Damascus?? I thought we were talking about Jerusalem.
And for the Christian, we know the NT teaching on the subject:
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, (Hebrews 12:22)It is the habitation of the true children of Abraham.
For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar-- for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children-- but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. (Galatians 4:24-26)Those without Messiah place their trust in carnal Jerusalem.He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. And I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name. (Revelation 3:12)
The premise of the article is that the prophecy of the third Temple in Jerusalem is not needed. Most who believe that are also those who believe that all of prophecy has been fulfilled. If all of prophecy has been fulfilled, when was Damascus destroyed as was prophesied in Isaiah? It all ties together.
Damascus must yet be destroyed, Gog and Magog must yet be destroyed, the third Temple must yet be constructed, and the Tribulation must still happen.