The prophet Amos describes the time immediately before the Great Tribulation in amazing detail. It is a description of the times we live in today:
Am 4:6 ¶And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
The phrase ``cleanness of teeth'' refers to lack of food, to famine. In Bible times, famine was crop failure, but today famine is economic failure. The hand of God causes some places to prosper, and some to perish; in this manner, He controls the affairs of men.
As a result of the hard times, ``two or three cities wandered into one city.'' This refers to two or three spirits being in one body. It is a direct reference to the spirits of the two men, Solomon and Adonikam, or the third spirit as well, the spirit of Satan, all being in the one body the Antichrist.
``I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils'' is an obvious reference to the polution we see from our cities today.
These three cities (camps), as the spirits of the 666 men that come out of them, are mentioned again by John. They speak through the voice of the Antichrist:
Re 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
So we see that Solomon and Adonikam were both 666 men, and that they were both Temple builders. The Masonic Lodge of today is patterned sharply after the building of the Temple, and Masons are indoctrinated heavily in the history (both factual as well as somewhat fanciful) of Solomon's Temple. We must consider that the Temple builders of today could be Masons.
Today the site of the Temple of Jerusalem is the site of the Dome of the Rock, a Muslim mosque, built by Caliph Omar in the seventh century A.D.36 The word ``dome'' comes from the Latin word domus, which means ``house of God;''37 The word ``rock'' is an obvious allusion to the word Tyre, which means rock; therefore, we may give an alternative translation to the name of this mosque: ``The house of the god of Tyre!''
The proper Temple must be rebuilt, so that the Antichrist can inhabit it:
2Th 2:3 ¶Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
As before, the Masons will do the actual construction, under the
direction of the Grand Architect, the 666 man, the Antichrist. The
Antichrist will have to be the organizer of the rebuilding of the
Temple. The Temple must be rebuilt before the daily sacrifice can
begin again. Its construction must be complete before the Great
Tribulation. Its design is already underway.38
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Who will build the Temple? Solomon built the original Temple. The current director of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem's name is also Solomon.40 Ezra, a type of Christ, rebuilt the Temple after the Babylonian captivity. Herod rebuilt, or at least made improvements to, the Temple when he came into power immediately before the time of Jesus. The Gnostic roots of Qaballah date from just after 200 B.C.--also just before the time of Jesus.
Herod was Roman, a type of the Roman Catholic Church. Both the doctrine of Qaballah and the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church are perversions of the true Apostolic doctrine which was taught by Jesus and preached by the Apostles and the preachers of the early church. This was before the Nicean Council formed the Roman Catholic Church and introduced the doctrine of the Trinity--three separate persons in the Godhead, like the three spirits in the Antichrist.