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The Coming Last Days Temple
Jerusalem's last Temple was destroyed by Rome in A.D. 70, and the Muslim Dome of the Rock currently sits on the Temple Mount. With the Israeli-Arab conflict raging and the Temple Mount at the center of the controversy, what will the future bring? The Bible is surprisingly rich with answers - with prophecies about the future Temple found in both the Old and New Testaments. Some claim these prophecies are purely symbolic, but are they? Does the Bible give evidence that we can expect a literal Temple and even a restored sacrificial system? What about the magnificent Temple prophesied by Ezekiel? Right now in Israel, plans are will underway to construct a new Temple. From drawing up the blueprints to detailing the furnishings to preparing for the new priesthood, much is being done for what could be the most significant building effort of our time. In The Coming Last Days Temple, Dr. Randall Price surveys the latest developments and offers a fascinating perspective on how they fit with Bible prophecies about the Temple.
732 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1999
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Randall Price
30 books12 followersPresident for World of the Bible Ministries. He is a Th.M. graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Price received his bachelor’s (B.A.) from Texas State University, his master's degree (Th.M.) from Dallas Theological Seminary in Old Testament and Semitic Languages, and his doctorate (Ph.D.) from the University of Texas at Austin in Middle Eastern Studies with a concentration in Hebrew and Archaeology. He has also done graduate work in biblical and archaeological studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In 2009, he drew media attention when fielding an expedition to Turkey to find Noah's Ark.
He has authored over 20 books and films on the Bible, and is often a guest on television programs.
Dr. Price received his bachelor’s (B.A.) from Texas State University, his master's degree (Th.M.) from Dallas Theological Seminary in Old Testament and Semitic Languages, and his doctorate (Ph.D.) from the University of Texas at Austin in Middle Eastern Studies with a concentration in Hebrew and Archaeology. He has also done graduate work in biblical and archaeological studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In 2009, he drew media attention when fielding an expedition to Turkey to find Noah's Ark.
He has authored over 20 books and films on the Bible, and is often a guest on television programs.
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May 3, 2023
A HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE POSSIBILITY OF A REBUILT JEWISH TEMPLE
Author Randall Price wrote in the Preface to this 1999 book, “Almost a decade ago I wrote with Thomas Ice a book entitled ‘Rebuild: The Imminent Plan to Rebuild the Last Days Temple… When those words were written the Temple movement was in its infancy… Since that book was published I have continued to research the subject of the Temple… I have also cultivated my relationships with both the leaders and opponents of Temple movement organizations in Israel and have spent countless hours discussing and debating with them various aspects of the coming Temple. Complementing this has been the exceptional access I have been given to the Islamic authorities who maintain control over the Temple Mount… Access has been granted as well to the extensive Israeli excavations above and beneath the Temple Mount by archaeologists in charge…
“If, as the political scene indicates, the Temple Mount continues its present course toward prophetic fulfillment, this generation may indeed be that which sees … the rebuilding of Temple… I have repeatedly been impressed with two facts: The first is that this subject ranks at the top of the biblical prophecies… The second fact is that the literal interpretation of these prophecies of the Temple have generated much confusion and opposition… our present assumptions concerning future fulfillment should be tempered by the realization that we have a limited perspective of the overall plan of God.”
He states, “Regardless of how many people in Israel want a Temple rebuilt today, it has always been a religious minority, not the secular minority, that has made policy in the country… the religious parties … have managed to force conformity to Jewish law since the founding of the state… Therefore, if this religious minority ever decided that a Temple should be rebuilt, and that it could be rebuilt without being a threat to national security, it would not matter what the rest of the Israeli population thought on the matter.” (Pg. 27)
He notes, “The fact that the formidable religion of Islam … has occupied the site of the Temple Mount for over 1,300 years---and that the tiny island of Israel is surrounded by a vast sea of Islamic nations bent on its destruction---has prevented any possibility of recovering the site for Judaism… So long as Islam threatens holy war over the Temple Mount, neither secular Israeli politicians nor the greater democracies will permit the status quo on the Temple Mount to be disturbed.” (Pg. 124)
He observes, “The most popular Orthodox objection to rebuilding at the present time is that the timing is not right. The view here is that the Temple will be built when the Messiah arrives or when God sends it directly from heaven.” (Pg. 128) He continues, “Temple Mount activists, in response to the idea of waiting on God before taking action to rebuild, say that the Babylonian Talmud has conflicting opinions on the matter. They also note that the Jerusalem Talmud permits Jews to construct an intermediate edifice before the Messianic era.” (Pg. 130)
He reports, “The Arabs have already destroyed most of the holy remains on the Temple Mount over the last several years… This Islamic destruction of Temple-period remains began in the 1980s… The Muslim goal was to remove all the remains from the First and Second Temples that still remained after the destruction in A.D. 70 in order to be able to completely deny the Jewishness of the Temple Mount.” (Pg.182-183)
