The tribulation temple and false peace - Part 1
Revelation 11:1-2 Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, “Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. 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.
This is stunning prophecy for our day. Only in the last 40 years would this passage make any sense to someone trying to understand the Book of Revelation. For the first time since these words were said to John the beloved, the conditions for this prophetic truth to actually happen are in place. This has never happened before. Daniel was told that this prophecy (also alluded to in Daniel 9 and 11) would make sense at the time the internet (dramatic increase in knowledge) and global travel developed. All three of these conditions happened in the 1960s and 1970s!
Jerusalem became a jewish city in 1967 at the exact same time the internet and mainstream global travel developed. All of these conditions would be necessary for God's end-time plan to be fulfilled, and the prophecy concerning the last temple before Jesus would be "unsealed":
Daniel 12:4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
The desire for a temple in Israel is the center of all that is happening politically in the earth right now. The temple on earth has always been a replica of the REAL TEMPLE in heaven. The temple is simply the place of God's throne. When you hear "God's Throne," you should picture the "heavenly temple." Heaven is wherever God dwells...right now, that is in the supernatural spirit realm...the Revelation 4 throne room...but HEAVEN IS SUPPOSED TO BE ON EARTH! That is the way God designed the garden and creation. God is going to get what He wants! Until He moves His throne back to earth (Rev 21), the earthly temple mount marks the location of the real temple when Jesus returns!
Right now there is no earthly temple for the living God of Israel. Instead, there is a temple for the false god Allah there. But John was told that there would be a very specific temple there in the near future, called the "tribulation temple." It will at first look like it is dedicated to our God, but God says it is false!
The tribulation temple is not a good temple. The Bible has a lot to say about the tribulation temple. One major prophecy is the one we just read in Revelation 11. The tribulation temple will be built as part of a "two-state solution." There will be a "temple" but it will be built in a way not in agreement with God! In fact, right outside the outer wall, it will be gentile territory..given over to a false God. Eventually, the antichrist himself, who makes construction of the tribulation temple even possible, will put his throne in there and demand to be worshiped. Until then, as part of their willingness to comply with antichrists demands, Jews will get a little patch to build the temple on, and all around it will be gentile...non-jewish...territory.
God says that building a temple that he is supposed to inhabit this way is evil (absent of His will). The tribulation temple that Israel will compromise her very God in order to build is evil. God says "you might as well offer humans, dogs, and pigs on that altar. But I will let you have the temple you want, and ALL that comes with it, Israel"
Isaiah 66:1-4 Thus says the Lord : “Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,” Says the Lord . “But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word. “He who kills a bull is as if he slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb, as if he breaks a dog’s neck; He who offers a grain offering, as if he offers swine’s blood; He who burns incense, as if he blesses an idol. Just as they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations, So will I choose their delusions, And bring their fears on them; Because, when I called, no one answered, When I spoke they did not hear; But they did evil before My eyes, And chose that in which I do not delight.”
God considers the temple evil because the peace treaty Israel bargains their soul away for to build it is evil. Israel is supposed to trust in the Messiah, Jesus, the Cornerstone the builders (the leaders of Israel) rejected. Instead, they are putting their trust in a man to save them. This man will look really good...really smart. He promises to make everything fair...hope and change...but his intentions are dark. He offers himself to the earth...and specifically to Israel...as a humanistic savior. This is the man the Bible calls the antichrist. When Israel trusts him to keep her safe, she chooses him to "play God" to her. He agrees, and promises to play God to Israel for 7-years. When he does that, he BECOMES the antichrist, and God calls the treaty that marks the day a "covenant with death."
Isaiah 28:14-19 Therefore hear the word of the Lord , you scornful men, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.” Therefore thus says the Lord God : “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily. Also I will make justice the measuring line, And righteousness the plummet; The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the hiding place. Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge passes through, Then you will be trampled down by it. As often as it goes out it will take you; For morning by morning it will pass over, And by day and by night; It will be a terror just to understand the report.”
Only in the last 40 years would this two-state concept make any sense!! Only this year would the highly pressured peace negotiations make sense. You are literally witnessing Biblical prophecy unfold before your very eyes...are you paying attention?!
The implications of this false peace and tribulation temple are massive for the generation that sees it happen. Paul said that when the earth is shouting "yay, peace" sudden destruction will fall on the whole earth:
I Thessalonians 5:1-5 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
Many people say "no one knows the day or hour" as an excuse to make Jesus' return a theological discussion instead of the sole reality of their lives. The disciples and apostles lived "all-in" because they were unwilling to settle in to life without Jesus. Jesus is unwilling to settle in to life without us. He desires to set a very intense fire because His zeal to be with us is so strong. He actually expects that His Bride would feel the same way about Him...in fact, He will only marry a Bride that DOES feel this way about Him! I wouldn't want a spouse that only felt strongly about me a few hours a week. I would only want a spouse who, if we were wrongly separated would do EVERYTHING she could to be back with me so we could move on with life as we intended it to be...because I would feel that way about her! This is what Peter meant when he said this:
II Peter 3:3-4, 9-12 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”...
... The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
Jesus' return only comes like a thief in the night for those that love life without Jesus as much, or more than, they long for life with Him...
Right now many Christians are distracted by their own dreams of life without Jesus. But He is actually visibly moving MAJOR events in the earth that were foretold 1,000s of years ago. This is the first time ANY of these things have happened. The simple reality of Israel brought back from non-existence in 1948 was MAJOR prophecy fulfilled.
Prophetic fulfillment is ramping up to the point where we are seeing major movement just about monthly. This is exactly what is supposed to happen. It is like a baby being born: the contractions get more regular, and more intense. This calls for preparation. Specific preparation in geographic locations. Am I preparing intentionally, or am I waiting to see?
