THESIS 33: PATRIARCHY AND THE TEMPLE

The True Temple is in Heaven[112]; the temple in Jerusalem was but an earthly model of it.[113] This pedagogical teaching aid was destroyed at the end of the Old Covenant world.[114] The body of Jesus, the Second Adam, was a model of the New Temple, and of the Redeemed individual.[115] The Body of Christ (His Church) is now the New Temple.[116] We will never see another earthly temple (building) constructed by God's Elect.[117]

Exposition

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

112. Revelation 7:15; 11:19; 14:17; 15:5; 16:17; #23.

113. [Images of the Spirit]

114. Matthew 23:29 - 24:3ff.; Luke 21:20-22; Luke 23:44-45.

115. Matthew 12:6; John 2:19-22; Exodus 28.

116. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:21; Revelation 3:12.

117. Revelation 21:22.

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