Third temple

Jojo4124

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Do you think we will be here to see the third Jewish temple? My understanding of Revelation isn't strong. The AC sits in it n declares himself god...

According to sites like Temple Institute, the Jews are preparing for the 3rd temple. They've reproduced the artifacts...so neat to see...I'll link it...and a while ago I read that men with Levite (I think) heritage are training to perform OT priestly duties, including animal sacrifice.

It is exciting to me to see how they are preparing. It would be AMAZING to see the new temple in person....to imagine Jesus and the disciples visiting the temple in their day.

Please share any understanding of when the 3rd temple might be built. Like before the rapture or after, etc. What do you think?

https://templeinstitute.org/holy-temple-museum/

Sorry if the link doesn't work...
 

daygo

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Do you think we will be here to see the third Jewish temple? My understanding of Revelation isn't strong. The AC sits in it n declares himself god...

According to sites like Temple Institute, the Jews are preparing for the 3rd temple. They've reproduced the artifacts...so neat to see...I'll link it...and a while ago I read that men with Levite (I think) heritage are training to perform OT priestly duties, including animal sacrifice.

It is exciting to me to see how they are preparing. It would be AMAZING to see the new temple in person....to imagine Jesus and the disciples visiting the temple in their day.

Please share any understanding of when the 3rd temple might be built. Like before the rapture or after, etc. What do you think?

https://templeinstitute.org/holy-temple-museum/

Sorry if the link doesn't work...
Yes it's brilliant, but no imo we won't.
 

SkyRider

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I think it will happen during the Trib, and the longing to build it will happen after the Ezekiel 38 -39 devastation. We are told in those verses that it will become obvious that the Lord only has saved them during this invasion, and I think the spiritual reawakening of Israel will occur after this event. They will know that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has delivered them in a mighty way and the scales covering their blindness will come off.

And it might be that the great earthquake that is mentioned in those verses just might open up the chasm below the Temple Mount, that could possibly be hiding the location of the ancient Ark of the Covenant. Locating that artifact would really propel Israel to get the Temple rebuilt.

Or, just another scenario, I could see where the A/C would try to take credit for this deliverance - strong delusion, "who can make war the Beast", etc - and in an effort to get Israel to sign the "covenant with Death and Hell", would get the One World Religion leader/False prophet/the pope/RCC - if any of those apply - to produce and return the Ark of the Covenant and other Temple relics/icons/treasures that could have been stolen during the years of the Crusades.

All a big IF. I personally feel that the Ark is somewhere located below the Mount. If not there, maybe it was hauled away by the papacy during their campaigns into Israel. Either way, or by another means, if the Ark of the Covenant does get discovered, there will be a huge groundswell of the necessity to rebuild the Temple.
 

paul289

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The Dome of the Rock is going to have to go away, as I strongly believe that the rock underneath the stone was the threshing floor that David purchased and on which the Ark of the Covenant sat.
https://i0.wp.com/israelseen.com/sh...rock-leen-ritmeyer-closeup-holy-of-holies.jpg
Either an earthquake, the total defeat of Islam, or an accidental bombing of the Dome of the Rock will be required to remove it and make way for the building of the Temple. A less likely path of the Saudis and other Arab groups deciding that a 3rd Temple is more important than the Dome of the Rock is also possible, particularly with members of the Saudi royal family encouraging Israel to build a temple.
 

daygo

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All a big IF. I personally feel that the Ark is somewhere located below the Mount. If not there, maybe it was hauled away by the papacy during their campaigns into Israel. Either way, or by another means, if the Ark of the Covenant does get discovered, there will be a huge groundswell of the necessity to rebuild the Temple.
Some time ago I read from temple institute they know where the ark is and wont tell anybody till its time to bring it out, on the other hand saw a documentary that says the ark is being guarded elsewhere, cannot remember however where this place is.
 

Epieikes

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There has been a few locations mentioned: under the Mount; Ethiopia, and a couple of other places
Speaking of Ark, but not the Ark of the Covenant...it is fiction, but the late Dr. Tim Lahaye collaborated on a post-Left Behind series, Babylon Rising. The 2nd of the 4 volumes weaves in a lot of archaeological progress concerning Noah's Ark, presently and throughout time. Excellently done, IMO. I need to find the last two...thrifting, preferably!
 

