The future holy temple

Ephesians chapter 2 verse number 18. For through him we both Jew and Gentile have access by one spirit unto the Father. Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and the Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone.

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord. In whom ye also, you Gentiles, are also builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit. So in these sessions that I have been responsible for through this week and we have been looking at the figure of the temple.

And the temple is a metaphor we considered Saturday morning for the body of individual believers. A temple of the Holy Spirit. And then from 1st Corinthians 3 the temple of the local church.

And then in John chapter 2 this morning the temple of the Lord Jesus physical body. And now for a part of this message anyway we are going to look at the figure of the temple applied to the dispensational church. The church which is the body of the Lord Jesus Christ or you might speak of it as the universal church.

I'm going to spend some time here in Ephesians and then transport this church into a future scene. Likely what we have read in Ephesians chapter 2 it is probably the same idea as 1st Peter chapter 2 which speaks of a spiritual house being built up with living stones. That spiritual house is a temple.

Remember in the Old Testament the temple is most often referred to not as a temple but as the house of God or the house of the Lord. And if you were to spend some time considering how the stones in the temple of Solomon's temple how those stones picture believers in the house of God today would be a very valuable study. But now we're looking at the church the body of Christ.

Remember that the Scriptures does present a distinction between a local church and the church which is the body of Christ. They are definitely related but the context of Scripture indicates which one is the focus. The body of Christ is not merely a collection of local churches nor is the local church a miniature of the body.

Reality just says otherwise. Very often the same metaphors are used one for the other so Stephen's ministry yesterday afternoon showed us that there is obviously a close relationship between them. Both are called the church or the assembly.

Both are figured by a body. Both are figured by a building and a temple. But if you look at the first two occasions of the word church in the gospel according to Matthew you can see that there are two distinct concepts.

Matthew chapter 16 is the dispensational church where the Lord Jesus says I will build my church. The gates of hell will not prevail against it. But then Matthew 18 is when a an issue has arisen and the Lord says you've got to go and tell it to the church.

Not the entire body of Christ but you tell it to a local church and that's where the principle is established of two or three gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them. Ephesians chapter 2 is looking at this great body of the church, the wide aspect, the dispensational church and he says the Lord Jesus is building it and it's growing unto a holy temple in the Lord. Now the purpose of this temple is the same as any other temple that we've read about.

Verse number 22 makes it clear. It's a habitation of God. It's a place for God to dwell and in our dispensation God in his presence it's not connected to holy buildings but to holy people.

The habitation of God is not tied to holy buildings but to holy people. The buildings that we meet in are not holy buildings but this temple is in contrast obviously to other temples, other buildings that existed in the time that Paul wrote. Paul's writing to the church in Ephesus and in Ephesus you read in Acts chapter 19 there was a great temple to the goddess Diana.

The temple of Diana stood in the city of Ephesus. There's a pagan temple and in Jerusalem was the great temple of Herod that Herod had rebuilt and made larger, the Jews temple. But the habitation of God was not in the temple of the Jews.

It wasn't in the pagan temple. It's in this temple, a spiritual temple. The habitation of God is not in the physical structure of St. Peter's Basilica or St. Paul's Cathedral.

The habitation of God is in the humble hearts of a people scattered around the world, often persecuted, even divided. Yet that is the church. It's the people that are the church and it's growing into a holy temple in the Lord's.

Think of the foundation of this temple. Look at verse number 20. Jesus Christ himself, the chief cornerstone.

And the cornerstone of a building gave it stability. It held it together. So with Christ as the cornerstone of this building, this temple is unshakable.

Solomon's temple fell. Zerubbabel's temple, Herod's temple, they're gone. There will be a temple that will be built in earthly Jerusalem in the future, but it too will be burned up.

But the temple with this foundation that upholds it, Jesus Christ at the chief cornerstone, it's stable. It's fixed. It's secure.

It's held together. Ephesians 2 is all about Jew and Gentile being brought together in the one body, the one man, the one temple. It's fascinating to see that pictured in the Old Testament when you have Solomon enlisting Gentile help to build the temple that the Jews would use.

