📖 Exodus 25:8
Source: Paleo-Hebrew Torah, Early Square Script (No Vowels)
“And let them make Me a mikdash, that I may dwell among them.”
*Mikdash* means "set-apart place." Yhwh said “among them” (בתוכם) — not inside a permanent structure.
🟢 This supports a mobile mishkan (tent), not a temple.
📖 1 Kings 8:27
Source: Early Square Script – Before Vowel Edits
“But will Elohim indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain You — how much less this house that I have built!”
Solomon admits the building can’t hold Yhwh.
🟢 This verse shows humility, not divine command.
📖 2 Samuel 7:5–7
Source: Dead Sea Scrolls + Early Script
“Did I ever speak… saying, Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?”
Yhwh makes it clear: He never asked for a temple — only traveled with them in the tent.
🟢 Direct contradiction of temple theology.
📖 Jeremiah 7:4–11
Source: Early Square Script (before Masoretic vowels)
“Do not trust in these lying words: ‘The temple of Yhwh…’”
“Has this house… become a den of robbers?”
Jeremiah rebukes Temple worship, showing it was used to justify sin while rejecting Yhwh’s true call to justice and righteousness.
🟢 The temple became corruption, not holiness.
📖 Isaiah 66:1–2
Source: Dead Sea Scrolls (1QIsaa)
“Heaven is My throne, the earth is My footstool. What house will you build for Me? … To this one will I look: the one humble and lowly in spirit.”
Yhwh Himself says He looks for those who tremble at His word — not stone walls.
🟢 This destroys the doctrine that the Temple was His eternal desire.
🧾 Summary:
- All five verses: Paleo-Hebrew, Aramaic Scriptures, Early Square Script, or Dead Sea Scrolls — no Masoretic vowels, no Greek corruption, no false religious insertions.
- Temple worship was never commanded. Yhwh walked with His people — not in buildings.
- 🔥 Obedience. Humility. Walking with Yhwh. That was always the plan.