
the cloud had filled the House of the Lord and the The account in the first book of Kings of the Ark of theĬovenant being brought into the Holy of Holies: ‘. Of Solomon’s Temple was to provide an earthlyĭwelling place for God. “According to ancient beliefs, the main purpose In the Temple and the purpose of the Temple is fulfilled.ģ] The Temple is God’s dwelling place on earth. Incarnate God, enters the temple, the Divine Presence is The Feast celebrates the fulfillment of all Tabernacle of the meeting and the meeting of the Lord in There is a very important connection between the Tent/ The Divine Presence revealed itself to Moses (ibid. 29:38-43)… Finally, it was in the Tabernacle It was also a cultic space in which, forĮxample, a daily burnt-offering was sacrificed twice a day God to ‘dwell among the Israelites‘ (ExodĢ5:8 29:45-46). “In the biblical account, the Tabernacle had God incarnate, who brings holiness to the Temple, and Israelite’s wanderings in the desert.” (p People and the land of Israel, just as at the time of the The Temple – would stand in the center of the innerĬourt, radiating its holiness to the whole of the Jewish Sanctity, where God’s Presence would reside – Protect the House of God from any contact with impurityĪnd to enhance its sanctity by means of the threeĬoncentric courts and the moat around them. “In sum, the anonymous architect intended to Temple was eternal and had already been raised up!Ģ] The temple is all about holiness/separation: Temple by the Romans in 70AD, for they believed the true Replacing the need for a building of stone and bricks.Ĭhristians did not bemoan the destruction of the Jerusalem Real temple of God and no longer are in need of aĬ) The Theotokos is also portrayed as the living Temple inĪs much as she is God’s dwelling place on earth.ĭ) Christians, the Church, are to be the living Temple, What Solomon built was a temple based on aīlueprint, but with the arrival of Christ, we have the Reveals the Christ who is the real dwelling place of God Temple, the purpose of the Temple is fulfilled and it Of which the Jerusalem Temple and the desert Tabernacle God was building Himself a Temple when HeĬreated Paradise and earth – a place to resideī) Christ is thought to be in some form the real Temple, Which was the image used by God to construct the world in The image of a heavenly prototype allows for a number ofĪ) The Temple in some way was thought to imitate Paradise, The fact that the earthly Temple was meant to be built in Transcendental, heavenly, prototype.]” (p 50) That earthly temples were built on the basis of a [footnote: In antiquity people clearly believed “Significantly, David, like Moses at Sinai (cf.Ģ8:19). ” (p

Of all its furnishings – so shall you make it’ You – the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern High: when Moses was on Mount Sinai for forty days andįorty nights, God commanded, ‘And let them make Me a “As related in the Bible, the initiative for theĬonstruction of the Tabernacle in the desert came from on Was revealed first to Moses and then to King David. Of the Temple comes from Adolfo Roitman’s book,ġ] The Temple in Jerusalem, like the Tabernacle in theĭesert, was to be made according to a heavenly model which Judaism and what it means that Jesus Christ bothįulfills and supersedes the Temple.
