nation and the Temple from about the time of Christ's birth. Menahem was a third generation terrorist rebel and was the son (or grandson) of Judas the Galilean rebel mentioned in the book of Acts.

Menahem is a CENTRAL figure to the Revolt and is considered one of the most powerful Jewish Messiahs of the 1st century for having successfully raided the Masada armory, securing an armed jewish force to fight the Revolt against Rome from the headquarters of the Holy Temple! Entirely apocalyptic.

The Nation had become a hotbed of Revolt-styled apocalypticism, and Josephus blames the Zealots as THE incendiary group among the Israelites that ignited the tinderbox and ruined the whole nation.

King Manahem of Israel literally fulfilled the sign of 2 Thess 2:4-7 and ordered the commands that locked the Nation into its final course of ruin and Revolt.

The Roman Armies came at that time to surround Jerusalem, and in response to all this and the Christians heeded the signs and fled Jerusalem according to Luke 21:20-22 and 2 Thess 2:4.

At what point did Jesus appear and kill him with the breath of His mouth?

That doesn't sound like the fulfillment of 2 Thessalonians 2 at all because it lacks fulfillment of the details. But at least now we know why the assumption was wrong.

 

[Steve Petersen]

Of course it was... it Pointed TO Christ. Always did.

and Now that The Christ is Come, the Shadow is Gone.

Spiritually speaking, yes. Physically it was the throne of God on earth.

 

[parousia70]

At what point did Jesus appear and kill him with the breath of His mouth?

As for how God's breath/ brightness destroys his enemies in 2 Thess 2:8 I would refer you to how the brightness of God's presence always destroyed his enemies: Ps 9:3-5; Ps 44:2-3; Ps 68:2&8; Ps 18:12; Nahum 1:5; Ps 97:5. This is consistent jewish apocalyptic language.

That doesn't sound like the fulfillment of 2 Thessalonians 2 at all because it lacks fulfillment of the details..

Just as the bible says in verses like Ps 44:3, Jer 4:26; Nahum 1:1,5; Isa 30:30-31. Just as Elisha saw God's warring chariots of fire all around during a human battle (2 Kings 6:17). Just as Gideon raised his own sword and shouted "the Sword of the Lord" (Judges 7:20-22). Just as Jesus described AD 70 as the "coming of the Lord of the Vineyard" and described Himself as "the Stone which crushes them" (Matt 21:40-45) and described it as the time of their visitation (Luke 19:40-44). Just as King David described his defeat of Saul in this fashion:

"Smoke went up out of [God's] nostrils, fire from His mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down with thick darkness under His feet. And He rode on a cherub and flew; And He appeared on the wings of the wind. And He made darkness canopies around Him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky. From the brightness before Him coals of fire were kindled. The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered His voice. And He sent out arrows, and scattered them, Lightning, and routed them. Then the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils." (2 Sam 22:8-16)

So it was when Christ's presence came upon Jerusalem to destroy it at AD 66-70. The Zealot revolutionaries tricked the Jewish nation into a Messianic rebellion launched from the Holy Temple. The result was the destruction of their nation and Holy Temple. For "those were the days of vengeance that all things written be fulfilled" (Lk 21:20-22). The Jews could never have conceived of the destruction of their nation as anything but God's coming/visitation.

 

[Widlast]

Where are the priests today who will identify the rest? Do they know where the Urim and Thummim are (Ez. 2:63)?

The rest of what?
Urim and Thummin are just two jewels on the breastplate of the High Priest, any jeweler could make them.

 

[SeventyOne]

As for how God's breath/ brightness destroys his enemies in 2 Thess 2:8 I would refer you to how the brightness of God's presence always destroyed his enemies: Ps 9:3-5; Ps 44:2-3; Ps 68:2&8; Ps 18:12; Nahum 1:5; Ps 97:5. This is consistent jewish apocalyptic language.

