with a capital city, but God’s chosen people, with Jerusalem as the city of God where they worship in the temple and trace the promises of a king in David’s line. In that stage of redemptive history, this is how God worked. We also have to build up the people of God, but we do it differently today. We also need a wall around us, in a sense, so that we are helping people be holy and separate, but we do that by sanctification through the means of grace. They were building a temporary city with a physical