Even if the Jews build a replica temple, I wonder how it could really rightly be called "The Temple of God" anyway.
The Temple which existed in Paul's and Jesus' day was rightly called the Temple of God, because it functioned to carry-out God's requirements under the Covenant, Moses' covenant.
But a future temple wouldn't exist to carry-out God's requirements, God's covenant. It would likely serve instead as a monument to the Jews' rejection of God's covenant, a rejection of God's requirement to believe in His Son.
The only temple, in which sacrifices are offered, which could rightly be called The Temple of God, was therefore the Temple which had been built at a time when God still required those sacrifices. And that was the Temple of Paul's day.
Paul seems to be speaking endearingly of the Temple, as God's own Temple. How awful that someone would oppose the very worship that God Himself had sanctioned in it!
Whereas it would be no biggy if an unbeliever comes and puts an end to all the unbelief being carried out in a building built only because of unbelief in the first place.
The Temple which existed in Paul's and Jesus' day was rightly called the Temple of God, because it functioned to carry-out God's requirements under the Covenant, Moses' covenant.
But a future temple wouldn't exist to carry-out God's requirements, God's covenant. It would likely serve instead as a monument to the Jews' rejection of God's covenant, a rejection of God's requirement to believe in His Son.
The only temple, in which sacrifices are offered, which could rightly be called The Temple of God, was therefore the Temple which had been built at a time when God still required those sacrifices. And that was the Temple of Paul's day.
Paul seems to be speaking endearingly of the Temple, as God's own Temple. How awful that someone would oppose the very worship that God Himself had sanctioned in it!
Whereas it would be no biggy if an unbeliever comes and puts an end to all the unbelief being carried out in a building built only because of unbelief in the first place.
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