“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” (2 Corinthians 5:1)
In verse 1 Paul talks of an “eternal house in heaven”. This is not an individualistic hope; he says we have this eternal house; not I have an eternal house. This sounds like the New Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven at the end of the book of Revelation. When Paul says he groans with longing for this “eternal house” he is in effect saying he desperately wants to see the end of the age arrive along with God’s new house/Kingdom (v. 2). Paul speaks of that day of cosmic transformation by the use of the metaphor “clothed” in verse 3. Notice very carefully that if he does not experience that clothing of the “eternal house” coming down from heaven within his life-time he will be found “naked”!
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Author: Armand Newrick
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Bible reference(s): 2 Corinthians 5:1-8
Source: Armand Newrick
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