- “Do you not know that you are a
- “Or do you not know that your body is a
temple of the Holy Spirit Who is in you, Whom you have from God, and
that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19,20).
- “Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for
what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship
has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what
has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the
- “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens,
but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having
been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus
Himself being the corner stone, in Whom the whole building, being fitted
together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in Whom you
also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit” (Ephesians 2:19-22).
“Now we request you, brethren, with
regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to
Him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either
by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day
of the Lord has come. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come
unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the
son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or
object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God,
displaying himself as being God” (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4).
These are
all the verses in the letters of Paul that speak of the Temple of God Temple
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- “Children, it is the last hour; and just as you
heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared;
from this we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but
they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have
remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they
all are not of us. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you
all know. I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but
because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the
liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the
antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the
Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father
also. As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the
beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also
will abide in the Son and in the Father. This is the promise which He
Himself made to us: eternal life. These things I have written to you
concerning those who are trying to deceive you” (1 John 2:18-26).
- “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test
the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets
have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every
spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;
and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit
of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it
is already in the world. You are from God, little children, and have
overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the
world. They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world,
and the world listens to them. We are from God; he who knows God listens to
us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the
spirit of truth and the spirit of error” (1 John 4:1-6).
- “Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were
writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the
beginning, that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk
according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have
heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it. For many deceivers
have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as
coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch
yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you
may receive a full reward. Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in
the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the
teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and
does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do
not give him a greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting participates
in his evil deeds” (2 John 5-11).
Where/Who is “the antichrist”
(a word not used anywhere outside of the above cited verses – IT IS NOT FOUND
IN THE REVELATION)? Inside the Church or out? It is geopolitical or
doctrinal?
I fear for you, beloved Church, that
you may be looking outside the camp for an enemy you believe to be on the
borders who – the Scriptures tell us – rises up inside. I love you
with all my heart – don’t be deceived!
“For thus the LORD spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, ‘You are not to say, “It is a conspiracy!” In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy, and you are not to fear what they fear or be in dread of it. It is the LORD of hosts Whom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, and He shall be your dread. Then He shall become a sanctuary’” (Isaiah 8:11-14).
“For thus the LORD spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, ‘You are not to say, “It is a conspiracy!” In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy, and you are not to fear what they fear or be in dread of it. It is the LORD of hosts Whom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, and He shall be your dread. Then He shall become a sanctuary’” (Isaiah 8:11-14).
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