Well @Ziggy,Thank you @charity
We must now consider the import of the word “tabernacle”. The Greek word skene, translated tabernacle occurs twenty times in the New Testament. In nineteen of these occurrences it is translated tabernacle and once habitation. The word occurs as follows: In Matthew, Mark and Luke it is used of “the three tabernacles” so desired by Peter on the Mount of Transfiguration. In the Acts it is used three times, once of the tabernacle of Molech, once of the tabernacle of witness and once of the tabernacle of David. The “tabernacle” in Hebrews is either: (1) The tabernacle pitched by Moses at the commandment of God. (2) The True Tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man. (3) The tents in which Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were willing as pilgrims to dwell, because they looked for the heavenly Jerusalem, which was also the true tabernacle of God. The three other occurrences of skene are Revelation 13:6; 15:5 and 21:3. We must not assume however that even though the scale is weighted in favour of a reference to the tabernacle in both type and reality, that this is universally accepted. Some have interpreted skenos in 2 Corinthians 5:1-4 as of a theatre, and even James, with all his Hebrew leanings, when quoting from the prophet Amos about the “tabernacle of David” has been made to refer rather to “the Davidic scene” thereby repeating in the future the 30 years of his reign, and this passage in Revelation 21 has not escaped, but has been made to read “The scene or area of Divine Activity” instead of “the tabernacle of God”. The Greek word skene translated “tabernacle” has come into our own tongue in the form scene and is associated both in Greek and in English with the theatre. The Greek theatre was in the open air, and the “tent” soon became, by an easy figure of speech the word used to designate the “stage”. While this is so, there is no warrant for anyone to intrude this change of meaning into the New Testament. The Greek language was in formation long before its adoption as the vehicle for New Testament truth and consequently its words often contained Pagan references. It seems an extraordinary idea that James of all men should be made to speak of the “stage” or “scene” of David when it is well known that he was quoting from Amos 9:11 in Acts 15, and more strange still that this Pagan idea should be thrust into John 1:14 or into Revelation 21:3. Let us give an example of the foolishness of seeking in Greek roots a basis for doctrine. The word “interpret” comes a number of times in the New Testament and the Greek word for it is hermeneuo. Now this word is derived from the Pagan idea that the god Hermes or Mercury, which is the Latin equivalent, was the god of interpretation, but shall we then adopt such an idea because it is part of Greek Etymology? However, only a few of our readers will have come under the influence of a teaching which necessitates the kind of treatment of language we have mentioned; and so we pass on to other features of the subject we are considering; namely the place of the “wife”, the “bride” and the “body”, in the outworking of the purposes of grace.
All I'm saying is HE PASSED OVER a LOT.
And then moves on to the tent as the curtain above the world. No longer a "tabernacle" which dwells among men.
I am in the "administrations now" . And have "passed on" from what only a few of their readers come under this influence of a teaching...that "we" , they are considering.
I hear bias..
I will keep going however, that is the full context of which I was refering.
Thank You
Hugs
(just a whatever... If I say there are things in the bible that were put in there and not by God himself, I get BLASTED.
But when other's say we shouldn't pay attention because it has a pagan etymology, we just don't worry about it, nothing to see here, walk on by no problem... )
At some point we have to agree, it is either all God's handiwork or it is flawed.
I lean on the side of All God's handiwork.
You have certainly taught me a lesson. This is the last time I ever place on the forum a link to anything that I personally found helpful. Perhaps you can tell me what any of this wordage has to do with the subject of the thread? How does this help anyone?
Chris
