The concept of portals is near the very beginning of the Bible. The Deity mentions to Cain about a door that sin can go through, and is on the other side of. Sin is inherently a part of a worse distribution or worse timeline. It is related to a desire to do something that makes the current timeline worse. This is like merging, or opening a door, between the current distribution ((spatially) of energy, matter, etc.) and that worse distribution sin is in. Cain also seems told to rule over or in it. This is similar to how those on earth are in a worse distribution than the distribution of things in the heavens, and many want to go from this worse one to that better one. Like sin wanting to go to this one. And the heavens rule over/in the earth (Job 38:33), much like how Cain should have ruled over/in the worse distribution in which sin was.
The temptation of Christ happened in a wilderness. Then, if the tempted and the tempter physically moved, or somehow teleported, they might have used some kind of portal to get to the top of the temple. Do you really think that after 40 days and nights of fasting, Christ climbed up the temple, and also walked up one of the tallest mountains of the whole world? Probably not. And do you think Christ was moved physically all the way to the temple, and then to the mountain, taking a long time to get there? Perhaps, but seems unlikely, because that long duration of traveling would have added to the stress of lengthy fasting, and because the tempter seemed to be on some sort of a time limit, and because the period of fasting would have been extended to account for the traveling time to possibly well over forty days and nights. Although they may have traveled ordinarily, consider the following. From that place in the wilderness, they might have teleported to the top of, that what is in a Buddhist book that I read, is called Mount Meru or Mount Sineru. It's believed to be a central mountain that is very very high, from which all the kingdoms of the earth may be seen, as was done in the temptation of Christ. This is guessing that all the kingdoms were shown to Christ directly while still on the mountain, and not in some kind of virtual vision or through a device.
So I was thinking that there are at least two things. One, that there may still exist some portal or way to teleport, that is still at those places, connecting those places: a wilderness (or former wilderness), the top of the temple in Jerusalem (or where that temple used to be, or where the rock(s) formerly at its top are now), and Mount Meru/Sineru. Two, that if the portal(s) are not still at those locations - they once were, and it would be possible to make those connections between those places again.
They might have teleported to the top of the temple because at that part was a special stone/rock. In Genesis, Jacob has a dream about some kind of way to ascend and descend from heaven, and the Deity was seen from its top. Then Jacob took the stone, which was his pillow during that dream, and set it up, put oil on it, and called it a house of ALHYM. (Did he use the special oil described in the Torah, or did he use another kind of oil?) So, this rock, or a piece of it, could have been taken to use in the building of the temple (called a house of ALHYM), as its capstone, or a stone near the top, which may have been why Christ was teleported to the top of the temple, instead of inside the temple or at some other part. (But, if so, how would the Israelites have known which special stone it was, to use in the building of the temple, after 400 years of being in Egypt after Jacob's dream?)
If portals or potential portals are still there, could they still be used? Do portals move with the stones? Why was Mount Meru involved? Is there a piece of the stone at Mount Meru, and a piece of the stone in the wilderness? Is there now a portal at the new location of the rock formerly at the top of a temple at Jerusalem, that now is where the stone is now, after that temple's destruction? Did the Messiah give hints as to where it would be after the destruction of that temple, since He knew that not a stone would be left on top of another, according to Luke 19:44, Luke 21:6, Matthew 24:2, and Mark 13:2? Some Old Testament prophecies may also provide insight.
Is it a special rock that was broken into pieces or is the rock specially associated to the region? Did (a piece of) the special rock get taken from Mount Meru and then was somehow found by Jacob when he used it as a pillow? He also mentions it in Genesis 28:22, where it is said to (later?) become a house of ALHYM (and is related somehow to tithing).
Oil was put onto the special rock, but it was special before it was anointed. But anointed people in the Old Testament of the bible sometimes have spirit come onto them, so maybe that's what happened to this rock. And according to the Messiah in John 3:8, the spirit blows where it wants. Wherever it wants - so it might be able to cause entities to be able to be transported over vast distances. So maybe the spirit is involved in its desiring to go to those places, and that's how the transport between those places works or functions - by the desire of the spirit to go to the other places connected.
Jacob also mentions a gate of the heavens in Genesis 28:17. Mount Sineru/Meru is mentioned in that Buddhist cosmological book, as being a place near to the heavens. So Mount Meru may have a gate between the heavens and earth there, at or near its summit. Perhaps that special rock was a part of that gate. And somehow it could have been found by Jacob, but if so, how? So maybe when Jacob was calling it a house of ALHYM and a gate of the heavens, he was mentioning both connected locations, the temple and the gate of heaven at Mount Meru, while he was at that location in the wilderness. Maybe that special rock was portalic due to its usage as part of a gate of the heavens. Are there other gates of the heavens?
