I think the mosque should be torn down without the presence of the Ark. That thing is an offront to me as a Christian, and i would see that the Jewish people have their Temple back.
I agree, and I believe it will happen, but I don't see how it happens without starting a pan-arab-israeli war.
The most ridiculous thing is the Moslems claim to have the mosque on the Temple Mount as a matter of right, and also claim they are historically the rightful owners of Palestine, when it is clearly evident and undisputed that the Hebrew people had established Jerusalem, and the Temple, as their political and spiritual capitol some 10 centuries prior to the advent of Islam.
I don't want to see the Temple back though I know prophetically it will happen. The Bible doesn't say that such a temple is a "good" thing but rather a place in which the "evil one" in human form throws down the gauntlet and commitx unspeakable blasphemies againt the anointed one of heaven! A temple in which animal sacrifices are once again in motion denies the "final" sacrifice of Jesus for all of our sins; these would serve to declare the his death on the cross was non-effectual for the remission of our transgressions.
The notion of a rebuilt temple is not a good thing, and not one to have misty eyed romantic notions about. That it will happen, is a part of God's plan though no where does it say he looks favorably on its building. We do know that God will take great offense at its desecration...not so much the temple itself but rather the defiance of His Glory that its desecration represents.
In that sense, does he call it "My temple" when he declares "The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple, as the messenger of the Covenant whom ye delight in, behold he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts".
God will indeed make the whole Earth his temple,"For the knowledge of the glory of the Lord shall cover the Earth as water covers the sea."