The old temple, where God and humans met, was destroyed in 70 AD. Jesus had the new temple already in place 37 years before Herod’s temple was destroyed. Jesus is the temple. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:19). The NT church saw Jesus as being the new place where God and man met (i.e. the new tent of meeting, (Exodus 40:34-35); Jesus is now where the temple shekinah glory dwells (John 1:14). We have no other temple; we look for no other. The only temple we have now is Jesus; the only temple in our future is Jesus. “I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb” (Revelation 21:22 NRSV). Hallelujah to the Lamb!
A paraphrase of John 1:14. “And God became human coming as our temple (tabernacle) among us, and the glory that rested on the temple rested on Him, He was the only begotten from the Father; He was full of grace and truth.” Commentary: He now has become our temple, fully God and fully man, the Father’s Way to us and our Way to the Father. In Him heaven and earth, God and human have perfectly met. Wow! What a Temple!
You are reading from “Build On The Rock”, by H. Lamar Smith.