SkyRider

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Speaking of Ark, but not the Ark of the Covenant...it is fiction, but the late Dr. Tim Lahaye collaborated on a post-Left Behind series, Babylon Rising. The 2nd of the 4 volumes weaves in a lot of archaeological progress concerning Noah's Ark, presently and throughout time. Excellently done, IMO. I need to find the last two...thrifting, preferably!
It has been discovered! It is in Kentucky.
 

Tall Timbers

Imperfect but forgiven
I think construction of the temple could begin while we're still here. It's within the realm of possibilities. We could see the Eze 38-39 war... or not. Does the Bible indicate that the antichrist authorizes the building of the 3rd Temple? If it does, I've missed that detail over the years.
 

SkyRider

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The Third Temple will be built on mount Seir in the city of David where the previous two Temple were built.
Not on the Temple Mount? I've heard those theories before, but don't believe them. Satan knew what he was doing by having the Mohammedans put up their Islamic Dome of the Rock - dedicated to a pagan moon god, with an inscription on it that reads “God has no son” - on the precise spot where the first two Temples stood. He knows where they were. Otherwise, he would have had those abominations built somewhere else.
 

daygo

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I think construction of the temple could begin while we're still here. It's within the realm of possibilities. We could see the Eze 38-39 war... or not. Does the Bible indicate that the antichrist authorizes the building of the 3rd Temple? If it does, I've missed that detail over the years.
Don't think so t.t with the 3rd temple building Don't think we'll be here for the ezekiel war either, imo can't see it happening for at least 5yrs.
 

Lovin Jesus

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The Dome of the Rock is going to have to go away, as I strongly believe that the rock underneath the stone was the threshing floor that David purchased and on which the Ark of the Covenant sat.
https://i0.wp.com/israelseen.com/sh...rock-leen-ritmeyer-closeup-holy-of-holies.jpg
Either an earthquake, the total defeat of Islam, or an accidental bombing of the Dome of the Rock will be required to remove it and make way for the building of the Temple. A less likely path of the Saudis and other Arab groups deciding that a 3rd Temple is more important than the Dome of the Rock is also possible, particularly with members of the Saudi royal family encouraging Israel to build a temple.
The temple built during the tribulation will not be of God. Read here

Christians get excited when they see efforts to rebuild the temple. At the same time, we should understand that the basic impulse behind rebuilding the temple is not of God at all – the desire to have a place to sacrifice for sin. Christians believe that all sacrifice for sin was finished at the cross, and any further sacrifice for sin is an offense to God, because it denies the finished work of Jesus on the cross.

Also, it is possible, probable the temple will be built on the Temole mount, even with the Dome of the Rock there because Revelation chapter 11 has the measurements of the temple that will be built but will leave the "outer courts to the Gentiles", Muslim nations are Gentiles.

"But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months."

Revelation 11:1-19

a. But leave out the court which is outside the temple: The outer court need not be measured because it has been given to the Gentiles. Perhaps this is because the outer courts of this rebuilt temple include the Islamic Dome of the Rock shrine, which currently stands on the temple mount and is a point of great contention between Jews and Muslims.

The can abomination of desolation occurs mid point of tribulation.

Source for this commentary comes from:
https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/revelation-11/
 

paul289

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I've heard some theories that the temple doesn't actually need to be built, since the word translated "temple" in Rev. 11:2 is the Greek "naos," which more accurately means "sanctuary," or the space within a temple where the throne or image of the god being worshipped sits. In this case, it would be the space above the Foundation Stone, within the Dome of the Rock. This would allow the Dome to remain standing, and the current Sanhedrin appears to be making plans to begin sacrifices on a portable altar in front of the Dome of the Rock, potentially without a red heifer, and without a Temple.

Now, this theory is a bit of a stretch, and I'm more likely to believe that the Temple will be built in a different location than not built at all. Even then, I think the Dome is going to get destroyed early on, likely during the Magog Invasion.
 
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