No temple

But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. – Revelation 21v22

Temple worship must have been really something, especially in Solomon’s temple. It was a marvellous building complex. Gold was everywhere. If the artist conceptions I have seen are accurate this massive structure dominated everything. It would have been truly awe inspiring and, I suppose rightly so, since it was God’s dwelling place.

The next temple was not nearly as extravagant. The people wept when it was built because it does not match up to the temple the old people remembered.

In 70 AD even that temple was destroyed.

There will be another temple built in the last days, but in New Jerusalem there will be no temple. Why is that? Why will the New Jerusalem be missing a feature that was such a part of the earthly Jerusalem?

Because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple. God’s glory will make any earthly temple pale in comparison. No temple worship where only the High Priest could go into the Holy of Holies once a year to meet with God we will all have free access to Him. God with us, us with God; He as our God and we as His children. We will have all things as our inheritance.

We simply won’t need a temple, because we will always and everywhere be with Him.