WOW!
This is sooooo cool!!!
Can you explain a little about what we are looking at picture by pictrue?
Point out the Holy of Holy... exactly where is it.
Thank you, this is a VERY great blessing to be able to view this.
Blessings.
Actually we found a mistake on the ground floor so I am having to do it all over again but yes I can explain the pictures.
Now an article on the temple with many more detailed pictures will be available on my mom's website. It is for part of one of her up coming books so I did the artwork for it. It may be a couple months but it will be on the jebecker.com website.
The temple is made up of several areas. The porch, entrance, Holy Place, vestibule and Holy of Holies in the very back.
I have shown views from several angles including looking up inside the building from the floor with part of the foundation removed. The Holy of Holies is the 20x20x20 room at the back with the with the 2 step cathedral ceiling on top. The cathedral ceilings are because of the treasure rooms that is a separate house built on top of it.
Their are walls 5 cubit long by 1 cubit wide that support the weight of the beams for the upper house and roof. I have the drawing done with some of the walls and beams removed so you can see the structure inside.
The 2nd rendition is going to be in much greater detail with the actual treasure room layout and stair cases from level to level. I don't have the exterior stair cases in yet. The treasure rooms on each level are of exact sizes as given by scripture. Most people put those rooms around the exterior of the building. That is incorrect. Scripture talks about them being above and all round about. Because the rooms get bigger the higher you go up, it creates a stair stepped ceiling structure from looking at it from the inside.
Now all the measurements are taken from scripture. Some of the info is taken from sources like Josephus. Of course the decorations and such is artistic licence. The detail on the pillars out front is beyond my artistic ability so it does not have all the details. I don't have the carved reliefs of the angels on the wall panels and such. I'm not an artist but an engineer.
I had to figure out how to make the structure capable of creating and supporting the structure which in my opinion is very advanced for the time period.
It even turned out that one of the corner stones had to be shaped differently and makes sense that the builders rejected it for that reason. The front two corner stones which are actually large stone blocks that go up from foundation to roof on the front. The left and right sides are mirror images of each other. But the cornerstones into the Holy of Holies turned out different from each other. Those corner stones are in the vestibule area, the entrance area into the Holy of Holies.
Remember these images our from my 1st attempt. There are some major changes in the 2nd go round because there had to be specific numbers of treasure rooms on each level of specific sizes. It turned out some of those rooms are over a portion of the porch at the front corner stones which are part of the house, not the porch so they are over the entrance.
It also turned out that the beam structure had some interesting features. The Hebrew name of God is YHVH. The beam structure down the building in the Holy Place formed a paleo-hebrew letter 'Hey' (H) and a mirror image of a 'Hey' down the length of the building. The meaning of 'hey' is 'behold' while the paleo-hebrew word picture of YHVH is 'arm/hand, behold, nail, behold' as in 'behold the nail [pierced] hand'.
Now places like Isa 22 talk about the 'key to the house of David' which was the key to get into the upper treasure chambers and talks about vessels of gold hanging from nails in the house of the Father. It is also this 'key of David' that is mentioned in the Philideliphian church letter in Rev 3 where Yeshua has opened the door and and beacons the church to come into the treasure rooms to become vessels of the Father's glory because they 'have little strength' to hang upon the nail.
Now where some of the rooms over the Holy Place may have been the priest's chambers for those that were on rotation for temple duty. Scripture mentions several rooms that were under specific people's irresponsibility.
Now those perpendicular walls on the outside support the beam structures. The beams could not have their weight on the house wall itself but extended through the walls to those support walls. This is a common feature even in later cathedrals. Those later designs were influence by the Knights Templar and their digging on the temple mount so later cathedrals of Europe may have been influenced by the original temple.
I made the panels on the front transparent so you could see the shapes of the rooms above. Now the Holy of Holies only has 2 floors of treasure rooms above while the Holy Place has 3 floors.
Now some renditions of the temple have stairs going into the Holy of Holies because it is a cube 20x20x20 cubit but the Holy Place has a 30 cubit ceiling. They had to account for the 10 cubit difference but didn't understand the treasure rooms are above. Those 2 floors of treasure rooms account for the extra 10 cubits.
Now the upper chambers were only accesses by spiral stairs on the exterior of the building down at the Holy Holies end at the intersection of the Holy Place. It entered in at the 2nd level of upper chambers and had internal stairs to reach the other levels.
Now there is one place we did NOT go exactly by the scriptural measurements. It stated the porch was 120 cubits tall. That doesn't make sense. That would make it about 22 stories tall but the rest of the building only 30 cubits. That passage is debated as if a later scribe exaggerated or it was some type of copy error. 20 cubits makes more sense then 120 cubits. I put the porch at 20 cubit. I may do another rendition at 120 cubit to show the differences. I just don't see how it could be 120 cubits, ie 4x the height of the rest of the building.
Here is a view on the new rendition of the 1st level of chambers. Note this level ONLY has an upper floor over the Holy Place, not the HoHs. The porch has not been added yet. It just has the floor plan layout. You can see the 20x20x20 chamber at the back that is the HoHs. Three additional rooms had to be added between the front corner stones to get the required number of 30 rooms.
Once it is all complete. The section on the temple will probably be posted on jebecker.com and the 3d model available for download. Google sketchup is a free 3d modeling tool and also has a more limited viewer just to be able to view a 3d model and turn it for example. So once complete you will be able to download the model and play with it to your hearts content.
The article will describe all the features and the scriptural backing for them as well as the symbolic information presented. Some of that didn't even become apparent until we developed the 3d model like the embedded 'Hey' in the beam structure. For example, the lower house and the upper house are totally separate. You enter into the upper house by crossing over one of the corner stones at the right hand side looking out from the HoHs, the corner stone on the right hand of the Father. There are 24 treasure chambers on the two floors above the HoHs. There are all kinds of interesting features. You can see that corner stone at the top of the stair case that goes down to the 1st level of rooms from the 2nd level.
