THE TEMPLE IS NOW BEING REBUILT
Have you heard of the teaching that one day the jews will rebuild the temple in Jerusalem and that Jesus will one day reign there for 1000 years after he has come down and destroyed the antichrist who had instituted the sacrificial system again?
Did you know that not one verse in the bible teaches this. There is however a temple being built as we speak. Notice what Peter said in Acts 15:
Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. {15} And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, {16} After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up..
The prophets speaking of Davids tabernacle being rebuilt was being fulfilled in their eyes. Peter later says about the church in 1 Peter:
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Paul makes another remark about this temple in Ephesians 2:
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.
Jesus, in the Olivet discourse, where He gives the signs of the end, certainly mentions the DESTRUCTION of the Temple, but NOT ONE WORD about its being rebuilt. Did Jesus fail to tell us this, supposedly, most important sign? How could this be.
The apostle John joins the chorus, when he sees the New Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven to earth...and notice, it is PEOPLE not a building, the TABERNACLE of God being with men is that Jesus is with His redeemed PEOPLE, (not a building.) And notice John says it is a VOICE OUT OF HEAVEN saying this. That's a pretty good source when interpreting the Bible is at stake...*(Rev 21:2-3 KJV) And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. {3} And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
How could it be that no where in the entire new testament is a third temple ever mentioned. Jesus warned of the destruction of the temple he was worshipping in but he nor anyone ever mentions a future temple. Lukes book of Acts gives us more about the temple not being a building.
"Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands..." Acts 7:48.
"God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands..." Acts 17:24.
In the old testament only one temple is discussed in being rebuilt and it was Solomons temple. It was rebuilt around 537bc and was the one Jesus grew up around. This second temple is the temple that fulfilled all the prophecys of a temple in the old testament, The prophecys all were before the second temple was built and some were as far back as 500bc. According to Joshua 21, all the land and promises to Israel were fulfilled so using those promises for a future fulfillment is nonsense. Not one prophecy of the old testament points after the destruction of the second.
In Revelations 11 John says measure the temple. He is not talking of a heavenly temple but the same one that was standing during Johns life. The reason we know this is because Revelations 1 says John was speaking to the seven churches in Asia and that he was going through this tribulation of the Romans with those people. He even shows them how the ones who killed Jesus would see this day (Rev 1) and it would soon and shortly come to pass (Rev 1:1,3; 2:16; 3:11; 11:14; 22:6,7,10,12,20). Even Jesus warns the disciples when they see this to run to the hills of Judea in Matthew 24. He tells them this is what Daniel saw in the vision in Daniel 9. This was not future but in their time and their lives.
The temple discussed all through the new testament was a people and not a building. Daniel 2 says it is a kingdom made without hands. We are the church, the temple of God. Why would God back track back into an old system again? The fact is he wouldnt and he never told us he would. The new covenant people is forever. The old will be remembered no more (Isaiah 65-66). No need for sacrifices ever again for Jesus sits always as intercessor for us (Hebrews 7-9). We currently are building up his temple and his kingdom as Luke, Peter, James, John, and Paul stated.
Did you know that not one verse in the bible teaches this. There is however a temple being built as we speak. Notice what Peter said in Acts 15:
Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. {15} And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, {16} After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up..
The prophets speaking of Davids tabernacle being rebuilt was being fulfilled in their eyes. Peter later says about the church in 1 Peter:
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Paul makes another remark about this temple in Ephesians 2:
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.
Jesus, in the Olivet discourse, where He gives the signs of the end, certainly mentions the DESTRUCTION of the Temple, but NOT ONE WORD about its being rebuilt. Did Jesus fail to tell us this, supposedly, most important sign? How could this be.
The apostle John joins the chorus, when he sees the New Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven to earth...and notice, it is PEOPLE not a building, the TABERNACLE of God being with men is that Jesus is with His redeemed PEOPLE, (not a building.) And notice John says it is a VOICE OUT OF HEAVEN saying this. That's a pretty good source when interpreting the Bible is at stake...*(Rev 21:2-3 KJV) And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. {3} And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
How could it be that no where in the entire new testament is a third temple ever mentioned. Jesus warned of the destruction of the temple he was worshipping in but he nor anyone ever mentions a future temple. Lukes book of Acts gives us more about the temple not being a building.
"Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands..." Acts 7:48.
"God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands..." Acts 17:24.
In the old testament only one temple is discussed in being rebuilt and it was Solomons temple. It was rebuilt around 537bc and was the one Jesus grew up around. This second temple is the temple that fulfilled all the prophecys of a temple in the old testament, The prophecys all were before the second temple was built and some were as far back as 500bc. According to Joshua 21, all the land and promises to Israel were fulfilled so using those promises for a future fulfillment is nonsense. Not one prophecy of the old testament points after the destruction of the second.
In Revelations 11 John says measure the temple. He is not talking of a heavenly temple but the same one that was standing during Johns life. The reason we know this is because Revelations 1 says John was speaking to the seven churches in Asia and that he was going through this tribulation of the Romans with those people. He even shows them how the ones who killed Jesus would see this day (Rev 1) and it would soon and shortly come to pass (Rev 1:1,3; 2:16; 3:11; 11:14; 22:6,7,10,12,20). Even Jesus warns the disciples when they see this to run to the hills of Judea in Matthew 24. He tells them this is what Daniel saw in the vision in Daniel 9. This was not future but in their time and their lives.
The temple discussed all through the new testament was a people and not a building. Daniel 2 says it is a kingdom made without hands. We are the church, the temple of God. Why would God back track back into an old system again? The fact is he wouldnt and he never told us he would. The new covenant people is forever. The old will be remembered no more (Isaiah 65-66). No need for sacrifices ever again for Jesus sits always as intercessor for us (Hebrews 7-9). We currently are building up his temple and his kingdom as Luke, Peter, James, John, and Paul stated.
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