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SEPTEMBER 29
A MORE PERFECT TABERNACLE
“But Christ being come an
high priest of good things
to come, by a greater and
more perfect tabernacle, not
made with hands, that is to
say, not of this building.”
(Heb. 9:11)
Not of this building – the
Greek word for “building” is
“ktisis” in all other cases
translated as creature or
reaction. There is a greater
and more perfect tabernacle
that is not of this Adamic,
earthy creation.
“But I say unto you, That in
this place is One greater
than the temple,” (Matt.
12:6). For the Lord of the
temple was in their midst,
and they knew Him not. He
offered a way of LIFE, a
life in the Spirit which
superceded all the
ordinances and rituals of
their systems of worship.
Greater – Greek, “meizon”
from the root “megas,” a
million times. This denotes
the tremendous superiority
of the “greater and more
perfect tabernacle.” Just as
the figure of speech would
say it is a million times
better. One cannot even make
a comparison between the
first order and the second,
for one is of the flesh,
earth, and the other is of
the Spirit, heavenly.
More perfect – “teleios,”
ended, brought to the full,
complete. It is also the
word that is used in Matt.
5:48, “be ye perfect, even
as your Father in heaven is
perfect.” It is perfection
that is required for the
whole man, for “I pray God
your whole spirit and soul
and body be preserved
blameless.”(1 Thess. 5:23).
2 Peter 1:14 says, “I must
put off my tabernacle.” Not
only must all of the flesh
works, observances, rituals,
forms, ceremonies have to
go, but even the body
itself, this first
tabernacle must give way for
a new, a greater, a more
perfect tabernacle. “For we
know that if our earthly
house of this tabernacle
were dissolved, we have a
building of God, an house
not made with hands,
age-during in the heavens.”
(2 Cor. 5:1).
“Who shall change our vile
body, that it may be
fashioned like unto His
glorious body.” (Phil.
3:21). His body is the
blueprint, the form and
substance, the greater and
more perfect, into which we
are thus to be changed . To
be “in Christ, a new
creature (building).” (2
Cor. 5:17).
Ray Prinzing
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