"Where two or three are gathered together in My name,there am I in the midst of them.Matt18:20"
We must be completely clear as to what it is that God is particularly concerned with at this time in the world's history,and,therefore,what it is that we who are the Lord's children are called unto.the thing that God is doing in this dispensation is the Formation of a spiritual and heavenly Israel.in doing that He is repeating the laws of the old Israel in a spiritual way.He is following along the lines of His with the old Israel,but now on a heavenly and not an earthly basis,because while God's methods may change,His principles are changeless.He has left the earthly basis of the old testament and has moved on to a heavenly basis in the new testament.He has moved from the temporal to the spiritual,and the spiritual is far greater than the temporal..
Which leads us to that wonderful revelation which we have in the New Testament-the revelation of Christ and all His members being made "ONE TEMPLE of GOD".
Christ is our Temple,and in Him we find all that a Temple was ever intended to be.
How we have gone astray over this!we go to many places that are called "CHURCHES"and the word is applied to the building.when we pray in those places,we usually say something like "we have come into thy house today.we are in thy house O God"we are really talking about a building being the Temple of God.
"Where two or three are gathered together in My name,there am I in the midst of them"when we are gathered into Jesus Christ constitute the Temple of God.
It is not a special building,but people who are in Christ Jesus.this is what God is doing in this dispensation.
"Yet a time is coming and has come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth,for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks God is spirit and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth"..Jhn4:23-24.

"....the people shall dwell alone,and shall not be reckoned among the nations..Nums23:9"
Not reckoned among the nations.the above scripture puts Israel not only apart from the nations,but on top of the nations.if there has been one thing which Satan has ever tried to do with the people of God in all ages,it has been to get them reckoned among the nations.i speak "solemnly" and "carefully".Right at the very heart of Christendom as we have it today is the desire to be recognized.Recognition!everything that organized christainity does is to gain recognition.what are all these churches? I mean,in this instance,all these elaborate and imposing buildings.they are to gain recognition.they are inorder to be reckoned.to what end is all the procedure and advertisement? It is inorder to gain recognition here on earth.that is where the church has ceased to be something to be reckoned with up there,where her spiritual power has gone out.if only Satan can get the people of God into a position where they are taken up by this world,written up by this world,made something of by this world,he has triumphed and pulled the church down out of its Heavenly place and made it an earthly thing.that is the principle right through the old testament.that too is seen to be the trouble in the book of Revelation(the seven Churches) God will not have it.Satan's success is along that line.he has pulled the church out of the Heavens,somewhere he has made it touch earth.form a link in some way with earth.it touches us in so many ways,in countless things,this coming down from Heavenly position.the Lord never meant His church on this earth to be something that would be taken up by this world,to be something that would be reckoned among the things of this world,recognized and accredited by this world.what He meant,and what obtained when things were right,was that the world itself could not bear the presence of the church,did not want it.that is the power of the church to testify against the world...

"....the people shall dwell alone,and shall not be reckoned among the nations..Nums23:9"
Not reckoned among the nations.the above scripture puts Israel not only apart from the nations,but on top of the nations.if there has been one thing which Satan has ever tried to do with the people of God in all ages,it has been to get them reckoned among the nations.i speak "solemnly" and "carefully".Right at the very heart of Christendom as we have it today is the desire to be recognized.Recognition!everything that organized christainity does is to gain recognition.what are all these churches? I mean,in this instance,all these elaborate and imposing buildings.they are to gain recognition.they are inorder to be reckoned.to what end is all the procedure and advertisement? It is inorder to gain recognition here on earth.that is where the church has ceased to be something to be reckoned with up there,where her spiritual power has gone out.if only Satan can get the people of God into a position where they are taken up by this world,written up by this world,made something of by this world,he has triumphed and pulled the church down out of its Heavenly place and made it an earthly thing.that is the principle right through the old testament.that too is seen to be the trouble in the book of Revelation(the seven Churches) God will not have it.Satan's success is along that line.he has pulled the church out of the Heavens,somewhere he has made it touch earth.form a link in some way with earth.it touches us in so many ways,in countless things,this coming down from Heavenly position.the Lord never meant His church on this earth to be something that would be taken up by this world,to be something that would be reckoned among the things of this world,recognized and accredited by this world.what He meant,and what obtained when things were right,was that the world itself could not bear the presence of the church,did not want it.that is the power of the church to testify against the world...