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"sacrifice and offering" By The Jewish People, Must First Be Re-established, In Order For The Antichrist To, "put an end to sacrifice and offering"

"Adam was but human - this explains it all.  He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden." - Mark Twain 1835-1910

The payment for sin is always death. "For the wages of sin is death" - Romans 6:23a (NIV)  The just punishment for sin is death.  God's perfect justice required man to die, for man's sin.  When man sinned, man had to die as punishment, for that sin.  Because of their sin, Adam and Eve deserved to die.  Because YOU have sinned, YOU deserve to die.

God's Love provided a way of balancing God's perfect justice. 

2 Samuel 14:14 (NIV) Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him.

God's Love immediately  revealed a Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice clause within God's perfect order; to compensate for YOUR sin, and allow YOU to have atonement with God.  Atonement means at-one-ment, for YOU to become one in a relationship with God, or reconciled to God.  Hebrews 9:22 referencing Leviticus 17:11, demands a Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice for atonement for sins.

Hebrews 9:22 (NIV) In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Leviticus 17:11 (NIV) For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.

God's redemptive Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice plan was put into effect immediately after Adam and Eve committed sin, when God clothed Adam and Eve with animal skins. 

Genesis 3:21 (NIV) The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

The fig leaves that Adam and Eve clothed themselves with were not adequate.  The Lord God took animal skins and clothed Adam and Eve. An animal had to die to cover the nakedness that became apparent to Adam and Eve after they sinned.  The Lord God (Jesus Christ) was functioning in His capacity as High Priest when He sacrificed the animals in order to acquire their skin.

God's redemptive Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice plan was more clearly revealed, when God accepted Abel's sacrifice, but rejected Cain's sacrifice.  Cain, Adam and Eve's first born son, offered a sacrifice of grain as atonement for sin, but Able offered a sacrifice of flesh. Cain's sacrifice of grain was not accepted by God.  Abel's sacrifice of flesh was accepted.  (An animal had to die as punishment to atone for Abel's sin.)

Genesis 4:2b-5 (NIV) Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. 4 But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

Like man, animals were created with, "the breath of life" - Genesis 2:7; and like man, animals were created with blood, "For the life of a creature is in the blood" - Leviticus 17:11a (NIV), but animals were created without a soul.  Part of the purpose for the creation of animals, is that they would die as an atoning Blood-Substitution Sacrifice for man, until the atoning Blood-Substitution Sacrifice of Jesus Christ; when Jesus Christ was Crucified on the Cross. God created animals without a soul, in order that something living, that had "the breath of life" in it, that had blood in it; could die as a substitution for the punishment that man deserved, because man had sinned. The animals who were sacrificed did suffer and did die as punishment for a man's sin, but the animals do not have a soul and exist forever as man does, and consequently the suffering and punishment for sin was horrible, but was temporary. Because man has a soul and will exist forever, when a man dies and is punished for his own sin, then it is horrible and eternal!  The animals who were sacrificed as an atoning Blood-Substitution Sacrifice for man, would cease to exist because they have no soul, in order to keep man who has a soul from existing in an eternal death in Hell.

In God's perfect Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice plan, the suffering and punishment of the animals was temporary.  Because the animals had no chance for eternal suffering as the animals do not have a soul, the forgiveness that the animal sacrifice afforded was also temporary. Consequently, animal sacrifice was required day after day, year after year. As Jesus Christ has a soul, and will live forever, the Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice of Jesus Christ the man, perfectly balanced the scales of God's justice, and consequently, the atonement is eternal.

Jesus Christ was Crucified, horrendously sacrificed and killed on a Cross, as a Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice punishment for the sin that YOU personally have committed, in order that YOU may have a restored relationship - atonement (at-one-ment) with God.

1 John 3:4-10 (NIV) Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

The Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice of Jesus Christ replaced the Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice of animals.  Now the ONLY avenue to God is through the Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

John 14:6 (NIV) Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

In 70 A.D., the Romans under Titus conquered Jerusalem. Tradition says that Titus thought there was gold hidden in the Temple walls; hence, in his search, "not one stone here will be left on another." - Matthew 24:2c (NIV).  The Temple was totally destroyed.

For two thousand years, there has been no accepted Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice atonement for sin by the Jewish people.  The Jewish people have not had king or prince, sacrifice or sacred stones, ephod or idol.

Hosea 3:4-5 (NIV)  For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol. 5 Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days.

The Orthodox Jewish people recognize that there has been no atonement. There will be the reinstitution of the daily Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice by the Jewish people. The problem is that the place where tradition states that daily Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice must be re-established is on Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, and is occupied by "The Dome of the Rock," a Moslem Mosque. Mount Moriah is the most important piece of real estate in the world. The significance of Jerusalem and Mount Moriah has been recorded throughout history. It was on Mount Moriah where Abraham first gave tithes to Melchizedek, the King of Salem (JeruSalem). Hebrew tradition holds that Melchizedek was Shem, son of Noah. Melchizedek was a fore-glimpse of Jesus Christ the true priest of God Most High, and King of Jerusalem.

