The prophecy in Daniel 9:27 has nothing to do with building a third temple. In fact, it specifically refers to the franchising of man-made temples all over the world (by their various names, e.g. churches, synagogues, mosques, etc.) as "the overspreading of abominations He shall make [it] desolate".
With regard to the Scripture in support of this view, please see the following is an excerpt from the article "
Christian Zionism For Dummies", which addresses this myth in detail.
A Third Man-Made Temple? Be serious.
When king David asked God if he could build a house for Him to live in, God answered:
“Shalt thou build Me an house for Me to dwell in? Whereas
I have NOT dwelt in [any] house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. In all [the places] wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people Israel, saying, Why build ye not Me an house of cedar (
2 Sam 7:4-7)?”
God, Who created
everything, is
NOT a man, nor the son of man (
Num. 23:19,
John 4:24), and thus has no need for a
physical house. He lives in the hearts and minds of everyone that invites Him
in to live
with them, so He can teach them how to be good (like God).
Why do you think the
PEOPLE were referred to as the “House” of Israel and the “House” of Judah? The people, whom God created, were to be His House,
NOT some man-made building. And why do you think the
symbolic place of God was initially a tent/tabernacle? Because a tent/tabernacle can easily be taken with you wherever you go.
However, because king “David” had been God’s “well-beloved” servant, and to serve as a lesson to mankind, God decided to allow David’s son, Solomon, to build Him a house (temple), on
Mt. MORIAH, where Abraham had taken
Isaac, to offer him as a
sacrifice to God, centuries before.
That temple, or church, is the
ONLY one that God has
EVER given man permission to build, and it is Satan and his priests (who
blasphemously claim to work for God) who have built
ALL the others, of
EVERY denomination (
Matt. 6:5-6,
Sura 7:55,
Sura 9:107-109).
And what did God ultimately do with that temple? After it became a den of thieves, as
ALL man-made temples eventually do, Solomon’s Temple was
DESTROYED not once but
TWICE; the second time so utterly that there wasn’t so much as one stone left upon another (
Matt. 24:1-2). This was to leave
NO DOUBT that God does
NOT dwell in temples made with
human hands (Satan and his priests do –
2 Thess. 2:3-5,
2 Cor 11:13-15).
Any Christian who believes that the “Wailing-Wall” in Jerusalem is part of The Temple is calling Jesus a liar and is, by definition, antichrist.
Acts 7:48
7:48 Howbeit
the most High dwelleth NOT in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
7:49 Heaven [is] My throne, and Earth [is] My footstool: what house will ye build Me? saith the Lord: or what [is] the place of My rest?
7:50 Hath not My hand made all these things?
Acts 17:24-25
17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and Earth,
dwelleth NOT in temples made with hands;
17:25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though He needed any thing, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
The third “temple” is, and ALWAYS has been, SPIRITUAL
as it says repeatedly throughout Scriptures.
The Spiritual Meaning of Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Revelation 11:19 And
the Temple of God was opened IN HEAVEN, and there was seen in
His Temple the “(lost) Ark of His Covenant”: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
Revelation 14:17 And another angel came out of the “Temple”
which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Revelation 16:17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of
the Temple of heaven, from the Throne, saying, It is done.
Revelation 21:1-2, 21-23
21:2 And I John saw the Holy City,
“New Jerusalem”, coming
DOWN from God
OUT OF HEAVEN, prepared as a Bride adorned for her husband.
21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God [is] with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.
21:21 And the twelve gates [were] twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the City [was] pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
21:22 And
I SAW NO TEMPLE THEREIN: FOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY AND THE LAMB ARE THE TEMPLE OF IT.
21:23 And the city had no need of the Sun, neither of the Moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the Light thereof.
It is
arrogance that blinds one to their own
ignorance, in this case of the Scriptures. How could someone possibly think God wants us to build another
physical temple with human hands when they have a 100% fail rate on this planet? God has already destroyed it
twice. How many times does He need to do it until you “get it”? Every single one of them (churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, etc.) has been built without His permission and then used to enrich a handful of greedy,
evil so-called “religious” leaders (
criminals really) at the expense of everyone else, teaching satanic
materialism (“crime pays”) instead of Godliness and “self” sacrifice (
Matt. 6:24,
Luke 9:23).
Solomon’s Temple was supposed to be a reminder of
OBEDIENCE to God
onlyand
SACRIFICE for the common good. Instead, it was turned into a money-making scam and then used as the business model to franchise them everywhere.
These priests, pastors, rabbis, imams, etc., are “the blind leading the blind”
exactly as Christ warned us (
Matt. 15:13-14). If they were not blind they would be terrified to be priests. Do you really think people would be so anxious to build another
FAKE temple to Satan, if they could see the truth that
any attempt to build another temple
WILL BE reduced to ashes, along with its supporters (see
Jer. 23:1-5,
Eze. 34:1-10,
23,
Mal. 4,
Matt. 6:1-8,
Matt. 23,
Sura 7:55,
Sura 9:107-109)?
We need to purify our own temples through
obedience to God (
Deut. 30:15-20), discipline (the hallmark of Discipleship) and
self-sacrifice (
Luke 9:23,
Gal. 2:20) to make them fit for
spiritual habitation. Obedience and self-sacrifice are the pillars of God’s
TRUE temple. Why do you think every body has a temple on either side of their head? So that God can dwell between them. How obvious does it have to be, before
you “get it”?
1 Corinthians 3:16-20
3:16 Know ye not that
ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth
in you?
3:17 If any man defile the Temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the Temple of God is holy,
which [temple] ye are.
3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
3:19 For the wisdom of this world is
foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are
worthless.
1 Peter 2:4-8
2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a
SPIRITUAL house, an holy channel, to offer up
SPIRITUAL sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief Corner-Stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth him shall not be confounded.
Revelation 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the Temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, [which is] New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and [I will write upon him] my NEW name.
There is only one Temple that needs building, and fortunately for all of us, the Chief-Cornerstone of it has already been laid on a
SURE foundation.