Gentile help was in abundance to build that temple that God would dwell in. And that just carries us forward into this this day in which we live. And the temple of the body of Christ, Jew and Gentile, are bought together and we're building together.

There is a lesson for us in that in unity. I don't know if you've noticed that the New Testament is just filled with this issue of Jew-Gentile relationships. And I don't know if you've noticed, but we don't encounter a lot of Jewish Christians.

Have you noticed that? Do you know any Jewish Christians? Some of you might know a few. Most of you probably don't. Why is the New Testament covered from start to finish with this issue of Jew-Gentile relationship if it is an issue that the church doesn't even face today? The church does face it today.

And when God is saying when he brings Jew and Gentile together, he has taken the two most opposite groups. And if God can unite Jew and Gentile and they can work together and they can live together, if Jew and Gentile can live together unitedly, then all the rest of us should be able to. That was the greatest cultural, racial, religious distinction.

God broke it down and now Ephesians 4 says we should endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. The reality is, though, that the church visibly has experienced unending division. But still, God says in his eyes it is one church, indissoluble, unshakable.

Christ is the cornerstone of the foundation. But notice what else it says. Somebody else at the foundation of this temple.

Apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone, but apostles and prophets are in the foundation. Well, it must ultimately refer to the teaching of the apostles and the prophets.

Both of those categories of men were individuals that were responsible to give the word of God to the people. It's not so much the people as the teaching that those apostles and prophets gave. These were the men that received divine revelation from God and they carried it out to the people.

They received truth about God, about the church, about the Lord Jesus, about the gospel, about Christian living. They received it by divine revelation. They have written it.

They have spoken it. It came from the lips and the pens of the apostles and the prophets. These are New Testament prophets.

It doesn't say the prophets and the apostles. It's not the prophets of the old and the apostles of the new. It's the apostles and prophets, both in the new covenant.

You read of them in the church at Corinth, let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others judge. So in the New Testament church, there were prophets. It was how the people learned divine truth.

There were only so many apostles. But God had also given many prophets. And the prophets would receive divine revelation and they would pass that along to the people before the scriptures were completed.

Apostles and prophets are not functioning in the church today. Those gifts are not in use today in the church. Notice it says they were in the foundation.

And the fact that the apostles and prophets were in the foundation of the church is also telling us something else. Apostles and New Testament prophets only existed in New Testament days. So the church is only revealed in the New Testament.

It was a mystery prior to that, pictured but only revealed in the New Testament. Let's think of the uniqueness of this temple. And I'm thinking of how the church is distinct from the nation of Israel, different in many of its blessings.

Remember, Israel has promised the land and the harvest and the possessions. Most of the blessings promised to the church are spiritual blessings. It's different in its terminology.

Gentile believers in the church, I would suggest to you, Gentile believers in the church are not referred to as spiritual Israel or the Israel of God or inward Jews. And the nation of Israel was never called a temple or the house of God. They were called house of Israel, but not the temple of God.

They had a physical material temple. But this temple in Ephesians 2 is spiritual. It's the church.

Now the church has not replaced Israel. The church is not New Testament Israel. God will once again in the future bless the land of Israel, the nation of Israel on the earth.

Before he will do that, he will judge the earth and he will judge Israel. The church will not be on the earth for that tribulation judgment will have been taken to heaven. First Thessalonians chapter 5, God has not appointed you to wrath, but to obtain salvation.

We are destined for glory while that judgment is carried out on the earth. This temple, this church is unique to the New Testament, but there is certainly a link, a connection, very close connection between the church and the saints of every other dispensation because we are all the people of the Lord. It's a wonderful thing.

Every true saint of any dispensation, I would suggest, is part of God's kingdom, a kingdom that began in the Old Testament, a kingdom that continues in the New Testament. It embraces the church. It will be manifested in a future day.

One day, all believers from every dispensation will be united in the presence of God, maybe in that heavenly city. We'll consider that heavenly city in a little bit. But I want to think about one more thing about this church, this temple.

