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Will the Third Temple be the spark to destruction?

When John Darby set forth his theory of Dispensationalism in 1850, the view of the church in the arena of Bible prophecy began to shift from the New Covenant third temple made of living stones (Ephesians 2:20-22) to an Old Covenant third temple to be rebuilt in the earthly Jerusalem. The church had already forsaken many of its New Covenant foundations, and most theologians had forgotten the difference between the two covenants.

Darby’s contribution toward this final apostasy was mostly in the area of eschatology and prophecy. One of his foremost theses was that the Jews were the biblical Israelites and that they would return to the old land to rebuild a third temple on the original site of the first two temples. This laid the foundation stone of modern Christian Zionism, which soon formed an alliance with Jewish Zionism in the early 1900’s.

Darby’s spiritual successor, Cyrus Scoffield, was funded and promoted by Samuel Untermeyer, one of the framers of the Federal Reserve Act, which put America and the world into the financial bondage of Mystery Babylon and which launched the Captive Church of Laodicea.

https://godskingdom.org/blog/2011/10/the-scofield-factor-part-2/

Since that time, the church has suffered from the malady prophesied by John in Revelation 3:15-18. Just prior to the beginning of this captivity, God poured out His Spirit of Pentecost from 1900-1910, giving the church an option to reject the path of King Saul and to embrace the true Kingdom of God. However, except for a small number of overcomers, the churches desired to be ruled by men rather than by God (1 Samuel 8:7). Thus, many Pentecostal denominations were formed from 1909-1912. It was this failure of Pentecost, despite its many strengths, that brought about the Church of the Captivity (Laodicea) in 1913.

Bad decisions always have to run their course, so that men reap what they have sown and learn by hard experience the folly of rejecting God’s direct rule. Denominationalism is the main characteristic of the reign of King Saul, along with teachings based in lawlessness.

So the terrorist activities of Jabotinski, Menachem Begin, and Yitzhak Shamir succeeded in establishing the modern Zionist state called “Israel,” and the church was tricked into thinking that this was the fulfillment of Bible prophecies of the regathered House of Israel. In fact, it was a composite of the remnant of Judah, Edom, and Magog (or Ashkenaz), as I have shown elsewhere.

The church had already blinded itself by rejecting the word of God and His direct rule. Hence, John suggested that the Laodicean church purchase spiritual “eye salve” (Revelation 3:18). Without that eye salve, the church as a whole remains blind to the real fulfillment of Bible prophecy.

Since 2023, world events have begun to move toward that final destruction of Jerusalem prophesied in Jeremiah 19:10, 11 and in greater detail in Isaiah 29:1-6. Few prophets in the church—even genuinely gifted prophets—are able to accept or even understand these prophecies, because, as we read in Isaiah 29:10, 11,

¹⁰ For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep, He has shut your eyes, the prophets; and He has covered your heads, the seers. ¹¹ The entire vision [in Isaiah 29:1-6] will be to you like the words of a sealed book…

In other words, God prophesied the sudden destruction of “Ariel” (Jerusalem) in what sounds like a nuclear strike, but the prophets read this vision as if it were “a sealed book.” Yet the remnant of grace, the “chosen” people, have obtained the promise, “and the rest were blinded” (Romans 11:7). You who see the truth of Isaiah 29:1-6 are those who have obtained spiritual eye salve, and we can only pray that God will soon open the eyes of the rest of the church.

Here is a 22-minute video that gushes over the idea that a red heifer has now arrived on the scene which Aaronic priests will soon sacrifice in order to be able to purify an Old Covenant priesthood and ordain them to minister to the Messiah for the next thousand years. (But see Hebrews 9:13, 14.) Darby, of course, taught that the “Age of Grace” will soon end and that the “Age of Law” will resume where it left off at Christ’s crucifixion. By this, he meant that the age to come will be an age in which Old Covenant religious practices will be reinstated, that “grace” was temporary, and that somehow Christ’s death on the cross was not truly “once for all” (Hebrews 10:10).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2NXJGCFlQ