A Word to the Little Flock - James S. White

Chapter 12
The Temple of God
"And the temple of God was opened in heaven
and there was seen in his temple the ark of his
testament:" (Rev. 11:19)
The Temple of God in which is the ark of his
testament, is in heaven. St. Paul while in vision,
was caught up to the third heaven, or paradise
which we believe is the New Jerusalem. The word
heaven, is applied to other places beside the New
Jerusalem (See Gen. 1:8,17; Rev. 14:6). But as
they do not contain God's Temple, I must believe
that the heaven in which is the Temple of God, is
the New Jerusalem. Old Jerusalem, and its Temple
were types of the New Jerusalem, and God's
Temple which is in it. The ark containing the tables
of stone, on which God wrote the ten
commandments with his own finger, were put into
the Holiest. When John had a view of the opening
of the New Jerusalem Temple, he saw the ark in
the same place in the antitype, that it was in the
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