Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Theme · liturgical

Temple and Tabernacle

God commands Moses to build a tabernacle so he can dwell among his people — the structure's design reflects heavenly realities. Solomon builds a permanent temple, and God's glory fills it at dedication. When Israel sins, the glory departs and the temple is destroyed. The second temple lacks the Shekinah glory, and Ezekiel envisions a future temple of supernatural proportions. Jesus says 'Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up,' speaking of his body. Paul tells believers they are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and Revelation's new Jerusalem needs no temple — God and the Lamb are its temple.

Passages expressing this theme

  • 1Cor 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
  • 1Cor 6:19 — What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
  • 1Kgs 6:1 — And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which i
  • 1Kgs 8:10 — And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
  • 1Kgs 8:11 — So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
  • 1Kgs 8:27 — But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
  • 1Pet 2:5 — Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
  • 2Chr 5:14 — So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
  • 2Chr 7:1 — Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
  • 2Cor 6:16 — And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my p
  • Acts 7:48 — Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
  • Eph 2:21 — In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
  • Exod 25:8 — And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
  • Exod 25:9 — According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
  • Exod 40:34 — Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
  • Ezek 10:4 — Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’s glory.
  • Ezek 40:2 — In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
  • Ezek 43:4 — And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
  • Hag 2:9 — The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Heb 8:2 — A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
  • Heb 9:11 — But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
  • Isa 6:1 — In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
  • Matt 12:6 — But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
  • Matt 21:12 — And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
  • Matt 21:13 — And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.