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"For what? The "Samson option"? The Anti-Christ?"

Jesus built the 3rd temple in three days, as we know. When someone builds a 3rd temple out of stone, or enters into an already-built 3rd temple to be enthroned, well, we'll know who he is.

Everybody here saying that Israel isn't the problem isn't looking at the situation in Biblical terms, but merely noticing that Israelis generally tend to be nicer and more civilized than Palestinians. I know Israel (a nation whose founding and existence is predicated on denying the divinity of Christ) has a lot of supporters around here. But like it or not, the modern state of Israel, not Islam, will be the primary force behind the rise of the anti-christ, for the simple reason that Islam isn't true, and was never true. The Israelites had their valid temples in accordance with the OT. Only out of this prior legitimacy can the true anti-christ arise to attempt to claim the legitimacy of Christ's 3rd temple of the Spirit for his 3rd temple of stone.

Prior to 1948, it wasn't really possible for the stage to be set. With Jewish control over Jerusalem renewed for the first time since New Testament times, the way is open. I read an article about how the ceremonial necessities of the temple of Jerusalem -- the breastplate and crown of the high priest, spotless red heifers, etc. -- are even now being gradually pulled together in readiness for sacrifices to resume.

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Or maybe I'm wrong entirely and things will play out in a totally different way. The apostles writing at the time about "the holy place" would be looking at the still standing Temple of Jerusalem at the time, but maybe they were granted a vision of Vatican City and a flab-jowled fellow dressed in white, "in whose hands are iniquities, his right hand holding a beach ball."

Either way, I suggest a solution to the seemingly endless conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. In light of America recently having been made great again --

Make Israel/Palestine Outremer again!

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The “solution” is coming at Yom Kippur this year.

The jubilee will again send land that belongs to Yehova back into the hands of the nation that he caused to be reestablished in 1948, just as in ‘67.

To fill that added land, people will arrive from all over the world.

Meanwhile work on those “inherited lies” as spoken of by Jeremiah

Jeremiah 16:19

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

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The Israelites had their valid temples in accordance with the OT.

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"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not? Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate. For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." (Mt 23:37-39)

"For you are all the children of God by faith, in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ' s, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise." (Gal 3 26-29)

Or maybe I'm wrong entirely and things will play out in a totally different way. The apostles writing at the time about "the holy place" would be looking at the still standing Temple of Jerusalem at the time, but maybe they were granted a vision of Vatican City and a flab-jowled fellow dressed in white, "in whose hands are iniquities, his right hand holding a beach ball."

LOL! That pathetic "flab-jowled fellow" with the beach ball appears to be an unfortunate side show.