The LORD had Israel build a tabernacle (after the pattern of the heavenly), so that he could dwell among them:

Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

 9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

Then the LORD himself took on flesh, so that he could tabernacle among his people:

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

The word tabernacle is used for the body:

II Corinthians 5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

II Peter 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

When one looked upon the tabernacle in the wilderness, all that was seen was skin and hair, it was not very beautiful.

However, what couldn't be seen from the outside, was that the very glory of the LORD sanctified the tabernacle from within.

Above the tent of the tabernacle, were curtains made of goats' hair, 

then above that were rams' skins dyed red,

then above that were badgers' skins,

but within the tabernacle, within the most holy place, within the veil, above the mercy seat, was the ver 

Exodus 29:43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.

When one looked upon Jesus, again, all they saw was skin and hair, and was not very beautiful:

Isaiah 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Yet within, the very person of God:

I Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Now, the LORD is building a temple for him to dwell in:

Ephesians 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Someday, we will dwell in him, and he will be the temple:

John 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Revelation 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

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