Do we know if the temple will be built before or after the Antichrist signs the treaty?
The exact timing is not revealed: the temple may be built before the Antichrist signs the treaty, immediately after, or at some other time. What is known is that by the midpoint of the Tribulation, the temple will be operating.
Les explains that we do not know whether the temple will be built before the Antichrist signs the treaty, immediately after, or whenever. But this much is known: by the time the Tribulation has reached its midpoint, the temple is going to be operating. He then returns to Daniel chapter 9, where the seventy weeks, or the seven years prophesied concerning the nation of Israel, begin in verse 24 with “seventy weeks are determined upon thy people,” and include finishing the transgression, making an end of sins, making reconciliation for iniquity, bringing in everlasting righteousness, sealing up the vision and prophecy, and anointing the most holy.