Sherry,
 
  You stated in you 11/13 post at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/nov2004/sherry1113.htm  that "There were measurements given for the First and Second Temples. There are measuresments given for the Millennial Temple!  But there are NO MEASUREMENTS given for the "Tribulation Temple" because you can't "measure" (it doesn't say "count") the number of Believers in the world, which individually make up the Temple of God !"
 
  (Sherry, the measurements for the first temple built by King Solomon are given in 1 Kings 6 and in 2 Chronicles while the measurements for the Millenial Temple can be found in Ezekiel 41 & 42, but I don't know of any Bible scripture that gives the measurements of the Second Temple which was called King Herod's temple unless you can come up with a scripture.  John 2:20 does mention that it took 46 yrs. to build this temple, but it doesn't say anything about its measurements.  In reply to your 11/15 post at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/nov2004/sherry1115.htm  if we take another closer look at Rev. 11:1, John says, "And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein."  The angel tells John to measure three separate things and not just the temple of God which you claim in this verse to be "the Believers in the world that individually make up the Temple of God." The phrase "them that worship therein" seems to indicate that the believers are worshipping inside of the temple of God which also contains an altar.  So it looks like the temple of God with the altar in Rev. 11:1 is an actual temple with an altar.  And if it's not up in heaven, then it would have to be on earth.)
 
  In your 11/13 post, you also stated the following:
 
  "THERE WILL NOT BE, AND COULD NEVER BE, A TEMPLE BUILT PRYOR to the Lord building the Millennial Temple Himself!   This would go against God's nature concerning the redemptive work of His Son on the Cross to allow His people- the Nation of Israel to go backwards in God's redemptive plan of Salvation and to go back again to the "shedding of blood of Bulls and Goats for the covering of sin!"
 
 

"For God to do so would in effect be telling His people- The work of My Son on the Cross is NOT SUFFICIENT FOR YOU!  AND when Jesus cried from the Cross; "IT IS FINISHED" does not apply to you! "
 
 

(I wouldn't rule out the possibility that a temple could be built prior to the Lord building the Millenial Temple because don't forget that Zechariah 13:8-9 says, "And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts shall be cut off and die; but the third part shall be left therein.  And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call upon my name, and I will hear them:  I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The Lord is my God."  That leaves open the possiblity that some of the two parts that are cut off and die as unbelievers may possibly help to build a tribulation temple before they die if these people believe that the son of perdition is God or the Messiah since they are deceived by his lying wonders and signs.  Please also notice that 2 Thess. 2:4 states that the son of perdition who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.  I think he sitteth in the temple of God to show himself that he is God and not for the sake of shewing others that he is God since they must already mistakenly believe that he is God or the Messiah from seeing his lying wonders and signs.  Would this really be God's temple?  Well, it wouldn't be the real God, the Father's temple, but  if those helping to build the temple believe the son of perdition is God or the Messiah, the anointed one who is the Christ, they would think it is the temple of God, and call it that.  This is what I think. It's also my opinion that the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place might be the image of the beast that is worshipped by those who take the mark of the beast in the forehead or in the hand.)