Will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple that I have built! (2 Chronicles 6:18, NIV)

We are all so familiar with the Christmas prophecy, Isaiah 9:6, ‘Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given...’ But Solomon in 2 Chronicles 6:18, at the dedication of the new temple asks, ‘But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You…!’ Yet Jesus did come, Emmanuel, ‘God with us’, and now today even more so because Christ dwells not just with us but in us after we are ‘born again’. Our bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit today!

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives among you? (1 Corinthians 3:16, NIV)

The Temple of the Old Testament intrigues me. The Shekinah Glory dwelt in the Holy of Holies, but God had to send His Son to reveal Himself to His people. The Temple was a human attempt to represent the Glory, Majesty and Splendour of God, but even Solomon admitted that it couldn’t contain God, even the heavens are too small. But God choose to send His Son Jesus; the Glory of God was revealed in and through Jesus. Will God in fact dwell with men on earth? Yes, Jesus came 2000 years ago as Emmanuel, but soon He will return as our King.