THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

136 The Hope of Israel: What Is It?
dispensation, and the Church His dwelling place
in the new. In the case of the Temple, sacrifices were
brought to it, blood flowed in it, and incense (worship)
ascended from it. But no healing waters flowed from
it. Hence what Ezekiel saw, and what was revealed
also to Joel and to Zechariah, living waters going out
from Jerusalem (Joel 3:18; Zech. 14:8), was something
quite new, and to which the Temple and its ritual
presented no analogy.
Therefore, one of the chief lessons to be learned
from the Scriptures we have been considering is that
the "Spiritual House'* of this era should be specially
marked by being the source of a freely flowing stream
of living waters, carrying life and health into all the
And where this mark is lacking,
regions round about.
even when the form of the House is quite correct, the
explanation will doubtless be found in the conditions
inside the House.