From Same Storms’s new exhaustive treatise on Amillennial perspective, Kingdom Come:
First, Jesus is the Temple.
The glory which once shined in the tent/tabernacle/temple of old, veiled in the mysterious cloud, was simply a fore-glow, a mere anticipatory flicker, if you will, of that exceedingly excelling glory now embodied in the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ (cf. Col. 1:19) (beside this sentence in my book, I penciled in all caps, “AMEN”).
God no longer lives in a tent or tabernacle built by human hands, nor will he ever. God’s glorious manifest presence is not to be found in an ornate temple of marble, gold, and precious stones, but rather in Jesus. Jesus is the glory of God in human flesh, the one in whom God has finally and fully pitched his tent.
The point is that the temple of the Old Covenant was a type or foreshadowing of the glory of Christ.
“Divine space is now no longer located in a place but in a person,” says Gary Burge.
It would be an egregious expression of the word imaginable redemptive regression to suggest that God would ever sanction the rebuilding of the temple (p. 18-21)
Second, Jesus fulfills the Feasts. Continue at Greg Gibson
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