The tabernacle is explained in the New Testament; the temple is not. So we’ll have to be careful!
Chapter 6 of 1 Kings begins: “And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv [May],…that he began to build the house of the Lord” (v 1). With these words, the writer links the temple with its predecessor, the tabernacle. So what is the difference between the tabernacle and the temple? For one thing, a tabernacle was a temporary arrangement, as David understood: “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells inside tent curtains” (2 Sam 7:2). The problem was that David thought the pilgrimage stage was over, that they had arrived at their destination. Even in the Millennium, when people think that surely THIS is finally it, a loud voice will declare, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people” (Rev 21:3). The temple isn’t quite complete even then! The final victory over the insurrection at the end of the Millennium will just precede “the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet” (1 Cor 15:24-25). Only then will we watch with amazement as Zechariah’s vision is fulfilled: “He shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’” (Zech 4:7). The same One who, as the Cornerstone, laid the foundation for the temple at Calvary—a building composed of living stones saved by grace—will perfect its construction when, as the Capstone, He is given the highest place. Oh what glory there will be, but that day His people cry, “Grace!” for only grace could place you and me in that temple, too!