Look at verse number 21, the scope of this temple, all the building, not every building, as your margin might say. It's not just saying every local church. The body of Christ is not a collection of local churches because it's possible for unbelievers to be part of a local church, but they're not part of this temple.

And we know that there are believers, genuine believers, that are not in the fellowship of a local church, but they are part of this temple. They are part of this building, all the building. It's simply a way of saying the entire structure, every part of the building.

And he's saying that every single believer of this age is fitted together in this temple. You see it more clearly in first Peter to living stones added to this house. And every time an individual is saved, every time an individual is saved, it's like another stone is fitted in and the building is growing and the temple is growing.

This building, this temple includes every single Christian. It's a beautiful thing. It's a massive thing.

No matter the understanding of that Christian, no matter where that Christian goes on a Sunday, it is not limited to any geographic area. It's worldwide. In fact, it's more than worldwide because part of the church is already in heaven.

Believers that have died in Christ from Acts chapter two onwards. God is fitting stones into this temple. He's putting believers in the church and it says it's growing.

I like that. It's growing. It's what the Lord Jesus said in Matthew 16.

I will build my church and he's still building it and souls are still being saved and the temple's getting larger. Remember when David had the idea to build the temple? God says, no, David, you're not going to build it. Solomon, your son is going to build it.

And God says words to David about Solomon that Hebrews one tells us are actually about the Lord Jesus. I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son. The son will build the temple.

David's greater son builds this temple. It grows into, it grows onto a holy temple. That's not to say it isn't a temple or it isn't a dwelling place already.

Verse 22 says it's a habitation of God. It's just saying the temple is still being built. It's an ongoing process.

Like if you were, if you were building a new hall and even though the hall isn't completed, you're still able to have meetings in the hall. So even though the building project is not yet done, it's still being used for you to meet and to dwell in. That's the idea.

The temple is still being built but God is dwelling in it in a habitation through the spirit. But what I think is so encouraging is that it's still growing. He's still building and he lets us share in this building project.

Souls are still being saved. Not just in Mexico and Nicaragua and China and India and Brazil, but in Iowa and Minnesota and Wisconsin. God is still at work and he is using people from here and from all over to build into this holy temple.

That's the object he has in view. A completed holy temple. And it's great to be a part of the Lord's building project.

A living stone fit into this great edifice. No fear of ever being dislodged. A firm foundation and we know the future according to Ephesians 5 27.

Remember Stephen said yesterday he gave us that portrayal of was it the bawling bride, the church that is fighting, and the bride with her garments torn and she's bruised and she's beaten. And yet it says in Ephesians 5 27 he'll present it to himself a glorious church. I don't know how he's going to do it but he will.

He's purifying it, sanctifying it. He has sanctified it and he will present it with no spot, no wrinkle, or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish. That's us, the church, a holy temple.

That's where I want to go. That's where I want to finish. We're going to take a look at this holy temple in the future.

So let's turn to the book of Revelation and chapter 21. Revelation chapter 21. This will be the best temple scene of all.

Revelation 21 verse 9, And there came unto me one of the seven angels, which had the seven vials full of seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and he showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. I should just pause there for a moment.

You know, there is quite a bit of controversy about this city. Maybe some controversy will wake up any sleepyheads here. There is a lot of controversy about this city.

Some people say it's a literal city and some people say, no, it's just a figurative city. Some people say it's gonna hover above the earth and other people say, no, it's right on the earth. Some people say the inhabitants of the city, it's just the church.

Other people say it's the saints of every dispensation. Some people say Revelation 21 and 9 is the thousand-year millennial reign of Christ and other people say, no, it's the eternal state. But what will we say? I've studied it a little bit and I've come to the brave conclusion, I don't know.

It's very difficult. Whatever view you take, whether you think this is the thousand-year reign of Christ, if you have studied it, whether you think it's the thousand-year reign of Christ or whether you think it's the eternal state, whatever view you take and whatever key reason you have, I think there's a very good counter-argument to it. It's not crystal clear to me.

