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Jesus is the Temple of God
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Jesus is the Temple of God

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Jesus said, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. John 2:19

And indeed after three days Jesus Christ did raise up from the dead, the temple of His body, Glorified and Holy.
John 2:20  Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21  But he spake of the temple of his body.
22  When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

He has become our Living Temple, our place of worship, our place of refuge, our place of prayer, The Holy of Holies, the Alter of the Living God.
Revelation 21:21  And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
22  And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23  And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6
The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. Psalms 9:9

Because He lives we can live also.
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. 2 Corinthians 13:4

He has become our everlasting Temple, now and forever.
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. Revelation 7:15

Jesus said, " I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, even if he die, shall live; and whosoever lives and believes in me, shall never die."
John 11:25  Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26  And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

For the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs shall hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come forth unto the resurrection of life because Christ arose from the dead.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. John 5:25