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to the Most Holy Place being rent in two as Yahshua breathed His last breath.

The covering of the veil of the Temple was mandated by God to prevent those who
were unsanctified from gazing on the presence of God. To look on His presence was to

invoke His immediate judgment, and death was the penalty. By the veil being torn and the
Most Holy Place exposed, God was signifying that His presence no longer would be found

in a building made of wood and stone. His temple was now the temple of man’s body, a
building built of living stones. This was further demonstrated by God when forty years later,

in AD 70, the temple in Jerusalem was COMPLETELY destroyed by the Romans so that not
one stone remained upon another.

Since the death of Christ the temple that God has revealed His presence in has been
exclusively a temple formed of the bodies of men and women. When Paul then speaks of the

man of lawlessness taking his seat in the temple, he is not talking about a temple built of
wood and stone, but one built of living stones. It would not offend God at all for a rebuilt

temple in Jerusalem to be defiled because God’s presence will no more be revealed in such
buildings. What angers God is for the man of lawlessness to take his seat in the living

temple, the temple of man’s body where God’s Spirit dwells, for this is the temple where the

glory of God is to be revealed.
The apostasy of which Paul speaks, which must occur before Yahshua is revealed in
His saints, refers to a rejection of the truth by those who are of the household of God. The

word apostasy is defined by Strong’s Hebrew/Greek Dictionary as: “defection from truth.”

This is why Paul describes the last days to Timothy as being “perilous times,” for men will
not listen to truth, but will heap to themselves teachers who will tickle their ears and tell
them what they want to hear (II Timothy 4:3).

As the church experiences this defection from truth because they have not loved truth,

the man of lawlessness will take a seat in the temple which is the bodies of God’s saints.
This lawlessness is a rejection of the authority of God, a failure of obedience to the Lordship

of Christ (remember Vashti?). Yahshua demonstrated that this was the nature of
lawlessness in the following passage.

Matthew 7:21-23

“Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven; but
he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day,