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GOD DESIRES TO DWELL AMONG HIS PEOPLE.

HOW GOD PRESENCE MANIFESTED
EDEN: GOD’S PRESENCE WITH ADAM & EVE
PATRIARCHS: GOD’S APPEARING (THEOPHANIES & ALTARS)
EXODUS: GOD’S PRESENCE IN FIRE, CLOUD, & TABERNACLE
CONQUEST & SETTLEMENT: GOD’S PRESENCE IN THE ARK
THE MONARCHY: GOD’S DWELLING IN THE TEMPLE
EXILE: GOD’S PRESENCE WITHDRAWN

Jeremiah 26:4-6 - This is what the Lord says: If you do not listen to Me by living according to My instruction that I set before you 5 and by listening to the words of My servants the prophets I have been sending you time and time again, though you did not listen, 6 I will make this temple like Shiloh. I will make this city an object of cursing for all the nations of the earth.”

THE TIMELINE OF THE ARK
Built by Moses (1446)
Traveled with Joshua & Israel (1406)
Rested in Shiloh (1400-1100)
Captured by Philistines (1104)
House of Abinadab; Neglected by King Saul (1100-1000)
Brought into Jerusalem by King David (1000)
Placed in Temple by King Solomon (960 BC)
Temple Destroyed, Ark Lost, Israel Exiled (586)

1 Kings 8:6, 10-11 – 6 The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the most holy place beneath the wings of the cherubim. 10 When the priests came out of the holy place, the cloud filled the Lord’s temple, 11 and because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

Haggai 2:5-7,9 “This is the promise I made to you when you came out of Egypt, and My Spirit is present among you; don’t be afraid.” 6 For the Lord of Hosts says this: “Once more, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. 7 I will shake all the nations so that the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,” says the Lord of Hosts. 9 “The final glory of this house will be greater than the first,” says the Lord of Hosts. “I will provide peace in this place” —this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.

PROXIMITY TO GOD'S PRESENCE OFTEN, IT NOT ALWAYS, BROUGHT HOLINESS, & PROSPERITY. WHILE NEGLECT OF IT BROUGHT SIN, RUIN AND DESTRUCTION.

Zechariah 6:12–13 - Here is a man whose name is Branch; He will branch out from His place and build the Lord’s temple. 13 Yes, He will build the Lord’s temple; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. There will also be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two of them.

John 1:1, 14 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 2:19-21 - 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

Matthew 12:6 - Something greater than the temple is here.

JESUS SHOWS UP AND REPRESENTS NEW ARK, THE NEW COVENANT, & THE NEW TEMPLE.

1 Corinthians 3:16–17 – “Do you not know that you [plural] are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.”

2 Corinthians 6:16 - For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Ephesians 2:20-22 - Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Ephesians 1:11-13- When you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed in Him, you were also sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. 14 He is the down payment of our inheritance, for the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory.

Revelation 21:1-4,22 - Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” 22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.

DESPITE OUR SIN, THE HOLY SPIRIT KEEPS US IN THE PRESENCE OF THE FATHER.

Romans 8:9 - If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.