Subject: Before, during, or after? |
Bible Note: It's an allemetaphorvenulatenovatedly temple. :-) Not making fun of you, dear Sister, but this is a very difficult, if not the most difficult part of the whole of God's Holy Word. Many commentary writers refer to it (Ezek. 40-48) as such. Indeed many writers have past over it completely, while those that do chose to write of it warn us of it's difficulty. The Jews, traditionally, have not let any man of them read it till the age of thirty and have shown a knowledge of the whole of scripture. I think we should suffice it to say that 'He' is our temple, and 'we believers' dwell in 'Him'; and will forever! The following, dear Sister, Cheri, is most definitely my favorite part of all His wonderful Word. "But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."-- John 17:13-26 ("that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.") More profoundly beautiful words, surly have never yet nor before been spoken! God bless John |