Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Wednesday, January 17, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 333
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.” The words “if the tabernacle were dissolved” – (the Greek word used for dissolved being ‘kataluō’). This word means properly to disunite the parts of anything; and is applied to the act of throwing down, or destroying a building. It is applied here to the body, regarded as a temporary dwelling that might be taken down, and it refers, doubtless, to the dissolution of the body in the grave.
The idea is in relation to that of the body, if it should return to dust, and be resolved into its original elements; or if by great zeal and labour it should be exhausted and worn out. A typical example of a similar language is used by Eliphaz the Temanite, in describing the body of man. “How much less in those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without any regarding it.” Job 4:19-20.
In ‘kataluō’ what has been joined together is disunited, disbanded, overthrown. Man is a spirit, he has a soul and lives in a body. Any man alive on earth comprises spirit, soul and body. The body is the earthly house of this tabernacle for every person. In death, this earthly edifice of a tabernacle is destroyed, demolished and disunited from the soul. The spirit returns to its Creator. Metaphorically, there’s an overthrow of the original order, necessitating the need for a new one.
The glorious aspect of this overthrow is that ‘kataluō’ looses any person that’s fastened or tied to this body of corruption, in which we have been groaning, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. This body of death, disease, depression, and disappointment, is loosened from its grip of bondage, imprisonment and pain, and we become free, awaiting the glorious tabernacle of incorruptible nature with which we shall be clothed in Christ Jesus.
Food for thought: Do not become addicted to this body which has the sentence of death awaiting it. For we look for an incorruptible body that shall live forever.
Declaration: Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ had shown me. 2Peter 1:14
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
