First published at 11:12 UTC on August 2nd, 2022.
"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." (1 …
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"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." (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
"If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." (1 Corinthians 3:17)
Many teachers of Bible prophecy and their students believe that a man who embodies everything that is evil, the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition, (commonly referred to as "The Anti-Christ") will sit in a newly built temple in Jerusalem, declaring to the Jewish people that he is their Messiah and that he is their God. He will then set up an image to himself within that temple (the abomination that causes desolation spoken of by Jesus in Matthew 24 and by the prophet Daniel.) These Christians then believe that this same Anti-Christ will force the whole world to take the “Mark of the Beast.”
However, all of the New Testament authors taught that the temple of God is now located within the bodies of spirit-filled believers in Jesus Christ. And none of the teachers of the Jerusalem temple theory make any mention of the role that pharmakeia (the sorcery carried out through the use and administration of drugs and poison) will play in the last days.
Could the abomination that causes desolation be set up, not in a third temple in Jerusalem, but in the bodies of spirit-filled believers? Is it time to revisit the Jerusalem Temple theory?
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