1. What is a temple?
    1. A place of religious worship.
      • No, we should worship God wherever we are.
    2. A holy place.
      • The temple is a holy place, but this is not the best answer.
    3. It is just another name for a church building.
      • Many think that this is true, but it is not. The church building is just a building, just like the Department of Motor Vehicles building.
    4. Right Answer!It is where the Spirit of God resides on earth.
      • Yes, this is the best answer.

     

     

  2. Where is the temple during the church age?
    1. There is no temple during this age, that is why the Romans were allowed by God to destroy it in 70 AD.
      • No, this is not true.
    2. Every church building is a temple.
      • No.
    3. It is in Salt Lake City.
      • No. The Mormons call some of there buildings "temples" but this is only because they don't know the truth about the church age.
    4. Right Answer!The physical bodies of all of the true Christians makes up the temple.
      • Yes.
      • 1 Corinthians 3:16
        Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? (NIV)

     

     

  3. Was the Tabernacle used by Israel before Solomon built the Temple a type of Temple?
    1. Right Answer!Yes.
      • Yes, the Spirit of God was in residence.
    2. No.
      • No, it was a temple.

     

     

  4. Was the Temple built by Solomon truly a Temple?
    1. Yes.
      • Yes.
      • 1 Kings 8:10-11
        When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the LORD. 11 And the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled his temple. (NIV)
    2. No.
      • No.

     

     

  5. Was the Temple built by Zerubbabel truly a Temple?
    1. Right Answer!Yes.
      • Yes.
      • Ezra 3:10
        When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments and with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their places to praise the LORD, as prescribed by David king of Israel. (NIV)
      • Scripture calls it a temple.
    2. No.
      • No.

     

     

  6. Was the temple that Jesus went to the same temple as Zerubbabel's?
    1. Yes.
      • No.
      • John 2:19-20
        Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."
        20 The Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?" (NIV)
      • Notice that the temple in Jesus' day was only 46 years old.
    2. Right Answer!No.
      • Yes, this was not he same temple.

     

     

  7. Are the Jews going to build a temple before the Lord's Return?
    1. Right Answer!Yes.
      • Yes.
      • Daniel 9:27
        He will confirm a covenant with many for one "seven.' In the middle of the "seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him." (NIV)
      • This has not happened yet, but will. For this to happen there must be a temple.
    2. No.
      • No.

     

     

  8. Is the temple recorded in Ezekiel 40-48 one of the previously mentioned temples?
    1. Yes.
      • No, this temple is for use during the Millennial Kingdom age.
    2. Right Answer!No.
      • Yes, this will be a new temple.

     

     

  9. Will the temple mentioned in Daniel 9:27 be destroyed?
    1. Right Answer!Yes.
      • Yes, because they will build the one from Ezekiel 40-48.
    2. No.
      • No, it will be destroyed.

 

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