We are the temple of the New Covenant

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Now that we are the temple of God of the New Covenant, (1 Corinthians 3:16) I thought it would be beneficial to study the Old Testament temple ordinances in comparison with the New Covenant through Jesus Christ our eternal High Priest.

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"

I have started by quoting scripture from the Old covenant temple ordinances, foreshadowing the New Covenant, for the purpose of learning how they perfectly match according to God's plan of salvation.

If you would care to join in, please quote related scriptures from both the Old "physical" representation and New Testaments spiritual completeness for comparison. This should be very interesting.

Leviticus 4:12 "Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt."

Hebrew 13:11-13
[SUP]11 [/SUP]For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

Leviticus 4:27-31
[SUP]27 [/SUP]And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
[SUP]28 [/SUP]Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
[SUP]29 [/SUP]And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
[SUP]30 [/SUP]And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
[SUP]31 [/SUP]And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the Lord; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

Romans 12:1 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."

Please keep your posts short by quoting only one or two comparisons. Long posts are less likely to be read in their entirety henceforth diminishing the impact desired. http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/111652-long-posts.html#post2006745
Comments describing the truth of quoted posts are welcomed. May God bless us all with His unchanging word. :)
 
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Our bodies are a temple (singular) but we also are many members (plural) of a much larger spiritual house and Temple (Body of Christ)

Revelation 21:22
And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
 
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Also Gods people make up the New Jerusalem (Bride of the Lamb) mount Zion.

Isaiah 48:2
For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.

Isaiah 52:1
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Isaiah 60:14
The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 62:12
And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Revelation 21:2-3[SUP]2 [/SUP]And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
 
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Yep the Genuine Believer, his/her flesh bone, that carries the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, is the Temple of God, Spiritual Israel, those REBORN genuinely by the Father, making up both Jews and Gentiles by ethnos, make up His Bride, this including OT Saints which were in Abraham's bosom but Carried into Paradise when the LORD Ascended there after His Resurrection. His Body True body, His church, the Called out Ones, the Elect of God, chosen, peculiar, in Him! these are the Ones He is coming for and these will be the Ones who recognize the 'season' before His Return for them...
 
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Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

If any man/woman Defile the temple of God, him/her shall God Destroy; for the Temple of God is Holy, which Temple -----> ye are.

1 Corinthians 3
 
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"We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple." Psalms 48:9
 
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"Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these." Jeremiah 7:4
 
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"Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple." Jeremiah 51:11
 
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Now that we are the temple of God of the New Covenant, (1 Corinthians 3:16) I thought it would be beneficial to study the Old Testament temple ordinances in comparison with the New Covenant through Jesus Christ our eternal High Priest.

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"
The temple ordinances are not the temple.

The Holy Spirit dwells within the born again, he does not dwell within the temple ordinances.
 
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The Holy Spirit dwells within the born again, he does not dwell within the temple ordinances.
Ordinances of the OT temple are not the temple, but God given for proper temple function. What are you thinking? :confused: The Holy Spirit dwells in the NT temple as He did when sitting on the mercy seat of the OT temple.

"And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.Ezra 3:10

Exodus29:43-45
[SUP]43 [/SUP]And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
[SUP]44 [/SUP]And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office.
[SUP]45 [/SUP]And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

Revelation 7:15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
 
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The temple ordinances are not the temple.
I wish king Obama would live up to his own ordinance of transparency. His ordinances are not the white house either. The white house ordinances are not the white house either, in relation to your thought process. It's also senseless to call this building an ordinance. Of course there are building ordinances for construction purposes. :p
 
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"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:" Ephesians 4:31

In the peace offerings, the "caul" was burned on the altar of burning, being destroyed by fire. The "caul" is actually the "gallbladder" as we know today. It is attached to the liver. The liver secretes bile which is very bitter. Bile is a complex fluid containing water, electrolytes and a battery of organic molecules including bile acids. Bile is then stored in the gallbladder (caul) and is released for digestive purposes into the small intestine.

Peace offerings represent communication and communication with God through the Mediator who completes the function of peace before the eyes of God. The Almighty God of peace has given an ordinance that destroys bitterness when we come to Him through Christ.

Leviticus 3:1-5
3 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the Lord; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
[SUP]4 [/SUP]And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the "caul" above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

As you can see, this is one aspect of three things. The kidneys and fat play a part also. That might come up later. GBU all

This is from the OP
Now that we are the temple of God of the New Covenant, (1 Corinthians 3:16) I thought it would be beneficial to study the Old Testament temple ordinances in comparison with the New Covenant through Jesus Christ our eternal High Priest.

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"

I have started by quoting scripture from the Old covenant temple ordinances, foreshadowing the New Covenant, for the purpose of learning how they perfectly match according to God's plan of salvation.

If you would care to join in, please quote related scriptures from both the Old "physical" representation and New Testaments spiritual completeness for comparison. This should be very interesting.
 
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Ordinances of the OT temple are not the temple, but God given for proper temple function.
There is only one ordinance for the NT temple, it is the Holy Spirit and his work of sanctification is his "function."

What are you thinking? :confused:
I'm thinking what the NT states, that believers are the temple of the Holy Spirit, not of ordinances.
 
