Wick Stick
Well-known member
Shalom, Jacob.Shalom.
I do believe that God has wanted there to be a temple. The first temple was the one that Solomon built. The tabernacle was in the wilderness. Do you understand these basics? Do you understand about the tabernacle in the wilderness? It came first. The history of the tabernacle to the first temple is recorded in the Bible. Start with the Torah. Then you have the Prophets and the Writings. Then Matthew through Revelation.
Shalom.
Jacob
I'm not quite a novice at this.
The Lord has established the temple He wanted already. He didn't make it out of bricks and mortar. Instead He made it out of people - the "living stones" Peter talks about in his epistle. "Know ye not, that your bodies are the temple?" says Paul. The mystery of Christ in us, the Godhead dwelling in our midst, is the central theme of Scripture.
Solomon's temple was something God allowed, and used as a type. It was the diorama showing forth the design, on a vastly smaller and less grandiose scale.
Why would you want to go back to the diorama, when we have the temple here already which is built by God's hands, rather than man's?