Re: Interview with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann

Okay! But do you ever at least get curious as to why pre-mill believers do get excited about a new temple and find support for being excited about it with the OT prophecies such as Ezekiel's? Do you just think they are deceived and seeing it all wrong?

I ran across this quote last night that I thought was really good:

"In John 2, Jesus cleansed the temple. Presumably there was anger in the voices that demanded to know his credentials. On what authority did He do this? He answered by a prophetic appeal to His own death and resurrection couched in terms of the destruction and raising again of another temple (John 2:19-22).

Could any more daring way have been found to express the old order's inadequacy? To a Jew, the temple was the most important building on earth. To Jesus, however, it was but a shadow, a temporary context for entering the presence of God. Christ was the reality to which such shadows pointed. He was God the Son come to 'tabernacle among us' (John 1:14). Jesus Himself is the new temple."
-Sinclair Ferguson

I also thought this comment beneath that quote was good and I realize it doesn't apply to you since you are against the temple being built and the animal sacrifices being reinstated but I think you are a rare breed in the pre-mill view world on that because most do think the temple being rebuilt will be wonderful, as far as I've seen:

"With this in mind, Christians who think that rebuilding the physical temple is somehow a positive development are actually taking us backwards in redemptive history. Returning to the shadows is severely warned against in the book of Hebrews as a rejection of Christ Himself ... a profound misapprehension of the gospel. Christ is a better high priest, and, in His resurrection, a complete fulfillment of the temple. A fulfillment of all shadows."
-John Samson




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