It won't matter a whole lot right now. You're gonna enjoy it either way. The point is, this is a heavenly city and the heavenly city itself is eternal and it will be seen in the millennium, but it abides beyond that thousand-year kingdom.

It's the people of God in their glorified, perfected state in the presence of the Lamb and the glorious conditions that it describes are eternal. So whether this is the thousand-year kingdom or the eternal state, the conditions it describes are eternal. So we're getting a glimpse of eternal glory.

All right, verse 10, the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, and her light was likened to a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal, and had a wall great and high and had twelve gates and at the gates twelve angels and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. On the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof and the wall thereof, and the city lies four square, and the length is as large as the bread that he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand furlongs, the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And he measured the wall thereof a hundred and forty-four cubits according to the measure of a man, that is of the angel. And the building of the wall was of jasper, and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. Verse 22, And I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light where the lamps stand thereof.

Verse 27, And there shall a no-wise enter into it anything that defiles, neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. Notice the measurement of the city in verse 16. He says it's four square, and the length and the breadth and the height are equal.

Now some will say that the city is a pyramid, it possibly could be, but to me it sounds more like a cube, and the length and the breadth and the height are equal. The reason that's significant is because the measurements that are given in 1 Kings chapter 6 of the Temple in the Old Testament, the measurements that are given for the holiest of all, where the Ark, the presence of God would dwell, it said it's 20 cubits in length and 20 cubits in breadth and 20 cubits in height. It's all the same.

It's a square, it's a cube, and again you've got that same order of length, breadth, and height. Sir Isaac Newton studied the Temple of Solomon extensively. He even wrote a book about it.

He was fascinated by its geometry. He said he felt there must have been divine guidance in it. No kidding.

Indeed, divinely foreshadowing Christ dwelling with his people. But I want you to notice the highlight of this city. Verse 22, I saw no temple there.

The Lamb and the Lord God Almighty are the temple. John says, I saw. Chapter 19, verse 11, John says, I saw Christ descend on a white horse.

The revelation of Jesus Christ. And from Revelation 19 and 11 to this scene that we have just read from then until now, 10 times approximately, John says, I saw. And of all the times that John says, I saw, this seems to be the climax.

It's the 10th and the last one. But this is the only one when he says, I saw, that he actually tells us what he didn't see. I saw no temple.

It was striking because for so many years in the history of the earthly ancient Jerusalem, the skyline of that old city was dominated by a temple. David had become convinced, we looked at on Saturday morning, of the spot of Ornan, the Jebusite, and his threshing floor as the site to build that temple just on the edge on a hill outside the city of Jerusalem. That hill was also Mount Moriah.

That became the Temple Mount. Sitting above that city, the glorious temple was built. And Solomon's temple stood there for about 400 years and then destroyed by the kingdom of Babylon.

70 years later, Zerubbabel rebuilds the temple, renovated under King Herod, becomes a larger temple. In the year AD 70, the temple is destroyed. After occupying that spot for most of a millennium, the temple was destroyed.

Now for about 2,000 years, there has been no temple there. Presently, that site is occupied by the Muslims' Dome of the Rock. For approximately 1,007 years in the future, the tribulation and the kingdom, the temple will again occupy that mount.

But when John scans the heavenly Jerusalem, the absence of the temple is striking. I saw no temple, no physical, material temple. It's missing.

But I saw something much better. The Lamb and the Lord God Almighty are there, and they are the temple. They are the temple.

The temple is the idea of a shrine where God would be uniquely present. And in Solomon's temple and in the temple of this dispensation, the presence of God is not visibly seen. He's there through his spirit, or he's shining in a cloud of glory.

But in Solomon's temple and in the temple of the church, we don't see God. In this heavenly city, God will be physically visible and present. I saw the Lamb and the Lord God Almighty.

They are the temple. No need for a separate structure. No need for a separate temple.

We will be in his presence. Remember the question from 2 Chronicles that Solomon asked, will God really dwell with men? Heaven can't contain them, much less this house, this temple that I have built. Is God going to dwell with men? He will.

