When we find men practising the arts of chicanery and guile, lying in wait and not dealing frankly, it is wise to be on our guard against them, and put no confidence in them, but betake ourselves wholly to the Lord, “When power and subtilty combine against the righteous, where can they look but to the throne of heaven?” And this we may do in perfect confidence; for Jehovah ‘has taken the church, with all her believing members, under his powerful support.’ W S Plumer
"Heaven is my throne...Isaiah 63"
GOD'S REJECTION OF ALL MATERIAL TEMPLES. There was a time when it could be said that there was a house of God on earth. That was a time of symbols, when as yet the Church of God was in her childhood. She was being taught her A B C, reading her picture-book, for she could not as yet read the Word of God, as it were in letters. She had need to have pictures put before her, patterns of the heavenly things. Even then, the enlightened amongst the Jews knew well that God did not dwell between curtains, and that it was not possible that He could be encompassed in the most holy place within the veil It was only a symbol of His presence. But the time of symbols is now passed altogether. In that moment when the Saviour bowed His head, and said "It is finished! " the veil of the temple was rent in twain, so that the mysteries were laid open. So, one reason why God saith He dwelleth not in temples made with hands, is, because He would have us know that the symbolical worship is ended...
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