Based on the Tanakh (Previous Testomony) and historical days, the place did God dwell whereas on earth? The tabernacle, after which the temple. At all times with the Ark of the Covenant, proper?
Now, bear in mind this dialog Jesus had with the Jewish leaders…
However the Jewish leaders demanded, “What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do that, present us a miraculous signal to show it.” “All proper,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I’ll elevate it up.” “What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken forty-six years to construct this Temple, and you’ll rebuild it in three days?” However when Jesus mentioned “this temple,” he meant his personal physique. After he was raised from the useless, his disciples remembered he had mentioned this, they usually believed each the Scriptures and what Jesus had mentioned. – John 2:18-22
Jesus was the Temple. He even says so and proves it by elevating the “temple” in three days.
The phrases that I say to you I don’t communicate on My very own initiative, however the Father abiding in Me does His works. Consider Me that I’m within the Father and the Father is in Me; in any other case imagine due to the works themselves. – John 14:10-11
Now the Father resides within the “Temple” and the “Temple” resides within the Father. They’re one and the identical. Or, THREE ones in the identical when including the Holy Spirit.
For in Him all of the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily type. – Colossians 2:9
However there are measurements for the Temple!
Enable the Wikipedia Third Temple web page, which I argue is a complete legitimate supply, clarify…
This concept is expounded to the assumption that Christ himself, having claimed to be and do what the temple was and did, is the brand new temple (John 2:19), and that his individuals, as part of the “physique of Christ” (which means the church), are a part of this temple as effectively (2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:19–22; 1 Peter 2:4–5). The outcome, in keeping with N. T. Wright, is that the earthly temple (together with the town of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel) is not of any non secular significance:
[Paul] refers back to the church, and certainly to particular person Christians, because the ‘temple of the dwelling God’ (1 Cor. 3:16, 6:19). To Western Christians, considering anachronistically of the temple as merely the Jewish equal of a cathedral, the picture is solely one metaphor amongst many and with out a lot obvious significance. For a first-century Jew, nonetheless, the Temple had an unlimited significance; in consequence, when Paul makes use of such a picture inside twenty-five years of the Crucifixion (with the precise temple nonetheless standing), it’s a putting index of the immense change that has taken place in his [Paul’s] thought. The Temple had been outmoded by the Church. If that is so for the Temple, and in Romans 4 for the Land, then it should a fortioribe the case for Jerusalem, which fashioned the concentric circle in between these two within the regular Jewish worldview.[25]
Within the instructing of each Jesus and Paul, then, in keeping with Wright,God’s home in Jerusalem was meant to be a ‘place of prayer for all of the nations’ (Isaiah 56:7; Mark 11:17); however God would now obtain this by way of the brand new temple, which was Jesus himself and his individuals.[25]
A lot of the Tanakh/OT is open for interpretation. It’s actually taken both figuratively or allegorically all through by most Jewish students. So why, I ask, cannot the mentions of the temple in Ezekiel be open for interpretation as effectively?