This is stunning prophecy for our day. Only in the last 40 years would this passage make any sense to someone trying to understand the Book of Revelation. For the first time since these words were said to John the beloved, the conditions for this prophetic truth to actually happen are in place. This has never happened before. Daniel was told that this prophecy (also alluded to in Daniel 9 and 11) would make sense at the time the internet (dramatic increase in knowledge) and global travel developed. All three of these conditions happened in the 1960s and 1970s!
Jerusalem became a jewish city in 1967 at the exact same time the internet and mainstream global travel developed. All of these conditions would be necessary for God's end-time plan to be fulfilled, and the prophecy concerning the last temple before Jesus would be "unsealed":
Daniel 12:4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
The desire for a temple in Israel is the center of all that is happening politically in the earth right now. The temple on earth has always been a replica of the REAL TEMPLE in heaven. The temple is simply the place of God's throne. When you hear "God's Throne," you should picture the "heavenly temple." Heaven is wherever God dwells...right now, that is in the supernatural spirit realm...the Revelation 4 throne room...but HEAVEN IS SUPPOSED TO BE ON EARTH! That is the way God designed the garden and creation. God is going to get what He wants! Until He moves His throne back to earth (Rev 21), the earthly temple mount marks the location of the real temple when Jesus returns!
Right now there is no earthly temple for the living God of Israel. Instead, there is a temple for the false god Allah there. But John was told that there would be a very specific temple there in the near future, called the "tribulation temple." It will at first look like it is dedicated to our God, but God says it is false!
The tribulation temple is not a good temple. The Bible has a lot to say about the tribulation temple. One major prophecy is the one we just read in Revelation 11. The tribulation temple will be built as part of a "two-state solution." There will be a "temple" but it will be built in a way not in agreement with God! In fact, right outside the outer wall, it will be gentile territory..given over to a false God. Eventually, the antichrist himself, who makes construction of the tribulation temple even possible, will put his throne in there and demand to be worshiped. Until then, as part of their willingness to comply with antichrists demands, Jews will get a little patch to build the temple on, and all around it will be gentile...non-jewish...territory.
God says that building a temple that he is supposed to inhabit this way is evil (absent of His will). The tribulation temple that Israel will compromise her very God in order to build is evil. God says "you might as well offer humans, dogs, and pigs on that altar. But I will let you have the temple you want, and ALL that comes with it, Israel"
Isaiah 66:1-4 Thus says the Lord : “Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,” Says the Lord . “But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word. “He who kills a bull is as if he slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb, as if he breaks a dog’s neck; He who offers a grain offering, as if he offers swine’s blood; He who burns incense, as if he blesses an idol. Just as they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations, So will I choose their delusions, And bring their fears on them; Because, when I called, no one answered, When I spoke they did not hear; But they did evil before My eyes, And chose that in which I do not delight.”
God considers the temple evil because the peace treaty Israel bargains their soul away for to build it is evil. Israel is supposed to trust in the Messiah, Jesus, the Cornerstone the builders (the leaders of Israel) rejected. Instead, they are putting their trust in a man to save them. This man will look really good...really smart. He promises to make everything fair...hope and change...but his intentions are dark. He offers himself to the earth...and specifically to Israel...as a humanistic savior. This is the man the Bible calls the antichrist. When Israel trusts him to keep her safe, she chooses him to "play God" to her. He agrees, and promises to play God to Israel for 7-years. When he does that, he BECOMES the antichrist, and God calls the treaty that marks the day a "covenant with death."
Isaiah 28:14-19 Therefore hear the word of the Lord , you scornful men, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.” Therefore thus says the Lord God : “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily. Also I will make justice the measuring line, And righteousness the plummet; The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the hiding place. Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge passes through, Then you will be trampled down by it. As often as it goes out it will take you; For morning by morning it will pass over, And by day and by night; It will be a terror just to understand the report.”
Only in the last 40 years would this two-state concept make any sense!! Only this year would the highly pressured peace negotiations make sense. You are literally witnessing Biblical prophecy unfold before your very eyes...are you paying attention?!
The implications of this false peace and tribulation temple are massive for the generation that sees it happen. Paul said that when the earth is shouting "yay, peace" sudden destruction will fall on the whole earth:
I Thessalonians 5:1-5 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
Many people say "no one knows the day or hour" as an excuse to make Jesus' return a theological discussion instead of the sole reality of their lives. The disciples and apostles lived "all-in" because they were unwilling to settle in to life without Jesus. Jesus is unwilling to settle in to life without us. He desires to set a very intense fire because His zeal to be with us is so strong. He actually expects that His Bride would feel the same way about Him...in fact, He will only marry a Bride that DOES feel this way about Him! I wouldn't want a spouse that only felt strongly about me a few hours a week. I would only want a spouse who, if we were wrongly separated would do EVERYTHING she could to be back with me so we could move on with life as we intended it to be...because I would feel that way about her! This is what Peter meant when he said this:
II Peter 3:3-4, 9-12 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”...
... The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
Jesus' return only comes like a thief in the night for those that love life without Jesus as much, or more than, they long for life with Him...
Right now many Christians are distracted by their own dreams of life without Jesus. But He is actually visibly moving MAJOR events in the earth that were foretold 1,000s of years ago. This is the first time ANY of these things have happened. The simple reality of Israel brought back from non-existence in 1948 was MAJOR prophecy fulfilled.
Prophetic fulfillment is ramping up to the point where we are seeing major movement just about monthly. This is exactly what is supposed to happen. It is like a baby being born: the contractions get more regular, and more intense. This calls for preparation. Specific preparation in geographic locations. Am I preparing intentionally, or am I waiting to see?
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