How is this relevant to being spiritually dead or alive??
The picture of Israel in the wilderness, the firstborn son of God collectively, is the tabernacle, consisting of three parts. The outer court, representing the body, the inner court, representing the soul, and the holy of holies, representing the abode and presence of God and from whence light and shade emanated. This was not intended to be a permanent structure. The later temple would be the permanent structure.
So, in the NT, the typology is realized and goes from a sign to being real.
Paul, recognizing that his body was not his permanent abode, opined in this manner.
2 COR 5: 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, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with
our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4 For
we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened:
not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto
us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are
at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight
8 We are confident, I say, and
willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
The new body that we will receive at the resurrection and translation of the body, the church of Jesus Christ, is a temple that God dwells in both individually and corporately. We as Christians are predestined for this eventuality.
Watch this. Corporate temple first.
Eph 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom
all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Individual
1 Cor 6:19 What? know ye not tha
t your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
This is all prefigured in the OT scriptures. Here is a rule. ALL NT doctrines and truths are somewhere prefigured in type in the OT. This is the way God thinks and acts. The Bible is not just a story to read. It is a life to live.
Rom 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
2 Tim 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Matt 13:51 Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
This is how it is relevant and why the natural man thinks the spiritual truths and deep things of God are foolishness. He does not know the ways of God and can not be taught them, except he repent, something you say the natural man can not do because God will not allow it.
I expect what I have taught you here in this brief post will not be understandable to you and will cause you to laugh..