New Foundations Ministries
Vital words to the body of Christ
Teaching the Everlasting Gospel of God's
Kingdom
Revelation 14:6-7
George Kirkpatrick, Author
and the Harvest Team at New Foundations Ministries
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Question: Is the temple going to be rebuilt in Jerusalem?
No! There have been three temples built in Jerusalem. Three is complete.
The first temple built was Solomon's temple. This temple was the temple David desired to build for his God, but God would not allow David to build His temple because David was a bloody man (man of war). David supplied many of the materials to build the temple, but the temple was to be built by his son, Solomon (man of peace).
Solomon's temple is a type and shadow of those who have taken the first step beyond the flesh realm to become God's permanent dwelling place. This temple was destroyed when Israel fell into gross sin and worshipped idols. God allowed Nebuchadnezzar to not only capture old Israel, but He allowed him to destroy Solomon's temple because Israel had defiled it.
Zerubabel's temple was built out of the rubble of Solomon's temple. Zerubabel's temple is a picture of God rebuilding His eternal church in these last days after the true anointing has been restored.
Herod's temple stood in the days Jesus walked the earth. It was the most magnificent of all the temples. Herod's temple is a type of the mega churches in the earth today - - - all pomp and no anointing. The Ark of God was never present in Herod's Temple. Herod's Temple, as the mega churches today, never had the presence of God. Herod's temple, as the mega churches today, was full of money changers. Their only intent is to make money on what is called "serving God."
The last temple God will construct is the Temple of the Holy Ghost
God gave Ezekiel a vision of this holy temple built out of living stones. Ezekiel's temple was never intended to be built in the physical. What God revealed to Ezekiel was a type and shadow of the Spiritual temple He would build in the last days in the earth. This is the temple Paul spoke of when he wrote to the church at Ephesus:
"In whom all the building fitly framed together growth unto an holy temple in the Lord." *** Ephesians 2:21
God is shaping His living stones in the quarry so when He makes up His body, they will all fit together into a perfect body. It is on this body that God will place His head. There are no special stones. All must be shaped by the Master's hand to fit perfectly into the place God has designed for them to fill.
"Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a Spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up Spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." *** I Peter 2:5
God's holy temple is a Spiritual house made up of those who have dealt with their flesh, their carnal thoughts, their carnal attitudes, and their carnal self-rule. These have caught the vision of the changed body.
Just as Jesus cleansed Herod's temple of those who defiled it with their money changers, He will cleanse His future temple of all those who defile His holy name. Then God informed Ezekiel:
"Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern." *** Ezekiel 43:10
" . . . show the house to the house . . ." Ezekiel was admonished to show the house to those who will make up His holy temple. If we are to become God's holy temple, then we must measure the pattern. Jesus is the pattern the house is to look like when it is complete.
Ezekiel's temple is a picture of the temple Jesus spoke of when taken before the council:
". . . I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another without hands." *** Mark 14:58
When Jesus stated this, He was speaking of the third day when He would raise up His temple made of earthen vessels. This would come after the two one thousand year days of the church age. The third day is the millennial reign of Christ. The third day is when He will reign in His temple constructed of the living stones He is shaping by His own hand to be His peculiar treasure in the earth.
When the chiefs of the synagogues stirred up the people to stone Stephen, God gave Stephen a clear vision of where ancient Israel stood in His sight, and how God would deal with Spiritual Israel.
"Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet," *** Acts 7:48
Stephen was referring to Solomon's temple, Zerubabel's temple, and Herod's temple. Stephen knew by the Holy Spirit anointing, that God was not going to dwell in any of these temporary temples. He could see Herod's temple, and knew by the words of Jesus, that there would not be one stone left upon another. Herod's temple was destroyed in seventy AD by the Roman general Titus. The Holy Spirit, through Stephen, asked the question:
"Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool: what house will ye build Me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of My rest?" *** Acts 7:49
What house will you build Me?
Heaven (the Spiritual realm) is God's throne and the earth is His footstool. If man covered the whole earth with a building made of the finest gold, silver, and precious stones, it would only become His footstool. In his second letter to the Corinthians, Paul relates:
"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." *** II Corinthians 5:1
God is cleansing a people who desire the things of God more than the things of this life. God is going to make these building stones in His Spiritual temple where He will dwell for all eternity. These will become a people of vision and substance to once again come into their original created place in God.
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