As I have already said in my earlier posts...
1. the
Ephesians 2 temple is a 'spiritual' temple
2. the
2 Thessalonians 2:4 "temple of God" is a PHYSICAL stone temple in Jerusalem.
“A physical temple” all caps yeah? “PHYSICAL” His temple
is His body...“Physical” made manifest on earth. He even called it ”His body” such in 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.
John 2:19-21 Jesus answered and said unto them,
Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. [20] Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? [21]
But he spake of the temple of his body.
Ephesians 5:30 For we are members of
his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Ephesians 1:23 Which
is his body,
the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Romans 8:11-14 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. [12] Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. [13] For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. [14] For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
2 Corinthians 4:10-11
[10] Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus,
that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. [11] For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake,
that the LIFE also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,
much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
When ...that His Life also might be made manifest in our mortal flesh...by the Spirit that dwells in you....shall also “quicken” your mortal bodies. 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.
...as God has said “I will dwell in them, and walk in them”
shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
That “dwells in them, and walks in them” by his Spirit that dwells in them. That His Life is made manifest. Don’t know what else to say. “I will dwell in them, and walk in them” I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
You're trying to say anything 'labeled' as the "temple of God" cannot be a literal physical building just because of Apostle Paul's teaching in
Ephesians 2, etc. Sorry but you are mistaken; in 2 Thess.2:4 Paul was speaking of the traditional stone temple in Jerusalem, and not the New Covenant spiritual temple.
so say you. Doesn’t mean others must agree 2 Thess. 2:4 is speaking of the traditional stone temple. Could suggest this has been handled down of men, so to say it must be true is a stretch. Could say it also could be speaking of His body(which He said plainly), the temple built up of God on the Revelation of Jesus Christ given unto His servants. He spoke of His body in relation to destroy it and I will build up a temple
made without hands. Again, blinded until the vail is done away with in Christ yes...then the message wouldn't be we will build another “traditional stone temple in Jerusalem” when Jerusalem above is free.