2. The Significance of the Temple
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. (Revelation 21:3 ESV)

3. It all begins in Eden, a parallel of Heaven
Eden has a river
Rev. 22:1- heaven has river of life
Ezekiel 47- water flows from the new temple
Zech. 14:8- river flows east and west from Jer.
Joel 3:18- spring goes out from Lord’s house
John 4:14- Messiah has living water
John 7: from disciples flows living water

4. It all begins in Eden, a parallel of Heaven
Eden has a tree of life
Rev. 2:7- faithful have access to tree of life
Rev. 22:2- tree of life yielding fruit

5. It all begins in Eden, a parallel of Heaven
Man sins and is cast out of Eden, Cherubim are set to guard this holy place
Exodus 26:1, 31- cherubim surround the tabernacle, also on curtain separating the holy from the most holy place
Rev. 4:6-8- cherubim surround God’s throne in heaven, protectors of His holiness

6. Genesis 4-11, Living Outside the Garden
Cain murders
Lineage splits
God brings a cleansing flood
Noah sins
Noah’s son sins
Towers and temples
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, (Acts 17:24 ESV)

7. Genesis 12, Abraham’s Promise
Joseph sent, family in Goshen
450 years later, crying out from slavery
Ex. 13- God frees Israel from bondage
Red Sea lesson, Sinai assem., Giving the Law
First Job?

8. And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst
And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. (Exodus 25:8 ESV)
And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God. (Exodus 29:46 ESV)

9. Genesis 12, Abraham’s Promise
Joseph sent, family in Goshen
450 years later, crying out from slavery
Ex. 13- God frees Israel from bondage
Red Sea lesson, Sinai assem., Giving the Law
First Job? Build a sanctuary
Ex. 40- glory of the Lord filled it

10. Numbers, grumbling, rebellion, and a forty year death sentence
New generation inherits the milk and honey
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. (Judges 21:25 ESV)

11. New generation inherits the milk and honey
1 Sam. 3:1- Lord not on speaking terms
1 Sam. 4- Eli died, Ichabod born

12. Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel. And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer, therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh (Jeremiah 7:12-14 ESV)

13. David made everything right, though?
Forerunner of the Messiah, temple architect
“But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built! (2 Chronicles 6:18 ESV)

14. David made everything right, though?
Forerunner of the Messiah, temple architect
Israel divided after only three kings
First act? Set up idols and turn from God’s dwelling
Last act? Sacrifice children to idols
In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. And he burned the house of the LORD and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. (2 Kings 25:8-9 ESV)

15. What’s to be learned? God tabernacled with man in Eden
God tabernacled with man in Israel
God tabernacled with man in the temple
God wants to tabernacle with His people