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universally, because this goes on to the whole universal idea.

Think of the glory of this building!

It is growing. We are in something that is not going to peter

out. It is growing, increasing, “to a holy temple in the Lord”. It is

growing all the time, right through this dispensation, and goes

into the next one. The “holy temple in the Lord” has a certain

millennial setting.

Everything then will be clear and understandable. I think that is

the idea of the temple, that you understand things in the

temple. And the assembly will be that. She will be a great

vessel in the world to come. Every answer for men will be in

the assembly, in the heavenly city.

Then it says, “in whom ye also are built together for a

habitation of God in the Spirit”. It is a wonderful thing that God

can take delight in His own work, that is, in the saints being

built together. What a privilege, beloved brethren, we have as

related to Christ, related to the foundation, and to Christ as the

corner-stone, having part in this universal vessel in which God

can dwell in the Spirit.

Then we come to Zechariah which brings out the greatness of

unlimited divine resource.

Zechariah

was a young man. You may think of prophets as being old

men with long beards, but Zechariah was not old. He was a

young man who was interested in divine things. So much so

that there was a divine message sent on his behalf, “Run,

speak to this young man”

(Zechariah 2: 4). You think of that! Think of being interesting to

heaven, because of your interest in divine things. A message

was sent. Think of heaven looking on, seeing this young man

Zechariah who was concerned about Jerusalem. He lived in a