The End of the Beginning: Revelation 21–22 and the Old Testament (Biblia.com)

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The last two chapters of Revelation describe the arrival of the new heaven, new earth, and new Jerusalem. In The End of the Beginning, William J. Dumbrell asks why this is such an appropriate way to finish not only the story of Revelation, but the entire Bible’s story. Dumbrell traces the roots of the new creation throughout the Old and New Testaments.

In describing the nature of the end-time city of Jerusalem, Rev 21:22 says explicitly that there was no temple there. However, in spite of this emphatic statement there is good ground for supposing that the symbolism associated with the concept and function of the temple in the OT period is present in these concluding chapters of the Bible. The theology bound up with the concept of the New Temple in the OT and NT also finds an unmistakable place.

Pages 37–38

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