OKAY, I JUST LEARNED SOMETHING NEW, that I had never heard before. IT IS A MAJOR STUMBLING BLOCK of WHEN the JEWS can build the Third TEMPLE. This takes the THIRD TEMPLE completely out of the Picture; and forces them to SETTLE for the Tabernacle of DAVID.
It is Prophesied that the Tabernacle of DAVID will be restored, but I assumed it would be a temporary thing, but THE RIGHTFUL KING IS NOT DEAD, and a KING has to be anointed from the Davidic Dynasty, has to be in place, BEFORE the Temple can be built.
Acts 15:15-18 (NASB)
15 "With this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written,
16 'AFTER THESE THINGS I will return, AND I WILL REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH HAS FALLEN, AND I WILL REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND I WILL RESTORE IT,
17 SO THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,'
18 SAYS THE LORD, WHO MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO.
Amos 9:11 (NASB77)
11 "In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, And wall up its breaches; I will also raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;
Jeremiah 12:15-17 (NASB77)
15 "And it will come about that after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land.
16 "Then it will come about that if they will really learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, 'As the LORD lives,' even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of My people.
17 "
But if they will not listen, then I will uproot that nation, uproot and destroy it," declares the LORD.
Why does the LORD allow the MASSIVE DESTRUCTION In ISRAEL to HAPPEN ? ? ? I think I just found the REASON.
Zechariah 14:1-4 (NASB77)
1 Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you.
2
For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished, and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
3 Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.
4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south.
Zechariah 14:9 (NASB77)
9 And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be
the only one, and His name
the only one.