The Two Temples
(A Christian Workbook)
Section 2 – The Spirit Temple
ow the
task may be undertaken in earnest. We have seen the principles of being a
Temple of Yahweh with our bodies, minds and souls. Hopefully, by now every
reader has – with humility, awe and tears of joy – given his or her heart
wholly over to the service of the Messiah. If Section 1 – The Body Temple
may be seen as a study leading up to this surrender then Section 2 – The
Spirit Temple may be considered a handbook to baptism, the physical symbol
of this surrender, and then “life after death.”
By
being baptized, one is not merely baptized into a mystical, invisible,
disorganized society of believers. The world’s churches may function that way,
but it was not so with primitive Christianity, and it is not so with the
Remnant of believers at this end of the age. (Acts 2:41, 42; 1 Corinthians 12:
18-28; Revelation 14:1) In a few days, we will be living in the society of the
blessed angels, the faithful of all ages, and the Father and Son of eternity
Themselves. However, those who cannot learn to function as a harmonious body on
earth will never learn it in the hereafter; and so we are given the blessing of
other people – some like us, and some not so much like us – from whom we may
learn.
The
Bible tells us that we are the Temple of Yah, fit together like stones in a
building, both leaning on and supporting each other so that the structure
stands firm. In the following chapters, we will be examining how to go from
being an individual Vessel of the Spirit to being one of the flock. We will
come to learn the balance between individuality – being one’s own person, and
individualism – standing apart from others and believing that we need no one
else.
Psalm
133, in its entirety, reads, “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for
brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the
head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the
skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended
upon the mountains of Zion: for there Yahweh commanded the blessing, even life
forevermore.” This idea, this great blessing leading to life forevermore, is
the subject of the remaining portion of The Two Temples.
