For anyone interested, a helpful study of the Ezekiel Temple prophecies:
Ezekiel’s Prophecy of the Temple
By Dr. Randall Price
http://www.worldofthebible.com/Bible%20Studies/Ezekiel’s%20Prophecy%20of%20the%20Temple.pdf
Helpful resources sorting out other misunderstandings involving Preterism and partial Preterism:
Not long ago at the Pre-Trib Study Group conference in Dallas, TX, futurist Dr. Mark Hitchcock clearly and decisively won the debate against partial Preterist (though he refuses to call himself that) Hank Hanegraaff.
Soon after, Dr. Hitchcock spoke at another conference, discussing material presented at the debate.
An mp3 audio of that presentation is available free online, as is a video version. At the following link, scroll down the page to:
Dr. Mark Hitchcock - A.D. 95 - Defending the Traditional Date of Revelation
In addition, some helpful articles:
A Case for the Futurist Interpretation of the Book of Revelation
by Dr. Andy Woods
http://www.pre-trib.org/data/pdf/Woods-ACasefortheFuturistI.pdf
A Futurist Response to the Preterist Interpretation of Babylon in Revelation 17-18
by Dr. Andy Woods
http://www.pre-trib.org/data/pdf/Woods-AFuturistResponsetot.pdf
Preterism
by Dr. Randall Price
http://www.raptureready.com/featured/price/15rp.pdf
Has Bible Prophecy Already Been Fulfilled?
by Dr. Thomas Ice
http://www.pre-trib.org/data/pdf/Ice-HasBibleProphecyAlrea.pdf
Gary Demar’s End Times Fiction
by Dr. Thomas Ice
http://www.pre-trib.org/data/pdf/Ice-GaryDemarsEndTimesFic.pdf
A Review of Hank Hanegraaff’s The Apocalypse Code
by Dr. Thomas Ice
http://www.pre-trib.org/data/pdf/Ice-AReviewofHankHanegra.pdf
An Assessment of Kenneth L. Gentry’s Internal Evidence for Dating Revelation
by Dr. Robert Thomas
http://www.pre-trib.org/data/pdf/Thomas-AnAssessmentofKennet.pdf
Preterism and Zechariah 12-14
by Dr. Thomas Ice
http://www.pre-trib.org/data/pdf/Ice-PreterismandZechariah.pdf
Josephus and the Fall of Jerusalem: An Evaluation of the Preterist View on Jerusalem in Prophecy
by Dr. Wayne House
http://www.pre-trib.org/data/pdf/House-JosephusandtheFallof.pdf
“Here’s what temple rebuilding advocates Tommy Ice and Randall Price admit: “There are no Bible verses that say, ‘There is going to be a third temple.’”[9]”
If it’s just a debate about whether Revelation was written pre-70 or in 95, I don’t see the point. I read Revelation not as a future prophecy, but as what the stated purpose of the work is: “The revelation of Jesus Christ”.
As far as temples go, Revelation 21 says that when New Jerusalem came down, no temple could be found in it because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
Go back to Galatians 4 and see how Paul contrasts the “present Jerusalem” with the “Jerusalem that is above”. Doesn’t the Jerusalem-that-is-above correspond to Christ, the Israel of God and His Body, the Church?
In Colossians 3, doesn’t Paul tell us that we are dead and that our lives are — present tense, right now — hid with Christ in God?
Wouldn’t the New Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven correspond to Christ coming with and to His people? That is, to an unveiling or apocalypse of Christ with all of us in Him?
I am quite familiar with the Bible. I am considerably less familiar with Scofield’s notes and Finis Dake’s notes and the various sensationalist dispensationalist claims which would seem to have very little to do with fulfilling the Great Commission or living lives of holiness and righteousness individually.
“By their fruits shall ye know them”
All the “fruit” that comes from the dispensational pre-trib rapture tree are books and seminars about the latest signs. People get hyped up and “live holy” for a week or two — holy in negative sense of: “we don’t smoke and we don’t chew”. No one is transformed by this or any other eschatological view. Maybe I’m cynical, but that’s the way it looks to me. Perhaps we would be wise to be more concerned with teleology and less hung up on eschatology.