Of the [‘Seventieth Week’ of Daniel 9, he comments, “The eschatological interpretation requires a temporal interval after the sixty-ninth week, postponing the fulfillment of the events of the seventieth week until the end time. The precedence for postponement was announced to Daniel by the angel Gabriel in relation to Jeremiah’s 70-year fulfillment in the 70 weeks of years. All commentators accept this postponement; it is simply a question of the length of time… While most Christian interpreters reject a division between the seven and 62 weeks, there is no reason why there should not be one between the sixty-ninth and seventieth week, since the sixty-ninth week is set off as distinct unit comprised of the seven and 62 weeks. This would imply in itself that the events of the seventieth week are to be treated separately.” (Pg. 246)
He explains, “the subject of the Temple’s location has become a matter of intense investigation and debate… The three leading theories among researchers today … are 1) the Southern Location… 2) the Northern location… 3) the central location… These scholarly theories vie for acceptance today as answers to the questions about the original site of the First and Second Temples. While each of these proposed sites respect the dimensions of the Muslim ‘Haram’… they differ significantly in their placement within this enclosure.” (Pg. 337)
He recounts, “When I visited the Temple Institute in 1990 and spoke with … Rabbi Chaim Richman, he showed me photographs of Red Heifers recently received from a Gentile Pentecostal minister named Clyde Lott. This man bred Red Angus cattle by trade and had come to the Institute seeking to know if anyone in Israel was interested in obtaining them for purification purposes…. Rabbi Richman traveled to Canton, Mississippi to personally inspect the Red Heifers on Lott’s ranch… According to Rabbi Richman this was the first Red heifer in 2,000 years that met the biblical requirements in Numbers as verified by a rabbi… The goal now is to repopulate the herds of Israel with Lott’s breed of cattle stock.” (Pg. 372)
He states, “In May 1998 it was revealed for the first time that only hours after Israeli soldiers had captured the Temple Mount, Rabbi Goren had urged that the Dome of the Rock be blown up… If a destruction of the Muslim structures would not make possible the rebuilding of the Temple, then could not the site be peaceably negotiated in view of preventing an inevitable war?” (Pg. 447-448)
He suggests, “the Gog and Magog war will be the first war that Israel wins without a fight… what Israel will appear to receive may be the freedom to build the Third Temple… This rebuilding of the Temple by the Israelis most likely will be tolerated by the world’s major powers because they will be preoccupied with the Antichrist’s rise to power and their own problems stemming from various worsening conditions around the globe.” (Pg. 463) He argues, “it is incumbent for Christians who believe that the Antichrist is Jewish to thoroughly study their view. However, as we examine the arguments… we will find that this view is, in fact, quite doubtful.” (Pg. 477)
He acknowledges, “Most critical scholars have dismissed the eschatological interpretation of the Temple desecrator in Daniel 9:27 by claiming it refers to Antiochus Epiphanes, who in… 67 B.C> committed a desolation in the Temple by setting up an idolatrous image and sacrificing an unclean animal on the altar. Preterists… see the abomination of desolation … as fulfilled in the events of the Roman invasion of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70. However, the Roman invasion … does not match the idolatrous dimensions … as defined by the [biblical] passages… if we are seeking exact correspondences leading to a COMPLETE fulfillment in these events, we have no historical support for our identification.” (Pg. 488-489)
He asks, “But how would it be possible for Jews to perform [animal] sacrifices today? … the chief rabbinate of Israel has held that Jews who enter the Temple in their present state of ritual impurity are liable for … banishment from the Jewish community… These objections … all disregard the fact that animals as sacrifices serve a higher purpose … they function in the service of their Creator to preserve sanctity and restore the divine order.” (Pg. 537-539)
This book will be of keen interest to Christians who anticipate a literal rebuilding of the Temple.
Author Randall Price wrote in the Preface to this 1999 book, “Almost a decade ago I wrote with Thomas Ice a book entitled ‘Rebuild: The Imminent Plan to Rebuild the Last Days Temple… When those words were written the Temple movement was in its infancy… Since that book was published I have continued to research the subject of the Temple… I have also cultivated my relationships with both the leaders and opponents of Temple movement organizations in Israel and have spent countless hours discussing and debating with them various aspects of the coming Temple. Complementing this has been the exceptional access I have been given to the Islamic authorities who maintain control over the Temple Mount… Access has been granted as well to the extensive Israeli excavations above and beneath the Temple Mount by archaeologists in charge…
“If, as the political scene indicates, the Temple Mount continues its present course toward prophetic fulfillment, this generation may indeed be that which sees … the rebuilding of Temple… I have repeatedly been impressed with two facts: The first is that this subject ranks at the top of the biblical prophecies… The second fact is that the literal interpretation of these prophecies of the Temple have generated much confusion and opposition… our present assumptions concerning future fulfillment should be tempered by the realization that we have a limited perspective of the overall plan of God.”
