coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
But with God, elect ... The purpose of building a spiritual temple upon the Lord Jesus Christ was God's purpose from the beginning.  He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world  (Ephesians 1:4).  It was of Christ and the spiritual temple "in him" that Nathan spoke to David  (2 Samuel 7:13); and in the light of that promise, it is clear enough that even the temple of Solomon was not God's plan for a temple.  It was David's idea, not God's; God never gave a pattern for the building of it, as he did the tabernacle; and, if it had been truly God's temple, God would never have destroyed it.