The Antichrist 'sitteth in the temple of God'...2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
The Jews must rebuild their temple in order for the Antichrist to sit in the temple of God and thus usher in the second coming of Jesus Christ. That has been the prevalent teaching I've heard as an evangelical Christian.
Christians have donated billions to organizations in Israel to help fund this rebuilding. Is that a good thing? The temple was a place of animal sacrifice. Should Christians rejoice at the idea of Jews reinstituting the animal sacrifices? Christians should be appalled at the thought! The animal sacrifices were types, pointing the The supreme sacrifice; the Son of God referred to as 'the lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world' by John the Baptist. The Jews offered sacrifices daily but Jesus died once for all time. To resume the animal sacrifices would be blasphemous in light of Jesus's death on the cross! There are no more sacrifices for sin!!!
What if the temple of God referred to in 2Th 2:4 is not a building at all but the human body? Scientist have mapped the human genome and the synapses of the brain and are seeking to 'wire' the brain so as to enable it to be connected to a computer ala Elon Musk's Neuralink.
Remember God's admonition to Adam against taking the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? There is some knowledge (science) God did not intend for us to have. In the garden, Satan wanted to thwart God's plan by giving man this forbidden knowledge. In the book of Enoch Satan's plan was accelerated by the 'fallen ones' aka the Watchers' who taught man more of this forbidden knowledge. Even after the flood Satan continued this tactic through Nimrod and the 'tower of Babel' in the city of Babylon.
What about the explosion of knowledge (science) in the last 2 centuries. From what I've run across the Talmudic Jews had the key to this secret knowledge in the form of the Kabbalah and Zohar. They strictly guarded these writings for centuries until it was determined to open them up in 1840 AD. Knowledge has exploded in the last 200 years or so. These mystic writings are the source of much of modern scientific thinking. Keep in mind, this knowledge does not come from God but from Satan/Lucifer/the devil!
This brings us back to the Antichrist sitting in the temple of God. The Bible itself says that God dwells not in temples made by human hands so He is not going to dwell in a third Jewish temple. The devil knows this and so does his antichrist but God dwells in the bodies of His people. Hence the title of this post: Neuralink, AI, Nanotechnology, the Antichrist and the Temple of God! The Antichrist is going to, through the use of technology, dwell in the human body. Why do you think we call the area above our ears our temple?
Several verses say that our bodies are the temple of God:
The Temple of the Holy Spirit18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.…
Cross References
John 2:21
But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.
Romans 8:9
You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you yourselves are God's temple, and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 6:13
"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food," but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people."
James 4:5
Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.
Romans 8:9
You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you yourselves are God's temple, and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 6:13
"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food," but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people."
James 4:5
Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
No comments:
Post a Comment