THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH (Part 5)
THE TEMPLE OF THE HUMAN BODY
Nevertheless, the Apostle Paul and also the Apostle Peter emphasized that on an individual level, the human body of the Christian who worships God, may also represent the spiritual temple sanctuary made to worship God:
“Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that the spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16).
“But I consider it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you with reminders, knowing as I do that my tabernacle is soon to be removed, just as also our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me” (2 Peter 1:13,14).
The Holy represents the symbolic heart where Christ must symbolically live: “and that through your faith you may have the Christ dwell in your hearts with love. May you be rooted and established on the foundation” (Ephesians 3:17). The human symbolic heart represents the spiritual inner part of the human being. This symbolic heart must have a spiritual circumcision, that is to say, to remove the symbolic “prepuce”, the bad reasonings that can make impure: “However, whatever comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and those things defile a man. For example, out of the heart come wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. These are the things that defile a man; but to take a meal with unwashed hands does not defile a man” (Matthew 15:18–20). “But he is a Jew who is one on the inside, and his circumcision is that of the heart by spirit and not by a written code. That person’s praise comes from God, not from people” (Romans 2:29; Deuteronomy 10:16).
The lampstand that illuminates the inner part of the human body, the spiritual heart, the spiritual Holy, according to Jesus Christ, are the eyes: “The lamp of the body is the eye. If, then, your eye is focused, your whole body will be bright. But if your eye is envious, your whole body will be dark. If the light that is in you is really darkness, how great that darkness is!” (Matthew 6:22,23).
The altar and the offerings, made in the spiritual courtyard of the temple sanctuary, represents the lips (altar) and the words that come out of it (spiritual offerings): “And we will offer the praise of our lips as we would young bulls” (Hosea 14:2). “Through him let us always offer to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of our lips that make public declaration to his name” (Hebrews 13:15).
The preaching of the Good News is a spiritual sacrifice as spiritual offering to God (Matthew 24:14)
Blood is sacred and it is the symbol of life
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