We each and collectively, who believe in Jesus, are the temple of God, and not some ficticious, wanna be temple in Jerusalem!
Agree. That wasn’t the question though...maybe you can help as I go back and forth between this. The word speaks often on His appearing. The temple that growth with Christ as the chief corner...men are warned in how they built upon and what is burned...suffering loss. Repeatedly scripture says to rejoice or be happy in being tried so you lack nothing at His appearing. You mentioned 2 Thes. 1 [
7] And to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
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8] In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
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9] Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
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When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
From His presence “in flaming fire” when He shall come to be glorified in His saints and them that believed...what I’m asking is: isn’t the Fire His presence(our God is a consuming Fire), His glory filling ...would this not be when the hay and stubble is burned? Whom He destroys with the brightness of His coming...so that leaves the question of: has His presence not already filled His temple, and each baptized with fire added to the body...or is it yet a “brightness of His coming”? Has His glory filled the temple that grows with Christ as the chief corner? 1 Corinthians 3:13-15 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. [14] If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. [15] If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but
he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.