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10:31) and to fall into His hands after having defiled the temple will result in destruction. The Hebrew writer wrote that “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Heb. You just can’t get much more serious than that. Paul said that if “any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy” (I Cor. Out next point is to point out the seriousness of defiling the temple of God. To defile the temple of God is to corrupt or pollute it. In the new Testament, the term is used and defined by the inspired writer when Mark writes that the Pharisees and some of the scribes, “saw that some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault” (Mark 7:2). Though the word defiled is not used, another case of the exact same thing was when David’s son Amnon raped his half sister Tamar (II Sam. When Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah encountered Shechem and he lay with her, the text stated that he defiled her (Gen. Various definitions include: “corrupt, to destroy, to make filthy or dirty, to pollute” and such like.
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First, just what does it mean to defile something? In some cases the dictionary definition found in our English dictionaries differs from the definition of the original Greek word translated, Such is not the case here. That which we wish to focus on in this article is the defiling of the temple, thus the defiling of the church of our Lord. It was not a physical temple as was Solomon’s, but a spiritual one as the Lord said that His kingdom would be (John 18:36). It is the church of the Lord that is being told that they are the temple of God. First Corinthians begins, “Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, Unto the church of God which is at Corinth…” (I Cor. But of course, Christians were not the Jewish temple, that was not the temple that Paul was speaking of. Jesus spoke of it’s destruction in Matthew chapter twenty-four. In fact, the temple standing in Paul’s day was the third to stand in that spot and it was destroyed in A.D. That temple had been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC.
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At the time that Paul was writing to the Corinthians, there was a Jewish temple in Jerusalem, though not that original one that Solomon had built. For avid Bible students, the first thought when the temple of God comes up is the temple, also called the house of God that David first determined to build, but that Solomon actually built. The first thing we would need to understand is just who it is that Paul is saying is the temple of God. Writing to the church at Corinth, the apostle Paul stated, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy which temple ye are” (I Cor.