So another issue that comes up when dealing with Torah only and Torah centric teachers is the distinction between Temple and Tabernacle. How the very existence of Solomon's Temple violates their interpretation of The Torah.
2 Samuel 7 agrees entirely that a Temple like what David wanted to build was not originally God's Plan for Israel. And I frankly feel I can consider the books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles and even Ezra-Nehemiah to be God's Word while considering that Yahuah didn't approve of this Monarchical system as much as people assume.
What I want to talk about is how maybe, even leaving aside the doctrine of The Church now being God's Temple, the Eschatological Temple envisioned by the Prophets of the TNAK and New Testament really is a Tabernacle not a Temple like what Solomon built.
I could talk about how in the Hebrew and Greek there is more then one word translated Temple. And I will to an extent. But more importantly is that in English at least 2 Samuel 7 uses no word for Temple to describe what makes David's intended project unlike God's original plan for Israel. Therefore there is no reason to assume either would be inaccurate to use to describe The Tabernacle. Words for Temple tend to just mean a place for worship.
The word Ezekiel uses every time you see Temple in the KJV including in chapters 40-48. Is used of the Tabernacle at Shiloh in 1 Samuel 1:9 and 3:3. This word isn't used in The Torah, but also isn't used in 2 Samuel 7. It's maybe if anything more difficult etymologically to argue can refer to a Tent or outdoor shrine, and yet in Samuel it clearly is used of the Tabernacle. Some people think the use of this word means a fence of some type was built around the Tabernacle at Shiloh, but that's conjecture.
The same word seems to in other places be used of palaces, like of King's Palaces in verses like Psalm 45:15. Remember however that Yahuah was supposed to be Israel's King (Deuteronomy 33 calls Him King in Jashurum), and the Holy of Holies is treated like His Throne Room. This word is also used in Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22 about an event from when David was fleeing from Saul.
The other Hebrew word for Temple is also translated House, and as such is used in The Torah and 2 Samuel 7. It is the word that the name Beth-El comes from, meaning House of God. The Tabernacle is called "The House of Yahuah thy God" in The Torah, in Exodus 23:19, 34:26 and Deuteronomy 23:18. And later Joshua 6:24 also calls it the House of Yahuah, and so does Judges 19:18, and again in 1 Samuel 1 and 3, and 2 Samuel 12:20 (when David still hadn't even bought Moriah from Ornan yet).
In that sense, it seems odd for 2 Samuel 7:6 to have Yahuah say He hasn't dwelt in any House since He brought Israel out of Mizraim. The context was David's comments about a House of Cedar in contrast to Curtains, so the context here is using House more distinctly then it might normally be used, of a House made of Wood or Stone and not a Tent. (I can't help but notice the implication that maybe He did before, perhaps He had a House on Mt Sinai?)
A Hebrew word not translated Temple in the KJV but that possibly is in other translations is Mikadesh, derived from Kadesh. The KJV most commonly translates it Sanctuary. It is very much used of both The Tabernacle (including in The Torah), Solomon's Temple (in Chronicles but not Samuel-Kings curiously), and Ezekiel's Temple.
Some of the Prophetic references do say Tabernacle rather then either of these words for Temple. Isaiah 16:5 and 33:20, Ezekiel 37:27 and 41:1, and Amos 9:11, that a few of these say specifically of David I find interesting, since David's Tabernacle was in Zion, not where Solomon's Temple was. (I have pointed out some misconceptions about where Zion which is The City of David was located.) Though only Ezekiel 37:27 in the Hebrew is Mishkan. But Ohel is the word that most literally means Tent. In Exodus 26:7 Ohel is translated covering, as if the Ohel is the Tent itself and the Mishkan the whole structure, or what's inside the Tent. So Ezekiel 41:1 says this future "Temple" will have a Tent. Amos 9:11 is quoted in the New Testament in Acts 15.
Places where Mishkan is translated something other then Tabernacle include Psalm 132:5 which I think is about David's Tabernacle on Zion where it is rendered Habitation. But also interestingly 2 Chronicles 29:6, also Habitation, which seems to be using it of Solomon's Temple. Psalm 74, a Psalm of Asaph, uses it in verse 7 where it is translated "dwelling place".
Outside The Torah the word Mishkan is used in plural form a few times, but in The Torah the only time it's used in a plural form is Numbers 24:5.
In The New Testament. there is only one word (or rather all from the same root, Strong Numbers 4633-4638) for Tabernacle, it's used both in reference to the Feast of Sukkot and of the Tent of Meeting. But this Greek word is also used as a verb, for Dwell.
What Stephen says in Acts 7:44-50 is interesting.
Everyone talks about Revelation 21-22 saying there is no Temple. But overlook how Revelation 21:3 specifically calls New Jerusalem the Tabernacle of God.
A total of 3 Greek words are translated Temple in the KJV (and two verses in Corinthians that seem to use the word Temple without a direct basis in The Greek). One of them is Temple in the KJV only once in Luke 11:51, it's usually translated House.
Naos is the word used in Revelation, and by Paul when constructing his doctrine of The Church being the Temple of God. And it's the word used when Jesus refers to His Body as "This Temple". Naos also gets translated Shrines in Acts 19:24 referring to Diana's. Naos's usage outside of the New Testament leaves no doubt it can apply to outdoor shrines, like it's usage of the Egyptian Naos. Stephen and Paul both use the plural of Naos when saying God doesn't dwell in Temples made by Human hands in Acts 7:48 and 17:24. Paul also used Naos when referring to our bodies as the Temple of God, Peter expresses that same doctrine saying our bodies are the Tabernacle.
The third is Herion, which is a noun form of the Greek word for Holy, Heiros. It coincidentally happens to resemble how the first part of Jerusalem is rendered in Greek. That happens to fit though since Jerusalem is called God's Holy City, and it is where Solomon and Herod's Temples were located. In Matthew 12:5 Jesus used Herion while citing The Torah, so He must have been using it of The Tabernacle, possibly the Hebrew term translated "Holy Place".
In the New Testament "Sanctuary" is Hagios/Hagion, derived from another Greek word for Holy.
In my Nephilim post I identify what I view as the Greek counterpart to Mishkan.
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