TENT

God dwelled in the tabernacle tent and later in the glorious temple. When Jesus came God stopped living inside manmade buidings. God’s Spirit now lives inside His people. When Jesus knocked at the door we invited Him into our lives. When Jesus left He sent a comforter; the lifegiving Spirit can now live inside us. Our earthly tent is only temporary. One day we will receive an eternal building in Heaven.

Revelation 3:20 MEV
Listen! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.

Acts 7:48-49 MEV
"However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands. As the prophet says: [49] 'Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool. What house will you build for Me? says the Lord, or what is the place of My rest?

Acts 17:24 MEV
"God who made the world and all things in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by hands.

John 14:23 MEV
Jesus answered him, "If a man loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our home with him.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 MEV
Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? [17] If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy. And you are His temple.

2 Corinthians 5:1-10 MEV
We know that if our earthly house, this tent, were to be destroyed, we have an eternal building of God in the heavens, a house not made with hands. [2] In this one we groan, earnestly desiring to be sheltered with our house which is from heaven. [3] Thus being sheltered, we shall not be found unsheltered. [4] For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we wish to be unclothed, but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal might be swallowed up by life. [5] Now He who has created us for this very thing is God, who also has given to us the guarantee of the Spirit. [6] Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. [7] For we walk by faith, not by sight. [8] Instead, I say that we are confident and willing to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. [9] So whether present or absent, we labor that we may be accepted by Him. [10] For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his recompense in the body, according to what he has done, whether it was good or bad.