So, if God gives the plans for the millennial Temple in (Ez. 40-46), and it's function, what makes it a golden calf? Just because it is made of material and earth?
We disagree on so many things probably even the millennial reign. And that is okay. I’m not trying to force you to see it the same but only trying to help you understand where I’m coming from at least.
OT: The ministration of condemnation. Death. Adam was given all to subdue and was to be fruitful and multiply and he was fruitful and multiplied but it was multiplying sin. They saw they were naked physically and immediately shame came in. Vanity. Got to cover it up then shame will not be seen while the inward suffers. Everything became outward. Solomon’s temple was out of the trees of Lebanon which were “hewn down” no not bad but made of wood(man’s work which burns). Noah’s ark was made with man’s hands. The image in Daniel is all the kingdoms of man. They built and worshipped the work of man’s hands. All this given of God in the OT was good I’m not sayin it wasn’t but it all spoke of something better to come. The image in Daniel, all the kingdoms established throughout history ...the Pharisees with their works of goodness while oppressing others...what was made and built of man’s hands (the world)rejected The King of the Jews. The children of God were in the image in Daniel but those created in Christ were removed from man’s kingdoms (separated out by HIs flesh) born into God’s kingdom. The image in Daniel has one mind, one purpose, one body to serve the world and what man has built and yes given by God because all is given of God. Many times the word says these all operate and consent (agree)as one. Speaking one language (tongue): to curse.
Consider: Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Death and evil.? Condemnation. How can God group death and evil together when He gave us the OT and caused man to walk in its ways? Because He did...man never could meet the heavy burden, the heavy yoke laid upon His shoulders by all that vanity required yet the Law required much more in destruction unto death. God said “I AM going to lift the burden off man’s shoulders. I AM going to carry it upon My own shoulders.” Only the Spirit of God could fulfill all that was demanded and required. Yes, in a body of flesh prepared but in this, the Son, He threw down all man’s kingdoms of works of goodness where all is subdued under One which is Christ. Maybe you don’t like it but ...all that is death and sin and evil subdued under
Love.
Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them
one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the
stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an
heart of flesh:
NT.
Life and good. The ministration of righteousness. Peace. There is a new creature created in Christ. An express image of God in the Son. One body. Even one language that is pure. One tongue: to bless. One mind. Operating with one consent which is to agree with its head which is Christ. This Ark was created without the hands of man. This temple was made without hands. This circumcision made without hands. (If you agree God returns to a temple made with man’s hands. Does God also return to the circumcision made with man’s hands?)
Ephesians 4:13
[13] Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto
a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.
Judges 6:16
[16] And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites
as one man.
Judges 20:11
[11] So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city,
knit together
as one man.
Could go on with supportive scripture but operating as one man either in Christ ‘One Generation’ that is His 1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a
chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
“A chosen generation” ONE instead of many, one generation that is His generation without end. where man works no more and the burden is light, the yoke light in Christ...in Perfect love cast out fear, fear is torment...or in one man that opposes all that is God in favor of man sitting on the throne as king rather than God.
Sorry. Know that is a lot. But can’t see how God would remove this One man created in Christ when it is this One man created in Christ which subdues all and His fruit multiplies and covers the face of the earth. Or why God would go back(return) to a temple made by man’s hands when God has already done all the work to cast that temple down.