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."