Jews Banned from Temple Mount Where Christ Will Come -

JEWS BANNED. Last week the state of Israel announced that no non-Muslims could visit the Temple Mount. This came after a record 4,625 Jewish visitors entered the Mount during the Passover holiday. This year the Passover holiday coincided with Ramadan. That triggered a wave of Palestinian violence that claimed 14 Israeli lives.

But no one reported any violence from Jews or Christians. Still, Muslims alone now dominate the Temple Mount until further notice. So why does the Mount have such importance to Jews and Christians?

Because they both believe that when the Messiah will returns, He will come to the temple.

“’And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,’ says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord offerings in righteousness” (Mal 3:1-3).

The Jewish Temple Institute has already prepared all the furniture and vessels that the temple will need. And it has trained Levitical priests to make offerings of animals once the temple is built.

Faith in Christ, not Government

But who will allow them to build it and make sacrifices? The Israeli government? Actually, Daniel says that the Antichrist “will make a firm covenant with the many” to allow sacrifices. But after 3 ½ years “he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering” (Dan. 9:27). Then he “takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying Himself as being God” (2 Thess. 2:4).

Christ will have to defeat him and the nations’ armies which follow him, before He enters His temple. Then He will purify the temple which the Antichrist has defiled. His glory will not only dwell there, it will fill Israel and the earth during His 1,000 year reign.

So we must put our faith in Him, not the government, to end the usurpation of the Temple Mount. Then there “will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace” (Isa. 9:6). Not only Palestinian but every kind of violence will end. For His glory will fill the temple, and then Israel, and then the whole earth (Isa. 6:3).