Prophecy Newsflash: The Last Days Temple Is Being Rebuilt Now

It’s something most American Christians have been waiting for, and praying for, their entire lives. Most thought they’d never live to see the day, but now that day has come.

It’s true. The Temple that was prophesied to be rebuilt in the Last Days is being rebuilt as we speak.

What’s even more shocking is that construction on this new Temple started nearly 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem and hasn’t stopped until this very moment.

The shocking truth that most Christians seem to misunderstand is this: The End Times Temple that the Bible prophesies will be built is already under construction – and it’s YOU!

“Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.” (1 Cor 3:16–17)

“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” (1 Cor 6:19)

“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.” (Ephesians 2:19–22)

Not only are we the End Times Temple that the New Testament tells us about, we are also the New Jerusalem of God that has already come down from God out of Heaven to be established upon the Earth.

“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” [Rev. 21:1-3]

John kicks off this chapter by declaring that the New Jerusalem – which is the Bride of Christ – has come down from heaven in fulfillment of the promise that “the dwelling place of God” would be “with man” and that God “will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.” [Rev. 21:3]

This is the promise of the New Covenant:

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” [Hebrews 8:10]

Remember when Jesus said to his disciples, “this cup is the New Covenant in my blood”? That’s when this entire process started, and it’s been ongoing ever since!

Now, I know that many are tempted to read this passage in Revelation – and certainly this entire book – as if it were entirely futuristic. But there are some problems with that, I think. Especially when it comes to the New Covenant, which the prophet Jeremiah foreshadowed and Jesus proclaimed as being inaugurated on the night before his crucifixion at the final Passover supper with his disciples.

These promises are based on the fulfillment of the New Covenant, and Paul even alludes to it when he speaks of the Church as the Temple of God:

“For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, ‘I will Dwell in them and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they shall be My people’” (2 Cor 6:16).

See that? Paul says that we – the Church – are the temple of the living God, and then he bases that reality on the promise of the New Covenant where God says “I will be their God and they shall be My people,” something also repeated in the New Jerusalem passage in Revelation:

“And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.” [Rev. 21:3]

In the words of Ricky Bobby: “That just happened!” [Or, it happened about 2,000 years ago, at least].

Keep in mind, the old city of Jerusalem which existed at the time of Christ was destroyed in AD 70. Its destruction was the “End of the Age” and when it was destroyed, so was the Old Covenant system.

Out of the ashes of that temporal city arose the new, spiritual Jerusalem, and with the destruction of that Old Covenant Temple there was constructed a new, living Temple of the New Covenant, which is the Church.

The Church is the Bride of Christ, and as John tells us in Revelation, the New Jerusalem has already come down from Heaven [by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit] and now grows to cover the entire earth.

Within the Church – or the New Jerusalem – there is no temple other than Jesus Himself. He abides within us, and we abide within Him. We are the living Temple of the Holy Spirit where Christ lives, and Christ is the living Temple where all of us “live and move and have our being.”

The Bride of Christ is here now. We are the Incarnation of Christ in the world now. He is our Head, and we are His Body.

“And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.” [Rev. 21:3]

Has God not already made His dwelling among men? Isn’t this what Jesus, and Stephen, and the other Apostles proclaimed over and over again?