BUILDING OF THE BODY TEMPLE
"Him that overcometh I will make a pillar in the temple of God" Rev 3:12
Edward Proffitt Th. D.
There is a scripture that Evangelicals feel is close to fulfillment. It is
found in 2 Thessalonians 2:4, and says: "So that he as God sitteth in theemple of God, showing himself that he is God." The possibility of rebuilding
the Temple, together with the renewed Messianic expectancy, is prevailing
among the Orthodox Jews.
This, with other happenings, is a sign to the believer of the imminent return
of Jesus Christ. All that remains of the old Jewish temple is the Western Wall,
or the Wailing Wall, which forms an outer basis of the great square in which
the Mosque of Omar and other Moslem holy places stand.
Jews pray at the Wailing Wall, and their religion forbids that they even enter
the precincts of the Dome of the Rock until the Jewish temple has been
rebuilt on its original site and the Jewish biblical laws of the Ritual of
Purity have been reinstituted.
There is a biblical truth that can be relied upon; God's promises will be kept
-- the Temple will be rebuilt. Isaiah saw it rebuilt: "Your brethren that hated
you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but
he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. A voice of noise from
the city, a voice from the Lord that rendereth recompense to his enemies"
(Isaiah 66:5-6). Ezekiel saw it rebuilt: "Afterward he brought me to it and
measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on
the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle" (Ezekiel 41:1).
To this end-time state the apostle Paul notes the entanglement of the
Antichrist. On the pretense of a charlatan he will move toward the Temple.
A complete unmasking of the fraud is scheduled for the tabernacle area.
The rebuilding of the temple sets the stage for the Lawless One, the Man of Sin.
As a Christian, "Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost" (1 Corinthians 6:19).Correct building of that temple brings a warfare from the "principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places" (Eph 6:12). As we battle with the weapons
that God gives us for victory "Sin shall not have dominion over you"
(Romans 6:14). We were recreated in Christ for better things. God has all
the victorious answer for us in His Son, Jesus Christ.
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