Also, both Moses’s prophecy in Exod. 15:17–18 and God’s promise in 2 Sam. 7:10–16 (an allusive development itself of the Exod. 15 passage) affirm that the kingdom and the temple will be established “forever,” which did not happen with Solomon.
...Beale, G. K. (2011). A New Testament Biblical Theology: The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New (p. 73). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
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Exodus 15:17–18 also equates “the mountain of Your inheritance” with “the place, O LORD, which You have made for Your dwelling, the sanctuary,” from where “the LORD shall reign forever and ever.” Additionally, it is clear that the eschatological temple was to be situated on a mountain (Ezek. 40:2; Rev. 21:10).
Third, both Isa. 2:2–3 and Mic. 4:1–2 portray the mountain on which the temple sits as growing: it “will be raised above the hills.” Although this is not as explicit as Daniel’s rock that becomes a mountain and fills the earth, it is not far from that picture. Both portray a growing mountain temple. Both the Daniel and Isaiah/Micah passages, being eschatologically oriented, reverberate with echoes of new creation.
...Ibid (p. 109).
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That Paul has a temple image in view is apparent from the phrase “not made with hands,” which virtually everywhere else is a technical way of speaking about the new eschatological temple.The relevant texts are Exod. 15:17; Isa. 66:1–2; Dan. 2:34, 45
...Ibid. (p. 271).
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Now, Jesus is the greater Moses whom God has delivered from death at the greater exodus, along with his people. And just as the exodus was thought of as a new creation,12 so it is followed by the even more monumental new exodus and new creation in Jesus’s resurrection. Just as the first exodus was to lead to the establishment of the temporary temple (e.g., Exod. 15:17; Isa. 63:18), so Isa. 63:15 (“Look down from heaven and see from Your holy and glorious habitation”) and 64:1 (“Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down”) prophesy that the second, end-time exodus (Isa. 63:11) will also lead to God’s heavenly sanctuary descending to earth and residing permanently. As Hebrews has recounted in earlier chapters, Jesus has led his people to that heavenly mountain-tabernacle (6:19–20; 9:11–12, 23–24; 10:19–22; 12:22–24).
...Ibid. (pp. 321–322).
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