This Bible Scholar's COSMIC Beliefs about Israel's Temple || G.K. Beale || BOOK REVIEW

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G.K. Beale is one of the most prolific modern biblical scholars. In his book 'The Temple and the Church's Mission', published in the 'New Books in Biblical Theology' series Beale makes a few interested claims about the nature of ancient Israel's Temple. In this video I survey his first claim. Hope this is helpful!

[@redlegsrick8514]

Please slog thru more Beale. I’ve tried reading his books. They are a struggle but the truth in them is valuable.

[@R3dR1der70]

This was great! Wonderful treatment of a heavy topic. Thanks! Please do more in this series of books!

[@PedroHLima12]

Really interesting! I had already seen people saying that the tabernacle was a kind of miniature of creation, but had never heard it explained. This was an engaging exploration, all the factoids build up the relevance of this view. Looking forward to the next!

[@CalebSmith3]

Glad you liked it!

[@HashimWarren]

Thank you for this break down! Super helpful!

[@brendalogan7940]

I would love to hear more

[@nobleststriver397]

Fascinating video! Thank you for "dumbing down" (for lack of a better term) Beale's work! Much appreciated :)

[@AlexADalton]

This channel is a goldmine. Glad I found it.

[@TheFilipaze]

Great video, thanks! Looking forward to the next one.

[@CalebSmith3]

Thanks for watching!

[@maurorodriguez4320]

Que buen resumen!! Gracias por hacer videos asi!!

[@globescape4771]

Great job explaining!

[@BobWangwenyi23]

This is so helpful!

[@glorifygodsunilkumar]

Hello god bless you all amin

[@virginiahansen320]

Great stuff! The best, most accessible (as well as beautiful) book I've seen that covers most of this stuff is Solomon's Temple: Myth and History by Hamblin and Seely. It's a great coffee table book, too. Great visuals.

[@clarkharney8805]

I got to eat lunch with Dr. Beale once @ Westminster seminary when I was working on my undergraduate in theology. I see Herman Bavinck on your shelf…a very good systematic theology !

[@wolfseeker2023]

Every latter day saints has known all of these temple, Eden, tabranacle, cosmos connections. Glad the evangelical community is catching up. Contact your LDS friends if you want.to know more about temples. It'll blow your mind.

[@gregkalb909]

Have you recorded the second video on Beale's "The Temple and the Church's Mission'"? Namely, have you discussed the relation between Beale's view of the tabernacle/temple and the garden of Eden?

[@CalebSmith3]

I recorded that video but when I went to edit it the audio was ruined somehow. I'll get around to re-recording at some point but I agree that connection is very interesting.

[@yvettebroughton]

@@CalebSmith3 oh wow. Yes, please do. Very interested to hear your summary. Thank you for all that you do.

[@michaelhart1072]

I assume you never made the part 2 regarding Genesis 2?

[@arongezhagen2815]

What you said about the priest bringing all of the worship of the earth to God, is so much orthodox and it is what Alexander Schmemann exactly says in is book for the life of the world. I am looking forward to read this book.

[@atanas-nikolov]

Caleb, check out The Language of Creation by Matthieu Pageau. I think you'll enjoy it, even if you do not agree with everything there. John Walton on the other hands argues the other way around - not only is the temple a microcosm of the world, but the world is a macrocosm of the temple (laid out like one), meaning that God had built it as his dwelling place.

[@CalebSmith3]

I'm vaguely familiar with Pageau and I'm endlessly interested in this topic so thanks for the recommendation I'll give him a look

[@StrongBodyandMind33]

52!?… wow!

[@AlexADalton]

Where is part 2 of this?

[@scottdale607]

Weird question but what bookshelves are you using? Who makes those?

[@lcfdasoares]

❤️

[@stevelenores5637]

Josephus is a Levite and a priest before he became a general so he has credibility as to what the tabernacle would have looked like.

[@felixayala05]

Looks like you never did the follow up video. Am I correct?

[@gloryman3634]

