WRT the immediate context, I made no assumptions. Now, you can try and evade the issues. That’s fine by me. Your issue is with your fellow literalists. It's a rather major disagreement you have on tribulation vs. millennium for the Ezekiel temple. But no doubt you and your friends are being quite literal when you come to your assumptions.
Do you know what you believe, or are you making this up on the fly?
It’s rather clear actually.
1. The world will devolve rather rapidly into a One World System of Government helped by a conglomerate of religions which will become a one world religion.
2. God will draw Russia, Iran, Turkey and other Mid East Countries into an attack on Israel. The next day, Damascus will have been totally destroyed, the dome of the rock Mosque will be also have been destroyed as well as all the troops which attacked Israel. The devastation will almost wipe out all of Islam’s leadership and influence in the world.
3. It will take Israel 7 months to clear and bury the remains of those that attacked and 7 years to completely rid the landscape of debris.
4. At some point during or about this period the believers (true Christians) will be taken up to be with Jesus.
5. A peace treaty will be signed with Israel which will begin the last seven years of the covenant between God and Israel. This period is known as the Tribulation period of Revelation.
6. Christ will return at the end of the seven years and destroy anyone who aligned themselves with the Anti Christ, exile Satan to the bottomless pit and set up a reign on earth which will last 1000 years after which Satan will be released for a short period then will be cast into the fiery pit for eternity.