John 2:19-21 Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ Then said the Jews, ‘Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will You rear it up in three days?’
But He spoke of the temple of His body.
The depth of these two simple sentences cannot be exaggerated.
The temple – dwelling place – is the body. Christ, the fullness of God, dwelt in human flesh from conception.[1] His body was not God; God is not flesh, but spirit, yet He took up residence in an human body in order to bring us salvation.
Though men would “destroy” the body of Christ, they could never destroy Him personally. The eternal God can never die, having power over life and death...
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