For historical Israelites, the temple was a spot exactly where sacrifice and theophany (i.e., observing God or other heavenly beings) converged. The account of Abraham’s “arrested” sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22) and the account of the arrested slaughter of Jerusalem pursuing David’s unauthorized census of Israel (2 Samuel 24; http://trentonpjcts.spintheblog.com/8120854/5-easy-facts-about-scientology-grunder-described