Steve Mullin (21 July 2011)
"My 2 Cents About the Temple"
I know the scripture talks about the physical, rebuilt third temple, but I do think the following verse may have significance:
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto
us, seeing that thou doest these things? Jesus answered and said unto
them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then
said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt
thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body.
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. John 2:18-22
I'm wondering if Satan entering into the antichrist is the same as the
abomination of desolation where the antichrist enters "The Holy of
Holies" in his mind or consciousness, saying "I am God". Funny how
humans call the areas to the left and right of the eyes their "temples".
I'm also not saying there won't be a physical third temple, but it's
possible that the spiritual temple will mean something as well. We are
also taught in scripture that our bodies are our temples. The main point
is that the Lord will dwell within us and "tabernacle" with us when we
are born again. That's the miracle--I believe the 5 foolish virgins who
cast out demons in His name and obviously "knew of Him" were never born
again or indwealt with his presence. That's why he says "I never knew
you".
Steve Mullin