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Contemporary observation

No second Temple rebuilt in Jerusalem

Le mont du Temple aujourd'hui : le dôme du Rocher au-dessus du mur occidental, sans Temple reconstruit (2019).
Photo of the place Le mont du Temple aujourd'hui : le dôme du Rocher au-dessus du mur occidental, sans Temple reconstruit (2019). — Photo : Ray in Manila, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

contradicted by the data · Observation ≠ proven fulfilment

2026 · Jérusalem

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What is reported

No temple has been rebuilt on the esplanade since AD 70. This is a negative fact, kept here because a negative fact can be as useful a test as a positive one.

Main objection (in French for now)

Pour toute lecture qui exige un temple physique reconstruit avant que l'homme d'iniquité s'y assoie, l'état actuel est un obstacle direct.

The text (World English Bible)

“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Matt 24:15

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction. He opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God. Don’t you remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things? Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way. Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the ma…

2 Thess 2:3-10

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