“closest thing we have to the Temple“

[clefty]

“The unassuming slab of limestone doesn’t look like much. It’s crudely fractured and chipped on the sides, pockmarked with age, and is perched not too prominently on a shelf at the Israel Museum. But its smoothly hewn face and crisply etched Greek letters, still bearing faint traces of red paint, belie monumental significance.

“If we talk about the closest thing to the Temple we have,” said David Mevorach, senior curator of Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Archaeology, “on the Temple Mount, this was closest.”


Two millennia ago, the block served as one of several Do Not Enter signs in the Second Temple in Jerusalem, delineating a section of the 37-acre complex which was off-limits for the ritually impure — Jews and non-Jews alike. Written in Greek (no Latin versions have survived), they warned: “No foreigner may enter within the balustrade around the sanctuary and the enclosure. Whoever is caught, on himself shall he put blame for the death which will ensue.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancie...stone-is-closest-thing-we-have-to-the-temple/

The irony that the closest thing we have to the temple is the very thing our Savior destroyed.

What He did at the cross was also to destroy this wall between jew and goyim...

Eph 2:14

Believers are a new man...in Himself a citizen of Israel...neither jew nor goyim...but joined together...which grows into a holy temple in the Lord...

 

[Right Divider]

Little creates more confusion than trying to mash prophecy and mystery concerning Christ.

 

[clefty]

Little creates more confusion than trying to mash prophecy and mystery concerning Christ.

Will this unassuming limestone be the cornerstone of your third temple?

 

[clefty]

“The unassuming slab of limestone doesn’t look like much. It’s crudely fractured and chipped on the sides, pockmarked with age, and is perched not too prominently on a shelf at the Israel Museum. But its smoothly hewn face and crisply etched Greek letters, still bearing faint traces of red paint, belie monumental significance.

“If we talk about the closest thing to the Temple we have,” said David Mevorach, senior curator of Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Archaeology, “on the Temple Mount, this was closest.”


Two millennia ago, the block served as one of several Do Not Enter signs in the Second Temple in Jerusalem, delineating a section of the 37-acre complex which was off-limits for the ritually impure — Jews and non-Jews alike. Written in Greek (no Latin versions have survived), they warned: “No foreigner may enter within the balustrade around the sanctuary and the enclosure. Whoever is caught, on himself shall he put blame for the death which will ensue.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancie...stone-is-closest-thing-we-have-to-the-temple/

The irony that the closest thing we have to the temple is the very thing our Savior destroyed.

What He did at the cross was also to destroy this wall between jew and goyim...

Eph 2:14

Believers are a new man...in Himself a citizen of Israel...neither jew nor goyim...but joined together...which grows into a holy temple in the Lord...

Amazing to think Paul might have actually seen this specific unassuming slab of limestone.

And still write:

Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

 

[Zeke]

The unassuming slab of limestone doesn’t look like much. It’s crudely fractured and chipped on the sides, pockmarked with age, and is perched not too prominently on a shelf at the Israel Museum. But its smoothly hewn face and crisply etched Greek letters, still bearing faint traces of red paint, belie monumental significance.

(The distortions of the symbolic meanings of temples made with hands as a dwelling place of the Spirit, always supplants the one made without hands Acts 17:24-25, John 2:20-21, 1 Corinthians 3:16, Luke 17:21)

“If we talk about the closest thing to the Temple we have,” said David Mevorach, senior curator of Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Archaeology, “on the Temple Mount, this was closest.”

(One made with hands is religious distractions of the worldly kind, focused on temporal artifacts.)


Two millennia ago, the block served as one of several Do Not Enter signs in the Second Temple in Jerusalem, delineating a section of the 37-acre complex which was off-limits for the ritually impure — Jews and non-Jews alike. Written in Greek (no Latin versions have survived), they warned: “No foreigner may enter within the balustrade around the sanctuary and the enclosure. Whoever is caught, on himself shall he put blame for the death which will ensue.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancie...stone-is-closest-thing-we-have-to-the-temple/

(According to histories fickle reliably, a cult of secret societies believing in two powers.)


The irony that the closest thing we have to the temple is the very thing our Savior destroyed.

What He did at the cross was also to destroy this wall between jew and goyim...

Eph 2:14

(More mixing of dead letter symbolism with a conscience application, Galatians 4:20-31, Psalms 40:6. The crucifixion took place on a hill called SKULL, Hint...... its spiritual application is Christ the smoldering spark of eternity in you is fanned into a flame in you if it's your appointed time to awaken, the blood/love of Christ is that presence being shed from within outwardly to the world since time began.)

Believers are a new man...in Himself a citizen of Israel...neither jew nor goyim...but joined together...which grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
(Never was a outward Jew or nation of Israel recognized by Spirit who isn't a respecter of man, Romans 2:28-29, all men are Jew, Gentiles, Barbarian etc. in costume, Spirit becomes all to reconcile these false appearances into one light, Ephesians 5:14, all curable by right division 2 Corinthians 3:3-6, 5:16.)