The Temple

The Temple veil was torn in two at Christ’s death, exposing the Holy of Holies, and thus revealing that God would no longer dwell in a “temple made with hands.” He now dwells in another kind of temple that is “made without hands.” “We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands’ ” (Mark 14:58). Born-again people are the new Holy of Holies of whom Jesus spoke!

God no longer dwells in a stone temple. We’re now “living stones ... being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood” (1 Peter 2:5b). There could be no such living stones till Jesus was raised from the dead to become our spiritual progenitor. “‘The first man, Adam, became a living soul.’ The last Adam [Christ] became a life-giving spirit” (1 Corinthians 15:45).

Bill Gillham

What God Wishes Christians Knew about Christianity, Harvest House, 1998