I mentioned in my last blog that I had the passing thought about Muslims offering to help the Jews rebuild the Temple as a sign of peace. A friend of mine heard about my speculations and forwarded me an article about a Turkish Muslim leader, Adnan Oktar, and the Jewish sanhedrin meeting together to discuss building a house of prayer, a new Temple, on the Temple mount.
The Turkish leader apparently has enough money to make this happen and here's the interestingly deceptive part. They claim by building this house of prayer they will be fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah that says, "my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations." Their expectation is that Muslims, Jews and Christians will all then be able to pray in this common house of prayer. Then God will be the only One and His name the only One in the earth and therefore fulfill the prophecy of Zechariah also. It sounds like a wonderful coalition bringing everyone together in one happy family. To me it sounds deceptive enough to win many nominal Christians to this place of unity around a false understanding of God.
Interestingly enough, I then was able to talk to a Christian man who actually met with Oktar last June. We were able to spend about half an hour on the phone discussing eschatology. He knows from personal discussions that there is a desire on the part of these people to progress toward building a common Temple.
I don't know exactly how any of this will play out or if it even will, but if a "Temple" is built with Islamic help you will someday likely see someone seated in that temple of God displaying himself as being God. We live in a time when it is just good to know the scriptures. Though we may not be able to be say absolutely what lies ahead in every detail, we can certainly be aware of the spirit of what is happening and to keep our eyes open to various possibilities of how the scriptures may be fulfilled. Shalom!!!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
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Thanks for passing this on. I've not hear any of this before, and it may indeed be significant.
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