Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 332
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.” When the apostle Paul made reference to this phrase, “of this tabernacle,” being a tentmaker himself, the word that he had in mind was a booth or tent which was a movable dwelling place as in Israel during the transition in the wilderness.
The idea which Paul was trying to painstakingly convey to the Corinthian Church was doubtless that the body which houses the soul, was not a permanent dwelling place. The body like the tabernacle in the wilderness is of the same nature as a booth or tent, that is set up for a temporary purpose. It is made in such a way that whenever the need arises for a movement from its current location, it was easily taken down in migrating from one place to another.
Tabernacle here, refers to the body as the frail and temporary abode of the soul. It is not a permanent dwelling place. Although it might seem to be a fixed habitation, its basic design and construct by the Creator makes it liable to be taken down at any moment whenever its time on earth is deemed to be over. Tyndale renders it this way, “if our earthly mansion wherein we now dwell.” The Syriac renders it, “for we know that if our house on earth, which is our body, were dissolved.” Both Tyndale and Syriac acknowledge that the present glory of the housing in its majesty, does not compare with the latter and neither does it absolve it from ultimately being dissolved when the time is up
The idea is a beautiful one, that the body is merely an unfixed, movable dwelling. place; liable to be taken down at any moment, and not designed, anymore than a tent is, to be a permanent habitation. Unfortunately, men on earth soon forget themselves about what lies ahead of them, becoming entrapped in the glory of what is only temporal, that’s awaiting dissolution to give way to the glory of the latter house, when we shall have an incorruptible habitation just like that of Jesus.
Food for thought: The trappings of this present tabernacle are meant to derail us from the glory of the latter housing.
Declaration: The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts. Hag 2:9
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
