ROTFL
How can the abomination that causes desolation take place in a Muslim moscue? Part of the prophecy is the anti Christ going into the temple and claiming to be God. That is the abomination. A Muslim mosque would not fulfill this purpose. It is already anti Christ! In the Koran there is a section that has trees pointing to the last Christian to be killed. It also has Jesus claiming to be just a man.
Since the man of sin is said to sit in the temple of God, many believe a temple needs rebuilding. The 'experts' also use Daniel 9:26-27 to say another temple needs rebuilding. Daniel 9 and 2 Thes. 2 has led people to believe in the rebuilding of a Jewish Temple where daily sacrifices can resume....only to have them cease again. Because of this many interpret it that a Jewish anti-Christ will come.
In Revelation 11, the Apostle John was instructed to measure the temple. "But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months." (Rev. 11:2) These 42 months, or 3 1/2 years, make up the time the Assyrian anti-Christ will trample on the holy city, Jerusalem, fulfilling himself as the abomination.
The 'abomination' will be set up in the outer courts, the court of the Gentiles, on a wing of the temple, located around the Dome of the Rock complex. NO passage in the bible indicates a temple needs to be rebuilt. The religious complex of the Dome or the outer court, or the Al'Aqsa mosque is sufficient to fulfill end-time prophecy.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Look at these odd coincidences...
The word temple in 2 Thes. 2 is 'naos' Strong's # 3485 and that word is the
one used to imply a heathen temple.
1) used of the temple at Jerusalem,
2)
any heathen temple or shrine
This word is also used in the book of Acts to describe the temple that the idol stood in.
In East Jerusalem an Islamic complex/ABOMINATION that 'sits upon' Herod's and Solomon's Temple.
"Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."
The word God in this verse is theos. The primary meaning of that word is of
any god or goddess. It is also used to describe the one true God.
When I looked at this in the Greek interlinear, the word "THE" is missing in the KJV but IS in the Greek Interlinear. (as well as other bible translations)
"Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the
temple of THE God, shewing himself that he is God."
Considering the fact that the primary meaning of the word 'Theos' is a god or goddess and that the word "TEMPLE" is "any heathen shrine or temple," and that the word THE is NOT in the KJV but IS in the interlinear,
and considering that the interlinear capitalized the word God only twice when it's used FOUR times in the verse,...My conclusion is that this is how the verse should be presented....
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called god, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the heathen temple of the god (Allah), shewing himself that he is God.