Ye Are The Temple Of God, Many Members Bodies

Ye Are The Temple of God, In The Last Days

The spirit dwells in the shrine formed by the collective body of believers.

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.

17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Matthew 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

Jerusalem: Temple Mount & Dome of the Rock = The Old City of Jerusalem with the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock in the foreground. The Temple Mount is the ancient site of Solomon's Temple . Here also stood Herod's Temple of Jesus' day.

Mark 14:58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

59 But neither so did their witness agree together.

60 And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?

Ephesians 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

He is saying, The Gentiles, whom I'm teaching, are a part of this

Romans 12: 4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

All members have not the same function.
The parable that says, if your eye offend, then pluck it out and if your hand offend, then cut it off.
He was talking about the many member body of Christ.
If one group is contrary to God, you must put that group from you.
Better that it falls than the whole.

Matthew 23:16 16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

1 Corinthians 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Romans 12: 4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

All members have not the same function.
The parable that says, if your eye offend, then pluck it out and if your hand offend, then cut it off.
He was talking about the many member body of Christ.
If one group is contrary to God, you must put that group from you.
Better that it falls than the whole.

5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

Each of us has different talents: use them for Christ.
Or, as an example, if the gift of prophecy, then prophecy according to the truth He gives you.

7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

Bread for communion of the body of Christ

17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

1 Corinthians 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

14 For the body is not one member, but many.

1 Corinthians 12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?

20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.

21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

Revelation 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

The word ''rod'' as it is used in this particular verse, in Greek it is a scepter which is used for destruction.
Notice that he is told to measure only the temple, the altar and the people that worship therein, meaning Israel; and further, those who have been called out of Israel.
And yet, it is a destructive scepter or a chastising rod.
This causes us to remember God's warning that, He would cleanse the house of Israel first.

1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Ephesians 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

Note both the apostles and the prophets speak of Christ as the chief cornerstone, again tied together both the New and Old Testament.

21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

It's the full cycle, the whole building, the whole foundation, and we see the beauty of His salvation unto the whole world including the saints and including the Gentiles.

22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

He is saying, The Gentiles, whom I'm teaching, are a part of this.

Isaiah 48:2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.

Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

He chose the vessels to reach new people, to tend the flock, to help them in their troubles, to encourage, to guide them and to teach.
These abilities are all God-Given.
They are all His gifts.

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

For the perfecting of the saints.
Consider this, you who have ears to hear.
The elect, especially the 7,000, were chosen for a specific reason.
You are concerned with His people, but you also have a responsibility to each other.
Being a part of that one body, we are not complete, one without the other, thus each will perform as He gives us duties to do.
We are one family with one God, one body, one church, one Christ.
The elect are the bride of Christ.

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Or, till we become Christ-like in unity of faith.
This is addressed to the final hour and concerns the body that shall accomplish His work during the millennium.
You are all priests, no matter what category of that priesthood you fall in, because Christ will speak through you, to the whole world soon, when you are delivered up for not accepting the false Christ.
Mark 13:10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit.

14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Or, we will be adult in mind, no longer poorly instructed so that we sway this way or that way, but knowing the truth surely, knowing the fulness of the Gospel as it is recorded in the Word of God.
This craftiness whereby they make a lie sound like the truth is impossible in the face of the full truth as the elect understand the Holy Bible being instructed by the Holy Spirit.
Who is the cunning bearer of this world at this time?
It is Satan of course, and this has reference to your over coming him when he appears here.

15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

You will speak the truth.
You will live the truth, speaking the truth one to another, this is what it really means in the Greek.
And how will you speak? In love, as it is recorded in the word.

16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

We are as a body that fits together joint by joint, all working together using our individual gifts or talents to bring in the fulness of Jesus Christ.
Many would say this refers to the church.
Call it that if you like.
It is His disciples.
It is His elect.
It is you.

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Paul says here, that he speaks for the Lord.

18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Romans 11, That blindness was placed by God.

19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Or, they stop at nothing.

1 Corinthians 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

One for another = on behalf of one another
That = In order that = Should have the same care = should care the same
1 Corinthians 7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Back then, The man would of have been gone months at a time
Today, we have better ways of traveling
Most married men want to care for their family

34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

Whether = if at least
Suffer with it = suffer together
Roman 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
This time He is coming, for the elect, when this dispensation ends.
People will turn on you, if you tell them about the word.

27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

God's provision for the church
Miracles = power, as in verse 10
Here it means "workers of miracles"
Governments = The word means "guidance"
Diversities = different kinds = not the same as in verse 4-6

29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

Diversities of gifts

30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

• The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25