Summary and Conclusion of Rev 11 in regards to the measurement of the temple:
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@101G: you do what is measured right.......
Revelation 11:1 "And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar,
and them that worship therein".
the temple of God is his people,
1 Corinthians 3:16 "Know ye not that
ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?".
in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old".
@amadeus: The Tabernacle in the wilderness had the Holiest of Holies in the very center behind the 2nd veil; and it had the Holy Place behind the 1st veil; and it had the Outer Court. The tents and dwelling places and working place of the people were outside the enclosure which enclosed all three.
When a person comes to God and repents that first time he enters the Outer Court as an unclean beast. Some people never move closer to God than this and like the natural children of Israel they need to come back again and again often to re-repent for the same sins. Considering what repentance means this means they never advanced at all. To repent means they are to have changed. But either they lied at the first or they simply backslid falling into exactly the same errors again. As we see the end result of most of them, dying in the wilderness, we see that this is a problem.
Consider the 1st veil, where only the priests entered regularly. This is where the Holy Ghost goes to work on hearts to eventually convert them from an unclean beast to a clean beast. Of course to go behind the 2nd veil into the Holiest of Holies [only High Priest entered once a year] a person must have completely killed his beasts.
Don't worry about the two inner places [2nd and 3rd heavens?] in relation to your question. Rather consider all of the people who attend churches and like the natural Israelites of old repeatedly go through the same steps of repenting and backsliding and back again. They take actions with no real increase, no real closer approach to God. How does that fit into the scenario of
Revelation 11 depicted in your OP...?
Are they not still Gentiles, Heathens, unclean beasts who have not even killed anything of their old nature, the old man mentioned by Apostle Paul? Rather they have trampled and are trampling that place, that 1st heaven instead of preparing themselves for eventually entry into 2nd heaven and hopefully finally 3rd heaven [3 heavens equal to 3 parts within tabernacle and 3 levels of Ark built by Noah.]
@ScottA: It's all connected.
The outer court is akin even to outer darkness. But in this case it refers to those things which the temple represents, to the body made manifest in the creation; which then is divided in the midst (42/42, 3.5/3.5, the dead in Christ/the living in Christ) between the first Adam and the Last Adam, where the sacrifice was taken away. The same is "
a time, times, and half a time."
The outer court is given to the nations...that is to the people, those created, even the first Adam and the Last Adam: "
to live is Christ." But from among those of the first Adam one nation/people were chosen to be given the promise, wherein is the holy of holies, whom is the Christ, and God, the First and the Last. His body was given to the gentiles, without measure. Those "
who are alive and remain" in the world are His body, those who reign with Him until the end of the times of the gentiles.
@Base12:In the Tabernacle in the Wilderness, the Outer Court contained two main items of significance...
1) Brazen Laver
2) Brazen Altar
If we were to look into the deeper meanings of said items, we would find that they represent a type of dichotomy.
The
Brazen Laver would represent the Sea of Glass while the
Brazen Altar would represent the Lake of Fire.
Personally, I've always viewed Outer Darkness, and those that are 'bundled' in it, as a temporary storage area before burning.
This scenario would fit in with the Brazen Altar and the 'Slaughter Tables' of sacrifices that wait to be burned.
Thus, the Brazen Laver/Sea of Glass are the Wheat (Saved) that are to be cleaned while the Brazen Altar/Lake of Fire are the Tares (Unsaved) that are to be burned.
Continued on next post.....