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of the tabernacle and the temple. Today we are God's temple. Eventually, the building with the Old Testament saints and the New Testament saints will ultimately consummate in the New Jerusalem, which will be the eternal tabernacle, God's habitation among men for eternity. This is God's building. If you read Revelation 21 and 22 carefully, you will discover that the New Jerusa lem is not a physical city. It is a living city com posed of living persons. We know this because the names of the twelve tribes of Israel and the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb will be there (21:12, 14). We also will be there as the jasper stones that are built into the wall (vv. 11, 18). The New Jerusalem is a living composition of living persons built up together to be God's habitation forever.
Do you believe that now, in the church age, God does not have a habitation among men on the earth? He certainly has! This dwelling place is the church. Where is the church? It is on earth. Wherever we, the living believers, are built to gether, God has a habitation on earth. This is God's building on the earth today. By being re deemed, washed in the blood, and regenerated by the divine life, we have been made a living part of this living building, which is the place