1/2/2023 0 Comments Bible gates![]() ![]() At one point in time, there was a symbolic rock placed directly in front of the Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies called the “Foundation Stone.” This rock represented the first portion of earth which arose from the sea at the time of creation. In the mythology of ancient Israel (and several other regions of the ancient Near East), it was taught that at the time of creation God conquered chaos - or the chaos monster - which was signified by the boisterous waves of the sea. Psalm 29:10 in the King James Bible reads this way: “The Lord sitteth upon the flood yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever.” This is another way of saying that the throne of God was considered to be stationed over a body of water. He was standing inside the Holy of Holies of the heavenly temple.įigure 3 contains notations which are relevant to the discussion at hand. This explains why John said that he saw no temple inside of the heavenly New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:22). When John the Revelator entered into the heavenly New Jerusalem, he saw that the throne of God was there (Revelation 22:3). ![]() There are a number of Bible scholars who believe that the Ark of the Covenant was a representation of God’s throne 2 - which means that the Holy of Holies would have symbolically represented the throne room of the Heavenly King. The Ark of the Covenant sat in the Holy of Holies of the earthly temple. It can be determined with a degree of certainty that the heavenly New Jerusalem and the earthly Holy of Holies were parallel objects because of an important object that each of them contained. He also sees that it has three gates on each of its four sides, and one angel is standing guard at each of the gates (vv. In chapter 21 of the book of Revelation, the apostle John is shown the heavenly city of New Jerusalem, and he sees that it is shaped like a perfect cube. Four pillars were placed on the east side of the Holy of Holies of the Tabernacle (Exodus 26:32–33), which logically would have created three narrow gateways that provided access to the room (see Figure 1). Long after Moses incorporated this room into the Tabernacle it was replicated on a larger scale inside of Solomon’s Temple (1 Kings 6:20). The perfectly cubical shape of this room was revealed in a vision to the prophet Moses while he met with the Lord on Mount Sinai (Exodus 25:8–9). ![]() The first point of comparison in the aforementioned matching sets has to do with the most sacred area in the Israelite temple known as the Holy of Holies. The information associated with these sets can be applied to the task of interpreting the respective texts where they are found and they can also be used to demonstrate a surprising way whereby the covenant people of the Old and New Testaments were interconnected. The purpose of this paper 1 is to draw attention to several sets of matching themes which are found in descriptions of the ancient Israelite temple and portions of the apocalypse written by the apostle John. Thompson (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2014), 1–26. Brown, “Cube, Gate, and Measuring Tools: A Biblical Pattern,” in Ancient Temple Worship: Proceedings of The Expound Symposium, ed. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original. [ Editor’s Note: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the LDS community. ![]() The tools of architecture and measurement were associated with the kingship motifs of creation and conquering chaos, and on the day when a person was initiated as a king in ancient Israel, all of these concepts were applied to him. Abstract: This article explores the biblical pattern that relates the temple-related symbols of the cube, the gate, and measuring tools. Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon - 2015.The Ultimate Egypt – Interpreter Foundation Tour. ![]()
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