A Year in Luke/ActsNäide

Temples
Throughout Luke’s gospel, there are initially veiled warnings of what would come if Israel and the Temple’s leaders did not accept Jesus’ message of the kingdom of God. This becomes explicit as the journey to Jerusalem ends; Jesus cleanses the Temple and in the Olivet Discourse gives the most pointed description yet. It is all building up to Jesus becoming the embodiment of the Temple and taking it to the cross. He resurrects and enables the Spirit to fill human beings and a housing for the presence of God is born: the church.
Many of the conflicts in Acts then come to head in, around, or about various temples to highlight the point that these are not where the presence of God dwells. The heaven on earth place has become Jesus himself. Now, in their prayers, the church seeks Jesus’ kingdom to come on earth as in heaven and are being built together into a spiritual house.
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