The prophet Amos spoke of the resurrection of David’s tabernacle—

“In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old” (Amos 9:11).

This resurrection would include the gathering in of Gentiles—

“That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name” (Amos 9:12).

At the Jerusalem council, James quotes Amos, noticing the fulfillment of his prophecy was at hand (Acts 15:15–17).

This leaves us in a world where Christ and His temple have walked out of the grave. Take John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and add that the man who died on the cross, where Christian lost his burden, was buried in the tomb where Christian’s burden rolled. But while in the tomb, this man reached down the length of the King’s Highway, grabbed the Celestial City, and pulled it with Him out of the grave. This “dwelling place of God” has been growing ever since. It has spread over the edges of the King’s Highway, back toward the City of Destruction, and over to Doubting Castle.

Giant Despair stands tiny in its shadow.