Since the Bible is God’s revelation of Himself and mankind, could it be that His instructions at Mount Sinai regarding the tabernacle could reveal more than just a cultic expression of the worship of God under the “old covenant”?  This question can be raised because of the conceptual imagery of what I will call TTH as used in the NT (TTH = Tabernacle, Temple, House of God). Because of the NT usage of the TTH concept, this paper suggests that the TTH is a physical model of the anthropological structure of the individual. The tabernacle and temple were God’s dwelling places on earth where the Israelites could meet with Him, and now the believer in Christ is God’s dwelling place on the earth.

Why do I raise this question?  Because the modern world of psychology has searched for the last 150 years to discover a model of the ontology of the individual, that is, a model of “who we are.” So far, and this includes the modern day Church, I believe such a model has not yet been proposed, at least not a true biblical model.

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PDF file: TabernacleandCounselingFINAL.pdf