One of the Sanhedrin's charges against Stephen was that he was guilty of speaking against the "holy place" and perpetuating Jesus' pronouncement of its destruction. He answered that charge by retracing Israel's history in relation to the concept of "holy place," reminding his accusers that God's presence - not geography - determines a place's holy status. This was the case even with Jerusalem and its temple: When God destroyed them at the hands of the Babylonians they were already "ichabod." The Sanhedrin needed to understand that there was nothing inherently holy about Jerusalem or its temple, whether Solomon's temple or its replacement. They were merely preparatory symbols of "sacred space," for God has never dwelt in structures made by human hands (7:48). Not temples or sacred locations, but man himself is the fulfillment of "holy place" as the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us.
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