Regardless of where some would have us believe the idea of the Jews building a third temple in Jerusalem comes from (actually from Bible prophecy), the evidence for it is continuing. And its support has bled over into some supporting Christian outlets which should be a warning for those in Christ that understand the pseudo-Christ must appear first prior to our Lord Jesus' return.
Mike Oppenheimer gives a bit of history of the Zionist Jewish and Christian Zionist movements to build a third temple, and also its belief by Christian authors past and present. It's important to read the whole article to get the gist of what he's warning:
http://www.letusreason.org/b.hinn13.htm
The huge question is, just WHY would any Christian support Orthodox unbelieving Jews with building a third temple in Jerusalem and the reinstitution of the Old Covenant sacrificial priest caste system? The Orthodox unbelieving Jews do not believe what we as Christians do. They do not recognize Jesus of Nazareth as The Messiah, The Christ. And by the response Oppenheimer got from one Rabbi he wrote a letter to, the Jewish Rabbi unbelieving Jews don't support the concept of a flesh-born Messiah period, even describing such an idea as idolatry.
Some Christian brethren who support it that I've asked responded with ideas that helping to build it will help bring Christ's return, (as if our LORD needed help to return). That idea is only an excuse used to try and justify their support for building a third temple, while masking the greater sin it involves of denying that Christ Jesus is the Perfect Sacrifice for one and all time, and none other is ever needed. But that's not the real answer of what's behind their support of the Orthodox Jews and a third temple. What is then? I'm speaking of their Christian leaders which have taught them to use that kind of excuse. What are those Christian leaders really up to?
Like I said before, one of the major endtime events per Bible prophecy for the time just prior to our Lord Jesus' return is the coming of a pseudo-Christ, a fake Christ, a false messiah. This is what our Lord Jesus specifically warned us about in Matt.24:23-26 and in Rev.13:11-18, and by Apostle Paul in 2 Thess.2:3-4. That is who is to sit in the Orthodox Jew's rebult temple in Jerusalem, proclaiming himself as God. That's what the coming tribulation main event is going to be about upon us.
One of the main reasons why Dispensationalists on the Pre-Trib Secret Rapture (like Hinn, Lindsey, Ice, LaHaye, et al) would support the building of a third temple is because of how they think to be raptured by Christ prior to the tribulation. They believe by helping the unbelieving Jews to build it that will usher in Christ's coming and their pre-trib rapture all the more quickly. But there's a major problem many of them have missed. They are going to go through the tribulation like the rest of Christ's Church. They're not going anywhere, because our Lord Jesus does not return until after... the tribulation, like He said (Matt.24:29-31).
So 'who' does that put them in position to be fooled into worshipping as Christ instead? Are those like Hinn preaching that a pseudo-Christ will come prior to our Lord Jesus's return and gathering of His Church as written in God's Word? NO! They're preaching that our Lord Jesus will come first, and rapture us.
So, will there be a 'fake' rapture to the coming pseudo-Christ? Is the pseudo-Christ that comes first going to try and pull that off somehow, in order to trap those like Hinn that are only looking for our Lord Jesus to come first? I think somehow, some way, the psueod-Christ is going to fulfill that for them, to fool them into believing on him in place of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Mike Oppenheimer gives a bit of history of the Zionist Jewish and Christian Zionist movements to build a third temple, and also its belief by Christian authors past and present. It's important to read the whole article to get the gist of what he's warning:
http://www.letusreason.org/b.hinn13.htm
The huge question is, just WHY would any Christian support Orthodox unbelieving Jews with building a third temple in Jerusalem and the reinstitution of the Old Covenant sacrificial priest caste system? The Orthodox unbelieving Jews do not believe what we as Christians do. They do not recognize Jesus of Nazareth as The Messiah, The Christ. And by the response Oppenheimer got from one Rabbi he wrote a letter to, the Jewish Rabbi unbelieving Jews don't support the concept of a flesh-born Messiah period, even describing such an idea as idolatry.
Some Christian brethren who support it that I've asked responded with ideas that helping to build it will help bring Christ's return, (as if our LORD needed help to return). That idea is only an excuse used to try and justify their support for building a third temple, while masking the greater sin it involves of denying that Christ Jesus is the Perfect Sacrifice for one and all time, and none other is ever needed. But that's not the real answer of what's behind their support of the Orthodox Jews and a third temple. What is then? I'm speaking of their Christian leaders which have taught them to use that kind of excuse. What are those Christian leaders really up to?
Like I said before, one of the major endtime events per Bible prophecy for the time just prior to our Lord Jesus' return is the coming of a pseudo-Christ, a fake Christ, a false messiah. This is what our Lord Jesus specifically warned us about in Matt.24:23-26 and in Rev.13:11-18, and by Apostle Paul in 2 Thess.2:3-4. That is who is to sit in the Orthodox Jew's rebult temple in Jerusalem, proclaiming himself as God. That's what the coming tribulation main event is going to be about upon us.
One of the main reasons why Dispensationalists on the Pre-Trib Secret Rapture (like Hinn, Lindsey, Ice, LaHaye, et al) would support the building of a third temple is because of how they think to be raptured by Christ prior to the tribulation. They believe by helping the unbelieving Jews to build it that will usher in Christ's coming and their pre-trib rapture all the more quickly. But there's a major problem many of them have missed. They are going to go through the tribulation like the rest of Christ's Church. They're not going anywhere, because our Lord Jesus does not return until after... the tribulation, like He said (Matt.24:29-31).
So 'who' does that put them in position to be fooled into worshipping as Christ instead? Are those like Hinn preaching that a pseudo-Christ will come prior to our Lord Jesus's return and gathering of His Church as written in God's Word? NO! They're preaching that our Lord Jesus will come first, and rapture us.
So, will there be a 'fake' rapture to the coming pseudo-Christ? Is the pseudo-Christ that comes first going to try and pull that off somehow, in order to trap those like Hinn that are only looking for our Lord Jesus to come first? I think somehow, some way, the psueod-Christ is going to fulfill that for them, to fool them into believing on him in place of our Lord Jesus Christ.
