Isa 29:2    Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto Me as Ariel.

     Ariel (Jerusalem) was historically 'distressed' when Sennacherib, king of Assyria came upon Jerusalem during the reign of Hezekiah, the king of Judah.

 

 2 Kings 18: Read All.

 

That was around 700 B.C. but; recall that the role the Assyrian played in history is also a 'type' for the antichrist in the latter days, as we learned from the previous Isaiah Chapters. Jerusalem was distressed again when Rome came upon the city.
     There will be yet one more major distressing upon Jerusalem prior to our Lord Christ's return. Recall our Lord Christ's Message to His disciples in...

 

 Matthew 24: Read All.

 

...When they remarked at the Temple building complex when our Lord was here upon the earth. Our Lord Jesus said, "...There shalt not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down." (Matt.24:2).

 

In the very next Matthew 24 verse, Read All.

 

 Christ's disciples asked Christ when those things shall be, linking it to the sign of His coming and the end of this world (age). That final distressing is covered here in Isaiah 29 also, and it is yet future to us.

Isa 29:3    And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

     This verse means that God is allowing Ariel (Jerusalem) to be sieged, historically, and yet in the near future. What do we hear about the return to Jerusalem today? We are told by many that God is gathering His People back to the Holy Land in the final kingdom sense. Don't be deceived, for the flesh time Jerusalem is going to be levelled by God to prepare for our Lord's "thousand years" Temple.

 

Rev.20: Read All.

 

 Ezek.40-48: Read All.

 

 There's no room for a temple built by man's hand in Christ's thousand years future reign upon the earth. Therefore, it's important to realize that the gathering of the Jews to Jerusalem today and the plan to rebuild the Temple and re-institute animal sacrifice with the Old Covenant Levitical priesthood, is all for naught. God will allow them to be deceived by 'a pseudo messiah' who will come to sit in their temple, and whom they will proclaim as their king

 

Jesus Christ is our only True KING, and we are to wait for Him.

 

Rev.19:16. And he hat on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

     If your Minister or Pastor is teaching about this gathering event to Jerusalem today, and the rebuilding of a third Temple as being a sign of Christ's coming, then that's correct, because our Lord Jesus is coming to destroy it with the "brightness of His coming"!