The Third Temple Rebuilt

Oh yes, this has everything to do with the 7 year tribulation.

In the Olivet discourse Jesus said, "So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—(Matt 24:15)


Since it clearly says here 'spoken of through the prophet Daniel', let us turn to the book of Daniel.


Daniel 9:27


He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him. "


In this context, 'seven' means a seven-year period.


Daniel 11:31


"His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.


The apostle Paul said it this way:" Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for (that day will not come) until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

The apostle John wrote this:" I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, "Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the worshipers there. But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. (Rev 11:1-2)

Both Daniel and John place this awful event in the middle of the Tribulation, at the start of what our Lord called "Great Tribulation". Cleary, if the temple is to be desecrated at that point, it must be built earlier. When the Antichrist commits the ultimate blasphemy by appearing in the temple to declare that he is God, the real Lord of heaven responds by inflicting on the Antichrist's earth the worst judgments in history--the Great Tribulation.

I'll be touching on when the temple will be rebuilt in my next post.