The context is clear that YHWH indeed set His tabernacle in the sun, for He also states such in Isaiah 18:4, I will take my rest and look down/scan intently/consider from my dwelling place, the dazzling hot owr =light/sun.........
The created temple is connected intimately to this present creation, and is in the created heaven, not above it, and it is from there that He dwells as the Great Glory, and from there the inhabitants of the earth are as grasshoppers in His sight and from where He "comes out of His temple" and where He "rides the heavens by His name YAHH!"
In Genesis 1, the Hebrew wording shows that the sun, moon, and stars are in the firmament/expanse which YHWH stretched out between the divided waters; so the correct translation -without interpretation with bias- of that passage of the Hebrew in Genesis 1 states that the waters above the firmament which were divided from the waters below the firmamanet are above the expanse/firmament in which the sun, moon, and stars were set; and they were set there by Him as signs for this present creation.
To translate that the sun has a tabernacle and that the heavens are the tabernacle for the sun is totally non-sensical to the passage and makes no sense whatever, and I always thought so, and then I came to this recent understanding; which I think is a valid conclusion of the evidence.
God fills heaven and earth, but His particular tabernacle is "set" like a fixture, and is called a "fixture -which also translates to his dwelling place/ abode, in Isaiah 18:4; and for this present creation that abode/fixture is set in the sun, which sun itself is called a candlebra, lamp, fixture in Genesis 1, that He set it in the firmament/expanse.
By comparing Enoch's visit to the temple in his vision of Enoch 14 his description of that temple seems to be no other place than that which YHWH declared was His dwelling place -"His tabernacle set in the dazzling hot sun".
For the new creation it will be different, but for this, He has told us where it is, and Enoch went there.
There is something about the tabernacle -tent/temple which Moses made which also relates to the heavens and the sun, and another has picked up on that and written about it in another place; also, when Moses made the copies given him he made them as copies of the things in the heavenlies, and the tent itself seems to represent the stretching out of the heavens; the tabernacle's Holy of Holies seems to represent the tabernacle in the sun in which the Glory of God was seen by Enoch; and the placement of the 12 tribes and their ensigns around the tabernacle in the wilderness seems to connect with the statement of YHWH that "I formed you to plant/establish the heavens", for Abraham was shown the stars [=constellations], and told that "so/thus were his seed [to come from his loins], in Genesis 15. -which is not teaching pre-existence, but the glory laid up for the sons who would inherit eternal life.
Enoch is shown the heavenly "luminaries and lightnings" and is told by the angel Uriel -whose name means light of God, that they were parabolic meanings for those who dwell on earth and who are righteous. Also, in the end of Enoch, those who lose the glory laid up for them are said to have their glory cast down -seems to be parables indeed about the luminaries and angels and humans destined for glory in the second birth in the New Man name, for they are to shine as stars, and shine like the sun, it is said in the Scriptures.
It does seem that Abraham's descendents through Isaac -and then Jacob- to the twelve tribes, were represented by the twelve constellations, from the beginning of this present creation, and that the signs in the heavens speak of God establishing the heavens for the second creation, indeed by the 12 tribes of Israel. for Zion [as the City of God to be established in the heavens] is the woman who is seen as the star sign in Rev 12, crowned with the twelve stars (stars can be constellations, also, in the ancient original language), and she is seen as clothed with the sun.
Born again in Christ believing Gentiles are joined to Israel, which is the name of the New Man, which name is the only name that will get the Glory, as YHWH says in the OT, and so we who are of Christ the Living Spirit are adopted into His New Name which He gave to Jacob and his seed; and we are part of that name by faith -as Abraham was; but the woman seen in heaven is the representation of the City of God which is being built for the second creation, and built on the Chief Foundation Stone; which Stone is the New Man; which New Man is the "New Thing in the earth", which YHWH did do, as the new creation; and He did it when YHWH clothed Himself with second creation human being flesh [Isaiah 59], to come to "build up Zion" of the heavenlies "to appear in His Glory".
All these things are delivered to the world in the living oracles delivered to the namesake people of the New Man name, through Moses, expounded by the prophets, and only by studying the lessons of the Schoolmaster will we come to understanding His plan of them, which is delivered as those Oracles.
I'm only a babe in understanding myself, but one thing I know is that there is nothing to be done in the world present and to come which He has not signed in the Law as given through Moses. Because of that it is instructional to study His patterns of the heavenly things, as delivered through Moses, if we would be wise in understanding -after we come to a personal born again in Christ relationship with Him by His Spirit, anyway, for without knowing Him by that "Revelation/second birth", nothing awaits us but the darkness in the everlasting fire.
Isaiah 40:22 -the underlined words are the original Hebrew. He sits [in the] circle [as the depicted sun disk] earth's inhabitants [are as] grasshoppers. He stretcheth out the heavens as curtain and spread out His tabernacle to dwell in.
[It is] he that sitteth6 upon the circle [as in the ancient depiction of the sun as a disk] of the earth, and the inhabitants6 thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out6 the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out4 as a tent to dwell in:2
Isa 51:16 And I have put4 my words in thy mouth, and I have covered14 thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant2 the heavens, and lay the foundations2 of the earth, and say2 unto Zion, Thou [art] my people.
Isa 54:2 Enlarge54 the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth55 the curtains of thine habitations: spare4 not, lengthen54 thy cords, and strengthen16 thy stakes;
Psa 68:4 Sing3 unto God, sing praises16 to his name: extol3 him that rideth6 upon the heavens by his name YAHH, and rejoice3 before him.
Rev 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
clothed periballo from peri - peri 4012 and ballw - ballo 906; to throw all around, i.e. invest (with a palisade or with clothing):--array, cast about, clothe(-d me), put on.
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