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>> No one has yet sat in the “temple of God” and claimed that he was “God.” <<

The study of history can prevent you from making statements like that above: Antiochus Epiphanes, who gave himself the title, Theos Epiphanes, meaning “the manifest God," believing himself to be an incarnation of Zeus, issued coins of himself with the inscription, “King Antiochus. God Manifest, Bearing Victory," and later erected a statue of Zeus in the Jewish temple, offered the burnt offering of the pigs, and commanded that the sacrifices be repeated each 25th of the month in celebration of his birthday. Zeus was identified as Ba'al Shamen, lord of heaven. In Hebrew, the name was Ba'al Shamayim and was identified as Yahweh, Lord of heaven. So when Antiochus identified himself Zeus, aka Ba'al Shamen, he was claiming to be Yahweh, Ba'al Shamayim, the Lord of heaven, having sacrifices offered to himself in the temple of Yahweh.