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hekal(הֵיכָל) means 'palace' or 'temple'. It is used to refer to the Solomon's Temple but also (for example) the house at Shiloh in David's time, here in 1 Samuel 1:9
After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord. ESV
Among other usages, it can also refer ...
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Neither of these views captures what Jesus was doing by clearing the temple. Rather, Jesus was acting as (more than) a prophet, judging the temple system and enacting a symbol of its coming destruction.
Mark's Account
In Mark 11, the story is told as a sandwich story:
a. Jesus curses a fig tree.
b. The narrative is interupted as Jesus enters ...
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Jesus had the legal authority to cleanse the temple not because he was a rabbi but because he claimed to be like Solomon, the "Son of David" and thus the builder of God's house (2 Samuel 7). This is evident from a careful reading of the gospels through the lens of the Hebrew Bible.
In the synoptics the temple cleansing is immediately preceded by Jesus' ...
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I agree with Soldarnal that Jesus is symbolically enacting the temple's coming destruction. But I disagree that his authority was simply from heaven. Jesus claimed to be like Solomon, the "Son of David" and thus the rightful builder of God's house. See my response to Did Jesus have the legal authority to cleanse the temple? for more.
But why did Jesus ...
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You just about have your answer right in the question. The short answer is that moving eastward seems to relate to exile, while moving westward is a return to the garden and the presence of God.
The long answer:
The garden is planted in the east of Eden
The garden is the primeval meeting place between God and man. It is the first sanctuary, where man is ...
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Ezekiel's book focuses on the Temple: its desolation (1–24) and glorification (33–48). In the earlier section we see the Glory of God forsaking the temple and city as a necessary final step before Jerusalem could be laid waste (8–11). In the latter section we are shown the glory of God returning to the temple (43:4–5).
Ezekiel did not introduce a ...
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According to strong’s definition, Yakin יָכִין means He will establish. While Boaz who was an ancestor of David means quickness בֹּ֫עַז . However as the meaning of Boaz is uncertain in Hebrew it would be better to follow the Septuagint where according to Barne’s Notes on the Bible in the margin reference is translated Boaz Ἰσχύς as ‘Strength.’ “The ...
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Reading from the preceding section in the 1 Cor. 3, the temple in verse 17 is referring to the building in verses 1 Cor. 3:10-14 and not our body as the temple of God (that is mentioned in 1 Cor. 6).
Paul was speaking about the divisions among the Corinthians, which is destroying the temple of God.
The matter of God's building in the Bible is a major ...
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The Temple in Jerusalem was known as "the house of God" (2 Cor. 5:14) and "the house of YHVH" (1 Kings 8:10). However, we may conclude that this is not the "Father's house" to which Yeshu'a was referring, since that very house would be destroyed in 70 A.D. The physical Temple in Jerusalem had no further relevance to the body of Christ after Christ offered ...
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I apologize for the length of this one but your question demands a thorough answer.
Who is the man? From the immediate context his is only what it says, 'a
man'. He is a man who has a 'special interest'. He is a man provisioning for
the miraculous visionary, prophetic and thus mysterious future
expansion of Israel. In the immediate context this vision is ...
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The book of Ezekiel follows a literary pattern laid down in the Torah. It begins in the Sanctuary/Garden, moves out to the Land, then out to the World (the Gentile nations), then moves back to the Land and then to the Garden. We see this in the pattern from Adam to Noah, where Noah is a new Adam but a better one.
So the first part of Ezekiel judges and ...
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