Jehovah's Witnesses what was Jesus referring to by the term "this temple" in Jn 2:18- 19?

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Answer 1

Jesus was actually prophesying about his own life. He was speaking to and of murderous false religionists who would work to kill Jesus; Jesus' faithful life course would serve to allow Jehovah to resurrect Jesus.
...(John 2:19) Jesus said to them: “Break down this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”


Because trinitarianism is so desperate for "proof texts", they sometimes champion this one verse to claim that Jesus must be God since it was God who actually "did" the resurrecting. Perhaps they are unfamiliar with Jesus' words to the woman who was subject to the flow of blood. Do the trinitarians argue that the woman performed a miracle on herself, or do they admit that her faith merely opened the way for a separate distinct person to actually perform the healing itself?
...(Matthew 9:22) Jesus turned around and, noticing her, said: “Take courage, daughter; your faith has made you well.”
...(Mark 5:34) He said to her: “Daughter, your faith has made you well.
...(Luke 8:47-48) She was healed instantly. But he said to her: “Daughter, your faith has made you well

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Answer 2

Compare:

Ezekiel 43:3, where the prophet Ezekiel states: “I came to bring the city [Jerusalem] to ruin,” that is, by foretelling its destruction. Ezekiel as an exile in Babylon had no part in actually destroying Jerusalem; that was done by the Babylonians. But his prophecy, being divinely inspired, made it as good as done. (Compare also Jeremiah 1:10.) Similarly, Jehovah God resurrected his Son, but Jesus could speak of doing so in a prophetic sense.

A. T. Robertson in Word Pictures in the New Testament: “Recall [John] 2:19 where Jesus said: ‘And in three days I will raise it up.’ He did not mean that he will raise himself from the dead independently of the Father as the active agent (Rom. 8:11).”—(New York, 1932), Vol. V, p. 183.

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Answer 3

According to Thayer’s Greek dictionary the Greek word for “temple” can be defined as

metaphorically the spiritual temple consisting of the saints of all ages joined together by and in Christ.

The is not the body itself because if you notice it says “the TEMPLE OF his body”.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever. Heb 13:8

Jesus was a spirit before he came to earth, today (time Hebrews was written) and forever, Jesus remain as a spirit.

Answer 4

Jesus was speaking in spiritual terms, that the Jews and even his own apostles could not at first understand. Most people think of a temple in terms of a physical structure where some type of formal worship or sacrifice is carried out. In Jesus' day, the temple of God was the stone-and-mortar edifice located in Jerusalem.

Jesus originally spoke those words to the Jews to give them pause to reconsider how God expected to be worshipped from that point on. Jesus foretold that the Jewish temple was going to be razed to the ground, with not a stone left upon a stone. The Christian congregation was going to replace the Jewish nation as God's organization.

But, instead of having a physical temple, Christ and his anointed followers constitute a spiritual temple for God to inhabit by spirit, and Jesus, as the head of that organization, is called the chief cornerstone of the "building."

Furthermore, Jesus' fleshly body was going to be sacrificed to God, as if on a temple altar. And after his resurrection, Jesus became the high priest, ministering on the basis of his own sacrifice. That is why Jesus referred to the temple of his body. Here are a few relevant verses that indicate the spiritual nature of God's temple.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17: "Do you not know that you people are God's temple, and that the spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you people are."

1 Corinthians 6:19: "What! Do you not know that the body of you people is the temple of the holy spirit within you, which you have from God?"

2 Corinthians 6:16: "For we are a temple of a living God; just as God said: "I shall reside among them and walk among them, and I shall be their God, and they will be my people."

Ephesians 2:20-22: "While Christ Jesus himself is the foundation cornerstone. In union with him the whole building, being harmoniously joined together, is growing into a holy temple for Jehovah. In union with him you, too, are being built up together into a place for God to inhabit by spirit."

Answer 5

of course his body, cause now we are under the new high priest Jesus Christ, according to Hebrew 7:1-5.

What Does the
Messiah's Coming
Mean to You?

Messiah” actually means “Anointed One” and is the equivalent of the well-known term “Christ.” This One, whom the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1970 Edition, refers to as “the ultimate redeemer,” had to come because of the irreverent actions of the first human pair, Adam and Eve. They were created perfect, with the delightful prospect of endless life in Paradise, but they lost that prospect. A rebellious angel, who became known as Satan the Devil, suggested that their Creator was too restrictive and that they would fare better by deciding for themselves what was good and what was bad.—Genesis 3:1-5.

Eve was deceived and believed that lie. Adam, apparently valuing his wife’s companionship above loyalty to God, became an accomplice in that Devil-instigated rebellion. (Genesis 3:6; 1 Timothy 2:14) By their actions, they did more than forfeit their own prospect of endless life in paradisaic surroundings. They bequeathed to their unborn offspring sin and its consequence, death.—Romans 5:12

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Answer 6

Solomon's temple.

Answer 7

Yes, he knew both the date of his death and the date of his resurrection.

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