The temple in heaven is opened Revelation 15:5: John said, "And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened." (Revelation 15:5) We are now allowed to view the place from which the judgment comes. The judgment comes from the place where God dwells.

The expression "the tabernacle of the testimony" is found only one time in the New Testament. It is a part of Stephen's sermon in Acts 7:1-60. "Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he appointed who spake unto Moses, that he should make it according to the figure that he had seen." (Acts 7:44) (ASV) It is amazing how New Testament writers say so little about the Jewish Temple. God told Moses to build the Tabernacle not the Temple according to the pattern He had shown him. "The tabernacle of the testimony" was that which kept the two tables of stone that revealed to the Jews the will of God for that day. The opening of "the tabernacle of the testimony" had to do with the clear discovery of God's truths and a practice of them.

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