Tuesday, September 20, 2011

God Says We are His Dwelling Place.

Metaphor: Dwelling of God
Concept:  We are being built into the residence of the Holy God!
Eph 2:22 In Him [and in fellowship with one another] you yourselves also are being built up [into this structure] with the rest, to form a fixed abode (dwelling place) of God in (by, through) the Spirit. AMP
Wuest in his Word Studies from the New testament Greek says the following.

(2:21, 22) "In whom" refers back to "Jesus Christ." The building, of course, is the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ composed of believers who are brought into salvation during the Church Age which began at Pentecost and ends at the Rapture. The words, "fitly framed together" are the translation of ‎sunarmologeœ‎, from ‎harmos‎, "a joint," and ‎legœ‎, "to pick out," thus, "to join together," the total meaning being, "to join closely together." It is an architectural metaphor. "Temple" is ‎naos‎, "the inner sanctuary," not ‎hieros‎, "the temple with its porches and outbuildings."

Translation. In whom the whole building closely joined together, grows into a holy inner sanctuary in the Lord, in whom also you are being built together into a permanent dwelling place of God by the Spirit. 

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