Digging - excellent point made. There will be no Temple built. The Bible does not at all state that a third Temple will be built.
Just because a Moslem Mosque has been built over the Threshing floor of Jehu does not make it any less Holy. The mosque just make the rock desolate of its proper Temple. As of right now - that Mosque is an abomination - it is unclean, it is not sanctified by Yahweh. And it does make the Holy site desolate. Can a certain man stand inside that Mosque as a human figure of the Abomination of Desolation .... > Yes.
I would suggest a slight amendment to your statelement, Ezekiel's temple that is built during the Millenium is the third Temple.
When not taken out of context - Ezekiel chapter 37 and onward are easily understood.
Ezekiel 37 is covering the first resurrection.
Actually, I see Ezekiel 37 as the second resurrection, the one listed in Rev 20:11-12
Ezekiel 38 and 39 is covering Armageddon.
And I see this as a war that occurs after the return of Christ...
Eze 38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Here is Israel after the decimation of the Time of Jacob's trouble, after being brought back to the land fomr all the nations they will be scattered in.
Eze 38:9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
Eze 38:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
Eze 38:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of
unwalled villages; I will go to them that are
at rest, that
dwell safely, all of them
dwelling without walls, and
having neither bars nor gates,
Only time this can refer to is at the beginning of the Millenium...
Isa 14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Isa 14:5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
Isa 14:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
Isa 14:7
The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
Not in this age.
Isa 14:8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
Isa 14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Isa 14:10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Isa 14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Isa 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Satan after Lev 16 and Rev 20:1-3
40 and onward is describing the New Temple aka New Jerusalem.
This is the Temple during the Millenium, the one that comes about in Zech 14:
Zec 14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Isa 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Mic 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Ah but of course the Millenium. I don't subscribe to it. I see this as one day. Meaning, Satan is bound for one day and Christ Rules for one day. Another way to say it, Christ descends to Earth, ascends the Holy Mount Zion with all of his saints and Rules for one day there. Satan is bound for a day giving world leaders an opportunity to maker up their minds. After a 24 hour period, 1 day, Satan is loosed for about 8 to 9 days. In which he will convince man to turn against Christ, since man will not think he is Christ anyways by then, so why fear fighting God eh? Ezekiel 40 this is after the present system is destroyed.
And on this we greatly differ...
Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
It really is one thousand years.