Ahh, so it is in a sense figurative. That always seems to be the fallback position whenever the theory doesn't match the revelation.

Just as the bible says in verses like Ps 44:3, Jer 4:26; Nahum 1:1,5; Isa 30:30-31. Just as Elisha saw God's warring chariots of fire all around during a human battle (2 Kings 6:17). Just as Gideon raised his own sword and shouted "the Sword of the Lord" (Judges 7:20-22). Just as Jesus described AD 70 as the "coming of the Lord of the Vineyard" and described Himself as "the Stone which crushes them" (Matt 21:40-45) and described it as the time of their visitation (Luke 19:40-44). Just as King David described his defeat of Saul in this fashion:

"Smoke went up out of [God's] nostrils, fire from His mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down with thick darkness under His feet. And He rode on a cherub and flew; And He appeared on the wings of the wind. And He made darkness canopies around Him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky. From the brightness before Him coals of fire were kindled. The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered His voice. And He sent out arrows, and scattered them, Lightning, and routed them. Then the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils." (2 Sam 22:8-16)

So it was when Christ's presence came upon Jerusalem to destroy it at AD 66-70. The Zealot revolutionaries tricked the Jewish nation into a Messianic rebellion launched from the Holy Temple. The result was the destruction of their nation and Holy Temple. For "those were the days of vengeance that all things written be fulfilled" (Lk 21:20-22). The Jews could never have conceived of the destruction of their nation as anything but God's coming/visitation.

Great references, but this doesn't actually answer the question of when Jesus actually appeared and killed him, or really any of the other points in the passage.

I don't think we need to go any further. I'm not going to buy into "it's in the past because some of it was only figuratively fulfilled" stuff today.

 

[parousia70]

Great references, but this doesn't actually answer the question of when Jesus actually appeared and killed him, or really any of the other points in the passage.

So you are saying God actually appeared on a Cherub with clouds at His feet and shot actual arrows at Saul's Armies, kindling fire from his brightness and from the breath of His nostrils, laying the foundations of the entire earth bare at that time?:

"Smoke went up out of [God's] nostrils, fire from His mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down with thick darkness under His feet. And He rode on a cherub and flew; And He appeared on the wings of the wind. And He made darkness canopies around Him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky. From the brightness before Him coals of fire were kindled. The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered His voice. And He sent out arrows, and scattered them, Lightning, and routed them. Then the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils." (2 Sam 22:8-16)

Or is it your "fallback position" that this was all figurative?

 

[parousia70]

The rest of what?

The rest Of the Priesthood and Temple attendants... did you read Ezra 2?

Urim and Thummin are just two jewels on the breastplate of the High Priest, any jeweler could make them.

And how does one "consult with them" to determine proper Levitical geneaolgy of applicants to the priesthood who are not found in the (non existent) genealogical records?

 

[throughfierytrial]

This passage can not be referring to to a future Jewish Temple, for any future stone building built by Christ Rejectors can no more be "the temple of God" than the Islamic Dome of the Rock that you propose it will be built next to.

Scripture does not say "Jewish" Temple...the temple of God. The temple of God can be any church...Jesus refers to the temple as ...It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations --Mark 11:17

It is the NT Temple, the true church is being spoken of in II Thessalonians 2:4 which consists of all true Jews...that is all true believers...

Ephesians 5:23:
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

Colossians 1:24:
Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.

 

[jamespyles]

Just to get some other opinions on this. I read in so many places, where it is stated that the third temple will be built in the end times, and that the antichrist will come into it and say he is God.

Was not the Third Temple established when Jesus answered the Question,"what sign are you going to give us, and he answered, destroy this temple and in three days rebuild it", which was the three days before he rose and the temple being Him and those who believe in him? Aren't we the third Temple?

I definitely represent the minority opinion among Christians because I believe the Third Temple is literal. Read Ezekiel 40 through 48. The prophet clearly expects not only a Third Temple to be rebuilt, but the Levitical Priesthood will once again makes the sacrifices.

