Acts 18:1-4
After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them, and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.
Paul was a tent maker. He made ordinary tents for a living.
He would make another type of tent, or tabernacle, as he spread the gospel. Out of men and women he would create a human tent of witness of Jesus in the wilderness of the world.
Such a person was no longer part of a fallen world, but lifted up into the kingdom of heaven to become a soul passing through the waters of mankind and filled with the living waters of life.
There are those who dwell on the earth and those who dwell in the kingdom of heaven whose earthly bodies that have become temporary shelters for the heaven bound.
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