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God Dwells among Us: A Biblical Theology of the Temple (Essential Studies in Biblical Theology | ESBT) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The temple has always been a source of rich scholarship and theological reflection, but what does it mean for the church’s ongoing mission in the world? G. K. Beale and Mitchell Kim examine temple theology throughout Scripture, exploring how this theme relates to Christian life and witness today. From Eden to the new Jerusalem, they argue, we are God’s temple on the earth, the firstfruits of the...

that suggest the eternal temple. Our arrival in this “heavenly Jerusalem” is not yet consummate, for we are still “receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken” (Heb 12:28) and continue to “seek the city that is to come” (Heb 13:14). During this present era, therefore, the three sections of the temple continue into the new temple, though invisibly, until their purpose and fulfillment are completed at the destruction of the old order and establishment of the new. The consummate form of the new temple
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