When Did God Abandon the Temple?
Today, God’s temple is the Christian. Paul wrote, “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?” (1 Corinthians 6:19). His Most Holy Place is in heaven where Jesus Christ sits on the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 8:1). Jesus abandoned the temple in Matthew 23. God the Father abandoned it when its stewards put His Son to death on the cross.