2 Thessalonians 2:4 KJV
[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.
This seems to be the go to verse for all the one man Antichrist promoters.
The Apostle Paul Spent the majority of his ministry revealing to the body that we are the temple. He himself was even present at the stoning of Steven after he had said to the religious leaders that the most high doesn’t dwell in houses made with hands.
I cannot see Paul at this time in his life having any reverence for that structure that was standing there in Israel.
"I cannot see Paul at this time in his life having any reverence for that structure that was standing there in Israel."
Nor God.
Rev 11: We are told that the temple of God will be the latest temple built by Jews in Jerusalem to renew their worship and bloody sacrifices according to Old Testament law. The same people who would do as their fathers who killed the prophets and the Son. In fact they will do so with at least two witnesses, that will prophecy in similitude to Old Testament powers.
And this 'temple' built by bloody hands and reprobate hearts, worshipping in a false religion called the Jews' religion, will be called by Scripture: the temple of God?
No way. The only temple of God today and forever, other than the body of Christ, would be built by God Himself and will be seen opened in heaven (11:19). God is in His temple in heaven, which is His temple, and the earth His footstool. The outer court of the temple of God is now earth, and it is the 'nations' that trample it, which includes that of the Jews.
There is no more Jew
or Gentile, but only the nations and people and tribes of the earth. Since the Jews' killed the One sent by God to fulfill His promise to Abraham's seed, that promise is now with the seed of faith only. The natural seed of Jacob's tribes, who still call themselves Jews, are cut off from God just as every other unbeliever on earth. And they can be grafted in again, just like any other that repents and believes Jesus. In fact, God goes so far as to refuse to acknowledge they are even Jews anymore. Jesus calls them liars, who say they are Jews and are not, because the only Jew before God is now circumcised of the heart, not of the flesh only. (Rom 2)(Rev 2)
The prophecies of the last days with God
one last time turning to His own people natural Israel to repent has been accomplished in the coming of Jesus. He confirmed the promise to His own first (Rom 15), and His own received Him not (John 1), and now His own are only they that believe Him. There is no more one last time to come, because we have already been in that last time since the apostles (1 John 2).
The flesh and the natural seed of the flesh and the buildings and temples made with hands of flesh mean
absolutely nothing to God anymore. It is all by Spirit and by grace and by faith from the heart in His Son Jesus.
People still want to insist another
last last time is coming, when God will ignore all the other inhabitors of the earth, to turn to a people that He does not even know, and who no longer have any relationship with Abraham as his seed, which now is only that of promise and faith (Gal 4). Christians are now the only seed of Abraham honored by God. We are now the children of Isaac by promise, and the natural seed and blood are the children of the bondwoman Hagar. We are the Jews and Israel of God, and those without faith in Jesus, who would still call themselves 'Israel and Jew' are liars. The world may accept their title, not God. That nation in Palestine today called 'Israel', is just another nation among nations on earth, and they worship in a false state religion, called the Jews' religion.