History of the Temple

  History of the Temple

(The contents of Genesis chapters 1-3 are stories from the kingdom of God)

The temple is the place where God is present. So that place becomes the kingdom of God. But because of the sinning angels who did not keep their position, God created the material world and imprisoned the sinning angels there. God created the shape of a person out of dust and breathed spirit into it, making it a living soul. This is man.

This story is from Genesis chapters 1-3. In Genesis 2:8, “The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and placed the man he had formed there.” In the Hebrew Bible, it says, “The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, away from the east.” The Garden of Eden is not in the east but in the west (Holy of Holies). The east signifies a state outside of God. However, because Adam and Eve sinned, they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden is like a temple. It depicts the temple of God's kingdom. Adam looks like a priest.

The first man, Adam, was originally one, but when he fell asleep (died) and Eve was separated from Adam, they became two. They became man and woman. The woman Eve symbolizes the one who left God, and the man Adam symbolizes Christ. It is to cover up the sin that Eve committed. In other words, the first man, Adam, covered up the sins of all humans in the world. God took them out of the Garden of Eden. Soon he was born into the world and became a man (soul).

God promised them descendants and clothed them in leather so that they could return to God's kingdom. The Hebrew word for leather clothing is leather (עԹזור). Or (ע۹ۖור) is a lump of flesh, and coatnot (כָּתװנ׹ות) is clothes. A lump of flesh refers to a human body made of clay. This body must die. Clothing means avoiding nakedness. So, what is translated as leather clothes symbolizes the death of the first man, Adam, on the cross and the resurrection of the last man, Adam. All humans contain traces of the first man, Adam, and the promise (seed) of the last man, Adam. This is because the promise of the woman's descendants is the promise of the seed and means resurrection.

(History of the Earth Temple)

The heavenly temple, which was originally one, was created as a result of the sins of angels, and as humans were created, the temple on earth came into existence. The reason was to allow the spirit of sin to return to the kingdom of God after living on this earth. So, beings living in the world had the hope of returning to the kingdom of God by building altars and offering offerings to God.

There came to be a temple in heaven and a temple on earth. This is in Genesis 2:1: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. He said. This is a translation error. It must be said that the armies of heaven and the armies of earth were reorganized. Following the heavenly temple, the earthly temple was created and reorganized. So the seventh day becomes a rest. When the earthly temple was built, they rested and became the people of God's kingdom. God makes them remember that they came from the kingdom of God.

(Changes in the Earthly Temple)

However, people who became God's people abandoned their hope for the kingdom of God and wanted to establish their own righteousness like God in the world. This is the Tower of Babel incident. They said they would make bricks and build a tower at the top of the sky. This means that they will abandon the true temple and build the tower they want. God confused the language. The saying that there is one language means that religion is originally one faith (monotheism), but religion is scattered. They began to serve idols.

In Genesis 6:1-2, “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,”

That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." The sons of God are the keepers of God's temple. But the daughters of men are idolaters. Because they were mixed, most of them returned to idolatry. The temple was destroyed, and an idol like Baal was placed in its place. So God came to judge them with water.

The water judgment refers to the death of Jesus Christ on the cross and is a judgment for sin. Sin means that they rebelled against God because they wanted to be like God. So the Bible tells us to die to the water and look straight at God. In 1 Peter 3:20-21, "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:"

The judgment of fire on Sodom and Gomorrah is a judgment on the soul. The soul (such as clothes) that appears from the body must die, and a new soul is born from heaven. In Matthew 3:11, “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: “Fire burns the clothes of the soul stained with sin, and the Holy Spirit puts on a new spiritual body (the clothes of Christ).

The temple in heaven remains the same, but the temple on earth continues to be corrupted. God chose a man named Abraham and had him leave his hometown, his relatives, and his father's house, and enter Canaan, which God was leading. So he built altars wherever he went. There he worshiped God and preached the gospel of the kingdom of God.

Following King David, Solomon becomes king and builds a temple. However, the Israelites continued to defile the temple. God allowed the foreigners to invade Israel, leading to the destruction of the temple. And the people repented and repeated their sins until they reached the temple in Jerusalem.

The temple in Jerusalem was God's temple to the Israelites, but Jesus said it was a whitewashed tomb. Jesus prophesied that the Temple of Jerusalem would fall, and it was destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70.

Jesus said that he was a temple. The temple moved from the building to the body of Jesus. But likewise, Jesus died on the cross on Mount Moriah outside the city of Jerusalem.

And with the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the saints became the temple of God. The temple is not a building, but rather a temple of God built in the hearts of believers. This is expressed in various ways in the Book of Revelation. The temple is called the millennium, and the saints are called 144,000. Those who today refer to church buildings as temples are returning to the era of the law. Likewise, those who pray for the Jerusalem temple to be rebuilt or shout back to Jerusalem are all people who want to return to the law.

The heavenly temple remains the same, but the earthly temple has been changed into a stone altar, a portable sanctuary, a stone temple, the body of Jesus, and the saints. Now the saints become the kingdom of God. Those who believe in Jesus do not become the temple, but those who are united with Jesus Christ, who died on the cross and was resurrected, become the temple. If a saint does not believe in resurrection while alive, he cannot be called a saint. So resurrection is a present resurrection. Resurrection after death is the resurrection of judgment.

(Temple in the hearts of saints)

A saint is someone who died on the cross with Jesus Christ and was resurrected with him, and a temple is built in his heart. So ultimately, salvation is the establishment of the kingdom of God in the heart. To express this, the Bible expressed it through pictures, poetry, and fantastic stories from Genesis to Revelation. When a believer is saved in Jesus Christ, the new temple and the old temple, the kingdom of God, coexist in the believer's heart. This continues until the body dies. This is a spiritual battle. The creation of the old world begins with the first man, Adam, and the end of the world begins with the last man, Adam. In this, the people of God continue to fight spiritually. The two beings in the believer's heart can be expressed as the old self and the new self. So salvation is a fight over where the identity of existence lies. The difference is whether it is in the Holy Spirit or in the Law. Being in the law is death; being in the Holy Spirit is life. The Bible tells us to stay awake, and to focus the mind given by heaven. And they tell us not to mix.