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The Temple of Jerusalem a Bible Study Resource for the Tabernacle and Temple The Temple of Jerusalem A Bible Study Resource for the Tabernacle and Temple 1 Section I: Relationship to Christian Science Citations on the Temple Mary Baker Eddy’s references on the Temple Christian Science articles relating to the Temple Section II: The Significance of the Tabernacle Why study the Tabernacle Biblical references to building the Tabernacle (Story of Moses in Exodus) Diagram of the Tabernacle Synonyms of the Tabernacle Selected citations on “the Tabernacle” “The Veil of Materiality,” by Willis F. Gross The( Christian Science Journal, Oct. 1894) Section III: Introduction to the Temple The Timeline of the Temple Mount The Three Jewish Temples Diagram (“Church in the Wilderness”) Introduction to the Temple & Why Study the Temple Introduction to the Temple Mount Area Jesus Cleansing the Temple Temple and Synagogue Jewish Religious Sects Temple Mount Rendering Map of Ancient Jerusalem Map of the Temple Mount Map of Herod’s Temple Paul in the Temple Section IV: The Inner Courts of the Temple The Gates into the Temple Antonia Fortress Trumpeting Place Court of the Gentiles Mikveh Court of Women Court of Priests Holy of Holies Events Concerning the Ark Holy of Holies Furnishings Section V: The Temple Mount Today Map of Dome of the Rock (Today) 2 Biblical Citations Relationship of Christian Science to the Temple Selected Citations on the Temple Luke 2:22-24 Heb. 9:25 Lev. 12:3-8 Mark 13:1, 2 Luke 2:25-33 Matt. 27:51 Luke 2:36-38 Mark 15:38 Luke 2:41-50 Luke 23:45 Matt. 4:5-7 Acts 3:1-4 Luke 4:9 Eph. 2:19-22 Matt. 26:55 Rev. 11:19 Luke 22:53 Matt. 12:5-8 John 18:20 Matt. 21:15 Matt. 21:12, 13 Matt. 27:5 Mark 11:15-17 Acts 21:26-30 Luke 19:45, 46 Heb. 5:1-6 John 2:14,15 Heb. 8:3-5 Matt. 21:14 Rev. 7:14, 15 Matt. 21:23 Matt. 23:16-24 Mark 12:41 Matt. 27:40 Luke 21:1, 2 Acts 24:12 Matt. 12:6 Heb. 7:23-28 John 2:19-22 Heb. 9:6-25 John 10:22, 23 Heb. 13:10, 11 Acts 21:26-30 Rev. 14:15 Eph. 2:14 Rev. 15:8 Lev. 16:2, 3 Rev. 16:1 Heb. 10:10, 11 Rev. 21:3-5 Section 1: Relationship of Christian Science to the Temple 3 Mary Baker Eddy Relationship of Christian Science to the Temple Partial list of “Temple” references in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and Prose Works, by Mary Baker Eddy: Pul 2:27-2 27 How can we do this Christianly scientific work? By intrenching ourselves in the knowledge that our true temple is no human fabrication, but the superstructure 30 of Truth, reared on the foundation of Love, and pinnacled 1 in Life. Such being its nature, how can our godly temple possibly be demolished, or even disturbed? 595:7 TEMPLE. Body; the idea of Life, substance, and in- telligence; the superstructure of Truth; the shrine of 9 Love; a material superstructure, where mortals congre- gate for worship. My 194:5-10 The letter of your work dies, as do all things material, 6 but the spirit of it is immortal. Remember that a temple but foreshadows the idea of God, the “house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens,” while a silent, grand 9 man or woman, healing sickness and destroying sin, builds that which reaches heaven. Section 1: Relationship of Christian Science to the Temple 4 From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy: 596:28-15 (to .) VEIL. A cover; concealment; hiding; hypocrisy. The Jewish women wore veils over their faces in token 1 of reverence and submission and in accordance with Pharisaical notions. 3 The Judaic religion consisted mostly of rites and cere- monies. The motives and affections of a man were of little value, if only he appeared unto men to fast. The 6 great Nazarene, as meek as he was mighty, rebuked the hypocrisy, which offered long petitions for blessings upon material methods, but cloaked the crime, latent in thought, 9 which was ready to spring into action and crucify God’s anointed. The martyrdom of Jesus was the culminating sin of Pharisaism. It rent the veil of the temple. It re- 12 vealed the false foundations and superstructures of super- ficial religion, tore from bigotry and superstition their coverings, and opened the sepulchre with divine Science, 15 — immortality and Love. 142:18 18 As in Jesus’ time, so to-day, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Sci- ence to be welcomed in. The strong cords of Temple 21 scientific demonstration, as twisted and wielded cleansed by Jesus, are still needed to purge the temples of their vain traffic in worldly worship and to make them meet 24 dwelling-places for the Most High. Section 1: Relationship of Christian Science to the Temple 5 From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy: 288:20 The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are 21 to be found in the following postulates: that Life is God, good, and not evil; that Soul is sinless, not The chief to be found in the body; that Spirit is not, and stones in 24 cannot be, materialized; that Life is not subject the temple to death; that the spiritual real man has no birth, no ma- terial life, and no death. 