Dimensions.

"If the Temple was the space in which God's sphere and the human sphere met, the Sabbath was the time when God's time and human time coincided.  Sabbath was to time what Temple was to space."  Simply Jesus, N.T. Wright

You ever think about the incarnation as a space/time wormhole between dimensions?  The birth of Christ is God breaking through from his reality to ours.  In doing so a connection was made between the two realities, the two dimensions.  There is a theory of the Multi-verses in which there exists, simultaneously, an infinite number of universes in which every possible reality is being carried out.  If, for the sake of my very bizarre mind experiment, birth is the breaking through from one dimension to another, then all the billions of pregnancies are conceptions of universes unto themselves.  One being arriving from another dimension, seemingly out of nothing.  Each conception and birth though, is contained in a closed system.  Miraculous and wondrous, but perpetuated by materials, sperm and egg, contained within the system itself.  So then, what makes Christ's arrival in this weird little scenario is that his immaculate conception and arrival is from another universe, another reality altogether.  If Jesus was like no other, brought forth, given from another reality and unlike any other, then his arrival and life determines the ultimate reality. It is the singular among an infinite plurality.

This other dimension, this other reality of Heaven exists close to our own.  They overlap each other, yet Heaven remains unseen to us.  When Jesus talks of the arrival of his Kingdom, he is talking about Heaven entering and ultimately changing Earth, bringing about a new creation.  He is the means by which this is done.  The Temple in ancient times, like the Tabernacle was the place which heaven and Earth met.  Perhaps we can think of it as the place in which Heaven and Earth touched, but Heaven had not yet broken through.  The coming of the Christ then was not about acquiring a new leader or new teaching or a new king, it was about the altering of the natural of reality itself.  The place and the time in which Heaven and Earth met was now present in a Being, Jesus.  He was the Temple and by virtue of his perfect life, death and resurrection he has then made a place for himself in every person that bids him to come.  We have the ability to be the Temple, the place where the most Holy God resides, the place where Heaven and Earth meet, for the purpose of perfecting his vision of bringing Heaven to Earth.  The Sabbath is that time, the time in which we meet with God, in which this work is completed, one heart, one being, one reality at a time.

Revelation 21
Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[b] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”