Donna Danna (25 Feb 2013)
"TO: MATHMAN -- THE
TEMPLE OF GOD"
Hi Mathman,
In reply to your 2/23 post called "Satan sitting in the Temple
of God -- Mark of the Beast" at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2013/mathman223.htm
I didn't think that the unsaved, left behind people were the
temple of God since the Holy Spirit isn't dwelling inside of
their bodies. The Holy Spirit dwells inside of a saved
person whose body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Since
a unsaved person's body is not the temple of the Holy Spirit
until they become saved, I don't see how Satan could be sitting
in the temple of God unless the temple of God is a physically
constructed temple rather than an unsaved person's body.
1 Corthinians 6:19-20, "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? For ye are bought with a price:
therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which
are God's. "
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."
1 Corinthians 3:16-17, "Know ye not that ye are the temple of
God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man
defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple
of God is holy, which [temple] ye are."
I believe that if a believer defiles his body (the temple of
God) that God will destroy his body through sickness and/or
death because the Apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians
11:27-32, "Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink
[this] cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body
and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let
him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup. For he that
eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to
himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many
[are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would
judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are
judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be
condemned with the world."