April 20, 2013 – Ezekiel 43

I was thinking about the Temple and the way they are describing it.  I was trying to think of it in a way of applying it to Christ because He is the fulfillment of many prophesies.  So, read it as describing Christ human form.  The man part of Christ is something that was conceived on Earth, in the womb of Mary in a very special way, but human, completely human.  When God joins that human form, it is like God coming into the Temple, which makes it the Temple. It is human (the construction) and God (God dwelling there) at the same time.  That may be a stretch, but it seems to coreless with when Christ talks about destroying the Temple and then it being raised in 3 days. He is the Temple.

And when He enters the Temple, human form, He will remain in that Temple forever.  He was raised into Heaven in bodily form and is present, fully human, fully God, in the Eucharist until the time when He comes at the end of time, still fully human, fully God.  So, when He enters the Temple, He did so to remain there for all eternity, like the prophesy states.

I was also thinking about whether the presence of God was in the Temple while Christ walked on Earth.  We understand that when Christ died and the veil was torn, that signified the end of the Temple and God’s presence, but maybe I am understanding that wrong.  But the more I thought about it, God is present always and everywhere, so God was present in Antarctica while Christ walked in Israel.  But God was present in a special way in the Temple, so did that end when the veil was torn or was God’s presence not there before then.