THE TABERNACLE OF GOD
"And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God." (Revelation 21:3). There are those who might be surprised to learn that the Bible refers specifically to six distinct temples of God. There are the four most obvious, which are: Moses' tabernacle in the wilderness which God commanded Israel to build after they made their exodus from Egypt; Solomon's great temple in Jerusalem; Ezra's temple which was built by the children of the captivity when they returned from Babylon; and Herod's temple which stood during the time of Christ and was destroyed by the Romans. The other two temples are less obvious because they are less visible to the natural eye. The first of these is the temple of God in the heavens after which every other temple has been patterned. "The point of what we are saying is this: