President Trump has repeated several times when referring to this peace deal: paraphrase: the biggest thing since 3,000 years or at least 500. So what happened about 3,000 years ago?
Answer:
United Kingdom of Israel: The traditional date for King David becoming king is 1006 BC, marking the start of a "golden age" for the kingdom under his rule and his successor, Solomon.
Things that make you go hmmmm.
What happened about 500 years ago? Several things, including Protestant Reformation and the discovery of America by Columbus. What just happened? Trump signed an EO bringing back Columbus Day as the holiday and ditching indigenous people day at the federal level.
Things that make you go hmmmm.
The original contention I responded to was "Protestant reformation gave rise to the end day prophesies".
You say Luther hated Jews, which is true. He also heavily influenced the council of Trent which was the final round of canonization of the 66 books of the bible.
So then, in the 1500s, over 4 centuries after the final book of the bible was written, the 66 books were canonized and a large number of those who participated in the council of Trent didn't like Jews.
That only makes my point, that Protestants didn't invent end day prophesies to prop up modern day Israel. They didn't like Jews, so why would they?
Nevertheless, the canonized books have many references to Jerusalem being controlled by Jews in the end times. It's not a fabrication of modern day Protestants (or even 1500s Protestants), it's the word of God.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
Explain how that can happen if there is no Temple in Jerusalem, if Jerusalem isn't under control by Jews.
You don't have to like Jews to recognize that Jews have to exist in order for prophesies of God to come true, and those words aren't a fabrication of Protestants.
My understanding, and belief, is that the temple is the body of Christ, not a brick and mortar building. When Jesus Christ said he was the stone that the builders rejected, and again, when he said "Destroy this temple and it will rise up again in three days". With baptism and confessing God in Christ as our savior, the temple is built, and it goes on building, with each conversion and with each renewal of Faith. Only God knows the number of souls it will take to complete his temple. Jews existed to complete the line of David, in the birth of Jesus.Which is why the Messiah prophesied in Isaiah was not born in China or the New World, or to non Jewish parents.
The verse is this:
So you think the anti-Christ will pretend he's God and sit in you? How does that even make sense?
No. I believe end times prophecy that declares a temple must be built in Jerusalem, before Christ returns, has led many to be misled, and taken too literally. Christ is the temple, his Holy Spirit fills those with Faith, and removes the sense of self, we become alive again, with a new life, filled with the Holy Spirit, which is why we remove from our lives sins of the flesh, sins of thought, seeing through a glass darkly. We, as Christians, are the New Jerusalem. It is not geographic, it is Universal.
Again, this is the scripture. I'm going to substitute "temple of God" with ________.
You think "Christ" belongs in that slot? You think the anti-Christ is going to sit in "Christ"?
Everyone is bending themselves into a pretzel trying to make the temple not a real physical temple, and not a single suggestion makes the verse make sense.
Not actually difficult, demons whisper and tickle the ear of mortal men all the time, and if the Holy Spirit isn't in you that leaves space for demons to come in.
Not saying that interpretation is correct.
But the 3rd Temple being the body of Christ (The Church, via Communion), is basic Ecclesiology and Christology. A temple not made with human hands.
There are preterist interpretations of that verse, that it applies to AD 70 not a future theoretical 3rd temple building. Julian the Apostate tried and failed to build such. As Christians it would behoove us not to be on Team Julian at a minimum.
Catholics call the daily mass “the daily sacrifice of the mass,” which makes me wonder if the daily sacrifice that is stopped is this one. Also that the anti christ may set up in the Vatican when he stops the daily sacrifice. Just a theory. You would have to have a deeper understanding of what the sacrifice of the mass is though.