G.K. Beale presents a comprehensive study arguing that the Old Testament tabernacle and temples were symbolically designed to point to the end-time reality where God’s presence, once confined to the Holy of Holies, would be extended throughout the cosmos . Beale contends that the garden of Eden was the original cosmic temple, and humanity's mission was to spread God's presence across the earth, a task symbolically fulfilled through Israel's temple and ultimately realized in Christ and the Church He interprets John's vision in Revelation 21 as depicting the new heavens and earth as the eschatological temple, where God's dwelling place is with humanity, and the Church is understood as the end-time temple expanding God's presence The book traces this theme throughout Scripture, showing how the cosmos was created as God's temple, humanity as his priests, and how Christ's work inaugurates a new temple not made with human hands, fulfilling the original mission