Hi Joe,
Good observation. And in the near future the Temple in all remaining Christian believers on earth and the third rock Temple of the Jews will be defiled or destroyed by the descendants of those that destroyed the body of Jesus and the second Temple.
]]>Hi Rob,
We take Bible prophecy literally here not allegorically. Believers are spiritually the Temple of God but prophecies given to Israel still have to be literally fulfilled and that requires a Temple in Jerusalem. The third Temple is also spoken about in Revelation 11.
The spiritual Church was not even revealed until the Jews rejected their Messiah and Jesus died for all sin and rose from the dead. Matthew 24 and 25 is not directed at the Church. It is talking to Jews. Matthew 24 25 is talking about events before the restored Jewish Kingdom on earth can literally take place.
The Beast/Antichrist cannot defile a literal Temple if it is not there and the Antichrist does not allegorically defile the Church of God because God would not allow such a thing. Even if you believe there will not be a literal third Temple that the Antichrist will defile, details of even another future Temple is given in Ezekiel 40-48. The detail given makes spiritual allegorisation of what is said just plain silly.
Read my commenting policy and abide by it or your future commenting will be ended. This website teaches a dispensation futurist interpretation of prophetic scriptures. I am not about to argue covenant verses dispensational theology in the comment section of my Blog.
]]>Hi Ernie
I will leave it because now others are commenting on it.
]]>Hi Joe,
There actually will be two more Temples in Israel. There is the Temple the Antichrist defiles and the much larger millennial Temple spoken about in Ezekiel 40 – 48.
Rob’s comment is only worth deleting, but Ernie commented on it so it remains.
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