In Galatians 4:3 we see the word "elements" or in the Greek "stoikia." If we consider this Greek word in context, is this not referring to the law as type; a type of the fullness that was to come at Messiah's arrival? So here we must take a look at a few quotes from Josephus regarding the Jewish temple as a type. I will quote Don Preston who says it very well: "In the mind of the Jews, if the Jerusalem Temple was destroyed, then symbolically, HEAVEN and EARTH was destroyed! But, there is more. Josephus, first century Jewish historian, tells us that the Jews looked upon the Jerusalem Temple as “heaven and earth” itself! Read a few of the comments he wrote concerning the Jerusalem Temple: Josephus, Ant. Bk. 1, chapter 7, 7 (p. 180-181; also see 90-91) - Josephus says that the Temple and even the garments of the priest represented land, sea and heaven. Whiston, Josephus Antiquities, Bk. 3, chapter 6:4, (P. 87)- “However, this proportion of the measures of the tabernacle proved to be an imitation of the system of the world: for the third part thereof which was within the four pillars, to which the priests were not admitted, is, as it were, a Heaven peculiar to God; but the space of the twenty cubits, is, as it were, sea and land, on which men live, and so this is peculiar to the priests only…” Antiquities, Bk. 3, Chpt 7:7- (p. 90)- The veils too, which were composed of four things, they declared the four elements; for the fine linen was proper to signify the earth, because flax grows out of the earth; the purple signified the sea, because the color is dyed by the blood of the sea shell fish; the blue is fit to signify the air…; And for the ephod, it showed that God had made the universe of four (elements)… the breastplate was made to resemble the earth, the girdle represented the ocean, the Sardonxes the sun and moon, the twelve stones the months…” Josephus, Whiston, Ant. Bk. 3, chapter 6, 4 (87, p. 123) The Temple was “an imitation of the systems of the world. The rest was sea and land” Thus, the Temple was “heaven and earth.” When we honestly consider this Jewish concept of the Temple, it is little wonder that when Jesus predicted the destruction of that City and Temple, the disciples immediately connected that impending disaster with the “end of the age!” Having read the above quotes it becomes amazingly clear that Jesus was not talking about some event in the far future but something that was to happen very soon, in fact He said it would occur in their generation. The destruction of the temple and end of the law and it's sacrifices (the rudiments, the stoikia) were burned up in 70 A.D. "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away." Matt. 24:35 I believe that Josephus brings clarity to the true meaning of what Jesus said in the above verse. Now read these verses: "For we know that if our EARTHLY TABERNACLE HOUSE BE DESTROYED, we have a building from God, a HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS, eternal in the heavens." 2 Corinthians 5:1 Darby Bilbe Translation "Christ came as the high priest of the good things THAT ARE NOW HERE. He also went into a much better tent that WASN'T MADE BY HUMANS that doesn't belong to this world." Hebrews 9:11 CEV "It will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the ELEMENTS (stoikia) with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up." 2 Peter 3:10 Paul and the writer to Hebrews make it clear that the "earthly tabernacle house" is not the human body, because that temple is "made without hands." The Jewish temple with its ordinances on the other hand, was a "type" and was made "with man's hands and was soon to be destroyed as Peter states in his second epistle. Extract from the 'Theophania' "All authorities concur in the declaration that "when all these things should have been done" "The End" should come : that "the mystery of God should be finished as he had declared to His servants the prophets" : it should be completed : time should now be no more : the End of all things (so foretold) should be at hand, and be fully brought to pass : in these days should be fulfilled all that had been spoken of Christ (and of His church) by the prophets : or, in other words, when the gospel should have been preached in all the world for a testimony to all nations, and the power of the Holy People be scattered (abroad), then should the End come, then should all these things be finished. I need now only say, ALL THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN DONE : the OLD AND ELEMENTARY SYSTEM PASSED AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE; all these predicted empires have actually fallen, and the new kingdom, the NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH, the new Jerusalem--all of which were to descend from God, to be formed by His power, HAVE BEEN REALIZED ON EARTH; all these things have been done in the sight of all the nations ; God's holy arm has been made bare in their sight: His judgments have prevailed, and they remain for an everlasting testimony to the whole world. His kingdom has come, as it was foretold it should, and His will has, so far, been done; His purposes have been finished; and, from that day to the extreme end of time, it will be the duty, as indeed it will be the great privilege of the Church, to gather into its bosom the Jew, the Greek, the Scythian, the Barbarian, bond and free; and to do this as the Apostles did in their days--in obedience, faith and hope.’ Theophania ("On Divine Manifestation"), a c. AD 324 Greek theological work by Eusebius

[@brianringham9745]

Thank you so much for that info….

[@cmman1828]

In Through new eyes ,James B Jordan , takes a similar yet slightly different view on temple and creation

[@CalebSmith3]

Yeah James B Jordan is the man on stuff like this! I haven't read as much of him as I want to but everything he's touched I've learned a lot from

[@arminius504]

@@CalebSmith3 yeah he’s great but sometimes it’s just too much with him and he makes connections that are a bit much... People need to read him with caution.

[@NnannaO]

​@@CalebSmith3 If you search James B. Jordan Archive on KZbin, you'll find a channel with a lot of lectures. On the community tab, there is a link to Google drive where many of his works have been posted for free with his permission.