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elsewhere you observed that Revelation only uses the word "sanctuary" not "temple"
One of my larger studies concerns Jesus, the whip and chasing out the sellers/merchants in the Temple in John 2/
[I am going to start a thread on this soon. Just got some more refining on it to do]
Notice first this passage in Zech 14 concerning "canaanite":
Zechariah 14:
21 And every caldron in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be Holy unto Yahweh of hosts,—So shall all who are offering sacrifice, come in, and take of them, and boil therein,—
Neither shall there be a Canaanite/merchant<3669> any more in the House of Yahweh of hosts, in that day. [Revelation 18:11]
The reason there would never be another one is that House is because it would be decimated in 70ad!
Matthew 23
37 - “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her!
38 Behold! the House of ye is being left desolate/a wilderness<2048>
Luke 13:
34 - “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her!
35 Behold! the House of ye is being left desolate/a wilderness<2048>,
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This is what was going on when Jesus entered the Temple shortly after starting His ministry?
Weren't these a type of "canaanite" Jesus was expelling from the Temple?
John 2: [Revelation 18:11]
14 and He found in the Temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting,
15 and having made a whip of small cords, He put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen;
and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the 15]he overthrew,
[Nahum 3:2/Reve 18:11-13]
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If you look at Nahum 3, it also describes a "sound of a whip":
Nahum 3:2 [John 2:14-15]
A sound of a Whip, and sound of a quaking wheel, and horse galloping, and chariot leaping. A horseman mounting. And blazing sword, and flashing spear, and many wounded and mass of corpses and there is no end to bodies. [Isaiah 28 "scourge"]
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In Revelation, the word normally rendered "plague" should be rendered "stripes/blows":
Revelation 15:1
And I perceived another sign in the heaven, great and marvelous. Seven Messengers having seven blows/stripes<4127> the last,
that in them is finished the fury of the God.
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Now look at Revelation 18 concerning the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple.
Merchants, beasts and sheep are mentioned, just as in John 2:14!
In addition, most all the things mentioned in this passage were used in the OT Temple/Santuary services.
Revelation 18: [John 2:14]
11 And the merchants of the land are lamenting and are mourning over Her,
that no one is buying their cargo any longer.
13 and cinnamon and incenses and attars and frankincense
and wine and oil and flour and grain
and beasts and sheep
and of horses and of chariots and of bodies and souls of men.
[Nahum 3:2/John 2:14]
John 2: [Revelation 18:11]
14 and He found in the Temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting,
doesn't it describe the "sanctuary" plus "court of the gentiles"? That would be the whole structure, according to Josephus "Wars" 5.5.2:
The cloisters [walled colonnades of the outmost court] were in breadth thirty cubits [45'], while the entire compass of it was by measure six furlongs [six stadia = 3600'], including the tower of Antonia; those entire courts that were exposed to the air were laid with stones of all sorts [exposed outer court paved with stone tiles?]. When you go through these [first] cloisters, unto [towards?] the second [court of the] temple, there was a partition made of stone all round, whose height was three cubits [4.5']: its construction was very elegant; upon it stood pillars, at equal distances from one another, declaring the law of purity, some in Greek, and some in Roman letters, that "no foreigner should go within that sanctuary" for that second [court of the] temple was called "the Sanctuary," and was ascended to by fourteen steps from the first court. This court was four-square, and had a wall about it peculiar to itself; the height of its buildings, although it were on the outside forty cubits, (13) was hidden by the steps, and on the inside that height was but twenty-five cubits; for it being built over against a higher part of the hill with steps, it was no further to be entirely discerned within, being covered by the hill itself.
http://www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/war-5.htm
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