Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Monday, January 15, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 331
Scripture: 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. (Heb 9:11)
Note: 2Cor 5:1, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” That if our earthly house – The word “earthly” here (epigeios) stands opposed to “heavenly” or to the house eternal in heaven. The word properly means “upon earth, terrestrial, belonging to the earth, or on the earth,” and is applied to bodies as in 1Corinthians 15:40; to earthly things John 3:12; to earthly, or worldly wisdom, James 3:15. The word “house” here refers doubtless to the body, as the habitation, or the dwelling place of the soul. The soul dwells in it as we dwell in a house, or tent.
1Cor 15:40, “There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.” The apostle Paul went to great lengths to explain that all flesh is not the same, giving us the essential difference between the flesh of man and the flesh of beast, going as far to differentiate that of fishes and birds (1Cor 15:39).
In giving the difference between the celestial bodies and that of terrestrial, the apostle Paul reminded us of the glory of the sun and the glory of the moon. Even among the stars, the glory of one star differs from another star. 1Cor 15:41, “There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differs from another star in glory.”
After all these comparisons, the apostle Paul then went further to liken these examples to the resurrection of the dead. “So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.” 1Cor 15:42-44
Food for thought: Man without a spirit that’s alive or regenerated by the quickening Spirit of Christ, is reduced to a mere living soul.
Declaration: The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 1Cor 15:45
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
