Let’s go back to the future Temple in Jerusalem.
In this post, I’m going to go back to the future and remind everyone that there will be a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. I wrote several articles covering this topic. The subject also came up as a side-note in many more articles. It was an important topic in Jesus’ discussions regarding the last days. The Apostle Paul included this key event. And John, in the Book of Revelation, lays out details of a temple. He even writes down specific measurements. These facts and other key passages should persuade the careful student to avoid lazy theology. A lazy theologian will insist that there is no need for a future temple. If that is the case, then why do Jesus, John, Paul, and Daniel, provide details of this last-day temple?
In the Book of Ezekiel, we can read eight whole chapters of details about this spectacular building. (It is a fair argument to make that Ezekiel’s temple could and probably is the fourth temple.)
The rebuilt temple will be a key factor in determining the timing of events as we draw near to the time in which the Lord will come on the clouds of glory and begin cleansing this world of its darkness.
Fai Ministries with Joel Richardson teaching on the Rebuilt Temple
Back to the future was God’s plan for the prophets.
Of course, the phrase back to the future reminds many of us of the popular movie. But the phrase fits well with the work of God’s prophets. That’s clear when you read carefully through the words and chapters of every Old Testament writer. And the same applies to the early church writers. You see, they lived among the people and events of their day. God’s Word of prophecy was first intended to influence the people who first heard the messages.
But always, the Lord led the prophets back to the future. There are many things I like to keep bringing up in my writing. One of them is this: The Bible is God’s story. It’s like any other book. It has a beginning, a middle, and an ending. And to that end…pun intended, God kept bringing his chosen writers back to the subject of future events. In those future events, we find the “happily ever after, that’s in many of the greatest stories written. The Lord wants us to never forget what happens in the end.
But too many Christians think it’s all about war, plagues, and the Antichrist. But it’s about Jesus and his return to restore everything into perfect harmony.
Get excited about this great ending to God’s story.
Daniel 11:36
Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
Revelation 13:6,7
And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven…
Daniel 7:25
He will speak out against the Most-High and oppress the saints of the Most-High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.
The Bible Project gives us a great video to understand God’s Temple
Let me know what you think.