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I wish king Obama would live up to his own ordinance of transparency. His ordinances are not the white house either. The white house ordinances are not the white house either, in relation to your thought process. It's also senseless to call this building an ordinance. Of course there are building ordinances for construction purposes. :p
Agreed. . .the only ordinance for the NT temple is the Holy Spirit's "function" of sanctification through obedience to the words spoken by the Son in these last days (Heb 1:1-2) through the NT writers.
 

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Now that we are the temple of God of the New Covenant, (1 Corinthians 3:16) I thought it would be beneficial to study the Old Testament temple ordinances in comparison with the New Covenant through Jesus Christ our eternal High Priest.

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"

I have started by quoting scripture from the Old covenant temple ordinances, foreshadowing the New Covenant, for the purpose of learning how they perfectly match according to God's plan of salvation.

If you would care to join in, please quote related scriptures from both the Old "physical" representation and New Testaments spiritual completeness for comparison. This should be very interesting.

Leviticus 4:12 "Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt."

Hebrew 13:11-13
[SUP]11 [/SUP]For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

Leviticus 4:27-31
[SUP]27 [/SUP]And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
[SUP]28 [/SUP]Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
[SUP]29 [/SUP]And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
[SUP]30 [/SUP]And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
[SUP]31 [/SUP]And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the Lord; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

Romans 12:1 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."

Please keep your posts short by quoting only one or two comparisons. Long posts are less likely to be read in their entirety henceforth diminishing the impact desired. http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/111652-long-posts.html#post2006745
Comments describing the truth of quoted posts are welcomed. May God bless us all with His unchanging word. :)
we are, all believer, not only Mary
 
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"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:" Ephesians 4:31

In the peace offerings, the "caul" was burned on the altar of burning, being destroyed by fire. The "caul" is actually the "gallbladder" as we know today. It is attached to the liver.
Lev 3:3-4 states what was burned on the alter was the fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them, both kidneys with the fat around them near the loins, and the covering of the liver.

The caul is the membrane which covers the upper part of the liver.

The liver secretes bile which is very bitter. Bile is a complex fluid containing water, electrolytes and a battery of organic molecules including bile acids. Bile is then stored in the gallbladder (caul) and is released for digestive purposes into the small intestine.

Peace offerings represent communication and communication with God through the Mediator who completes the function of peace before the eyes of God. The Almighty God of peace has given an ordinance that destroys bitterness when we come to Him through Christ.
The meal on the peace offering was a meal with the priest who offered it, participating in the benefits of the sacrifice, which were fellowship with God and the priest who offered it.
 
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Lev 3:3-4 states what was burned on the alter was the fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them, both kidneys with the fat around them near the loins, and the covering of the liver.

The caul is the membrane which covers the upper part of the liver.


The meal on the peace offering was a meal with the priest who offered it, participating in the benefits of the sacrifice, which were fellowship with God and the priest who offered it.
Agreed. Do you have any New Testament scriptures that accompany this with the spiritual concept as mentioned in the OP? The fat added fuel to the fire. The kidneys are what separates the good nutrition from the bad giving the ability to expel what is waist and along with feeding the soul.

Kidneys are the organs that help filter waste products from the blood. They are also involved in regulating blood pressure, electrolyte balance, and red blood cell production in the body.

"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." Matthew 5:6

"Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" Colossians 3:5
 
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The type/shadow shown in the animal sacrifices are a reflection of peoples and personal sacrifices. The outer part of the animal was to be burned outside the camp, just as we in this world are outside of the heavenly camp. And we in this world are told to put to death the deeds of the flesh.

Exodus 29:14
But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.

The insides of the sacrifice were often to be washed and made clean, just as our insides(heart and mind) are to be washed by the words of the Lord. The offering of the insides, with the fat is a sweet savour unto the Lord....

Leviticus 3:15-17
[SUP]15 [/SUP]And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the Lord's.

[SUP]17 [/SUP]It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood."

Sweet savour means it was a sweet smell or odor unto the Lord.

Fat is what gives meat it's flavor, and the best steaks are the ones with the best fat marbling in them. I know, because I was a meat cutter for about 25 years. The fat above the kidney is what we call suet, it the most flavorful fat.

Suet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So what was the burning of the fat and insides putting forth a sweet smell and odour representing in the spiritual sense? I believe it was offering of the prayers from the heart (inside flavor) of the saints.


Revelation 5:8
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

Hosea 14:2
Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
 
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Elin said:
Lev 3:3-4 states what was burned on the alter was the fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them, both kidneys with the fat around them near the loins, and the covering of the liver.

The caul is the membrane which covers the upper part of the liver.

The meal on the peace offering was a meal with the priest who offered it, participating in the benefits of the sacrifice, which were fellowship with God and the priest who offered it.
Agreed. Do you have any New Testament scriptures that accompany this with the spiritual concept as mentioned in the OP?
I have this.

The fat added fuel to the fire.
The fat (suet) was the choicest portion, making an aroma pleasing to God.

The kidneys are what separates the good nutrition from the bad giving the ability to expel what is waist and along with feeding the soul.

Kidneys are the organs that help filter waste products from the blood. They are also involved in regulating blood pressure, electrolyte balance, and red blood cell production in the body.

"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." Matthew 5:6

"Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" Colossians 3:5
I like the principles, applications and types/pictures presented throughout here.