Will Ezekiel’s Temple be in operation at the battle of Armageddon?
“Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.” Daniel 11:31
Will this happen at Ezekiel’s Temple? Will it have to be rebuilt after the battle of Armageddon? Will a different Temple be in use on the eve of the battle of Armageddon? There’s no way to know till it happens.
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It is not clear if there are two battles of Armageddon or not. Satan will be bound for a thousand years, then released for a final battle where he is killed.
“Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the bottomless pit and a heavy chain in his hand. He seized the dragon—that old serpent, who is the devil, Satan—and bound him in chains for a thousand years. The angel threw him into the bottomless pit, which he then shut and locked so Satan could not deceive the nations anymore until the thousand years were finished. Afterward he must be released for a little while.” Revelation 20:1-3NLT
It would seem that the binding of Satan will involve a battle. It’s hard to tell. How do we interpret this:
“A day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls.
I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness. It will be a unique day—a day known only to the Lord—with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light.
On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.
The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.
The whole land, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up high from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses, and will remain in its place. It will be inhabited; never again will it be destroyed. Jerusalem will be secure.
This is the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. On that day people will be stricken by the Lord with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another. Judah too will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected—great quantities of gold and silver and clothing. A similar plague will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.
Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain. If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
On that day holy to the Lord will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar. Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the Lord Almighty, and all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord Almighty.” Zechariah 14
Is this prophecy referring to the beginning of Christ’s reign or the end or both?
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“But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” Galatians 5:22
“Patience can persuade a prince,
and soft speech can break bones.” Proverbs 25:15
“Finishing is better than starting.
Patience is better than pride.” Ecclesiastes 7:8
“Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” Colossians 3:12
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What is happening in heaven right now? Assuming Jesus has been placed on the throne (only visible to the church), one of his first orders of business is raising the saints:
“For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16
Solomon took the first half of his reign building the Temple. “At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the Lord and his own palace,” 2 Chronicles 8:1
“Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and yet You will raise it up in three days?” But He was speaking about the temple of His body.” John 2:19-21
Three days is understood to mean 3,000 years according to Psalm 90.
“And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by people, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For this is contained in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a choice stone, a precious cornerstone,
And the one who believes in Him will not be put to shame.” This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for unbelievers. “A stone which the builders rejected, This became the chief cornerstone,” 1 Peter 2:4-7
Jesus is currently building the Temple in heaven out of raised Christians. This will likely take several centuries.
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Will Jesus walk the earth again? “Yet as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
And at the last, He will take His stand on the earth.
Even after my skin is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I will see God,” Job 19:25-26
Will Jesus lead the troops that throw an human Satan into the lake of fire? Will David lead the troops?
“And My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes and follow them.” Ezekiel 37:24
“Nevertheless you will be brought down to Sheol,
To the recesses of the pit.
Those who see you will stare at you,
They will closely examine you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
Who made the world like a wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’ Isaiah 14:15-17
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“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-13
The opposite of love is hate or narcissism. It is impatient, controlling, envious, boastful, proud, self-seeking, sarcastic, angry, and malicious. It keeps every record of wrong and plots revenge. Hate always fails.
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Will the population in their first life shrink dramatically as the second born are increasing miraculously as happened in Egypt? Will the last of the first lifers die at Armageddon as Pharaoh’s entire army died in the Red Sea?
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“But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.” He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give, but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.” Matthew 20:22-23
“In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.” Colossians 2:11-12
Many are familiar with water baptism, but the real baptism is death.
“We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:4
The funny thing is we will all go through this baptism whether we like it or not, including non-believers!
There are some very interesting probabilities about the rebuilding of the temple, Esther, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Cyrus the great ordered the rebuilding of the temple in 536 BC after he conquered the Babylonians in 539 BC. Cyrus ruled from 550 BC to 530 BC. Darius I ruled 522 BC to 486 BC. Work resumed on the temple 521 BC to 517 BC as noted in Ezra. Xerxes ruled 486 BC to 475 BC. He is the one that had the beauty pageant that Esther won (Book of Esther). Xerxes’ son Artaxerxes ruled 475 BC to 424 BC. Artaxerxes decreed that Nehemiah could resume the completion of the temple. He probably knew Esther as a wife of his father Xerxes. Here is a good article: https://juniaproject.com/queen-cupbearer-connections-esther-nehemiah/
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Since the Jubilee starts during the Sabbath year, part of it is in the 49th year and not the fiftieth.
“And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land. And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family. A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you; in it you shall neither sow, nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat what it yields out of the field.” Leviticus 25:8-12
The Jubilee is the fiftieth year, yet it starts about half way through the forty-nineth year. This will have implications during the reign of Christ. Christ will reign a thousand years – a Sabbath millennium. Yet the Jubilee millennium will start about half way through this thousand years. The part of the Jubilee that is still in the seventh (49th) millennium will be different for the Jubilee of the 8th (50th) millennium. God is resting all during the 7,000 years since Adam’s fall. This includes Christ’s 1,000 year reign at the end of the 7,000. God cannot start the new creation until the 8,000 years commence. Thus the 470ish years of Jubilee at the back half of Christ’s 1,000 year Sabbath reign will be without new creation. It will be a joyous time of family reunion but without the magic of the new creation elements.
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