The Temple of God
Christopher Wright like Greg Beale affirm that:
"...the temple of God will encompass not only [God's] whole people redeemed from every tribe, nation, people and language but the whole cosmos, whithin which we will serve hims as kings and priests. That is to say, humanity redeemed through Christ and modeled on Christ's perfect humanity will be restored to our proper and intended relationship with creation." The Mission of God, 340.
Temple will no longer be a place to go worship, but every place, indeed, will be a place of worship and permeated with the presence of God. In the new heavens and the new earth, all of creation will be curseless and humankind will be sinless and the presence of God will be a constant uninhibited reality.
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