He states, “Regardless of how many people in Israel want a Temple rebuilt today, it has always been a religious minority, not the secular minority, that has made policy in the country… the religious parties … have managed to force conformity to Jewish law since the founding of the state… Therefore, if this religious minority ever decided that a Temple should be rebuilt, and that it could be rebuilt without being a threat to national security, it would not matter what the rest of the Israeli population thought on the matter.” (Pg. 27)
He notes, “The fact that the formidable religion of Islam … has occupied the site of the Temple Mount for over 1,300 years---and that the tiny island of Israel is surrounded by a vast sea of Islamic nations bent on its destruction---has prevented any possibility of recovering the site for Judaism… So long as Islam threatens holy war over the Temple Mount, neither secular Israeli politicians nor the greater democracies will permit the status quo on the Temple Mount to be disturbed.” (Pg. 124)
He observes, “The most popular Orthodox objection to rebuilding at the present time is that the timing is not right. The view here is that the Temple will be built when the Messiah arrives or when God sends it directly from heaven.” (Pg. 128) He continues, “Temple Mount activists, in response to the idea of waiting on God before taking action to rebuild, say that the Babylonian Talmud has conflicting opinions on the matter. They also note that the Jerusalem Talmud permits Jews to construct an intermediate edifice before the Messianic era.” (Pg. 130)
He reports, “The Arabs have already destroyed most of the holy remains on the Temple Mount over the last several years… This Islamic destruction of Temple-period remains began in the 1980s… The Muslim goal was to remove all the remains from the First and Second Temples that still remained after the destruction in A.D. 70 in order to be able to completely deny the Jewishness of the Temple Mount.” (Pg.182-183)
Of the [‘Seventieth Week’ of Daniel 9, he comments, “The eschatological interpretation requires a temporal interval after the sixty-ninth week, postponing the fulfillment of the events of the seventieth week until the end time. The precedence for postponement was announced to Daniel by the angel Gabriel in relation to Jeremiah’s 70-year fulfillment in the 70 weeks of years. All commentators accept this postponement; it is simply a question of the length of time… While most Christian interpreters reject a division between the seven and 62 weeks, there is no reason why there should not be one between the sixty-ninth and seventieth week, since the sixty-ninth week is set off as distinct unit comprised of the seven and 62 weeks. This would imply in itself that the events of the seventieth week are to be treated separately.” (Pg. 246)
He explains, “the subject of the Temple’s location has become a matter of intense investigation and debate… The three leading theories among researchers today … are 1) the Southern Location… 2) the Northern location… 3) the central location… These scholarly theories vie for acceptance today as answers to the questions about the original site of the First and Second Temples. While each of these proposed sites respect the dimensions of the Muslim ‘Haram’… they differ significantly in their placement within this enclosure.” (Pg. 337)
He recounts, “When I visited the Temple Institute in 1990 and spoke with … Rabbi Chaim Richman, he showed me photographs of Red Heifers recently received from a Gentile Pentecostal minister named Clyde Lott. This man bred Red Angus cattle by trade and had come to the Institute seeking to know if anyone in Israel was interested in obtaining them for purification purposes…. Rabbi Richman traveled to Canton, Mississippi to personally inspect the Red Heifers on Lott’s ranch… According to Rabbi Richman this was the first Red heifer in 2,000 years that met the biblical requirements in Numbers as verified by a rabbi… The goal now is to repopulate the herds of Israel with Lott’s breed of cattle stock.” (Pg. 372)
He states, “In May 1998 it was revealed for the first time that only hours after Israeli soldiers had captured the Temple Mount, Rabbi Goren had urged that the Dome of the Rock be blown up… If a destruction of the Muslim structures would not make possible the rebuilding of the Temple, then could not the site be peaceably negotiated in view of preventing an inevitable war?” (Pg. 447-448)
He suggests, “the Gog and Magog war will be the first war that Israel wins without a fight… what Israel will appear to receive may be the freedom to build the Third Temple… This rebuilding of the Temple by the Israelis most likely will be tolerated by the world’s major powers because they will be preoccupied with the Antichrist’s rise to power and their own problems stemming from various worsening conditions around the globe.” (Pg. 463) He argues, “it is incumbent for Christians who believe that the Antichrist is Jewish to thoroughly study their view. However, as we examine the arguments… we will find that this view is, in fact, quite doubtful.” (Pg. 477)
He acknowledges, “Most critical scholars have dismissed the eschatological interpretation of the Temple desecrator in Daniel 9:27 by claiming it refers to Antiochus Epiphanes, who in… 67 B.C> committed a desolation in the Temple by setting up an idolatrous image and sacrificing an unclean animal on the altar. Preterists… see the abomination of desolation … as fulfilled in the events of the Roman invasion of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70. However, the Roman invasion … does not match the idolatrous dimensions … as defined by the [biblical] passages… if we are seeking exact correspondences leading to a COMPLETE fulfillment in these events, we have no historical support for our identification.” (Pg. 488-489)
He asks, “But how would it be possible for Jews to perform [animal] sacrifices today? … the chief rabbinate of Israel has held that Jews who enter the Temple in their present state of ritual impurity are liable for … banishment from the Jewish community… These objections … all disregard the fact that animals as sacrifices serve a higher purpose … they function in the service of their Creator to preserve sanctity and restore the divine order.” (Pg. 537-539)
This book will be of keen interest to Christians who anticipate a literal rebuilding of the Temple.
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April 24, 2017The information is outdated; there are way too many scriptures cited to thoroughly check; it's extremely dense, and I continually lose interest.
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