SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES TO THE MERKEVAH
JEWISH SCRIPTURES

Joseph

Joseph's coat of colours is symbolic of his divine blessing, colours of the rainbow.

Architect's Note : His interpretation of Pharaoh's dreams are symbolic too, of bread and wine, baker dying and cup bearer's reinstatement, of the two messiah theory, one to die, the other to instatement. (one of Joseph, one of David), a repeat of the tension between Cain and Abel. (First fruits and animal sacrifice)

Exodus

Moses at Horeb (Ex 3:40), experiences the Angel of the Lord from within a Burning Bush, yet the fire did not consume it. Moses removed his sandals and hid his face.

Architect's Note : The image of the Burning Bush is similar to that gone before (i.e. tree), yet developed into 3 dimensions. Moses sees and speaks to the Angel of the Lord who is within the bush. Moses' experience is volumetric as he sees the entire bush. If it is acceptable to relate the "Bush" image to "Tree" image to the "Merkavah", then it is acceptable to assume that Moses was the first to view the "Merkavah" in its entirety. I suggest that Moses was looking at a stylised "Bush", the 'Merkavah" of a future Jerusalem. Conversely, the proposed "Merkavah" is a stylised bush of what Moses saw. The images of bush and tree to Merkavah will be developed further. "Parting of the Waters"The Red Sea parting is of Moses redefining Male as male, Female as female after the degradation of these roles in Egyptian captivity. Pharaoh's troops were drowned in the sea, as they were unable to keep the "waters" separated. ie: incapable of correct separation of the masculine and feminine.

Abraham, Melchizedek and Moriah

Salem is the place where Abraham met King Mechizedek, blessed with Bread and Wine.

The summit of Moriah is the place of Abraham's offering of Isaac for sacrifice. (Gen. 22)

Architect's Note: The sacrificial story of Abraham and Isaac is an important theme on jealousy. There was jealousy between G-D and Abraham over Abraham's "love" for Isaac, Abraham in his faithfulness choosing G-D's wishes over his son. This story is written in retrospect as another nature is likely present, that there was jealousy between Abraham and Isaac. Abraham and Isaac wished to kill each other over Sarah (oedipal complex) and deferred this murderous impulse onto the provided ram. ie: Monotheism (The personal G-D) was aware of this common rivalry and built into itself a means to defer its destructive energy. It is imperative that a yearly sacrifice in any future temple for Jerusalem celebrates this deferment, as an enactment of the release from jealousy (and related sin). This ritual is the basis of the Day of Atonement, and reminds us to remember the original deferrers and the conceptual gift from G-D to humanity.

Pillars of Smoke and Fire

The Lord led Moses and the Israelites by a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night. These two pillars were to become the stylised Boaz* and Jachin* pillars of the Solomon Temple, missing from the Herodian Temple, to return on this "Merkavah."

*	(Male/daytime/solar)
**	(Female/night/lunar)