Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1916 A TRINITY or DAYS 61
be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit;" "And
great Babylon came in rememberance before God, to give
unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath"
(Is.xiv. 13-15; Rev. xvi. 16) ; and with the glad acclaim of
the angels, reverberating to the utmost limits of the universe,
we join, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great
city." And another angel came out of the temple, crying
with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in
thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap;
for the harvest of the earth is ripe." (Rev. xiv. 8, 15.)
Christ said, "Destroy this temple and in three days I
will raise it up." And the Apostle adds, "But He spake
of the temple of his body." This is commonly supposed
to refer only to the crucifixion and resurrection of the
Lord.
If it does refer to these events, does it not also
have another meaning? Did he not refer to that temple
"not made with hands, but eternal in the heavens?"
Consider the testimony of the witnesses at the trial of Jesus,
"Arid there arose certain, and bare false witness against
him, saying, We heard him say, I will destroy this temple
that is made with hands, and in three days I will build
another made without hands." (Mark xiv. 57, 58.) Now
Jesus did make a declaration in which He referred to the
raising up of a temple, and this statement gave his accusers
the opportunity to testify falsely against him in this, that
Jesus Himself would destroy the temple then standing in
Jerusalem. This accusation of the witnesses was clearly
false, but the later part of the statement, "in three days
I will build another made without hands, "is undoubtedly
the truth.
Jesus also said, "I do cure to-day and to-morrow, and
the third day I shall be perfected." (Luke xiii. 32.) We
read that are
144,000
to dwell with the Lord for 1000
years, under guidance and instructions-a time of perfection.
The 1000 years constitute the third day referred