And I saw no temple therein
No material temple, as was in the old Jerusalem, or such as is
described in Ezekiel's vision; nor any place of public worship,
as under the Gospel dispensation; for in this state there will be
no such external form of worship as now, such as preaching the
word and administering ordinances. The Jews expect a third
temple, but in vain.
For the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple of
it;
God will be immediately present with his people, whose face they
shall see, and whom they will serve in the most pure and
spiritual manner; and Christ in his human nature, in the temple
of his body, that tabernacle which God pitched, and not man,
which is filled with the train of the divine perfections, and in
which the fulness of the Godhead dwells bodily, will be the only
medium of the divine Presence, and of the communications of glory
to men, and of the saints' praise to God, which will be the
service they will be employed in; and the Lamb being joined with
the Lord God Almighty, shows his deity and his equality with his
Father.