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The Temple of God
« on: June 05, 2009, 04:20:49 PM »
Where is the temple of God?

1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

The question would then be who the "ye" is. We have this to help:

John 2:19  Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.  20  Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?  21  But he spake of the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

So Jesus body, or the body of Christ, is the temple of God.
The following would seem to confirm that:

Ephesians 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone]; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Additionally we find:

1Corinthians 6:19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

We can see that the regenerate individual's body is the temple of Holy Ghost.
Then the body of Christ corporate, is the "temple of God" "builded" together of regenerate persons that are filled with the Holy Ghost.

Then can there be any question as to where we are to look for the revealing of that "man of sin"?:

2 Thessalonians 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Interesting to consider the ECUSA ordination of bishop Gene Robinson for example or:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=todd+bentley&search=Search
Todd Bentley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K8XjObzfXM
http://www.beholdthebeast.com/man_of_sin.htm

Once we understand that the verses that pin the location of the temple of God are not open to interpretation, and then where we are to look for "that man of sin", John Nelson Darby's 19th century futurist eschatology invention collapses, and the return of our Lord and Savior stunningly more imminent. Particularly upon further investigation of the term antichrist: http://www.beholdthebeast.com/antichrist.htm