Genesis 14:18-20 (NIV) Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, 19 and he blessed Abram, saying, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. 20 And blessed be God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand." Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

Hebrews 5:6-10 (NIV) And he says in another place, "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek." 7 During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him 10 and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 6:20 (NIV) where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 7:1-10 (NIV) This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, 2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, his name means "king of righteousness"; then also, "king of Salem" means "king of peace." 3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God he remains a priest forever. 4 Just think how great he was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder! 5 Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people--that is, their brothers--even though their brothers are descended from Abraham. 6 This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi, yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. 7 And without doubt the lesser person is blessed by the greater. 8 In the one case, the tenth is collected by men who die; but in the other case, by him who is declared to be living. 9 One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham, 10 because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body of his ancestor.

Psalms 110:4 (NIV) The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek."

Abraham's Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah, referenced in the Book of Genesis chapter 22, is a fore-glimpse of Jesus Christ and the Crucifixion.  Abraham's willingness to offer his only son as a Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice, was a fore-glimpse of God, when God offered God's only Son as a Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice.  God's predestined plan to supply Jesus Christ as the atonement for the sins of all of mankind, was created before God ever created the world.  Yet God requested ONE TIME ONLY, for ONE man, to have the obedience to be willing to reciprocate what God's redemption plan was going to require of God, for man.  Other than Abraham, there is not one single other instance in the Holy Word of God, where God requested a human sacrifice.  Abraham represented all of mankind in a reciprocal relationship with God, in the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice Abraham's only son.  Once God had Abraham prove to Abraham, that Abraham was willing to give, as God was going to give; God stopped the sacrifice, and substituted a ram for the sacrifice of Isaac.  God never asked another man to be willing to make a human sacrifice to God.  This incident reflecting the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, reciprocating the willingness of God to provide Jesus Christ as a sacrifice, fulfills an algebraic formula contained within the perfect order of God.

·Isaac was stated as his fathers only son (Genesis 22:2).

Jesus Christ is His Fathers only Son.

·Historians have stated that Isaac was 33 years old at the time of the sacrifice.

Jesus Christ was 33 years old at the time of His Crucifixion.

·As Abraham was around 132 years old at that time, Isaac would have been physically able to overpower Abraham, but Isaac was submissive to the wishes of Abraham even when it meant Isaac's death.

Jesus Christ was able to stop His Crucifixion at any time, but Jesus Christ was submissive to the wishes of God, even when it meant Jesus Christ's death.

·God provided a ram as a substitution sacrifice to replace Isaac.

God provided Jesus Christ as the Blood-Substitution Sacrifice to replace all of mankind.  Jesus Christ was also substituted for the Passover lamb.  The Passover lamb is a portent of Jesus Christ.

·Abraham actually sacrificed a ram.

Jesus Christ was actually sacrificed.

·Isaac was dead 3 days in his fathers mind.

Jesus Christ was dead 3 days.

·Isaac carried the wood on which he was to be sacrificed.

Jesus Christ carried His own cross.

Genesis 22:1-19 (NIV) Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied. 2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about." 3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you." 6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?" "Yes, my son?" Abraham replied. "The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" 8 Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together. 9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied. 12 "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son." 13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided." 15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, "I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me." 19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.

Hebrews 11:17-19 (NIV) By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18 even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." 19 Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death.

Jacob's dream, according to Rabbinic Scholars, was on Mount Moriah.

Genesis 28:10-22 (NIV) Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. 11 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. 12 He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it stood the LORD, and he said: "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. 15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." 16 When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it." 17 He was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven." 18 Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. 19 He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz. 20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear 21 so that I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God 22 and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth."

God had instructed Moses on a Temple to come.

Deuteronomy 12:5 (NIV) But you are to seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go;

2 Chronicles 7:11-12 (NIV) When Solomon had finished the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace, 12 the LORD appeared to him at night and said: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.

840 B.C. - Solomon built the First Temple on Mount Moriah, Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 3:1 (NIV) Then Solomon began to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David.

Mount Moriah is the same location where the Lord God appeared to Solomon's father David.

