To continue the illustration, what is the ultimate goal of the building of the house? The goal is not the building itself, whether it is conceived in terms of God’s righteousness, reconciliation, salvation history, or apocalyptic. All of these themes are dimensions of the house, but they are not the end for which the house was made. Fulfilling salvation history cannot itself be the goal of salvation history since that would be redundant. Instead God has built the house to bring honor and praise to
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