Ezekiel 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Isaiah 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Satan was the one who claimed himself to be his own god and his kingdom (which is a lesser magnitude than Gods) is that of this world and who he works through in order to claim that he will sit in the seat of God (or rise above God and sit in His heavenly seat) and also sit upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north (Jerusalem).
Rev 13 the beast that rises from the sea gives power to the son of perdition that rises from the earth as being the false prophet. The son of perdition who is the false prophet will take his seat on the same ground where the Temple of God use to stand and his sanctuary as a government kingdom of nations on the sides of the north meaning taking over the seat of Jerusalem in that of a political, economic and religious power (NWO).
The Temple in the OT was the sanctuary of God here on earth as God from His heavenly throne (sanctuary) worked through those He chose to be His servants (priest) here on earth. In the NT Jesus spoke of the temple being his body and that he is the chief cornerstone, John 2:19-22. Eph 2:19-22; 1Peter 2:5. We who are in Christ indwelled with the Holy Spirit are now that temple of God not made of stone built by hand, but built of the foundation of Christ being our cornerstone, 1Cor 6:19; 2Cor 6:16. We are of the heavenly sanctuary where Gods seat is from above as we reign with Christ here on earth.
There is no purpose or reason why an actual Temple would have to be built for the veil has been torn from top to bottom, Matthew 27:51, and God is no longer in a Temple of stone built by hands.
Another rebuilt temple is required only if you are a dispensationalist as they take what Daniel said in 9:27 and 12:11 to be a third Temple, but nowhere in these two verses does it speak of a third Temple.
Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
The Book of Daniel was written after Solomon's temple had been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. (2 Kings 25:8-9; Dan. 1:1-2) and before the temple had been rebuilt by the returning exiles (Ezra 6:13-15). It was this post-exile rebuilt temple that was desecrated by Antiochus Epiphanes around 170 B.C. After a period of misuse and disuse, the temple was in need of repair. Herod the Great restored and enlarged this rebuilt second temple, a project that started around 20 B.C. and was completed just a few years before it was destroyed in A.D. 70. It was this same temple that Zacharias served in (Luke 1:9), that Jesus was taken to as an infant (2:27), that had been under construction forty-six years (John 2:20), that Jesus cleansed of the money changers (Matt. 21:12), that He predicted would be left desolate (Matt. 23:38; 24:2), and that was finally destroyed by Titus in A.D. 70.
Third-temple advocates find support for their position in Revelation 11:1-2. They begin by assuming that Revelation was written nearly three decades after the temple was destroyed. From this unproven assumption, they conclude that John must be measuring a rebuilt temple. The passage says nothing about a rebuilt temple. The words "shortly" and "near" (Rev. 1:1, 3) are used to describe the time when the events outlined in Revelation were to take place. These words are meaningless if the events have not taken place. The fact that John is told to rise and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who worship in it (11:1), is not evidence that the temple was still standing when John received the revelation. How could John have measured a temple that did not exist in his day?
Matthew 24:1,2 Jesus is speaking about a literal Temple, since in the context of the passage he is standing and looking directly at the second Temple. The same was true of John. He was told to measure the Temple that still had worshipers in it. If the temple was no longer standing, then John was measuring a "spiritual temple."
Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand
(read this without the punctuation and the words spoken of by Daniel the prophet and run all the words that Jesus spoke in this chapter. you will see the events as they take place are that of a literal word.
When you therefore see the abomination of desolation stand in the holy place then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains.
Matthew 24:1-31 Jesus is speaking of a greater tribulation, not some 7 year "Great Tribulation" that is nowhere found in scripture, of that time when He walked the earth up until the time of His second coming for His Bride. The final abomination of desolation will be that of a one man (beast) rule of power given to him by the dragon Satan, Rev 13:11-18, that will be that of a one world government, economic and religious power that everyone will be forced to bow down to just as King Nebuchadnezzar tried to force Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel 3:13-30. This abomination of desolation takes place in the holy place of Christ temple, John 2:19-22. Eph 2:19-22; 1Peter 2:5, and just like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego we need to stand in the faith of Christ to not bow down to this antichrist system as we need not fear that which has to take place before the day of the Lord, Rev 2:10; Matthew 10:28
Yes. God is sending them strong delusion so that they believe the lie.
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
- And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie
The man of sin and the miracles and the temple are all a part of the strong delusion God is sending to those who refuse to love the truth.
This principle is found in the OT.
“If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 13:1-3