God's going to put us right in his presence. God is going to dwell right among us, and everywhere that we move in that heavenly city, we're going to be in the glory of his presence. And I don't really know what that's going to be like, but it sounds great and beautiful.

No need for a physical structure to worship him. It's not just going to be a particular physical place in which he is adored. It's all temple.

God will be all in all in that city, and the Lamb will enlighten it, and he fills it with the splendor of his presence, and everywhere we move in that city, we'll experience the intimate fellowship of the presence of the Lamb. What do you think you're gonna see when you're in that heavenly city? John says, I didn't see a temple, because the Lamb and the Lord God Almighty are the temple. What do you think you're gonna see, actually, with your eyes? Matthew 5 says, Blessed are the pure in heart, they shall see God.

What are you gonna see? I think I would suggest that when we see the Lamb of God, we see the Lord God Almighty, and the glory of the Lord God Almighty will be shining all around us. I think that every theophany, every appearance of God in the Old Testament, I would suggest, was a Christophany, an appearance of the Son. God has chosen to reveal himself in his Son.

So the Son says to his disciples in John chapter 14, He that has seen me has seen the Father. You want to see God? You're gonna see the Lord God Almighty when you see the Lamb, and I don't think you're gonna be disappointed. When we see the Lamb, we'll see the Lord God Almighty.

It will be a beautiful and a glorious sight, and in a way that we've never experienced, in a way that I don't even think we properly imagine, we will be right in the glorious presence of God. In a different way than when we come together in an assembly. This is going to be different.

This is going to be greater. The Lamb's right there, and the glory of his presence all around us. That's an interesting title that God has chosen to fill this passage with, the Lamb.

Doesn't say the Son or the King or the Lion, the Lamb. Seven times from chapter 21 verse 9 to chapter 22 verse 5, we read of the Lamb, the Lamb, the Lamb, because the Lamb reminds us of sacrifice and redemption. You know the first time in your Bible that you read of the Lamb? Genesis chapter 22, when Abraham goes up that mountain with Isaac, and he says God will provide himself a lamb.

And remember, where Abraham offered Isaac, that became the Temple Mount. Second Chronicles tells us that. That's very precious.

The first mention of the Lamb is Mount Moriah. It's the Temple Mount, and now we're forecasted into a scene where there's no temple. The Lamb is the temple.

The theme of redemption will never be far from our minds. Deuteronomy 15 was instruction for the people of God when they come into the land. He says, Remember, don't you forget this.

You were a bondman in the land of Egypt and the Lord, your God redeemed you. And even when we are in this heavenly city, in the presence of God, in the presence of the Lamb, we are reminded of redemption. That's why we're there.

We were nobody, but we've been redeemed by the Lamb. That idea of redemption being stamped upon us was pictured in the temple. Here's just a brief little topology from First Chronicles.

I know that might sound a bit heavy for the end of Sunday afternoon when somebody mentions Chronicles, but Stephen's already taken us into Ezekiel, and that wasn't too frightening, was it? So we can handle a little Chronicles. And it says, it's just a little obscure verse in First Chronicles 29. It's not even echoed in Kings.

It's just like a passing statement in Chronicles. This is what it says. David says, I set aside gold and silver to overlay the walls of the temple.

And let me tell you why that's significant. The temple walls were stone, marble stone. Then on the inside, they were cedar, and they were covered with gold.

So when you were inside the temple, you didn't see the stone, you didn't see the cedar, you saw the carving work, but all you saw was the gold. But First Chronicles seems to imply that between the cedar and the gold, those cedar walls were plastered with silver. That's what it sounds like.

Set aside gold and silver to overlay or to plaster the walls. What does silver speak of? Redemption. So we are the stones covered with cedar.

Cedar is incorruptible wood, picturing the incorruptible bodies we shall possess. They'll be covered in gold. We'll have the glory of God.

But in between that gold and the cedar is the silver. So stamped upon our hearts, even when we share and shine with the glory of God's brightness, stamped upon our hearts will be the silver of redemption pressed upon us. The temple of that city will be the lamb who shed his blood for us, and we'll be right there with him.

