This is truly odd. We had bodies of white robes before we were born? If not, how can we be restored to something we never had?
restore means to restore what was lost, though of course it’s new
That has nothing to do with temples in the last days. There will be an innumerable host worshiping there, but you'll probably disregard that because it doesn't fit your narrative.
i don’t have a narrative and haven’t said anyone should not have a church building …
This is the problem false religions experience when their ideas don't fit the scriptures, they tend to ignore anything that doesn't agree with their ideas or make up something that usually runs along lines like this, "That's not what they meant" or "that's symbolic not literal".
every single symbol is literal. symbols refer to a real thing, be it here, before the fall in paradise, the other world, principalities, the new creation soon…
symbols have a context which is why i saw the white robes as our restored glorified body .. after reading the different examples of the term
i don’t read theology or commentaries since ages ago so don’t know how others interpret it. usually i just read but i replied this time because of the interesting robes theme, which i understood from Him to be our resurrected body, which is the temple of Him.
We don't have to ignore or make up anything. The scriptural narrative runs and in glove with our religion as it stands. For example, as it's been stated, we have temples and we have innumerable hosts worshiping in them day and night and they are all dressed in white. Did I mention they also come from almost every nation, kindred, and language? We also have that. The restoration of temple worship should be the main indicator that the church that Christ formed is once again on the earth (I mean, if apostles and prophets weren't a big enough clue).
i don’t know much about your beliefs, admittedly so i can’t comment on the practices other than to say that my practice is just talking to God and listening Him. I’m a bit of a shut in of late so that’s what i do. I pray night and day His return.
This generally goes along the lines of, "this is what they meant" and it obviously indicates that much of Revelations goes over many peoples heads. It is very symbolic but if you don't know what those symbols mean, then it becomes difficult to separate the literal from the symbolic.
every symbol, if it was translated correctly, is literal.
the problem is, often what reality, the context meant, is not identified since often it’s assumed the context is on this earth as the only or main context.
So, are the 7 churches symbolic or literal?
well literal but that would take a long time and go off the op.
Did John send letters to them or did he dream them up? It could go either way. It could be both symbolic and literal. The letters certainly could be literal and so can temples with multitudes from every nation worshiping day and night in them, all dressed in white. Those could all be literal. But you don't know. You certainly have nothing like it, not symbolically or literally, so you have to make something up to answer the confusion that exists within your religions, not just yours but almost all Christian religions.
i don’t attend any group. I just stay with God all I can. and I listen to Him
I don't know if you have addressed the passing away of the earth and heaven with replacements for both, but the temple exists in the last days before the heavens and the earth passed away. That temple and those people exist before the earth passes away.
perhaps you should make a thread then since i do not know more than that He brings His souls to paradise in His reality in the other world, and that this earth and body passes away.
thank you for the response brotherofjared.