Jesus is the new Temple, and further Christians are also then the Temple of God, and subsequently after tearing that temple curtain we no longer need to go to a Temple to worship and have a relationship with God but now He lives in all of our hearts through the Holy Spirit.
So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. (John 2:18-22)
“Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone, in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” Ephesians 2:19-22
“Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” 1 Corinthians 3:17
“And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them.I will be their God,And they shall be My people.” 2 Corinthians 6:16
I consider this also to be a good answer....
yes.... I agree with you that each body of a Christian or Jew is
indeed a Temple of the Holy Spirit / Ruach ha Kodesh and......
yes...... Moshiach is being raised up in each of us and soon will
be able to speak through our mouths.... to a greater and greater degree.....
and Moshiach / Messiah will also be able to do things through our hands and
feet!
Soon... the most feeble resident of Jerusalem will have a level of wisdom, courage,
chutzpah, zeal and attitude of praise and worship that will be like King David of Israel.....
But.... this does NOT mean that the literal Jerusalem Third Temple of Ezekiel chapters
40- 48 is NOT built in the near future and does not play an important role in the usher in of.....
and in the maintenance of the Era of Moshiach / Messiah for one thousand years minimum!
When Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus promised the raising up of The Temple in three days....
yes ... .that did mean his physical body....after his death ...... but it also referred to the Jerusalem Third and
Fourth Temple.......... The Fourth Temple will be the fulfillment of whatever is meant
by
Revelation Chapter 21 (KJV)
Revelation 21:2
"And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."
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Revelation 21:16
"And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal."
I assume that this huge complex is shaped basically like a pyramid....
and..... I assume that there is indentation at the bottom so that it
fits perfectly over the
Jerusalem Third Temple complex as described by Ezekiel in chapters 40 - 48.
What I don't know because it is information above my own Security Clearance Level and
pay scale is whether or not this Revelation 21 Temple Complex will be visible in four dimensional
space time or if it exists only in a higher invisible dimension of space - time
as postulated in String Theory?
I am wide open toward... and lean heavily toward this Fourth Jerusalem Temple being visible
in the material world....... but I could easily be wrong about this.
If this forth Jerusalem Temple comes down around the year 3030..... 3000 years / 3 metaphorical
days from the time of the death burial and resurrection of Messiah Yeshua - Jesus THEN......
the year 2030 is a logical year for the beginning of the Ezekiel 40 - 48 prophecy to be fulfilled......
The year 2070 is also a logical time for people who DO NOT recognize Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus
as having attained Moshiach ben Yosef / Joseph / Ephraim level consciousness....... so
in order for a 2030 Jerusalem Third Temple to become popular among Orthodox Jewish scholars.....
Mr. Ariel Cohen Alloro and Rabbi Itzhak Shapiro have a lot of work to do!
Ariel Cohen Alloro meeting with Rabbi Itzhak Shapira in Jerusalem - Part 1 of 3