Page 19 - The Marriage Covenant

Foundation Stone Two - The Body as a Temple

Please note: Some of the following is necessarily sexually explicit, but it is with a very
good purpose. Those who understand the correlation between a woman’s body and the
Tabernacle of God, will be enabled to discern that both are to be viewed as holy in the eyes
of man. The debasing of the woman’s body into a symbol of lust is a tragic result of the
activity of Satan and the fruit of sin. God would have us to restore a sense of holiness to
the realm of sexuality.

second foundation to be laid in order to answer many of the questions pertaining to
Amarriage, divorce, and remarriage, is that of observing how the Father has created the
physical human body after the pattern found in the Tabernacle of Moses and the Temple
of Solomon.
That God has designed the human body and the Tabernacle and Temple as types and
anti-types of one another is plainly stated in Scriptures.

I Corinthians 6:19
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom
you have from God...

II Corinthians 6:16
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the
living God; just as God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will
be their God, and they shall be My people.”

Ephesians 2:19-22
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the
saints, and are of God's household, having been built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Christ Yahshua Himself being the corner stone, in whom the
whole building, being fitted together is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; in
whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

I Peter 2:5
You also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house...

These Scriptures are but a sampling of the many that bring forth the concept of
mankind having been designed to be a sanctuary, a tabernacle, and a holy dwelling place
for the Spirit of God. We should therefore expect that what Yahweh has shown forth in the
design of the Tabernacle and Temple will find correspondence with the physical bodies of
men and women.
One evident parallel is that both the Tabernacle and Temple contained three distinct
and clearly defined sections. There was the Outer Court, the Inner Court or Holy Place, and
the Holy of Holies or Most Holy Place. These three sections find perfect correspondence to
man as he is also a tri-part being consisting of body, soul and spirit.