10365. 'That soul will be cut off from the midst of his people' means that not heaven and the Church but hell resides with that person. This is clear from the meaning of 'being cut off from the midst of his people' as separation from the Church and spiritual death, dealt with in 10288, so that not the Church but hell resides with him. When the Church does not reside with a person, neither does heaven; for heaven and the Church act as one. In the case of a person in whom the Church is present heaven, that is, the Lord by way of heaven, flows in and constitutes the Church there. So it is that when the Church does not reside with a person hell does so; and this is therefore meant by 'being cut off from the midst of his people'.

In Revelation 21:3, Joshua 22:19, and elsewhere, 'Tabernacle' means the same thing as 'temple,' except that 'temple' means the Lord's divine humanity with respect to divine truth, or divine wisdom, and 'tabernacle' means the Lord's divine humanity with respect to divine good or divine love. 'The Tabernacle of God,' as in Revelation 21:3, signifies the celestial church. In a universal sense, it signifies the celestial kingdom of the Lord, and in the highest sense, the divine humanity of the Lord.

(Referencat: Arcana Coelestia 018; John 2)