1 Chronicles 21 (NIV) Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel. 2 So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, "Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I may know how many there are." 3 But Joab replied, "May the LORD multiply his troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all my lord's subjects? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?" 4 The king's word, however, overruled Joab; so Joab left and went throughout Israel and then came back to Jerusalem. 5 Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David: In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who could handle a sword, including four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah. 6 But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, because the king's command was repulsive to him. 7 This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel. 8 Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing." 9 The LORD said to Gad, David's seer, 10 "Go and tell David, 'This is what the LORD says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.'" 11 So Gad went to David and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Take your choice: 12 three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD--days of plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.' Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me." 13 David said to Gad, "I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men." 14 So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead. 15 And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and was grieved because of the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 16 David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown. 17 David said to God, "Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I am the one who has sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? O LORD my God, let your hand fall upon me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people." 18 Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 19 So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD. 20 While Araunah was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the angel; his four sons who were with him hid themselves. 21 Then David approached, and when Araunah looked and saw him, he left the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground. 22 David said to him, "Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped. Sell it to me at the full price." 23 Araunah said to David, "Take it! Let my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give all this." 24 But King David replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing." 25 So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels of gold for the site. 26 David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the LORD, and the LORD answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering. 27 Then the LORD spoke to the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath. 28 At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there. 29 The tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the desert, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 22:1 (NIV) Then David said, "The house of the LORD God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

Haggai 1 (NIV) In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest: 2 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "These people say, 'The time has not yet come for the Lord's house to be built.'" 3 Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: 4 "Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?" 5 Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways. 6 You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it." 7 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored," says the LORD. 9 "You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares the LORD Almighty. "Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with his own house. 10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the oil and whatever the ground produces, on men and cattle, and on the labor of your hands." 12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD. 13 Then Haggai, the Lord's messenger, gave this message of the LORD to the people: "I am with you," declares the LORD. 14 So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God, 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius.

In 37 B.C., Herod the Great added to Zerubbabel's Temple located on Mount Moriah to such an extent that this Temple became known as "Herod's Temple." This was the Temple of Jesus Christ's day.

Jesus Christ was Crucified on Golgotha, which is adjacent to Mount Moriah. (Matthew 27:33, Mark 15:22, Luke 23:33, John 19:17)

In 70 A.D., the Romans under Titus destroyed "Herod's Temple."

The "Wailing Wall," or "Western Wall" is the walled enclosure that was around "Herod's Temple," and is not actually a wall of Herod's Temple building proper.

"The Dome of the Rock" on Mount Moriah is a Moslem Mosque that tradition says is built over the spot where:

    (1) Isaac was to be sacrificed

    (2) Jacob's dream occurred

    (3) The Lord God appeared to David

    (4) The Holy of Holies of Solomon's Temple was located

    (5) The Holy of Holies of Herod's Temple was located

    (6) Mohammed left the earth

Three world religions revere Father Abraham, Jerusalem, and Mount Moriah as holy:

Ishmael, the slave son of Abraham is the father of the Arab nations, where Islam is so prevalent. God's Holy Word in Genesis 17:20, Genesis 16:12, and Genesis 25:18 printed below, is certainly accurate, as the descendants of Ishmael are "jackasses" who "live in hostility" toward all of their brothers.

Genesis 17:20 (NIV) And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 16:12 (NIV) He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."

Genesis 25:18 (NIV) His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the border of Egypt, as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.

The Antichrist will be Islamic, as only a Muslim would be able to allow the Jewish people to re-establish daily sacrifice on Mount Moriah.  If any person other than a Muslim attempted to allow the Jewish people to re-establish "sacrifice and offering" on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, there would be "Jihad" by the Muslims.

When the "peace agreement" is made public that permits the reconstruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, most of the Jewish people will be deceived into believing that God is blessing the Jewish people with God's presence.  At that time, when the Jewish people believe that they are being blessed by God, we can know that the Jewish people are being deceived, because Jesus Christ told the Jewish people that they would not see God again, until they accepted Jesus Christ as Lord.

Luke 13:34-35 (NIV) "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 35 Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"

The temple that the Holy Spirit of God dwells in following the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, is the temple of the human body.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (NIV) Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

It is the desire of the devil to rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, so that the Jewish people can re-establish "sacrifice and offering"; because the re-establishment of "sacrifice and offering" by the Jewish people, denotes a rejection by the Jewish people, of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ! 

The devil wants the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem to be rebuilt, so that the devil can steal it!  Because the devil wants the Jewish Temple to be rebuilt in Jerusalem; it will be simple for the devil to gain the support of the Islamic world, whom the devil controls, for the Temple reconstruction project.  For 2,000 years, the devil has wanted the Jewish Temple to be rebuilt, and "sacrifice and offering" to be reinstituted.  The Holy Spirit of God has kept the devil from being able to re-establish "sacrifice and offering" for 2,000 years.  It is not the devil and the Muslim World that has kept the Jewish Temple from being rebuilt, it is the Holy Spirit of God that has kept the Jewish Temple from being rebuilt, because the re-establishment of "sacrifice and offering" following the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ will be an act of lawlessness.  When the Holy Spirit of God removed God's restriction on lawlessness; the devil and the Muslim World instantly agreed to the "peace agreement" that will allow the re-establishment of "sacrifice and offering" by the Jewish people. 

2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 (NIV)  For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.  And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.