WHO WILL BUILD THE THIRD TEMPLE? part two

In addition, God put a prophecy in the mouths of the crowd which represented the attitude of all mankind when they said: "His blood be on us, and on our children." The crowd simply meant that they would take the responsibility for Jesus' death because they wanted to be rid of Him. However, God's double, and exact, meaning of their unintended prophecy was that Jesus' shed blood would be made available to all men so that those who repent and believe in Christ will be washed clean of all their sins and reconciled to God.

Here read II Corinthians 5:18-19
All of humanity stands with that crowd either rejecting the Lord Jesus or accepting His blood, by faith, to wash away their sins.

Here read John 11:49-53
Another example of a double prophecy was the one uttered by Caiaphas the high priest. In Caiaphas' mind, his prophecy was simply a political one having to do with the relationship of the Jewish nation to their Roman masters. Caiaphas thought that the Jewish leaders could use Jesus' crucifixion at the hands of the Romans as a political tool to help unite the Jewish people, at home and abroad, in greater opposition to Roman control.

But the exact meaning of the prophecy that God put in his mouth was a spiritual one. This spiritual meaning was revealed in Caiaphas' use of the phrases "one man should die for the people" and "whole nation perish not." His use of these phrases revealed God's influence over what he said. Note that he did not say "one man should die for Judah" or "our nation perish not," which would have been the pure political meaning.

Instead, the exact spiritual meaning of what he said was that Jesus would die for all people: "whole nation" meaning all people. This meaning was further clarified in verses 51 and 52 when Caiaphas prophesied that Jesus would not just die for the Jewish nation but that: "He should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad." This phrase reveals the exact spiritual meaning of that which Jesus did. Jesus died on the cross and was raised again for all people everywhere so that the gospel , through the power of the Holy Spirit, would spread throughout the whole world so that those who believe would be united into His church which He purchased with His own blood.

These evidences attest to the fact that the false witnesses, in the second part of what they said, really meant that Jesus would build the third temple even though they had no idea of what they were saying.

In addition, some of the Old Testament prophets also prophesied that Jesus would build the third temple.

Here read Zechariah 6:9-15.
In this passage of scripture, God causes Zechariah to act out a prophecy. Zechariah instructs certain men to make a crown of silver and gold, and to set it on the head of Joshua who was the high priest at that time.

Then Zechariah instructs those present at this event to speak to the high priest as though he were THE BRANCH. THE BRANCH is one of the Old Testament names for the Messiah. One of the things they said was: "he shall build the temple of the Lord." They then go on to prophesy that this Messiah will one day rule as king and priest. This prophecy can only refer to the age of the Messiah when He shall come to reign over the whole world, and also to the third temple which Jesus, the Messiah, shall build.

Furthermore, verse 15 refers to those that are "far off;" meaning that people from every part of the world will come and "build in the temple of the Lord." Note that this does not say that they will build the temple, but that they will "build in the temple." Apparently, worshipers will come from all over the world to build something inside the temple that will honor the Messiah who will be the ruler of the world.