Yet many don't believe that it's the biblical mark of the beast.
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No Scripture is of private interpretation, so “The Holy Spirit showed me” is not good enough.
It seems you’re relying on supercessionist dogma which allegorizes all the Prophets to fit a post-Constantine political Christianity and erases all the literal plain meaning of the text. Beware. Those who erase any part of Scriptural prophecy get their names erased from the Lamb’s Book of Life.
In addition the Greek word “naos” is used in the Gospels, by Messiah, to refer to the literal Temple.
You are correct that Paul mentions that the corporate Body of Messiah is a SPIRITUAL Temple made of living stones and he also mentions that each disciple’s physical body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. He discusses these mystical concepts in juxtaposition to Gentile disciples continuing to participate in actual idolatrous temple sacrifices. But in no way did Paul’s mystical teachings negate the fact that he subsequently literally went to Jerusalem to worship in the Temple made with stones. Paul also says we are the Body of Messiah - this doesn’t mean we are literally Yeshua’s body and He is not literally physically returning.
In 2 Thessalonians, Paul is speaking about the literal Return of Messiah ergo he is also referring to a literal Man of Sin/Antichrist and a literal physical Temple. All the Psalms and Prophets back this up. Yeshua’s own End Times prophecies confirm this. The oldest writings of the Church Fathers back this up. And any small child reading the simple meaning of the text would come to the same conclusions.
To come to any other interpretation, one would have to be coerced or persuade themselves that they have some deeper, secret gnosis which God hid from everyone else and only the initiated and educated could truly grasp.
Thank you for your prayers though… sincerely. I too ask that the scales be removed from the eyes of my heart and I behold the full radiance of His Son more and more each day.