The abomination of desolation is a future event that will take place at the middle of Daniel’s seventieth week, as per Daniel 9.
It will reveal the final antichrist who will reign on earth for the remaining three-and-a-half years of this seven-year period. See 2 Thessalonians and Revelation 11:2-3 & 13:5 (42 months for two witnesses and 42 months for antichrist who exalts himself above God).
There will be another temple. It will have daily sacrifices again. These sacrifices will cease again at the abomination of desolation.
The Olivet discourse answered the 3 questions the disciples asked in response to Christ’s comment that the temple would be destroyed. While there is some content in Luke that was fulfilled in 70 AD, most of the discourse is about the end of the world and the signs leading up to it.
Seventy AD cannot have been when a complete fulfillment of the Olivet discourse prophecies occurred because the signs in the sky did not happen, and Christ did not visibly return with angels and gather His elect from the earth.
That is an excellent summary of the applicable scripture. Interesting the sudden focus on the Abomination of Desolation event.
In my view, there is a reasonable position that we are at the mid point of the 70th week at this time. The seven years is not a period of the agreement but instead the term--like many legal documents, the term is described in the form of achievement events.
The mid-point of the seven year term of the Interim Status Agreement was the handing over of the West Bank territory to PA administration at the end of three and one-half years; the next achievement event was the PA modification of its charter to remove the elimination of Israel clause--that didn't happen; so we have been stuck at the mid point of the seven years ever since.
Next, on May 20, 2020, the PA terminated all of its remaining obligations under all of the agreements with Israel.
It does not appear to me that construction of a Third Temple is required as a prerequisite to resumption of the sacrifices--the sacrificial worship system was in place for 400 years before construction of the first Temple and there is no reason it might not be instituted in a tent--perhaps on the Temple Mount.
Maybe in fact the Temple reconstruction interpretation will prove correct; maybe not.
These events may happen in a short period of time unadvertised--I doubt God will take out a front page ad in the Wall Street Journal. Particularly in light of the Lord's comments in Matthew 24:42-51.
There is always a danger of seeing present events as the fulfillment of prophecy. The danger is of drawing us away from the interpretation standing on its own. I think we will only have a clear view as to the exact fulfillment of the prophecies AFTER they have been fulfilled.
To the disciples who heard Christ speak of the destruction of the third temple, they immediately thought of the end of the world. But these turned out to be events separated by many centuries. To those alive during Hitler’s rise to power and WW2, it seemed like the end of the world. Indeed, for many people it WAS the end of their world. Today, it feels like we are approaching the end of the world. It may be the case, or it could be the fall of this nation, or it could be something else.
I think the passage I referenced in Revelation strongly supports that there will be a third temple. John measured this temple in his vision but the courtyard was not included because it is to be “given to the Gentiles.” The temple courtyard is what makes the temple a “house of prayer for all people.”