Donna Danna (16 Sep 2006)
"REPLY TO LAUREN -- Exposing The Gap Between Matt. 24:2 & 3"


Lauren,
 
In your 9/15 post at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/sep2006/lauren914.htm you stated,
 
"The abomination of desolation IS NOT the desecration of a rebuilt Jewish temple. This temple will not be rebuilt because Jerusalem will be given over to the Gentiles, (Rev. 11:2), who will then desolate it, “armed forces” will come upon orders from the antichrist. Daniel 11:31."
 
If the Jewish temple is not to be rebuilt in Jerusalem, would you please explain where the temple of God is located that is mentioned in Revelation 11:1 and in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.
 
Revelation 11:1, "And there was given to 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." Revelation 11:2 also says, "But the court without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months."  (I thought that "the court without the temple" means the court outside the temple since the word "without" is the Greek word #1855 "exothen" in Strong's Concordance which means out (-side -ward, -wardly) rather than meaning the court that has no temple.)
 
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not coe, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, 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, showing himself that he is God."