The Bible is so large and complicated it is hard to tell the forest from the trees. But there are a few themes that are central to the Divine purpose. One of the most important of these is the construction of the living temple of God.

God has a temple in Heaven, we know from the sixth chapter of the Book of Isaiah. But the temple in Heaven is not to be the future home of God or the place of His throne. God is in the process of constructing a house for Himself, a house built of living stones. The Lord Jesus Christ is the chief Cornerstone of the eternal tabernacle of God. The believers are the remainder of the building.

When God created the heavens and the earth, the world of molecules, He made an environment superior to the spirit realm (as the fallen angels and demons understand very well—that's why they spend their time here and are all the time messing with people).

God was on earth in the beginning but He had to withdraw into the spirit realm because we chose to obey the fallen cherub.

But there's this about God. He doesn't change His mind. What He starts He finishes—big time!

God has allowed six thousand years for all of us, angels included, to get it through our head that Satan is going nowhere. God is permitting Satan (like He does us sometimes) to express himself. God is giving him lots of rope. You know what Satan is going to do with the rope? You've got it. He is going to hang himself. He always does!

When God is satisfied the lesson is over He is going to return to the earth in Jesus Christ and the saints. All sin and unrighteousness will be driven from the material creation.

After a thousand-year orientation program God in Christ in His Church will descend graciously through the new sky to the new earth (the old went into the hamper). God loves dramatic entrances. Ta-dah!

Here comes God in His new house to dwell among His children, the saved nations of the earth. Now they will pray sideways. Instead of looking up to Heaven for God they will go to the new Jerusalem. There the saints will bless, teach, and heal them.

All these people are the inheritance of Christ and His saints. But our best inheritance is the Father. We shall be able to see His face! There's no church in the new Jerusalem because God is here with us forever in unconcealed splendor—just like in Eden.

The name of that city shall be, "The Lord is there."

"O come, O come, Emmanuel."