Originally Posted by Church44
Originally Posted by SovereignGrace
Exactly what purpose would a rebuilt temple and animal sacrifice do? Seeing God wasn’t pleased with animal sacrifice to begin with, per per Isaiah 1:11, Hebrews 10:6,8? How would animal sacrifices in the future please Him
when they didn’t in the past? How would animal sacrifices give them right standing before Him in the future when they didn’t in the past?

Some people believe that the third temple needs to be rebuilt for the son of satan. Since the modern day Jews do not believe Messiah has come yet, they are looking for a savior to come and lead them to war against the enemies of Israel. This would be considered the great deception:

"(3) Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (4) Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." {2Th 2:3-4 KJV}

If there is a 7 year tribulation, and if there is an antichrist (the son of satan in the flesh); then there would need to be a temple for the son of satan to be worshipped as God. This temple would need to be built to fullfill prophecy and thus would require animal sacrifice so that antichrist can defile it.

The tribulation took place in AD 70 with the destruction of the temple and the ransacking of Jerusalem. I already covered 2 Thessalonians 2:4, so no need to rehash it. The man of lawlessness was already at work at the time Paul wrote that second letter to Thessalonica.


Plus, IIRC, those OT passages referring to a rebuilt temple were written prior to the second temple that was built in Ezra and Nehemiah.

“The foundation of knowledge is God’s revelation.” Dr. Greg Bahnsen

“In the New Testament the Lord Jesus Christ appears in order to fulfill the Old Testament hope of the Messiah. He presents himself as the king who has come to establish his kingdom in anticipation of his universal rule.” Dr. Kenneth Gentry

“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.” William Penn