The Revelation of Jesus Christ - The Herald

eferred to as "living stones" (1 Pet. 2:5), and as "pillars" (Rev. 3:12), designed for the
Temple.
This Temple of the Apocalypse will be indeed the meeting place between God and all the
world of mankind. Through this Temple class God will once more visit and speak to
humanity, offering them pardon and peace based upon the better sacrifices, upon the
higher and more effective mediation to be accomplished through the better Mediator than
Moses. Thus as atonement was accomplished for Israel through the temple of old, so
atonement on a higher and grander scale for the entire human race will be effected
through the higher and greater Temple of the New Jerusalem.
It is undoubtedly, therefore, during the Millennial Kingdom, when Christ is reigning for
the purpose of putting all enemies under His feet, that this vision of the Temple will be
fulfilled. It will be in this Holy City that God will dwell. In another sense this Holy City
will be His Temple, and at its gates mankind will be permitted to approach God in prayer
and worship, just as Israel approached the typical tabernacle and the temple in their
worship. It will be in this sense that God will dwell with men. "The Christ" will be His
dwelling place--the place where He will meet with mankind. This great privilege will have
been secured to the world through the ransom sacrifice of the man Christ Jesus. For, "He is
the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole
world." (1 John 2:2.) The Christ will be the great Mediator. The time then having come in
God's Plan for the manifestation of His grace, all will then be treated as the Lord's people;
none of them will be treated as strangers and aliens from God and His promises and
blessings. At the close of the Millennial reign all estrangement and enmity between God
and humanity will have been removed, and the figure of the temple, not being intended to
picture any proceedings or doings between God and men throughout the Ages of bliss to
follow, will then come to an end.
The Millennial Kingdom will be not only the Kingdom of Christ and the Joint-heirs, but it
will be the Kingdom of God as well, in that all that will be done in that Age will be in
harmony with God's foreordained purpose and thus be representing the Divine will. It
will, however, be distinct and separate from God's rule in general so far as the rest of the
great Divine Empire is concerned. This is according to the words of St. Paul:
"For He [Christ] must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy
that shall be destroyed is death. . . . And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then
shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him."--1 Cor.
15:25-28.
"Then cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God even the
Father, when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. [This will be at
the close of the Millennial reign.]"--1 Cor. 15:24.
No more sorrow nor crying