If you start reading at Jeremiah 31:27 and just keep going through the subsequent chapters, this also seems confirmed. Of course, most Christians will say that there will no longer need to be more sacrifices because Jesus was our sacrifice for sin. This misses the important point that there never, ever were Temple sacrifices for willful sins, only unwillful ones, so the argument doesn't count. Additionally, most of the sacrifices had nothing to do with sin at all.

Now which sacrifices will be restored and how all that plays out is up for speculation, but unless you want to allegorize major, major portions of the Bible, then, in my humble opinion, we need to reinterpret the entire Bible, especially the Apostolic Scriptures, to get a fresh view of what God is actually doing, what the role of Israel and the Jewish people is in all that, and had a hard and humbling look at exactly what "the church" is going to be when King Messiah reigns in Jerusalem.

Like I said, this is a minority opinion, but I believe it's one that doesn't require carving Holy Scripture into two, mutually exclusive, narratives.

 

[parousia70]

I definitely represent the minority opinion among Christians because I believe the Third Temple is literal.

While true that is probably the minority opinion among orthodox Christians world wide, i think you are firmly in the majority of Evangelical Christians in the USA.

This misses the important point that there never, ever were Temple sacrifices for willful sins, only unwillful ones, so the argument doesn't count. Additionally, most of the sacrifices had nothing to do with sin at all.

Now which sacrifices will be restored and how all that plays out is up for speculation

Isn't Ezekiel fairly specific about that?
Ezekiel 40:39

In the porch of the gate were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering.

Ezekiel 42:13

the priests who are near to the LORD shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering;

Ezekiel 43:20

'You shall take some of its blood and put it on its four horns and on the four corners of the ledge and on the border round about; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

Ezekiel 43:21

'You shall also take the bull for the sin offering

Ezekiel 43:22

'On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering

Ezekiel 43:27

'When they have completed the days, it shall be that on the eighth day and onward, the priests shall offer your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; AND I WILL ACCEPT YOU
Ezekiel 44:10

"But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear the punishment for their iniquity. Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house; they shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people

, but unless you want to allegorize major, major portions of the Bible, then, in my humble opinion, we need to reinterpret the entire Bible, especially the Apostolic Scriptures, to get a fresh view of what God is actually doing, what the role of Israel and the Jewish people is in all that, and had a hard and humbling look at exactly what "the church" is going to be when King Messiah reigns in Jerusalem.
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So you believe Jesus Christ is not only going to require Human beings to render Blood Animal sacrifices directly at His feet for Atonement of their sins and acceptance by Him but He will also require every male subject who stands before Him to be Physically Circumcised?

Ezekiel 44:9

'Thus says the Lord GOD, "No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary.

I guess you are right... a complete re interpretation of the New Testament and the teachings of the Apostles would be required to believe such, for they all taught exactly the opposite.

 

[geiroffenberg]

Just to get some other opinions on this. I read in so many places, where it is stated that the third temple will be built in the end times, and that the antichrist will come into it and say he is God.

Was not the Third Temple established when Jesus answered the Question,"what sign are you going to give us, and he answered, destroy this temple and in three days rebuild it", which was the three days before he rose and the temple being Him and those who believe in him? Aren't we the third Temple?

Some things to concider that should not be negated by a shallow/literal interpretation of old testament prophecies:
1) The new testament temple IS the body of christ
2) NT teaching says: God does not live in a building made by hands. When will this stop being true?
3) As we pray on earth as it is in heaven, remeber there is NO temple of God in heaven...
4) THe NT states it is good for us that the incarnation of God in Jesus went to the father, so he could send the spirit who would forever be with us and would cause both the father and the son to live in us. WHEN - WHEN -WHEN will this truth stop being true? When will this very central point of the "eternal gospel", the fulfilment of all prophecy, stop being true?

