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In fact, truth be told, there's an abomination set up there now, and a third temple will just be another.
Somebody claiming to be a Christian and the head of Christianity on earth is another. Lots of examples past, present and future
“No where does scripture say that the “holy place” has to be a temple.”
Actually, I believe you’re right on that. Jerusalem was known to the Jews as the “holy city.”
Quote from Charles Spurgeon (1888): “This portion of our Saviour’s words appears to relate solely to the destruction of Jerusalem. As soon as Christ’s disciples saw “the abomination of desolation,” that is, the Roman ensigns, with their idolatries, “stand in the holy place,” they knew that the time for their escape had arrived; and they did flee to the mountains.” (Matthew: The Gospel of the Kingdom. . p. 215).
The passage in Daniel makes it clear that sacrifices had restarted and then are stopped.
Now, if it isn't an actual Temple, it has to at least represent one, such as David's tabernacle did.
Somebody claiming to be a Christian and the head of Christianity on earth is another. Lots of examples past, present and future
None of whom have ever placed an abomination of desolation into the Jewish temple and defiled it.
We also have the passages in 2Thess that state that the anti-Christ enters into the Temple of God claiming to be God (2Thess.2)