Scroll 92: The City Has No Temple - You Are the Dwelling Place

Revelation 21:22
“And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.”

The Old Order Passed Away - No More Sacred Geography

The New Jerusalem is not built around holy buildings, sacred sites, or temple rituals. It is not a place where worship is confined to structures made by hands. It is the end of all religious architecture that attempted to contain the infinite. John sees no temple in this city because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple. The dwelling is now direct, intimate, and eternal. The scaffolding of religious systems has collapsed under the weight of union. The veil is gone because the house is now within.

This is a confrontation to every mindset still tethered to external forms. It severs the soul from geographic attachments that said, “Worship here but not there,” or “The presence is stronger in that building.” The very design of the New Jerusalem declares that there is no longer separation between sacred and secular, between the stage and the street, between the sanctuary and the soul. The Lamb now radiates from within the sons, and wherever the Flame moves, that is holy ground.

You are not walking into a temple. You are the temple in motion. You are the habitation of the Lamb’s light. You are the architecture of union revealed. The eternal city is not something you visit, it is something you become. And the glory of that indwelling cannot be contained in form.

The Dwelling of God Is Now With Man

The cry from the throne is clear: “Behold, the dwelling of God is with man.” Not in theory, not in abstraction, but in living union. The tabernacle of Moses and the temple of Solomon were only shadows of what was to come, a people who would become the throne, the gates, the foundations, the light-bearing sons of a city not made by human hands. This is the endgame of the scroll, not just forgiveness, not just salvation, but habitation.

We were not made to visit God. We were made to contain Him. The veil torn in the crucifixion of Christ was not just permission to enter, it was the revelation that He was coming out, to dwell in you. The elect are not temple-goers, they are temple-beings. Their every breath is worship. Their every step is kingdom ground. Their lives carry the inner court.

This is why Babylon's temples still try to seduce with grandeur, because they cannot comprehend a dwelling of light without walls. But the elect need no altar of stone. They burn from within. The temple has become a people. The city has become a scroll.

The Elect Carry the Kabowd - Glory Without Containment

In the Old Covenant, glory was hidden behind curtains. In the New Covenant, glory walked among us in Christ. In the age to come, glory walks as us, not in deity, but in union. The Kabowd (Glory-Weight) no longer descends from heaven like a cloud, it radiates from within like a fountain. This is the mystery of habitation revealed: the eternal God finds home in yielded flesh.

You do not enter the Holy of Holies. You become it. You do not chase revivals. You embody the scroll. The elect are no longer drawn by smoke and sound, they are magnetized by flame. They walk clothed in the stillness of the throne, dripping with light not seen by natural eyes. This is what causes principalities to tremble, not volume, but radiance.

This is not pride, it is remembrance. The soul remembers Eden, but the spirit remembers Zion. And Zion is not merely a mountain, it is the dwelling place of union, restored and radiant in sons who no longer bow to altars built by man.

Flesh Cannot House What Only Flame Can Carry

No building can contain the infinite. No denomination can brand the holy. No system can administer the uncreated light. The moment we attempt to systematize the dwelling, we lose the dwelling. The moment we try to franchise the flame, it vanishes. The city with no temple is a rebuke to all spiritual merchandising, all architectural performances, all programmed forms of access to God.

You cannot build what is already within. You cannot schedule what is sovereign. You cannot brand what is blood-bought. The Lamb is the temple. The elect are His body. The flame cannot be rented, it must be carried. This is the terror of true union to the religious, there is no control here. Only surrender.

That is why many reject the New Jerusalem. It threatens their blueprints. It mocks their cathedrals. It ignores their ministries. But to the elect, it is home. Not a future destination. But a present reality. Not a hope deferred. But a scroll unveiled.

Final Charge to the Elect - Become the Dwelling of Radiance

The veil is torn. The temple has dissolved. The Flame has moved in.
Let no man convince you that you must climb ladders again.
You are the house, the scroll, the gate, the dwelling.
You are not trying to access the holy place, you are the holy place.
Let every step you take be the sound of heaven expanding through flesh.
Let your inner court radiate the throne. Let your silence thunder with glory.
The New Jerusalem is not waiting to descend. It is awakening within.
The Lamb walks in you, and the city is built wherever you burn.

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