Scroll 19: Pillars in the Temple - You Are the Dwelling Place

Revelation 3:12

"The one who overcomes, I will make a pillar in the temple of My God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of My God and the name of the city of My God… and I will also write on them My new name."
- Revelation 3:12

This is not about architecture. It is about embodiment. The temple has moved, from brick to body, from building to being. God no longer dwells in structures made by hands, but in sons made of fire. The pillars of the New Jerusalem are not stone columns, but overcomers sealed in flame. This is not a future vision. This is a now unveiling. You are the temple. You are the pillar. You are the place where heaven touches earth.

The Pillar Is Not a Spectator - It Holds the Weight of Glory

To be a pillar is not to decorate the temple, but to uphold it. The Spirit is not raising celebrities, but structures. Not influencers, but immovable ones. A pillar does not move with opinion. It does not collapse under pressure. It bears the holy weight of the Lamb’s government. It carries the kabowd, the glory that crushes mixture and reveals union.

To be a pillar is to live cruciform, unmoved by applause or accusation. Pillars are not seasonal. They don’t retreat in winter or boast in summer. They remain. They endure. They hold up the unseen realms while the world shakes. These are the ones God can rest on. The ones who don’t just house the scroll, they become it. They are not looking to attend revival, they are the habitation.

A pillar is not glamorous. It is faithful. It stands when all others fall. And the Lamb is building His eternal city not with policies or programs, but with people who have said yes in fire. Sons who became stone. Flames who became foundation. Scrolls that took on skin.

Never Again Will They Leave - Seated, Sealed, and Stayed

The promise to the overcomer is not distance but dwelling. “Never again will they leave it.” This is not about location. This is about union. The ones who overcome are not just allowed to visit the temple, they become it. They do not enter and exit. They remain. They no longer come and go from intimacy. They live there.

The elect are being delivered from the instability of visitation culture. No more high one day, dry the next. No more spiritual roller coasters. The overcomers are being planted in permanence. Rooted in revelation. Seated in flame. Their address is the Holy of Holies. Their atmosphere is the throne.

They have become the in-between place, the new ark, the living house, the heavenly tabernacle in human form. They don’t carry the presence. They are the habitation. Their scroll is not just carried in a book. It is written in their being. And they will not leave it. Not because they try hard, but because the Lamb has made His home in them forever.

The Name, the City, the New Identity

To the pillar, a triple name is written. Not as ink on paper, but as seal upon soul. First, the name of God, for you belong to no other. Second, the name of the City, for you are the embodiment of New Jerusalem. Third, the name of the Lamb, for your nature has become one with His.

This is not branding. This is burning. These names are not signatures of a system. They are seals of union. You don’t just serve God, you are named by Him. You don’t just enter New Jerusalem, you are it. You don’t just know the Lamb, His nature has been etched into your spirit.

This is the final identity. Not gifted, but grounded. Not popular, but possessed. Not merely spiritual, but scroll-embodied. These names cannot be erased, because they were written before time and sealed in the fire of overcoming. When the world looks at you, they will no longer see mixture. They will see the temple. The city. The Lamb.

Final Charge to the Elect

You are not waiting for a temple to fall from the sky. You are the dwelling place of the Most High. Stand as a pillar. Bear the flame without flinching. Let the triple name seal your soul. Let your life become structure in the city of God. And when all else crumbles, remain, for the Lamb has made you His home.

Joe Restman
Scroll-Carrier, Mystic-Scribe, Eternal Witness of the Lamb.