Section 6
enemy, Satan, is always busy. He never sleeps. Wherever a local church has been established, Satan will try to defile it. We should not be dis couraged. We should say, "Lord, now is Your time. Lord, come in. Satan's contamination only brings in Your cleansing."
THE BODY OF JESUS BEING THE TEMPLE
Satan's goal was not only to contaminate the temple but to destroy it. His ultimate aim was to destroy the house of God. But what the enemy destroyed, the Lord raised up in three days. This means that in His resurrection life the Lord built up what was destroyed by the enemy. It is need less for us to worry about the Lord's recovery of the church, because the more the enemy dam ages, the more the Lord will build up in resurrec tion. The Lord's word is, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" (v. 19). In other words, the enemy may damage and destroy the church, which is the house of God, but the Lord will build it up in resurrection and by resurrection. After the enemy has caused damage, the Lord, in resurrection, will rear up a building on a much larger scale. We should not worry about the con fusion that may exist in the church, for the Lord's Body, the church, is in the process of resurrection.