Yesterday, Dr. Don Carson joined us to explain that there are 20 big themes in the Bible

that develop from Genesis to Revelation.

He said that there are another 50, 60, or 70 smaller themes there as well.

We're back with Dr. Don Carson again today, the editor of the new NIV, Zondervin Study

Bible, which releases in about a month.

Instead of talking more about what biblical theology is, which we talked about yesterday,

Dr. Carson, I want you to show us particularly how biblical theology works.

And I want you to focus on one theme for us today, if you will, for people who are

wondering what biblical theology is all about, show us how the theme of the temple develops

from Genesis to Revelation in God's plan.

All right.

If we think of temple as the meeting place between God and people, then there is a sense

in which the Garden of Eden is a kind of proto temple, and many people have drawn parallels

between themes in Genesis 1 and 2, understanding of what the temple is in later scriptural

writings.

But the temple is also a place of sacrifice, and there are sacrifices that are developing,

for example, when Abraham is being called a devotee of a called ease, and so forth.

The first time that there is a structure is in the tent of meeting before the tabernacle

is built.

And then the tabernacle is built, and many, many chapters of Scripture are devoted to

discussing its proportions, the most holy place, who can approach the holy God in the most

holy place, and when, on Yom Kapudim, the day of Atomans, once a year, only with the prescribed

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