Jesus said to the Jews, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up: He was speaking of the temple of His body John ii 18-21.

I saw no temple in the New Jerusalem, for the Lord God Omnipotent is the temple thereof and the Lamb Rev. xxi 22.

Behold, the Lord shall suddenly come to His temple, and the angel of the covenant whom you seek Mal. iii 1.

I will bow down towards the temple of Thy holiness Ps. cxxxviii 2.

Yet will I look again toward the temple of thy holiness; and my prayer came unto Thee, to the temple of Thy holiness [Jonah ii 4, 7.

Jehovah is in the temple of His holiness] Hab. ii 20.

The 'temple of the holiness' of Jehovah or the Lord is His Divine Human, for to that there is bowing down, looking, and praying, and not to the temple only, for this in itself is not holy. It is called 'the temple of holiness' because holiness is predicated of Divine Truth (n. 173). By 'the temple that sanctifies the gold' (Matt. xxiii t6, 57) nothing else but the Lord's Divine Human is understood. [2] That by 'temple' in a representative sense is signified the Lord's Church in heaven, is plain from these passages:-

The voice of Jehovah out of the temple Isa. lxvi 6.

There came a great voice out of the temple of heaven Rev. xvi 17.

The temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in the temple the ark of His covenant Rev. xi 19.

The temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened; and the seven angels came out of the temple; and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God Rev. xv 5, 6, 8.

I called upon Jehovah, and cried unto my God; He heard a voice out of His temple Ps. xviii 6 [H.B. 7].

I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple Isa. vi 1.

[3] That 'temple' signifies the Church in the world, is plain from these:-

Our house of holiness is set on fire Isa. lxiv 11 [H.B. 10].

I will shake all the nations, that I may fill this house with glory; the glory of the latter house shall be greater than that of the former Hag. ii 7, 9.

The Church to be set up by the Lord is described by the 'new temple' in Ezekiel chaps. xl to xlviii; and is understood by the 'temple' that the angel was measuring (Rev. xi 1); as well as elsewhere (Isa. xliv 28; Jer. vii 2-4, 9-11; Zech. viii 9).

The disciples approached Jesus to show Him the buildings of the temple, and Jesus said to them, Verily I say unto you, there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be demolished Matt. xxiv 1-2; Mark xiii 1-5; Luke xxi 5-7.

Here by 'the temple' is signified the Church of the present day, and by its demolition so that there is 'not one stone upon another' is signified the end of that Church, that then there would not be any truth left. For when the disciples spoke with the Lord about the temple, the Lord foretold the successive states of that Church, even to its end, [that is to say, He spoke] of the consummation of the age, and by 'the consummation of the age' is understood its last time, which is today. This was represented by the temple's being destroyed from the foundations. [4] The temple signifies these three, namely the Lord, the Church in heaven, and the Church in the world. Since these three make one, they cannot be separated; consequently one cannot be understood without the other. Therefore he who separates the Church in the world from the Church in heaven, and these from the Lord, is not in the truth (veritas). Because [something] concerning the Church in the world now follows (n. 194), here by 'the temple' the Church in heaven is understood.