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The Original Ekklesia · Book 1

The Holy Temple

The Place They Never Left

45 chapters · about 61,000 words · free

About this book

After the resurrection, where did the apostles go every day? Luke answers in one line: “day by day, devoting themselves with one mind in the temple” (Acts 2:46). Most believers were taught that the temple, the Torah, and the feasts ended at the cross. This book follows the apostles through Scripture, passage by passage, and shows what they actually did. Read it on a journey or listen in the car.


Years after the resurrection, Paul walked into the temple in Jerusalem and paid for the offerings (Acts 21:24–26). Why would he do that if the cross had ended it all?


Many believers were taught that the temple was finished, that the Torah passed away, and that the feasts belong to the Jews. This book does not argue from tradition. It opens the Bible and reads it in order, from Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the temple to the New Jerusalem, and watches what the first believers actually did.


• What Solomon meant when he prayed that even the heavens cannot contain God (1 Kings 8:27)

• Why the apostles kept going up to the temple, day by day, after Yeshua rose

• The four rules of Acts 15, and where each one comes from in Leviticus

• A single night in Troas, and what Acts 20:7 says in the Greek

• Colossians 2:16: who was judging whom, and what a shadow points to

• Leviticus 23 and Numbers 28–29: every appointed time and every offering


Every Scripture passage is quoted in full from the Yeshua Literal Version (YLV), with the key Hebrew and Greek words explained in plain English. Its New Testament uses the Byzantine Majority Text (Robinson–Pierpont 2018) as its reference text.


The Original Ekklesia follows what the first assembly of Yeshua believed and lived, from the text of the Bible itself.

Chapters

Every chapter is on this site in full. Where a chapter has slides, an infographic or a video, it is marked.

  1. 01Solomon at the Dedication5 min · Slides · Infographic
  2. 02Stephen Before the Council7 min
  3. 03Paul Among the Altars of Athens4 min
  4. 04The Tabernacle and Its Pattern5 min
  5. 05A Temple Must Be Kept Holy5 min
  6. 06Paul’s Road to the Temple3 min
  7. 07What AD 70 Did Not End4 min
  8. 08Keeping What Can Be Kept7 min
  9. 09The Man of Sin in the Temple10 min
  10. 10Ezekiel’s Measured Temple8 min
  11. 11Go Up Year by Year7 min
  12. 12The Passover He Will Eat Again5 min
  13. 13The New Jerusalem and Its Shape12 min
  14. 14Gentile Believers in the Synagogue5 min
  15. 15Meeting in Homes, Reading Moses6 min
  16. 16Jerusalem’s Believers at the Temple4 min
  17. 17The Parting, Step by Step5 min
  18. 18What We Bring to the Text5 min
  19. 19Speak to Us Smooth Things3 min
  20. 20The Deceiver and the Deceived4 min
  21. 21The New Testament in Its Own World6 min
  22. 22Why Food Touches Holiness6 min
  23. 23How Near the Outsider Could Come4 min
  24. 24The Priest’s Charge to Distinguish5 min
  25. 25Zeal Rightly Directed8 min
  26. 26The Faith Paul Never Left8 min
  27. 27The Jerusalem Council’s Letter15 min
  28. 28The Sojourner and the Olive Tree8 min
  29. 29Romans 7, Read Whole7 min
  30. 30Legalism, a Word Scripture Never Uses6 min
  31. 31The Judges at Colossae6 min
  32. 32The Substance Belongs to Messiah6 min
  33. 33The Lord’s Day and Acts 2013 min
  34. 34The Fourth Commandment in the New Testament7 min
  35. 35Yeshua Kept the Sabbath9 min
  36. 36Repentance as the Prophets Defined It6 min
  37. 37Feasts Open to the Nations8 min
  38. 38Leviticus 23, Day by Day10 min
  39. 39The Offerings of Numbers 28 and 2911 min
  40. 40Helel and the Appointed Times7 min
  41. 41Forgotten in Zion8 min
  42. 42Purity of Table and Purity of Life8 min
  43. 43Sickness at the Lord’s Supper8 min
  44. 44Circumcision and the Nations8 min
  45. 45The Full Picture Restored5 min

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