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“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth.… And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem.… And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man’ ” (Revelation 21:1–3). G. K. Beale argues that the Old Testament tabernacle and temples were symbolically designed to point to the end-time reality that God’s presence, formerly limited to the Holy of Holies, would be...

equated with the paradisal city-temple of 21:2 and 21:9–22:5 is also supported by J. D. Levenson’s observation that ‘heaven and earth’ in the Old Testament may sometimes be a way of referring to Jerusalem or its temple, for which ‘Jerusalem’ is a metonymy.1 He quotes Isaiah 65:17–18 in support: ‘For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;/And the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind./‘But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;/For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing’ (emphasis
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