365:25-30 If hypocrisy, stolidity, inhumanity, or vice finds its way into the chambers of disease through the would-be 27 healer, it would, if it were possible, convert Truth into a den of thieves the temple of the Holy desecrated Ghost, — the patient’s spiritual power to resuscitate him- 30 self. 428:12 12 Thus we may establish in truth the temple, or body, “whose builder and maker is God.” Section 1: Relationship of Christian Science to the Temple 6 From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy: 576:8-25 In Revelation xxi. 22, further describing this holy city, 9 the beloved Disciple writes: — And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 12 There was no temple, — that is, no material structure in which to worship God, for He must be worshipped in spirit and in love. The word temple also The shrine 15 means body. The Revelator was familiar celestial with Jesus’ use of this word, as when Jesus spoke of his material body as the temple to be temporarily rebuilt 18 (John ii. 21). What further indication need we of the real man’s incorporeality than this, that John saw heaven and earth with “no temple [body] therein”? 21 This kingdom of God “is within you,” — is within reach of man’s consciousness here, and the spiritual idea reveals it. In divine Science, man possesses this 24 recognition of harmony consciously in proportion to his understanding of God. Section 1: Relationship of Christian Science to the Temple 7 Christian Science Christian Science articles relating to the Temple The following articles are made available by The Ark: www.arkpublications.com, and in Christian Science Reading Rooms. • Russell D. Robinson. “Our Inspiring Lesson - Sermons.” The Christian Science Journal, August, 1964. • Maude E. Roberts. “Oil and Wine.” Christian Science Sentinel, Vol. 31, No. 52, August 24, 1929, p. 1024-5. • Richard P. Verrall. “Building the Temple.” Christian Science Sentinel, Vol. 12, No. 16, December 18, 1909, p. 304-5. • Eila Foster. “Purging the Temple.” Christian Science Sentinel, Vol. 25, No. 12, November 18, 1922, p. 227. • Richard P. Verrall. “Ark of the Convenant.” Christian Science Sentinel, Vol. 17, No. 25, February 20, 1915, p. 485. Section 1: Relationship of Christian Science to the Temple 8 Section 1: Relationship of Christian Science to the Temple 9 Section 1: Relationship of Christian Science to the Temple 10 Section 1: Relationship of Christian Science to the Temple 11 304 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SENTINEL [Vol. XII., No. 16. because the triumph over error comes slowly, nothing will force you to accept what best promotes your growth;" will help us more than to stop and consider what we have and "Divine Love always has met and always will meet accomplished, what God has already done for us. It is every human need" (pp. 20, 266, 494). Throughout all not the thought of what God has not done for us that of Mrs. Eddy's writings it is taught that the kingdom of helps us, but the recognition of what He has done God is within reach of the purified consciousness. The Mortal, material sense would limit God in all His ways process of purification, in which God "worketh in you," and works, but Christian Science teaches that God is in- includes for each one conscientious study and application finite and there is no good thing which He has not freely of the rules laid down in Science and Health, and a con- bestowed upon His children. Jesus said, "What things stant effort to divest himself day by day of erroneous soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe [understand] that material thinking and to exercise the sense of gratitude ye receive them, and ye shall have them." It is evident and praise to God. The kingdom of God appears in fairer that one could not understand that he receives a thing proportions with every forsaking of error.
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