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"We" don't know any such thing. Don't start with an "I" and then change it to a "we". What you say is what dispensational premillennialists say. That does not mean it is automatically what the Bible says.Then explain to us who the man of lawlessness is?
What I know is this...we don't know his name. One thing we do know from studying the bible is that by possessing and controlling the Antichrist, Satan is worshiped in the temple where the God of the Jews will be worshiped.
The Bible does not say that Satan possesses and controls the Antichrist. It does not even say that the man of lawlessness is the Antichrist. (Capitalized here to distinguish your view from what the Bible says.) There is nothing in Scripture that speaks of a future time when "the God of the Jews" will be worshiped. (The God of the Jews is the one true and living God) it is Christ who they reject/ rejected as to his atoning, saving work. And most D/P who purport a third temple do believe it is Jesus as God who stands in that temple while animal sacrifices are being offered. So I presume you are trying to separate yourself from that belief while still hanging on to the third temple. But neither your take on it or theirs, holds an ounce of verifiable substance. Or you are making it up as you go along because you realize that something you were taught and always believed, is antithetical to Christ.
Let's look at what the Bible does say specifically when it uses the term antichrist.
1 John 2:18
NAS Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.
ESV Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
1 John 2:22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
Why do you deny how Scripture identifies antichrist? Why do you jump to a conclusion that the beast of revelation is the man of lawlessness mentioned if 2 Thess 2?
Why do your ignore the scriptures that do speak of a temple being built, even now, and that identify the Temple.
1 Peter 2:4-6 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, your yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."
1 Cor 3:16-17 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Are you ready yet, to rethink a couple of things?