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The Temple and Bible Prophecy: A Definitive Look at Its Past, Present, and Future

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This well researched and written book brings together real world events and actions with Biblical prophecy in a clear and compelling manner. Dr. Randall Price focuses on the building of a new Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and current events that tells the reader that the time is near. As a seminary dean, we use this as one of our textbooks in our post graduate theology curriculum. I would recommend this book for any serious student of the Bible and its end times prophecies.

If you are as interested as I am in end times studies then the millennium temple is a great place to research. Excellent but very technical book.

The Temple and Bible Prophecy: ... by Randall Price is the most exhaustive book on the Jerusalem Temple. Highly recommend this tome for it can also be used as a reference book.

Randall Price, the author of this book, made some major errors in his book. I'll get straight to it:

1. He claims that because some of the apostles prayed in the temple at a traditional prayer time, that that meant there was no problem observing the usual sabbaths and animal sacrifice rituals. That's bad logic:

a) Paul taught to try and be relatable to people in order to persuade them to believe the gospel.

b) Surely they were making themselves available to the unbelieving Jews, who when seeing them pray at the traditional hour near to them, and knowing their reputation might ask as to why they converted. I would do it.

c) The apostles prayed "continuously" as is commanded in Scripture, maybe not with their physical bodies, but I think all of us know they didn't pray at only a certain hour of the day.

2. Jesus said he fulfilled the Law, meaning that many things were done away with so to speak, such as not putting to threads together, all those sacrificial laws, and various holy days no longer need to be observed with the exception of the Saturday Sabbath (I no longer believe Sunday is the Sabbath or at the very least, the only Sabbath and have edited this review to reflect that).

3. Paul rebuked the Galatians for observing such fulfilled rituals, see Galatians 3:2-10 and 4:8-11 and that includes circumcision.

4. Why would praying at a TRADITIONAL hour for prayer as this book teaches the apostles did, also mean that they obeyed the GOD-COMMANDED laws which Christ did away with such as not putting two different kinds of thread material together? The comparison is evidently false: The Pharisees obeyed various traditions and neglected God's true laws or rather did not obey them out of love. So merely adhering to some tradition doesn't mean you would necessarily obey all of God's laws let alone any. If they were obeying say circumcision and sacrificing sheep, then you could SPECULATE that make they also obeyed other laws (that Christ did away with) but even then merely obeying certain laws doesn't mean you obey all of them.

5. Randall took Ezekiel's temple prophecies out of context, read to the end of Ezekiel and you'll see why.

6. He ignored other prophecies which if you tried to fit into his Tim Lahaye-like scheme look absurd and contradict other prophecies. I won't get into that here because it would make the review too big.

7. He claimed the OT saints (mainly the Jews and under a million Gentiles probably) would be resurrected before the 1000 year reign, yet there is no such Scripture which teaches that.

8. Randall seems to be attempting to force the prophecy to come true, which is understandable since I too have had that compulsion in my desire for Christ to come back, but clearly God will have it come true in such a way so that it doesn't look artificial to non-believers. For example, imagine if you said to an atheist, "Well were gonna build this temple because God said it would be recreated". You might as well have said: "Were gonna make this prophecy come true." And even if you build the temple against very hard odds, do you think the atheist would be impressed at all that you succeeded by straining to fulfill a prophecy?