Temple Mount and Dome of the Rock!
Question: What is the Dome of the Rock, and why was it built on top of the Temple Mount?
A great deal of antagonism and conflict surrounds the apparent Jewish Temple Site in Jerusalem currently, between Muslims, Jews and Christians.
The apparent location of the 1st Temple built by Solomon in the 10th Century BC (BCE= BC; CE=AD; these symbols are used to avoid ref. to Christ’s birth date by various commentators); is now occupied by the Islamic “Dome of the Rock”, and the “Al-Aqsa Mosque’s”; these were started by order of Caliph Abd al-Malik, and completed by his successors; and have been on that Site since approx. AD 691. There have been various re-builds to both, especially after earthquakes.
The next Temple? Note: There is some dispute and doubt as to whether this is the same Temple as "the Anti-Christ" Temple described by Jesus in the New Testament! The reasoning is that Jesus referred to "the Holy Place" in Matt. 24:15; which would indicate a Dedicated Temple. The probability is that it will be a Temple, built by the Jews using the specification shown in Ezek. 40-48, to conform with their religious standing in their Torah! However; as it is used by the Jews with the permission of the personage known in Scripture as "the man of sin"; i.e. "the Anti-Christ"; it will not be sanctioned and Blessed by the Almighty; and His “Sheckinah” will not be present! This means that what the Jews will revere as sacred, (i.e. the holy place), is not so; and will not be until God's Temple is built by The Messiah, and the “Sheckinah” will occupy at that point, Ezk. 43:1-6!
If this thinking is correct, there will be a 3rd Temple, as described above, which will be renewed or destroyed at the end of the Tribulation period; and the 4th Temple will be the Kingdom/Millennial Dwelling of Jehovah God, and His Son Messiah Christ Jesus; and they will Rule the world together; "and their Name shall be One" (Zech. 14:9)!
See:
http://www.revelationsmessage.co.uk/Third%20Jewish%20Temple.htm
http://www.revelationsmessage.co.uk/The%20Temple.htm
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