#5 - Revelation Temple (Rev. 11:1-2) - Revelation Already Complete?
The main point in my blogs up to this time has been to try to grapple with the heated debate surrounding a future temple built in Jerusalem. While one side believes that Scripture states that a return to animal sacrifices is imminent, the other side sees this as contrary to the gospel and work of Christ. There are three New Testament passages that the future-view hold to be evidence of a future coming of the Temple and sacrificial system (Matt. 24:15, 2 Thess. 2:4, Rev. 11:1-2) and it is these that I am surveying to try to understand the context in the timing. So far we have covered two of these three passages in previous posts and discovered that the timing of the context supposes an already past fulfillment of those texts, not a future one. We will now take a look at Revelation 11:1-2. It states, " 1 Then there was given to me a measuring rod like a staff; and someone said, “Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those wh...