Pls, lets stop this nonsense. THis is how we have wringed teh last drop of pwer ouf from the gospel, by making it into nothing trough human doctrines by ppl who do not read scripture the way it should be read. It is not given for our own interpretation sayd peter, so lets just stop this nonsense, pls.
further explanation to this argument: as the gospel literally eplxains that the outpouring of the spirit on all flesh is the fulfilment of how God will restore "davids tabernacle", and since the body of believers IS this temple, and that paul clearly states it is the "body" that is the "temple of God" or "the temple of the spirit", and since jesus said it is good that he went away so taht all of this could come true....WHEN will these gospel statements stop being true+ WHen is it time to rip all of those pages out of the bible, and go back to special piresthood, animal sacrifice and temple worship??

The doctrine of a coming third temple is a anti gospel doctrine, its not been believed by moajorty of christianity EVER and shold not be concideres as remotely biblical today. The temple in ezekiel is a whole own doctrine and all true OT teachings of any temple, whether literal or prophetic-symbolic, is by the new testament declared as a " shadow", a prophetic image, of the real thing, which is the body of christ.

 

[jamespyles]

While true that is probably the minority opinion among orthodox Christians world wide, i think you are firmly in the majority of Evangelical Christians in the USA.



Isn't Ezekiel fairly specific about that?
Ezekiel 40:39

In the porch of the gate were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering.

Ezekiel 42:13

the priests who are near to the LORD shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering;

Ezekiel 43:20

'You shall take some of its blood and put it on its four horns and on the four corners of the ledge and on the border round about; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

Ezekiel 43:21

'You shall also take the bull for the sin offering

Ezekiel 43:22

'On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering

Ezekiel 43:27

'When they have completed the days, it shall be that on the eighth day and onward, the priests shall offer your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; AND I WILL ACCEPT YOU
Ezekiel 44:10

"But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear the punishment for their iniquity. Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house; they shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people



So you believe Jesus Christ is not only going to require Human beings to render Blood Animal sacrifices directly at His feet for Atonement of their sins and acceptance by Him but He will also require every male subject who stands before Him to be Physically Circumcised?

Ezekiel 44:9

'Thus says the Lord GOD, "No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary.

I guess you are right... a complete re interpretation of the New Testament and the teachings of the Apostles would be required to believe such, for they all taught exactly the opposite.

Jeremiah 33:17-22 is pretty clear that in the New Covenant, the unbreakable covenant between the House of Israel and the House of Judah and God, the Davidic (Messianic) Throne and the Levitical Priesthood will be permanently re-established. Why, unless there's going to be ongoing sacrifices in the New Temple.

Interestingly enough if you look at the dimensions of Ezekiel's Temple, it will be far larger than either Solomon's or Herod's Temples. It probably wouldn't fit on the current Temple Mount, so I wonder how the geography of Jerusalem is going to be changed to accommodate it. I don't have an answer for that one, but it is a compelling detail.

I don't entirely agree with everything described at Judaism 101, but it does give a tidy list of the Korbanot (sacrifices).

Also, David was plain in Psalm 51 that the blood of animals was never a requirement for the forgiveness of sin, only a broken spirit and a contrite heart. David wasn't saying that the sacrifices were useless. After all, God established them. Just that none of them were designed to atone for willful sin.

You talk about a completely new view of the Bible as if it were a bad thing. In my opinion, the church and all its incarnations, have drifted away from how we people of the nations (not Israelites) were originally taught to understand it. When the non-Jewish members of the disciples of the Jewish Messiah (Jesus) decided to break away from their Jewish mentors and teachers, they had to "reinvent" Biblical interpretation to favor a Gentile Christian Church, so it would throw Israel and the Jewish people "under a bus".

I'm a long term veteran of the online "religious wars," so experience tells me I have no hope of changing your mind. That's fine. I'm not trying to. However, someone else might come along, read all this, and start to consider a few things that will never be taught in church.

