When the Antichrist arises (after the Rapture and the war prophesied in Ezekiel 38 & 39), Israel will begin building the Third Temple where Jews will renew animal sacrifice then three-and-a-half years later the Antichrist will stop the Temple sacrifices to declare himself God, fully aware that he’s the Antichrist yet cunningly deceitful enough to fool many, those who will receive the Mark of the Beast.