creator God over all the powers of evil. And for Paul [29] the eschatological truth—the thing God always intended to do in the end but had kept secret until this point—is that instead of coming to live in a temple made of stone located in one particular city, God has decided now to dwell not just in Jesus Christ but in his people spread throughout the world. The church is the strange fulfilment of the ancient Jewish promise, but it is a fulfilment for and among all the nations of the world. Because