Section 5
you read Isaiah 66, you will find that God de sires to have a dwelling place in man; He does not love heaven as much as man to be His habi tation. God wants to dwell in man (vv. 1-2). While so many Christians desire to go to heaven, God desires to come down from heaven and dwell with man on the earth. Many Christian teach ers have told us that when the Lord said that He was going to prepare a place for us, He meant that He was going to prepare a heavenly man sion. But they all agree that the heaven about which they speak will be the city with founda tions prepared by God, as mentioned in Hebrews 11:10, the city which will be the New Jerusalem mentioned in Revelation 21. But the New Je rusalem will not remain in heaven; it will come down out of heaven (v. 2). You may desire to go up to heaven, but God desires to come down out of heaven.
God has only one building in the entire uni verse. In Old Testament times God's building was with the children of Israel and was typified by the tabernacle and the temple. Both the tab ernacle and the temple were symbols of God's people being His dwelling place on the earth. In the New Testament time the church is built. In a spiritual sense, the church is the continuation