God’s election of Zion flows from his election of Israel. Israel is not called to serve the temple, but the temple is established as the meetingplace between God and his people. This is the explanation of the name “tent of meeting” for the sanctuary in the desert. It could be called the tent of the assembly in view of the heavenly assembly of angelic hosts or the earthly assembly of human “holy ones.”9 But God’s grace joins the heavenly and earthly assemblies into one, for in his sanctuary he appears