Christ the True and Better Temple
Stephen shows that the tabernacle in the wilderness, and the temple of Jerusalem were always given as a shadowy figure of the transcendent, infinitely high and glorious God being yet made immanent to His people. Stephen shows how this miraculous reality is ultimately fulfilled through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 7:44-50 ““Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David, who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. But it was Solomon who built a house for him. Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says; '‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? Did not my hand make all these things?’"
Series: Acts: Christ’s Church Built
Speaker: Samuel Wente