How can the temple of the true God get along with idols? We are the temple of the living God, as God has said, “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God and they will be my people.”
This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Therefore, “they stand in front of the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple. The one who sits on the throne will be with them to protect them.
The Word became human and made his home with us. We have seen his glory the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven that said, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Messiah have come. The one who makes accusations against our brothers and sisters in front of our God day and night has been thrown down.
Then the voice I’d heard from heaven spoke to me again. It told me, “Go and take the scroll that’s lying open in the hand of the angel who’s standing on the sea and on the land.”
I was about to write down what they said when they spoke, but I heard a voice from heaven tell me, “Seal up what the seven thunders said, and don’t write it down.”