Before anyone starts in with the Greek, lets see hear about your background and degrees in Greek...if you don't have the papers to post, lets keep it in English.
As for Christ confirming a covenant...correct. Was it for a week/seven years? Nope.
Isa 28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
The covenant was made with antichrist. Posting past a post without answering it is simply drowning it out, it doesn't deal with the arugments. If the antichrist simply confirms or strengthens a pre-existing covenant still works. Many nations have covenants and many nations will make new covenants with Israel. The antichrist is will "cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease." A Temple must exist as the Bible states.
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Prophecies of a Millennial Temple:
Joel 3:18
Isaiah 2:3
Isaiah 60:13
Daniel 9:24
Haggai 2:7,9
Prophecies of animal sacrifices in the future Temple:
Isaiah 56:6,7
Isaiah 60:7
Jeremiah 33:18
Zechariah 14:16-21
Rom. 11:11-12
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall (sin/transgression) salvation is (now offered) come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
11:15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. (the Body of Christ/the Church) 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. see Hos. 2:14-23
Quote: Gaebelien points out that the glory of the Lord returns to this temple and makes His dwelling place there (Eze. 43:1-6). The same "glory" which Ezekiel saw departing from Solomon's Temple at the time of Judah's apostasy (Eze. 9:3; 10:4, 18; 11:22-23; cf. 43: 1-6). However, the glory cloud that left Solomon's temple did not return to the temple built by the Jewish remnant that returned to the land from Babylon. No glory filled that house as it does in the one described by Ezekiel. And significantly, unlike the temple built after the Babylonian captivity, Ezekiel's temple describes no high priests presiding over its worship, nor can the healing waters that flow from this temple in any way be applied to the restored temple built by the returned Babylonian remnant.
"For thus says the Lord, 'David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to prepare sacrifices continually '" (Jer 33:17-18). "Thus says the Lord, 'If you can break My covenant for the day, and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time, then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers. 'As the host of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me' " (Jer 33:20-22).
No where in plain Scripture is it taught that Jesus Christ Himself is now the fulfillment of the Temple, it does not reveal Him to be its fulfillment now during the present time or in the Millennial period to come. Jesus Christ is the fulfillment in the eternal state which is found only in the future, Replacement/Reformed theology is in error on this point.
After Christ's Millennial reign on earth God will create a New Heaven and a New Earth, and it is found in Scripture that the New Jerusalem 'comes down' out of heaven in Rev. 21. We read in Revelations that in this Holy City there is "no temple" (sanctuary) because "the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb (Jesus Christ) are its temple" (sanctuary, Rev. 21:22-23).
I understand the allegorical method employed, I don’t deny it’s merits and for the record I’m not a wooden/iron literalist either. It’s not my intention to change your theological opinion, I know how hard it is to change mine, I just want to encourage study so you will at least see the merits in the literal understanding of the millennium and the prophecies connected to it. After all, it was the understanding of the early Church until the time of Augustine.
As we read in Eze. 40 – 46 a revelation is given us, similar to the revelation given to ‘Moses fro the Tabernacle, and to David for the Temple.’ JND Synopsis of the Bible Understanding Scripture in a plain sense, we must believe that God will re-establish His Temple Sanctuary and the Sacrificial system during the millennium. The details given in the Word of God would make the Temple look like this:
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A picture can be found in the Companion Bible by E. W. Bullinger. See Appendix 88
Ezekiel is simply too exact to be understood in the ‘spiritual’ sense. In 2 Thess. 2:3-4 the apostle Paul tells us about the anti-Christ who ‘sitteth in the Temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.’ If anti-Christ is to be seated in the Temple, there has to be a Temple.
The issue of animal Sacrifices is a hard issue, but details are given in Eze. 40:39 – 42 and 43:18 – 46:24. It’s important to note, these animal Sacrifices are clearly different then those found in the Mosaic system with a few elements of the Mosaic system remaining. One theologian writes, ‘Doubtless these offerings will be memorial, looking back to the cross, as the offering under the old covenant were anticipatory, looking forward to the cross.’ We know that ‘it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins,’ Heb. 10:3 so if you believe different pls tell us what atonement means to you? Just as the Christian celebrates the Lord’s Supper as a memorial so will the Jewish nation have there’s in the context of the Jewish revelation and experience along Jewish characteristics.
Lets not forget the mention of the observance of the Sabbath! Isa. 66:20 – 23 reads, ‘the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me…’ and ‘…from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me…’ You can’t have your cake and eat it to. To spiritualize the millennium means everything in the Book of Revelations up to chpt. 21 has already happened, and we are now living in a golden millennial age, where the meek have inherited the new heavens and the new earth.
In Ezekiel 43:20, 26; 45:15, 17 we find some of the offerings presented during the Millennium, taking into consideration all that we've posted, I did a little research on the word 'atonement.' It means 'covering' and never means the putting away of sins. The OT sacrifices produced an outward ceremonial cleaness, a ritual purification on the people which allowed them to draw near as worshippers of God. We find sacrifices even made for inanimate things Ex. 29:37, no remission of sins can be had for inanimate things. Atonement in this day and age of theology has a deeper meaning then it did in the OT sense of the word, for instance, describing the work of Christ on the cross. The work of Christ has more of a reconciliation to God in mind (Rom. 5:11). The passages in Hebrews do not rule out any sacrificial ceremony in the future, but they insist that no future offerings can deal with sins any more then they did in the past.
So you see, Antichrist comes in and causes the renewed Temple and sacrifices to cease. This makes senese.
Peace,
jm
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