11-14-21
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YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD
(1 Cor 3:16,17) Know [Gk: understand] ye not that ye are the
temple of God, and that the Spirit of God [i.e., God’s Thoughts]
dwelleth [Gk: to occupy a house, resides] in you? If any man
defile [1] the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of
God is holy, which temple ye are.
1. defile = Gk: (waste): wither, spoil, ruin (espec.
fig. by moral influences, to deprave): corrupt (self), destroy.
THE FIRST MIRACLE
(John 2:11-12) This beginning of miracles [turning the water (of
the word) into the wine (of the word)] did Jesus in Cana of Galilee,
and manifested forth [Gk: rendered apparent: manifestly declared,
showed (self)] his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his
brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
THE FIRST CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE
Commentary: when/if you get born-again, this is documentation of the
first entry of Christ (Gk: the anointing) into us (the temple) at the
beginning of the ministry of Jesus Christ to cleanse the temple (us) of
unclean defiling spiritual thoughts (unclean spirits, demons, devils,
fallen angels) and their physical manifestations:
(John 2:13-16) And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went
up to Jerusalem [Heb: dual] [i.e., soulical & spiritual], And
found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the
changers of money [Gk: handlers of coins, money brokers] [i.e., modern
bankers] sitting [Gk: to sit down; fig. residing: dwelling]: And
when he had made a scourge [Gk: whip] of small cords, he drove [Gk:
ejected, cast out, expelled, thrust out] them all out of the temple,
and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and
overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves [Gk:
pigeons] [1,2], Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an
house of merchandise.
1. dove = Heb: a dove (apparently from the warmth of
their mating): pigeon, dove.
2. (John 1:32) And John [the Baptist] bare
record, saying, I saw the [Holy] Spirit [of God] descending from heaven
like a dove, and it abode [Gk: remained] upon him [Jesus].
a. Commentary: does this not beautifully suggest that
the wonderful revelations of the Holy Spirit come down upon us (as they
did Him) like graceful white doves from heaven?
THE SECOND CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE
Commentary: approximately 3 ½ years later, at the end of the ministry
of Jesus Christ to us, He will fill the temple with His Holy Spirit, as
He did the gospel ship at sea (John 6:21), with miraculous changes:
1. (Rom 8:18,19) For I reckon that the
sufferings [tribulations] of this present time are not worthy to be
compared with the glory which shall be revealed [Gk: to take off the
cover, disclosed] in us [ref. 2 Thess 1:7-12]. For the earnest
expectation [Gk: intense anticipation] of the creature [Gk: (living)
creation] waiteth for [“In your patience possess ye your souls.” Luke
21:19] the manifestation of the sons of God.
(Matt 21:12-13) And Jesus went into the temple of God [into each
of us in type], and cast out all them that sold and bought in the
temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers [Gk: coin
dealers] [i.e., modern bankers], and the seats of them that sold doves
[i.e., false miracles], And said unto them, It is written, My
house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of
thieves. (Matt 21:14) And the blind [Gk: opaque (as if
smokey), blind (physically or mentally)] and the lame [Gk: limping:
crippled] [i.e., disabled] came to him in the temple; and he [i.e., we]
healed them.