Where is the Place YHWH chose to put His Name forever?

A Set-Apart House for the Great Name to Dwell

Moshe (Moses) was given careful instructions on how to build the Tabernacle for the dwelling of the Most High's Shekhinah presence.

Exodus 25:8-9
(8)  “And they shall make Me a Set-apart Place, and I shall dwell in their midst.
(9)  “According to all that I show you – the pattern of the Dwelling Place and the pattern of all its furnishings – make it exactly so.

Deuteronomy 12:5-7:
(5) but seek the place which your Elohim chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His Name there, for His Dwelling Place, and there you shall enter." 
(6) "And there you shall take your burnt offerings, and your offerings, and your tithes, and the contributions of your hand, and your vowed offerings, and your voluntary offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock." 
(7) "And there you shall eat before your Elohim, and shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which your Elohim has blessed you."

The Tabernacle contained the Most Holy Place and the Ark of the Covenant, which was also considered the Place of the Great-Name. Being contained within a mobile Tabernacle allowed for His shekhinah to go with, or rather, to lead the Assembly of Israel during the wilderness period.

After entering the heart of the Land, the Tabernacle and the Place of the Name resided at Shiloh (Jeremiah 7:14).

Much later, King Solomon built the first fixed dwelling for the presence of (also known as the first Jewish Temple).

1 Kings 9:3 "And said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me. I have set this house apart which you have built to put My Name there forever, and My eyes and My heart shall always be there." See also: II Samuel 7:13, I Kings 11:36.

The "Place of the Name" is synonymous with the Place of His power, presence (shekhinah), and authority. Scriptural references to "the Place of the Name" do not necessarily mean His Name is literally written there. For example, Yeshua said “I am come in my Father’s Name” and that “the works that I do in my Father’s Name, they bear witness of me”.... but did Yeshua have the Name of the Father literally tattooed all over His body? Or... every time Yeshua healed someone, did He leave the literal Name of the Father on the healed person? Probably... not. Yet, He was literally there and working in the power and authority of .

Deuteronomy 16:11 And you shall rejoice before your Elohim, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are in your midst, at the place where your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell.

The existence of the shekhinah presence of the Creator of the Universe is the only thing truly special about the Place of the Great Name. His Great Name , in the simplest of terms, means "He Exists"... and by putting His manifest presence in the Tabernacle and later the Temple, He was making the place Most Holy or Set-Apart by the mere fact that He alone exists and had chosen to exist in the midst of His people.

To illustrate the point, when He departed with His Glory from the Temple, it meant only the inevitable detriment and demise of Jerusalem until His return.

Ezekiel 11:21-23
(21) But as for them whose heart walk after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, says Elohim.
(22) Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the Elohim of Israel was over them above.
(23) And the glory of went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

With His shekhinah gone, is Jerusalem and/or the Temple Mount currently the Place of the Great Name? Maybe. Certainly, the residue of the presence of may still be there, but the splendor of former things has yet to return and I dare say that its status as the Set-Apart Place of the Name is temporarily on-hold... even though Yah's eyes and heart are perpetually there (I Kings 9:3).

Eventually (and I hope soon), the shekhinah of will return to Jerusalem where He will be exalted again, but punishment and repentance must run their course in the people of 10-Israel and Judah.

Ezekiel 43:1-7
(1) And he led me to the gate, the gate facing east.
(2) And see, the esteem of the Elohim of Yisra'el came from the way of the east. And His voice was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone from His esteem.
(3) And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the vision which I saw when He came to destroy the city. And the visions were like the vision which I saw by the River Kebar, and I fell on my face.
(4) And the esteem of came into the House by way of the gate facing east.
(5) And the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner courtyard. And see, the esteem of filled the House.
(6) And I heard someone speaking to me from the House, while a man stood beside me.
(7) And He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, when I dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra'el forever, and the house of Yisra'el shall no longer defile My set-apart Name, they nor their sovereigns, by their whoring and by the corpses of their sovereigns on their high places.

Shalom Jerusalem,
Hanok

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