Look at the nearness to God in this city. No need for a temple. He is the temple, the lamb right there.

You'll be able to touch him. John the Baptist held him and dipped him underwater. John the Apostle leaned upon his chest.

He's the one whom, having not seen, we love, but we'll see him and we can hold him. The very concept of the temple in the Old Testament implied some people were closer than others. Some people weren't even allowed in the courts.

The priests ministered in the courts, and only the high priest could go into the holiest of all. But here in this city, the lamb is the temple, and we're all dwelling in the city, and we've all got access to him. The glory of this heavenly city, the glory of God lightens it.

The lamb is the light, the lampstand thereof. Remember, in the temple, in the holiest of all, there was no source of external light. When the high priest went into the holiest of all, it was just the glory of God to give them light.

We're going to be in a heavenly city, and the glory of God and the lamb, they are themselves the light, their inherent stunning glory that we have never even seen. That will be our eternal light. And I like the purity of this city.

I really like that. Look at verse 27. No defilement enters in.

God's not going to allow sin in his presence. That's a great blessing of this temple scene, not a hint of sin. And yet we'll be there, sinners, redeemed sinners, in the presence of God with no sin.

Can you even try and fathom the beauty of unhindered, untainted worship? Our worship today is tainted by the flesh, and our sin and the distraction of the world hinders our worship. I don't think there's any believer here can say that when they worship God, it is always pure and undistracted. I don't think there's anybody here that could say that for the full 90 or 100 minutes that we were gathered together this morning to remember the Lord, that for that full 90 and 100 minutes, you were totally focused on the Lord.

If there is, you can come to me afterwards. Some have entertained angels unaware, so maybe they're here. But for the rest of us, our worship is hindered by the flesh.

But in this day, he says, there's no defilement of heart. There's no distraction of mind. There's no duplicity of motive, perfect and holy occupation with the lamb.

Remember, Stephen encouraged us on Saturday morning to meditate biblically and frequently and deeply. And in this day, we'll do it perfectly. And we'll be able to fulfill David's words of First Chronicles 16, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

We will do it perfectly. Come back to the beginning of the chapter for a moment just to notice the joy of this city. Verse three, I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, no crying, neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away.

And he that sat upon the throne said, behold, I make all things new. That's got to be one of the most beautiful verses in the Bible, isn't it? No tears, because there's no death and there's no sorrow and there's no pain when it says that God will wipe away the tears. I don't think it's saying that the Lord is going to chase us around the city with the tissue to wipe our tears.

It's just a way of saying that there's not going to be any cause for sorrow anymore. Those circumstances that cause us sorrow and pain will be reversed, they'll be erased. Former things passed away and maybe I'll come up to you in that city and I'll say, hey, do you remember, can you remember those 25 years that you struggled and the pain of your arthritis? Can you remember those couple of years of high school after you'd been saved and you were trying to live for the Lord and the rejection that you felt? Remember the challenges and the pain of your family situation that you struggled with day after day? Do you remember that? And you can say, yeah, yeah, I sort of do, but those are the former things.

Matthew, those are passed away. He has made all things new. First Chronicles 16 says, splendor and majesty are before him, strength and joy are in his place.

But I don't want you to miss the fulfillment of joy. The climax of this scene is verse 3 and verse 22. God tabernacling, dwelling with us.

He is the temple. I saw no temple for the Lamb and the Lord God Almighty are the temple. Don't get so caught up with the attractions of the city that you forget the main attraction, the Lamb.

God dwelling with us. I read a beautiful verse this morning in Isaiah 30. Blessed are those who long for him.

Blessed are those who long for him. And he's going to come. He'll bring us.

And he's going to dwell with us in an eternal day which knows no evening and no end. He'll tabernacle with us. He dwells with us.

He will be our temple. You see, the greatest temple seen in the Bible is when John saw no temple. And the Lamb is the temple.

The Lord God Almighty is the temple. He will dwell with us. We'll be right in the glory of his presence.

And so shall we forever be with the Lord.