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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
So the rebuilding of the temple should be viewed as a major sign of the end of this age.
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Good evening brother,
As I said, I believe there are many plausible interpretations of Scripture...
I had said once, on another thread, that the Lord has really put a love in my heart for the children of the Tribe of Judah. There was a time when I followed the news from Arutz Sheva (
www.arutzsheva.com) daily, seeking news from Israel, watching the Lords move. Surely I see the Lords hand in the miraculous victory of Israel in the Six Day War... and even their survival throughout history, as so many antichrists sought to exterminate them: from Claudius Nero to Adolf Hitler, and beyond. I have wept reading the testimonies of Jews who have come to know Jesus Christ as Lord (
www.jewsforjesus.com), or to hear the testimonies of others who formerly served Satan - but whose eyes and hearts were opened to the Truth of the Word, and, falling to their knees in repentance, were renewed and remade and came to love His people too... men like Walid Shoebat (
www.shoebat.com). By the way, I must say that Joel Richardson's "
The Islamic Antichrist" was a book that really opened my eyes to so much of what the Enemy is openly doing in this age, to achieve his ends...
For many men throughout the ages, this rebuilding of the Temple has been considered "the sign" to watch for. Indeed, even now, there is a group in Jerusalem who has already been remaking the vestments and accoutrements required for the Temple Sacrifices.... and they have been absolutely meticulous. They have remade these things precisely as the ancient Scriptures tell them to. Do you know you can go and see them (
www.templemount.org) ? Yeshivas have been raised up across Israel to train young Levites to serve in the Temple, in preparation for it's construction.... but there are issues.
To the Jews, for the Temple to rebuilt, it must be rebuilt EXACTLY as it was, and EXACTLY where it was. The Temple also requires the Ark of the Covenant: And the Lord has not revealed where (or if) that Ark still rests on Earth. Then of course, there is the issue raised not only by Secular Jews but by jihadists and militants who will kill to keep Jews from the Temple Mount - at any cost. Today, the Waqf is in charge of the Temple Mount - they police it, and they often do not permit Jews to go there. Jews found praying on the Temple Mount are beaten, and arrested... and Israel's police do not stand up to them. In truth, the International Community will not allow it... the powers and principalities
really won't allow it. These are the practical issues; which the Lord can easily overcome... but:
Does the Lord want a Third Temple? Christ told us the Body is the Temple; not a building. Christ Himself was the perfect Sacrifice that put an end to all of the sacrifices... will God the Father honor a Third Temple that replaces Christ with old types and figures? A Temple that rejects God the Son, and denies Christ Himself? Is the Abomination of Desolation spoken of in the Holy Place really a monstrous thing that will happen in a Third Temple, or could this mean something else entirely?
I'm not saying I have the answer to that question, but I say it's a question that begs an answer...