The Temple Details.

 I have written briefly on the allegory of Galatians four, There is much more to be said about Jesus and his wife, the church, which Paul describes as a great mystery (Eph.5:32).  However, God willing, I shall return to that mystery at a later date.

But for the present, I want to focus on a few details of the temple. You may remember that I asked, "who were the four men carrying the tabernacle?" When the tabernacle was finished, consecrated and sanctified, no one was allowed to touch it. To touch it was an immediate death sentence.

We subsequently learned that the true temple, not made with hands, is the Christian body, which is sanctified by the Holy Spirit dwelling in him (1 Pet.1:2). The Christian is therefore inviolate, with special protection. To touch a Christian is a death sentence. So King David was inspired to write: "Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm"(Ps.105:14-15). And the prophet was also inspired to write: "For he that touches you touches the apple of his eye" (Zec.2:8).

When Jesus was on earth, he warned people not to offend God's elect or even to despise them.  For he said: "Woe unto the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come: but woe to that man by whom the offence comes! (Matt.18:7)  Later, he said: "Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels always do behold the face of my father who is in heaven" (Matt.18:10).

For those who offend God's elect, Jesus added, "It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matt.18:6).  If that is better, I shudder to think what could be worst.

However, the four men, that carried the tabernacle represented four angels. For of the angels he says: "Are they not ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to them that shall be heirs of salvation"(Heb.1:14).  The angels also bear us up thus: "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, (as they carried the tabernacle) lest thou dash thy foot against a stone" (Ps.91:11-12), and (Luke 4:11).

The angels that always behold the face of God, are sent to destroy those that despise and persecute God's elect. The command is, "Touch not my anointed!"