In a previous post we saw three things that Jesus might say to Joe Biden concerning his mandatory vaccine mandates.
First, don’t be a hypocrite. Second, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Third, quit being a false prophet, like so many false prophets and liars in your administration.
But, I couldn’t help but think what the most prolific writer among Jesus’ apostles might say as well, namely the Apostle Paul.
And the more I thought about it, the more I came to conclude he would tell Joe Biden to back off, since the Christian’s physical body is sacred to God as a dwelling place; and since it is sacred, then pumping what amounts to a poisonous vaccine into it amounts to destroying it.
He wrote to the Corinthian church, after instructing them to be careful about how they were building upon the foundation of Jesus Christ, which they were, as a church,
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple (1 Cor. 3:16-17).
God’s temple in the Old Testament was a place where God’s people gathered for worship, offered their sacrifices, and obtained forgiveness of national sin.
It was so sacred and holy that only the high priest was allowed to go into the Holy of Holies to offer the sacrificial blood upon the mercy seat, with the hoped-for expectation that he would survive the experience himself.
When Jesus went to the cross, as a final sacrifice for the sins of humanity, a priesthood of believers was created, whereby each individual could approach the throne of God to commune with God directly through prayer and offer their worship and praise.
The temple location was no longer outward in appearance, but inward through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Because of the omnipresence of the Holy Spirit, who seals each believer unto God as God’s exclusive possession (Eph 1:13), the physical body now takes the place of the sanctuary of God as seen in the Old Testament.
The Christian’s human body is the exclusive possession of God’s that was bought at the cost of Jesus losing his life (1 Cor. 6:19-20) and must be attended to with extreme care.
It is where God is glorified!
Should anyone, including the believer, destroy the Christian’s body, the anger of God follows whereby the destroyer becomes the destroyed.
Destruction carries with it the concepts of corruption or ruination and often includes a spiritual aspect.
Clearly, the whole mandatory vaccination schtick we’re seeing today has both physical and spiritual elements, with the latter exhibiting cult-like traits, which includes a tyrannical cult leader.
Therefore, if the apostle Paul were around today, and Joe Biden came up to him and said, “You need to be vaccinated. Otherwise, you can’t be wandering about the countryside preaching, teaching, and healing the people in Jesus’ name.”
Paul would likely say to Joe, “My body is the holy temple of the living God. Your vaccines have been proven by the thousands to be destructive to human life, either through injury or death. So, I refuse to follow your mandate out of respect to what God has revealed and in order to keep a good conscience toward God.”
If that meant that Paul ended up in prison, he would not have a problem with that either.
Paul believed, like the other apostles, that it was always better to obey God, rather than man, especially when certain men took it upon themselves to try to replace God with their mandates.
