won’t be disappointed if you are right. Won’t be disappointed if Christ returns and raptures his people out before tribulation or after ‘the great tribulation’. Won’t be disappointed if He returns today, tomorrow or is already here. I used to be so scared because I was taught growing up that Christ was going to rapture His church (body) out before the great tribulation. Taught this to my children too even at a very young age to put everything into the rapture of the church. although I had no relationship with God and as you say ‘repeating what someone told me’. When some of the things I’d been repeating started to unravel and fall apart it terrified me that I no longer knew what the future looked like. no longer scared though, not knowing what the future looks like so even if you are right about this temple being built 3, 4, or haven’t some said even a fifth ...or about the antichrist being many, the old man of sin crucified in us all, or a single man; whoever is right..can they all be right, guess we will see. Only share with you what the word says to me at the moment: Christ is the body and resurrected restored Temple where the Spirit of God dwells. Living stones come together built up in Him. Do not understand or see why then God would cast down living stones which He brought to Life and built up a Holy Temple in Christ where the fullness of the Godhead dwells ‘bodily’.
Still would not be disappointed if you are right. One thing I have learned is God usually does things not like I imagined them. Even prayer, His way is always better than I imagined. About the rest, probably also better than imagined.
I trust that when the time comes, if you are still here for the coming tribulation, that you will have been better off for at least hearing about Christ's and His Apostle's warnings against deception for the end by a 'spurious Messiah' in Jerusalem.
When you see it come to pass, then you likely won't have the doubts you may have now, unless you allow yourself to be deceived with getting wrapped up in the excitement others may have in that time with their thinking that spurious Messiah is our Lord Jesus.
One of the ways we can tell a doctrine of man about the end is their disregarding Christ's Olivet discourse about the end of this world (Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21).
1. Futurists, Pre-tribulationalists wrongly teach that Christ's Olivet discourse was meant for Jews, what they call tribulation saints who go through the tribulation.
2. Preterists and Historicists try to move the time of Christ's Olivet discourse back in history to 70 A.D., just because Jesus mentioned how there wouldn't be one stone atop another there.
The reality is that our Lord Jesus was giving His Church 7 main Signs of the end of this world leading up to His 2nd coming. That's why the last Sign He gave in His Olivet discourse is about the event of His 2nd coming and gathering of His faithful Church. Those same 7 Signs are the 7 Seals of Revelation 6.