2 Maccabees 2:5

Deuterocanon

1 One finds in the records that the prophet Jeremiah ordered those who were being deported to take some of the fire, as has been mentioned, 2 and that the prophet, after giving them the law, instructed those who were being deported not to forget the commandments of the Lord, or to be led astray in their thoughts on seeing the gold and silver statues and their adornment. 3 And with other similar words he exhorted them that the law should not depart from their hearts. 4 It was also in the same document that the prophet, having received an oracle, ordered that the tent and the ark should follow with him, and that he went out to the mountain where Moses had gone up and had seen the inheritance of God. 5 Jeremiah came and found a cave-dwelling, and he brought there the tent and the ark and the altar of incense; then he sealed up the entrance. 6 Some of those who followed him came up intending to mark the way, but could not find it. 7 When Jeremiah learned of it, he rebuked them and declared: "The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy. 8 Then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud will appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place should be specially consecrated."

Revelation 11:19

New Testament

16 Then the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and worshiped God 17 with these words: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the All-Powerful, the one who is and who was,because you have taken your great power and begun to reign. 18 The nations were enraged, but your wrath has come, and the time has come for the dead to be judged, and the time has come to give to your servants, the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and to those who revere your name, both small and great,and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth.” 19 Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was visible within his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, roaring, crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

 Notes and References

"... Apocalyptic traditions of the Second Temple period, likely drawing from Ezekiel’s vision of a new temple, similarly looked to a future sanctuary (compare 1 Enoch 90:28-29). Initially, it was widely held that Zerubbabel’s structure paled in comparison to that of Solomon (compare Haggai 2:9; Zechariah 14:8-11; 1 Enoch 90:29) and was even considered ritually impure (1 Enoch 89:72-74; compare Testament of Levi 15:1; Testament of Moses 5:3-4). An earlier portion of 1 Enoch (the so-called Apocalypse of Weeks [1 Enoch 91; 93], dating from ca. 200 B.C.) asserts that ever since the exile all of Israel was apostate, apparently because of its inability to rightly engage in cultic worship (1 Enoch 93:9). Others viewed any human structure as inferior to that which God showed Moses at Sinai (Exodus 25:8) and therefore anticipated the establishment of that heavenly sanctuary on earth (compare 2 Baruch 4:5; Testament of Levi 5:1; 18:6; Jubilees 1:16, 27-28; 25:21; 49:18). Shortly after the destruction of the Herodian temple in A.D. 70, 2 Baruch anticipates a heavenly sanctuary (2 Baruch 32:2) that will “be renewed in glory and perfected forever” (2 Baruch 32:4; compare 2 Baruch 32:5; 68:5). Some of the cultic articles are said to have been removed prior to its destruction (2 Baruch 6:7) in anticipation of their restoration in an eschatological cultic structure (2 Baruch 6:8; compare 2 Baruch 10:19; 80:2; 2 Maccabees 2:5). Similarly, even the Herodian cult’s most ardent critics anticipated a renewal for the house of the Lord (Testament of Levi 17:10) ..."

Green, J. B. Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship (p. 941) InterVarsity Press, 2018

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