The Tent Maker......

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The ApostlePaul worked as a tent maker. Even during his travels to the Gentiles spreading the Good News and giving instructions to the Churches, he continued to work as a tent maker. I have always liked this about the Apostle. I found it to be kinda neat that here was the Apostle Paul making earthly homes for people while teaching them about a Saviour who was making Heavenly homes for them. Paul the tent maker and Jesus the mansion maker.

No, there is no great theological meaning to this comparison, just kinda of a nice story I supose, but I like to think about it sometimes.

God bless...........
 
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p_rehbein said:
The ApostlePaul worked as a tent maker. Even during his travels to the Gentiles spreading the Good News and giving instructions to the Churches, he continued to work as a tent maker. I have always liked this about the Apostle. I found it to be kinda neat that here was the Apostle Paul making earthly homes for people while teaching them about a Saviour who was making Heavenly homes for them. Paul the tent maker and Jesus the mansion maker.

No, there is no great theological meaning to this comparison, just kinda of a nice story I supose, but I like to think about it sometimes.

God bless...........
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He could eaily work those thought into the sales pitch, you know take advantage of the interaction with his customers to tell them about Yahshua. (DEFINITELY not the other way aroud tho)
 
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Kinda makes you think about the lifestyles of these mega church pastors today! O_O
 
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I like to think of all the connections between the spiritual realm and the natural realm. God used the life of the Jews as He freed them from slavery to explain how He frees us from the slavery of sin. Christ taught in parables using how our lives are on earth to explain life in the spirit with parables. God had people use blood as a symbol of Christ for atonement thousands of years before He explained about that blood. It makes me think that if scripture says jump I can only say how high, for God knows why He asks us to do certain things much more than we can understand.
 
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RedTent said:
I like to think of all the connections between the spiritual realm and the natural realm. God used the life of the Jews as He freed them from slavery to explain how He frees us from the slavery of sin. Christ taught in parables using how our lives are on earth to explain life in the spirit with parables. God had people use blood as a symbol of Christ for atonement thousands of years before He explained about that blood. It makes me think that if scripture says jump I can only say how high, for God knows why He asks us to do certain things much more than we can understand.
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It's called "walking by faith, and not by sight" I believe.........God bless
 
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I hope this doesn't derail the thread, but if it does I'll start another one.......

There is debate about what kind of "tents" Paul made.

1) Actual living tents
or
2) Prayer Shawls or Talits.

What do you guys think?
Matt
 
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KohenMatt said:
I hope this doesn't derail the thread, but if it does I'll start another one.......

There is debate about what kind of "tents" Paul made.

1) Actual living tents
or
2) Prayer Shawls or Talits.

What do you guys think?
Matt
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I heard from a reputible source it was tallits, but as I have not studied it fully I did not mention it prior.
 
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KohenMatt said:
I hope this doesn't derail the thread, but if it does I'll start another one.......

There is debate about what kind of "tents" Paul made.

1) Actual living tents
or
2) Prayer Shawls or Talits.

What do you guys think?
Matt
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Doesn't derail the thread for me.............but it does show that there is little, if anything, that is not subject to debate when it comes to Scripture. I have even seen people debate the Scripture that reads "Jesus wept."

:)
 
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I checked the CJB to see what word it used for "tent," uh, er, it was "tent............"

Acts 18:1) After this, Sha'ul left Athens and went to Corinth, 2 where he met a Jewish man named Aquila, originally from Pontus but having recently come with his wife Priscilla from Italy, because Claudius had issued a decree expelling all the Jews from Rome. Sha'ul went to see them; 3 and because he had the same trade as they, making tents, he stayed on with them; and they worked together.

Anyway, I was waxing poetically in the OP, not making a great theological revelation, as I stated in the OP closing........I think most people understand that......

Thanks for the other link, I will check it out...........
 
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p_rehbein said:
I checked the CJB to see what word it used for "tent," uh, er, it was "tent............"

