We have the most Bible translations available to us, we have an abundance of biblical resources, and we have the most Bible-accessible mediums than ever before, and yet biblical illiteracy is at its highest since Gutenberg. Many professing Christians never crack open their Bibles and bother to read its contents. This is a shame because Jesus said, "My words are spirit and life."
"In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, And wall up its breaches; I will also raise up its ruins And rebuild it as in the days of old; That they may possess the remnant of Edom And all the nations who are called by My name," Declares the LORD who does this. "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "When the plowman will overtake the reaper And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; When the mountains will drip sweet wine And all the hills will be dissolved. "Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, And they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them; They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, And make gardens and eat their fruit. "I will also plant them on their land, And they will not again be rooted out from their land Which I have given them," Says the LORD your God. Amos 9:11-15
After they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying, "Brethren, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name. With this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written, 'AFTER THESE THINGS I will return, AND I WILL REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH HAS FALLEN, AND I WILL REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND I WILL RESTORE IT, SO THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,' SAYS THE LORD, WHO MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO. Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles, but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood. Acts 15:13-20
In neither the Old Testament nor the New Testament did God ever promise to rebuild the tabernacle of Moses or the temple of Solomon (or Herod's temple). Nowhere in the Bible did God promise or predict a rebuilding of the temple after the one destroyed in A.D. 70. Once again, Dispensationalists need to learn how to read their Bibles more clearly and accurately. God promised to restore the tabernacle of David. What was the tabernacle of David?
In the tabernacle of Moses, the ark of the covenant was considered the place of God; the mercy seat, where the blood was sprinkled, was considered where God sat. The Israelites associated the ark of the covenant with God Himself. In 1 Samuel 4, when the Israelites were defeated by the Philistines, the Israelites had the bright idea, "Let's go get God! We'll bring God into battle with us and then we will win for sure." Even the Philistines thought that God had come into the camp. Upon defeating the Israelites, the Philistines thought, "Ha! Now we have God!" All sorts of bad things began to happen to the Philistines.
In 2 Samuel 6, David has a cart built and goes to retrieve the ark of the covenant. The problem is that they got the idea of the cart from the Philistines. That was not how God prescribed the manner in which they were to worship Him. After Uzzah died from touching the ark while trying to steady it, David was afraid to move it. The ark was to be carried by legitimate Levite priests with poles. When David finally brought the ark to Zion, he dedicated it once (just like Jesus was sacrificed once) and all the people were worshiping before it, and good things were happening.
Over where the tabernacle of Moses still was, the priests continued offering sacrifices and performing their worship duties even though God was no longer present. Even though the ark was no longer present, they did not notice a difference. This is what many "churches" are like today. God is not present with the people, and yet week after week they continue to offer their empty, godless worship.
The tabernacle of David is the New Testament era found right in the middle of the Old Testament. Read David's Psalms, where he speaks of sitting beneath the shadow of God's wings. He was talking about the wings of the Cherubim on the ark of the covenant! The tabernacle of David was a type, a foreshadow, a picture, of the Church. Amos and Acts are the only passages that speak of a rebuilding, and Acts quotes Amos in fulfillment of the Church. What does the New Testament say about Christians? We are being built into a spiritual temple. God does not dwell in temples built by human hands. The true temple is a spiritual temple, of which the others were foreshadows, and it finds its fulfillment primarily in Christ and secondarily in the Church. The only temple being built right now is us, the Church. Even if the Jews managed to rebuild their temple, it would do them no good. God is not there! Read the book of Hebrews!
Jeremiah even records for us that God told the Israelites that He would one day forsake their temple. They did not care about God, for them it was all about their temple. They worshiped the temple rather than God. Jesus even uttered the same words, that the temple would be forsaken. In A.D. 70, what happened? The temple was utterly destroyed. Dispensationalists need to learn how to read and pay attention to what the Bible actually has to say, because none of their theology is backed up by the holy Scriptures. Their restoration theology is a doctrine of demons. Anyone who follows their theology is in danger of worshiping a false god, because the God of the Bible prophesied no such things!