We are all familiar with the historic Temple of Yahweh God, aren't we? The physical Temple was built by David's son Solomon. Yahweh God's spirit resided there and it was the center of the Children of Israel's worship of Yahweh God. Animal sacrifices were made there as a way to temporarily atone for sin, before the "Lamb of God" came to "Take away the sin of the world" (Joh 1:29). It was a physical precursor to the spiritual Temple of Yahweh God, spoken of by Peter and John the Apostle, and directly revealed by Jesus Himself in Rev 3:12:
Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of Yahweh ...
Yahweh God's final plan for the salvation of Adamic man does not include a physical temple that His Spirit resides in, no, it is all about Jesus Christ. To deny this is to deny the truth and to deny Yahweh the Father and His only begotten son. In the finished work of Christ on the cross is all that is necessary for the seed of Jacob Israel.
Php 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Php 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
The physical Temple was destroyed twice, once by the Babylonians and finally by the Romans. Some misguided shepherds of the Lord's sheep would have you believe that the physical temple must be rebuilt. As you are reading this many apostate Christians and Edomite Jews are working to rebuild the physical temple. You have to ask yourself why? As we're going to show you, there are no scriptures that prophesy a rebuilding or a need to rebuild the physical temple a third time. The Scriptures show clearly that believers of the Adamic race, through the seed of Jacob Israel in Jesus Christ are now the true Temple of Yahweh God:
1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of Yahweh God, and that the Spirit of Yahweh God dwelleth in you?
Why would Christians want to align themselves with edomite jews? Why would they worry about a physical temple being rebuilt? Why would they feel any kind of affinity with those that pray to a wall of rocks? Is the Spirit of Yahweh God in the wailing wall ... or is it inside of the seed of Jacob Israel? If the temple were to be rebuilt, would the Spirit of Yahweh God reside there? The scriptures couldn't be more clear, read the scripture above again, we seed of Jacob Israel are the true temple of Yahweh God:
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of Yahweh God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living Elohim; as Yahweh God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be my people.
And as Peter tells us, we believers are indeed the Temple of Yahweh God, and together we make up a "Spiritual house" filled with the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God! And if we'll overcome to the end Jesus will make us "pillars in the temple of my Elohim"! (Rev 3:12) We are not to be looking for a rebuilt temple here on earth, as the apostate christians and edomite jews were and are:
1Pe 2:4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of Yahweh God, and precious,
1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to Yahweh by Jesus Christ.
1Pe 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
1Pe 2:7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
1Pe 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
1Pe 2:10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of Yahweh God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Hos 1:9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Hos 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Hos 1:11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to Yahweh by Jesus Christ.
Will we all be turned into rocks? No, of course not, it's an analogy relating to the original physical Temple. And in place of the animal sacrifices we offer "Spiritual sacrifices". Clearly we are shown that Yahweh God has no plans for a third physical temple, where then do the misguided shepherds get this doctrinal error from? Well, they've completely missed the Scriptures which describe the spiritual nature of Yahweh God's true Temple, and the fact that they are told that Yahweh God no longer dwells in temples made by human hands:
Act 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands ...
They also seem to have missed the fact, just as the religious (again mostly edomite jews) leaders of the Jews did and do, that Jesus refers to Himself as the Temple:
Joh 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Did Jesus rebuild the physical temple three days after His death on the cross, or did He arise from the dead in three days? Isn't that clear enough proof of what the true temple of Yahweh God is?
If your religious leaders are telling you that a physical temple must be rebuilt to bring about Jesus' return, then as you've been shown, they are wrong, and their focus in on the things of this world and not the things of Yahweh God:
1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of Yahweh God abideth for ever.
Their minds are set on the flesh, not on the Spirit (Rom 8:6-7). They don't love the truth and cannot tell it to you, because they don't know it (2 Th 2:10-12). They cannot rightly divide the Word of Yahweh God, they cannot understand the difference between the physical temple or the spiritual, 2 Ti 2:15, Rev 3:12, Heb 12:22-24). Just as those that were the Children of Israel's teachers at Christ's first coming misled their flock (Most of The Levitical priesthood was murdered, done away with and replaced by edomites, like Herod), and as Jesus told them, they are not His sheep Joh 10:26, they couldn't hear or understand His word, so too will your religious leaders (Who instead of preaching the true Gospel that Jesus was sent only to the seed of Jacob, the lost tribes, or sheep of Israel Mat 10:6-7, Mat 15:24, preach universalist judaised lies) of today lead you on the wide gate to destruction:
Mat 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Mat 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Don't be deceived Brothers and Sisters, those that preach a different gospel are indeed cursed, and you will be too if you don't flee from their houses of idolatry, falsely called the "Church" (Gal 1:6-8). Come out of the darkness of the carnally minded "Church" into the marvellous light of the truth (1 Pe 2:9, Rev 18:4)! Claim your rightful inheritance as "the People of Yahweh God" (1 Pe 2:10)!
Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of Yahweh God Rom 9:3;
Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Eph 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of Yahweh God through the Spirit.
Daniel Mark
4 comments:
Hi Daniel:
You are truly seeing with spiritual eyes in your understanding of the temple. There is no doubt that God will fulfill these scriptures in the way you have dicribed. However, the prophets message is also to those whe are not born again. The message is meant to allow the Spirit to prick their heart with physical proof that they can see and touch so that they might believe and be saved. Not all prophetic scriptures reguarding the temple are to be taken spiritual. Daniel 7 through 11 speak to the physical temple in this effort to reach people through their carnal mind. These point to an anti-christ who will make a physical covenant for 7 years. The covenant is broken in the midst of the seven and a physical idol is set up. In Daniel 11 a king from the north attempts a move againt the king of the south which history and scripture prove to be Egypt. This king of north moves about the midst of the 7 years and the result in Daniel 11:31 is the idol placed in the temple. Later he attempts to fight Egypt again and is destroyed in the valley between Jerusalem and the sea. Then Micheal stands up to fight for Isreal.
These verses cannot be interpritted spiritually. They are the evidence of a physical temple in our time. The covenant was signed on Jan 1, 2007. The free masons and the jewish religeous leaders are planning the reconstruction of the litteral temple. All is ready to rebuild. This rebuilt temple will come but has no significance on the believer other than evidence of his coming soon. We as believers need to look to the spiritual temple to allow the spirit to do his work in our hearts.
The conclusion is that both teachings are true if brought in line with the word. One is carnal in order to convert the non believer. The other is spiritual to cleans the believer.
Bill
Hi Bill,
Thanks for reading the article. I agree with you that the physical temple will most likely be rebuilt, I just don't think there's any Biblical reason to do so. I believe that it is further evidence of unbelief on the part of Jewish and Christian Zionists. A diminishing of Christ's finished work on the cross, a slap in the face to the sacrifice of God's only begotten son. I believe you are referring to the prophecy of Daniel's 70 weeks, I believe it was fulfilled at the baptism, death and resurrection of Christ. Further, I believe that God's purposes for physical Israel and a physical temple, were finished with its rejection of Christ and its subsequent destruction, as prophesied by Christ Himself. There is now only the Israel of God, which is made up of believers in Christ, whether they be Jews, Arabs, Caucasians, etc. All promises made to Abraham were fulfilled by the seed of Abraham, none other than Jesus Christ! Physical Israel thought to be restored in 1948 and a rebuilt temple in the future are and would be the works of men. If it caused some to believe than they would be mired in false doctrines, believing in false prophets and not the true Savior, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, Jesus Christ.
Daniel Mark
What Zionist ideology projects is a grotesque parody of the kingdom of God – a land without the temple, an earthly fullness without a heavenly focus. From the beginning it was not so. And if it be that a temple building is included in the plans of these modern architects of the kingdom, while they yet spurn the claims of Jesus, the promised seed of Abraham, the Christ of God, what is this but another Babel-tower, another titanic attempt to erect the cosmic focus by autonomous human effort, another repudiation of the grace of God and his redemptive provision of the true holy temple-city from heaven? Such a pseudo-temple the man of sin might occupy but the Son of Man, himself the true temple, would ultimately destroy it. Any response from the Christian community, dispensational or other, that does not challenge the Zionists’ appeal to God’s covenant with Abraham to justify the present Israeli occupation of Palestine represents a tragic failure to confront them with fallen man’s absolute lack, in himself, of claim on God’s covenanted kingdom and with the sinner’s desperate need to find restoration to God’s favor through Jesus Christ. To show sympathy to the Zionist in his defiant claim is to hide from him the gospel of God’s love and to encourage him on his unbelieving way to perdition apart from Christ, the sinner’s only hope.
Meredith Kline, Kingdom Prologue (Wipf and Stock, 2006), p. 347.
Beautifully said.
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