This is in reply to your 4/06
post
"There is no
evidence in The Revelation of a
Temple being built in Jerusalem that
the AC uses. (Is it built before the
Tribulation period?)"
"We see the
Temple in Heaven - the 'dwelling
place of God' and we see John
measuring the "temple of God".
The Temple of God is Holy along with
His altar and the worshipers.
And John saw no temple in the New
Jerusalem. But outside the
Temple is unholy. John is told
to exclude the courtyard outside the
temple - because it has been given
over to the Gentiles and they will
trample the holy city for 42
months. This makes me think
there is no literal temple because
the Gentiles are not allowed inside
the Temple for the AC to declare
himself god. The Gentiles are
only given the courtyard outside the
temple. The courtyard outside
the temple may be what is the Temple
Mount now with the two mosques.
? And at the same time the
Gentiles are trampling the holy city
for 42 months, the two witnesses are
empowered by God to prophecy for
1260 days...wouldn't they have been
in the Temple if it was
present? Or at some point,
prophecy from the Temple?
Hmmm. The Revelation doesn't
mention what happens to this temple,
if its really in Jerusalem."
MY REPLY:
For a long time I thought
that the angel in Rev. 11:1-2 wanted John
to measure the Temple of God in heaven
with its altar and worshippers, and leave
out the outer court and measure it not
because it was given to the gentiles who
trampled the holy city of Jerusalem for 42
months. However, there is no outer
court in heaven to outside the Temple of
God in heaven for the gentiles to trample
because they are unrepentant sinners and
they are on earth trampling the holy city
of Jerusalem which is also on earth.
So it makes more sense that the Temple of
God that the angel asks John to measure is
the Temple of God in the holy city of
Jerusalem on earth which is the same
Temple of God in 2 Thess. 2:4 in which the
son of perdition (Antichrist) "... so that
he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he
is God."
As for your
statement about no gentiles being
allowed in the Temple of God by the
Jews so that the Antichrist can't go
in there and declare himself as God,
that didn't stop the gentile
Antiochus Epiphanes from going into
'the holy place' in the temple in
Jerusalem and erecting an altar to
Zeus on top of the altar of burnt
offerings where unclean pigs were
sacrificed and from setting up a
statue of Zeus in there for the
people to worship which is "an
abomination of desolation." Likewise
the Antichrist's armies will
surround Jerusalem before entering
the city. He will then go inside the
rebuilt third temple of Jerusalem
and into 'the holy place' where the
abomination of desolation will be
set up and standing there in 'the
holy place' as prophesied for the
future by Jesus in Matt. 24:15 &
Mark 13:14 which were spoken of by
the prophet Daniel in Daniel 11:31
& 12:11.