If the temple corresponds to the human body, to what do Mount Meru and that (place in the) wilderness correspond?
How did Satan know about the portals? The Messiah mentioned that He saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning. If Satan was cast out of heaven through that gate of the heavens, then maybe either he took a stone from it intentionally, or unintentionally that stone broke off by force as he was falling (since falling like lightning is likely a lot of force), and then maybe he fell into that place in that wilderness, perhaps taking a piece of that special rock with him, intentionally or unintentionally. Perhaps that was how Satan knew about the portals, if there were portals for travel between those locations.
And maybe that special stone is the capstone mentioned in Zechariah 4? If so, is the great mountain of Zechariah 4:7, Mount Meru/Sineru? If so, will that huge mountain be leveled?
Does Psalm 43 also mention this connection/association between tabernacle or temple, and holy mountain, or is that about a different set of portals and different places?
After the last part of that temptation of Christ recorded in Matthew 4, it is recorded the devil left Christ. But it doesn't say that Christ left the mountain!! So, the devil took Christ to Mount Meru or some very high mountain, and then left Him there!!! It doesn't say that they moved around or that the devil took Christ back to the temple in Jerusalem, and neither back to the wilderness. Angels that came to help Christ were there on Mount Meru? Wouldn't that make sense for them to be high on a special mountain? So how did Christ return from that exceedingly high mountain? Even if He did eat after that, recovery of strength after such a long fast might require some time. So how would He descend a super high mountain, if He was in that condition? Did He use the portals to return? That would have been much faster.
Maybe we should learn from Christ's example, and from what Cain should have done, by learning where portals are, by using the sin and temptation that seeks to go through them, or perhaps in the scenario of Christ's temptation, already may have gone through them. And maybe learn how portals connect distributions (places, times, etc.). Portals of the human body, earth, etc.. Not to sin, but if temptations have to happen (Luke 17:1, Matthew 18:7), and if sin tries to go through a door/portal anyways (Genesis 4:7), then Christians might as well make good usage of those or these opportunities. Perhaps sin "knocks" somehow at a door, and that knocking can be sensed or perceived, and/or maybe portals can be sensed using other methods.
Temptations and portals can usefully be related to subbodies, chakras, qi, and transqi, because temptations sometimes use the tempted entity's senses to tempt them, trying to get them to think specific thoughts or do specific physical actions.
Maybe Job 5:19 can provide insight too, for timing the opening of portals or timing entry into a portal on a seventh cycle or beat, so that "no evil will touch" the enterer nor perhaps go through the portal in the other direction.
Distributions have doors/portals, but then so they also have walls or boundaries or borders, which relates to a Reasoning of Sufficiency (of spirit?). Maybe Ecclesiastes 10:8 is talking about a "wall" like this or an ROS of a distribution, and so an animalian (spiritual) snake might bite someone who breaks that wall? Can animalian snakes live in, at, or near a border of a distribution? Is it related to the sin lying at a door, in Genesis 4:8? And Christ probably provided insight to spiritual or animalian snakes, when He spoke about treading on them and scorpions (possibly spiritual scorpions, as well as physical). Spiritually snakes may be related more to temptations (garden of eden) and divinations (in many biblical verses), while scorpions seem more to be related to punishment and discipline (for sins already committed) (1 Kings 12:14, Revelation 9:10), although Ezekiel 2:6 might suggest otherwise.
Think about why the Christ went into the wilderness at all. He followed the Holy Spirit('s prompting) to go there. Why did the Holy Spirit want to go into the wilderness? Consider its form. Perhaps related to an animalian dove, it was described as having a form like a dove. Some doves, and perhaps their animalian/spiritual forms, likely have the animal(ian) instinct to return to a place from where they were sent. Messenger pigeons, homing doves/pigeons, and even the story of Noah's sent dove instinctually returning to the ark, exhibit this interesting instinct that some doves have. From where was the Holy Spirit, in a form like a dove, sent to the Christ at His baptism? From out of heaven. Following a(n) spiritual/animalian instinct, where would it likely want to return? To heaven. How might it do so, being then, after His baptism, conceptually or somehow otherwise linked or perhaps bound in some way, to Christ, described as by resting on Him? Especially if the dove-like spirit's form's ability to fly was available, but Christ's terrestrially "bound" or physical form/body may have limited that animalian/spirit's option of flight? It may have (super-)naturally sought another way back to heaven, one of which may have been the portals described previously, one being in the wilderness, connected locationally to the gate(s) of heaven. So then its dove-ness may have been related to its role as a guide for Christ, and explains perhaps why it wanted to go to the wilderness, resting on the Messiah and seeking another path than direct flight to return to heaven.