Acts 18:1) After this, Sha'ul left Athens and went to Corinth, 2 where he met a Jewish man named Aquila, originally from Pontus but having recently come with his wife Priscilla from Italy, because Claudius had issued a decree expelling all the Jews from Rome. Sha'ul went to see them; 3 and because he had the same trade as they, making tents, he stayed on with them; and they worked together.

Anyway, I was waxing poetically in the OP, not making a great theological revelation, as I stated in the OP closing........I think most people understand that......

Thanks for the other link, I will check it out...........
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i think you may be correct, the one reason I thought it possible it was tallits was it would be hard to make a tent out of goat hair, but like i said i never really looked into it too much. thank you
 
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The ApostlePaul worked as a tent maker.
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I believe this means that Paul's intends for His writings to teach us how to build the tabernacle.
I consider Him as a sort of "new testament" Moses.

In other words, I believe His instructions on behavior are the new covenant interpretations of all those strange symbolic old covenant laws.
 
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reject-tech said:
I believe this means that Paul's intends for His writings to teach us how to build the tabernacle.
I consider Him as a sort of "new testament" Moses.

In other words, I believe His instructions on behavior are the new covenant interpretations of all those strange symbolic old covenant laws.
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But he ACTUALLY WAS trained in the occupation of a tent maker, and he also spoke of this in other Epistles, and showed how he provided for his own earthy needs through his own labour, and did not seek the support of others as to not be a burden on them......some good lessons there as well......whatever the intended message, he did labour as a tent maker........
 
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KohenMatt said:
I hope this doesn't derail the thread, but if it does I'll start another one.......

There is debate about what kind of "tents" Paul made.

1) Actual living tents
or
2) Prayer Shawls or Talits.

What do you guys think?
Matt
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Seems unlikely. The word is very close to the word for the festival of Tabernacles, or tents. Also, I doubt there was much of a market for just prayer shawls in Corinth to justify having a trade devoted solely to that; but lots of people needed tents. Seems like shawls would have been something women would have made. Tent work would have been harder, more demanding work requiring a stronger body and hands.
 
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Seems unlikely. The word is very close to the word for the festival of Tabernacles, or tents. Also, I doubt there was much of a market for just prayer shawls in Corinth to justify having a trade devoted solely to that; but lots of people needed tents. Seems like shawls would have been something women would have made. Tent work would have been harder, more demanding work requiring a stronger body and hands.
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logicly this makes sense
 
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Hizikyah said:
logicly this makes sense
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but let us not forget that Pircisilla worked as a tent maker as well.............with Paul and her husband Aquila....now, she may well have left the "heavy lifting" part of the tent making to them........BUT she was laboring with them.

(edited to add.........)

Wait a minute, am I arguing against myself?
 
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But he ACTUALLY WAS trained in the occupation of a tent maker, and he also spoke of this in other Epistles, and showed how he provided for his own earthy needs through his own labour, and did not seek the support of others as to not be a burden on them......some good lessons there as well......whatever the intended message, he did labour as a tent maker........
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Oh absolutely, I'm sure he was a literal tent maker. I think God made it turn out that way so that his profession, when recorded, would have special meaning. Just like all the other people's professions in the bible.
 
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One source is the following: [TABLE="class: gt-baf-table"]
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[TD]tent, tabernacle, pavilion, shelter, tentorium. That word in Hebrew sounds like ohel.
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p_rehbein said:
I checked the CJB to see what word it used for "tent," uh, er, it was "tent............"

Acts 18:1) After this, Sha'ul left Athens and went to Corinth, 2 where he met a Jewish man named Aquila, originally from Pontus but having recently come with his wife Priscilla from Italy, because Claudius had issued a decree expelling all the Jews from Rome. Sha'ul went to see them; 3 and because he had the same trade as they, making tents, he stayed on with them; and they worked together.

Anyway, I was waxing poetically in the OP, not making a great theological revelation, as I stated in the OP closing........I think most people understand that......

Thanks for the other link, I will check it out...........
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