As I understand it, everywhere that Paul spoke of "the Church which is His body"/us as "temple," there is no definite article ("the") with it (in the Greek). See your verse here: https://biblehub.com/interlinear/1_corinthians/6-19.htm
Whereas, in both 2Th2:4 and Rev11:1's phrases, there is the definite article: "the temple of God"... and in the latter of these two, the phrasing of the verse makes clear that "the temple of God" and [with other words separating between]
"them that worship THEREIN" are completely distinct entities.
[Additionally, I believe the "24 elders" on "24 thrones" represent "the Church which is His body" in Heaven before the first SEAL is opened/before the START of the 7-yrs that lead UP TO His Second Coming to the earth; and after a "searching-judgment" has taken place; IOW, "the Church which is His body" will not be present on the earth DURING that future, specific, limited time-period]
I have another related post I could add here, if further discussion on this point about "the temple" versus "temple" takes off. (highly doubtful, I know )
Whereas, in both 2Th2:4 and Rev11:1's phrases, there is the definite article: "the temple of God"... and in the latter of these two, the phrasing of the verse makes clear that "the temple of God" and [with other words separating between]
"them that worship THEREIN" are completely distinct entities.
[Additionally, I believe the "24 elders" on "24 thrones" represent "the Church which is His body" in Heaven before the first SEAL is opened/before the START of the 7-yrs that lead UP TO His Second Coming to the earth; and after a "searching-judgment" has taken place; IOW, "the Church which is His body" will not be present on the earth DURING that future, specific, limited time-period]
I have another related post I could add here, if further discussion on this point about "the temple" versus "temple" takes off. (highly doubtful, I know )
The "great tribulation" as Jesus called it, dealt with the siege of Jerusalem and the fact that 1.1 million out of 1.2 million disbelieving Jews would suffer and die of starvation, disease, sword (both from their own hands and the Romans) and fire. 93% of the population was to die in the most gruesome ways. Mothers were eating their own babies. It was the worst tribulation any nation would ever endure, as Jesus and Daniel taught. This is why Jesus said, "woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!" If Jesus was discussing the end of the planet, why does He say 2 verses later, "great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be." "Nor ever be" implies there is more history in the future to be written and no other nation in the future will ever suffer like this.
John wrote Revelation sometime after being banished to Patmos by Nero but before the 70 AD destruction of Israel and the temple. The “Syriac version” of the New Testament, which dates back to the second century A.D., states that Revelation was written during the reign of Nero making a date of 64-68 A.D. The Murdock 5th century version starts out like this, "The Revelation, which was made by God to John the Evangelist, in the island of Patmos, to which he was banished by Nero the Emperor." The only root source for a 95-96 AD date came from Irenaeus, a 2nd century French Bishop from Lyon with no direct knowledge. He was relaying a conversation he had 38 years earlier with Polycarp who was a disciple of John. He simply got it wrong. John wrote 7 specific letters to these churches both admonishing and encouraging them as the end of Israel, and its temple, was at hand. These messages were important to them, with instructions to them, not us. Revelation begins by stating, "to show His servants—things which must shortly take place" and "the time is near." If it dealt with us, it would use the same language found in Daniel such as, "time of the end," or "last days."
The fact that they (1st century Jews) were living in the last days (of their Mosaic age) is born out by Peter, quoting Joel 2 in Acts 2:17, "And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh..." That happened at Pentecost as Peter was saying it!!! Heb 1:2 repeats this, "has in these last days spoken to us by His Son..." The Mosaic Age and the Law were about to end with the destruction of the second temple, not some third temple. If the USA were to be destroyed in 2-18 years (as was the case with Paul and John's country) would you be worried about, and talking about, some future USA 2,000+ years later? Our country and everything we know and love was about to be destroyed and you are fear mongering me about events thousands of years into the future??? Seriously??? If an planet-killing asteroid was going to hit us 2,000 years from now, do we really care???? Common man!!
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