What nonsense ! T
he fact that no man ever sat in the temple as God before it was destroyed nullifies all that.
The Temple is the Church.
1Corr 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1Corr 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
2Corr 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
1 Peter 2:4Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,
Isaiah 48:26 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation.
Christ is the cornerstone and the members of His body are the building blocks.
2Thess 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
What is called God in the Catholic church? The consecrated wafer which the priest elevates as God and the people worship it. The Pope exalts himself above that "god" when he sits on the high altar.
That is why practically every church for 800 years have recognised the Pope as Antichrist that is until the Jesuits muddied the waters and in the last 200 years, their teaching gradually infiltrated the protestant church. But that became a torrent in the last 120 years since the Scofield bible, and now it has become the dominant theory, but not so much over here. In Independent Baptists I don't know of any that do, not here in the southeast at least.