In the beginning God planted a garden. There He went to find man (Gen. 3.8-9). After man sinned, God had no resting place on earth. Later, Noah’s dove could not find any resting place for the sole of her feet on the earth that had come under God’s judgment of the flood (8.9). Typologically speaking, God again had no resting place on earth. This is why later on God built the tabernacle as His dwelling place. It is then shifted from the tabernacle to the temple. But subsequently the temple, too, came under judgment: not a stone was left upon another in 70 A.D. This, though, was followed by the Church. For does not Ephesians 2 tell us that the Church is "a habitation of God in the Spirit" (v.22)? God does indeed dwell today in the Church, the body of Christ (1 Tim. 3.15). In the Old Testament period there was neither lamplight nor sunlight in the holiest of all, and yet the holiest place of all was full of light because God dwelt there. According to the same principle, today if anyone seeks to have light he must come to the church. You are unable to meet that much light in an individual saint; but when you come to the local church, you receive very much light. It will be strange indeed if you come to the church and receive no light at all. If people refuse to come to the body, they remain in darkness. But the moment they come to the church, they find light.