The Israelites were their own tabernacle, the Jewish people of today were to be the tabernacle of God. 

Ezekiel 23:4

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“Their names: Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister; They were Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.” Ezekiel 23:4

The name “Oholah” means “her own tabernacle” and is the elder sister referring to the Israelites. The name “Oholibah” means “My tabernacle is in her” referring to the Jewish people after the coming of Jesus Christ. God meant for them to be the temple of the Holy Spirit by living as the followers of Jesus Christ. Also, the Israelites are referred to as the elder and first-born Exodus 4:22, and Christianity is referred to as the younger. All through the Old Testament, the “scarlet cord” reveals that the blessings of the elder is transferred to the younger, as described in Romans 9:6-13, Genesis 27, Genesis 4:1-9, Genesis 38:27-30, Genesis 48:8-20, and there was Moses the younger brother of Aaron, Exodus 7:7.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we are the younger sister of the Jewish people. We are the tabernacle of God where the Holy Spirit lives in us through Jesus Christ. However, the Jewish people are their own tabernacle because they reject Jesus Christ, the giver of the Holy Spirit.

Oholah is represented as Samaria compared to Oholibah being Jerusalem. Jerusalem represents the capital of the soul where God is to reside in us by the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ. Samaria represents a nation that was cursed and looked at as not being the people of God at all. This is like making a comparison between the body without the Holy Spirit and the body as the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit.

Since our body is the home of the Holy Spirit, we are not to live for the sensual and sexual enticements of the flesh. “All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.” 1 Corinthians 6:12-14

We are to always give priority to the presence of the Holy Spirit over carnal pleasures. “Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Corinthians 6:18-20

Samaria is known as the one being her “own tabernacle” and Jerusalem known as the one where “My tabernacle is in her”. Looking at the map below, we see how West Jerusalem is still in Israel, but Samaria is now part of the West Bank and not part of Israel at all.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1