"And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb."
(Revelation 21:22)
Ancient Israel needed a temple as a solitary place where God revealed Himself, where they could offer bloody sacrifices as atonement for their sins, and where they could find mercy from God. The New Jerusalem changes all of that! “I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.” With the Lord always dwelling in their midst (21:3), there’s no need for a temple as a place to journey to meet God. The Lord God is ever present in all of His glory. As vast as the new heaven and new earth may be, there is no place removed from the conscious, manifested presence of the Lord. “For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea,” just as the prophet Isaiah foretold (11:9).
(Phil A. Newton)
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