![]() ![]() That was the lens through which they saw the hope of the world. Studying the New Testament historically, in its own world (as opposed to squashing and chopping it to fit with our own expectations), shows that the first Christians believed not that they would “go to heaven when they died,” but that, in Jesus, God had come to live with them. The early Christians picked this up: “The Word became flesh,” declares John, “and dwelt in our midst.” The word for “dwelt” means, literally, “tabernacled,” “pitched his tent” - alluding to the wilderness “tabernacle” in the time of Moses and the Temple built by Solomon. ![]() Israel’s scriptures had long promised that God would come back in person to dwell with his people for ever.
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