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clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord" (I
Thess. 4:16-17).
And where shall we be WITH Him? Where shall HE be? "His feet shall stand in that
day (of
His coming) on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem" (Zech. 14:4).
The Church, caught up to meet Him in the air as He is COMING, those who
have died
will be raised IMmortal. But we, if still alive, shall "be changed, in a moment,
in the
twinkling of an eye...and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall
be changed"
to spirit GOD PERSONS (I Cor. 15:51-52).
In that CHANGED, glorified SPIRIT immortal condition, we shall be the T E
M P L E
far more glorious than was Solomon's temple!
Now back again to Malachi 3:1-5. At His Second Coming (verses 2-5), Jesus
is coming
to a SPIRITUAL temple far more glorious than was Solomon's temple.
Zerubbabel built the second temple to which Jesus came the first time.
John the Baptist
prepared the way before the FIRST coming. But WHO was to build the SPIRITUAL
temple
to which Christ shall soon come the second time? Who was to prepare the way
before His
Second Coming?
Remember God does things in DUAL stages. As Zerubbabel built the first
temple of
MATERIAL stone, wood and other materials, he was a forerunner or type of one
through
whom Christ would raise up or build the SPIRITUAL TEMPLE--His Church of our
time, prior
to the Day of the Lord and Christ's Second Coming. As John the Baptist prepared
the way,
in the PHYSICAL wilderness of the Jordan River for the first coming of the HUMAN
Jesus
(both man and God), then coming to His MATERIAL temple, and to His PHYSICAL
people
Judah, ANNOUNCING the Kingdom of God to be set up more than 1,900 years later,
SO God
would use a human messenger in the SPIRITUAL wilderness of 20th-century
religious confusion,
to be a voice CRYING OUT the Gospel of the KINGDOM OF GOD, about the SPIRITUAL
CHRIST, coming in SUPREME POWER AND GLORY to His SPIRITUAL TEMPLE, to actually
ESTABLISH that spiritual KINGDOM OF GOD.
Brethren, HAS THAT BEEN DONE BY THIS CHURCH?
Did God raise up a one-man LEADERSHIP to be used by Him in building this
spiritual
TEMPLE and in proclaiming after 1,900 years the true GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF
GOD