I'm not a church hater and I don't disdain traditional Christians, but I do believe that there's something wrong with an interpretation of Scripture that has the last third of the Bible speaking in direct contradiction of the first two-thirds.

 

[keras]

Isn't Ezekiel fairly specific about that?
Ezekiel 40:39 In the porch of the gate were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering.

I note that the KJV and the NIV do say 'sin offering', but my REB says 'purification offering and reparation offering'.
We know that Jesus made the one and only sacrifice for the sins of mankind, so what will happen in the future Temple, will not be sacrifices for mans sin. So the translation of 'sin offering' is plainly incorrect, because there will be another Temple in Jerusalem, God wanted one in the past and He requires one in the future: until the great Day He comes to dwell with mankind and a Temple is no longer needed. Revelation 21:22 That verse alone proves the existence of a Temple during the Millennium, one that John measures: Revelation 11:1, and the Anti-Christ sits in: 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.

Re: the Levites who will serve in the new Temple; Isaiah 66:21, and Revelation 5:9-10 prove how the Lord will choose righteous people to serve in it.
Note Isaiah 66:20, how people will come from every nation, to make offerings in the Lord's House; the new Temple, in the new nation of Beulah. Isaiah 62:1-5

 

[jamespyles]

I note that the KJV and the NIV do say 'sin offering', but my REB says 'purification offering and reparation offering'.
We know that Jesus made the one and only sacrifice for the sins of mankind, so what will happen in the future Temple, will not be sacrifices for mans sin. So the translation of 'sin offering' is plainly incorrect, because there will be another Temple in Jerusalem, God wanted one in the past and He requires one in the future: until the great Day He comes to dwell with mankind and a Temple is no longer needed. Revelation 21:22 That verse alone proves the existence of a Temple during the Millennium, one that John measures: Revelation 11:1, and the Anti-Christ sits in: 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.

Re: the Levites who will serve in the new Temple; Isaiah 66:21, and Revelation 5:9-10 prove how the Lord will choose righteous people to serve in it.
Note Isaiah 66:20, how people will come from every nation, to make offerings in the Lord's House; the new Temple, in the new nation of Beulah. Isaiah 62:1-5

Yes, the next Temple will be a House of Prayer for all people, both Jews and Gentiles, but interestingly enough, even in the days of Jesus and Paul, a non-Jew could bring a sacrifice to the Temple and the Priests would accept it. The Gentile in question just couldn't go any further than the court of the Gentiles.

Zechariah 8:20-23 describes how people of the nations will join with Israel (not the other way around), and particularly at the festival of Sukkot (Festival of Booths), representatives of each of the nations are to be sent. Those that don't, won't receive rain.

I disagree with your interpretation of Isaiah and Revelation that people who are not literally descended from the tribe of Levi will serve as Priests in the Temple. This is a clear violation of God's command as described in Deuteronomy 18.

 

[keras]

Interestingly enough if you look at the dimensions of Ezekiel's Temple, it will be far larger than either Solomon's or Herod's Temples. It probably wouldn't fit on the current Temple Mount, so I wonder how the geography of Jerusalem is going to be changed to accommodate it. I don't have an answer for that one, but it is a compelling detail.

The new Temple will be more splendid than either of the former ones. Haggai 2:9 And in the holy Land, He will grant prosperity and peace.
How will this be accomplished? By removing the 'evil neighbors', Jeremiah 12:14, and refining Israel; only a remnant will survive. Romans 9:27, Ezekiel 21:1-8
It will be the Lord's great and terrible Day of vengeance and wrath, a sudden devastating judgement/punishment by fire from the sun. Isaiah 30:28-30, Malachi 4:1-3, 2 Peter 3:7
We Christian people will inhabit all of the holy Land, being what God always wanted but has never had; a nation who are His witnesses, Isaiah 43:10 and a Light to the nations. Isaiah 49:8, Matthew 21:43