The prophets speak of an "abomination of desolation" that will be set up in the Temple in a future time. If you are a student of Biblical prophecy, you are aware that many prophecies have dual fulfillment. Today, that usually translates to a prophecy being partially fulfilled in the past, and then completely fulfilled in the future. When Daniel the prophet speaks of the abomination that causes desolation in Daniel 9:27, 11:31 and 12:11, almost every single Bible scholar agrees that this abomination was PARTIALLY fulfilled in the days of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, where he erected a statue of Zeus in the temple and then sacrificed a pig on the altar (which was unclean according to God's law given to the Israelites).
So my question to you today - are our bodies today not God's temple?
"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body." 1 Cor. 6:19-20
If you agree that our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit... don't you think that God would consider it a similar "abomination that causes desolation" if we consume the exact same unclean meat that Antiochus Epiphanes sacrificed?
We were purchased at the cost of the blood of our Savior. Is giving up the things He calls unclean really too much of a sacrifice for us? Food for thought.
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