As with the Temple destroyed by the Babylonians, so with the Temple of our bodies. God had promised that the Temple would be rebuilt. Well, if God has dwelled already in our present bodies, he will certainly rebuild that Temple. Verse 11: he will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his spirit who indwells you. The promise of our final resurrection, within the eventual new creation, is rooted in the ancient Passover-story, and in the Temple-shaped hopes of the second-Temple Jews. It’s all there in the closing chapters of Ezekiel, which – unsurprisingly – follow the dramatic
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