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Allusion
Later text
Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
Earlier text
In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there. In visions of God He took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose southern slope was a structure that resembled a city.
Ezekiel 40:1-2 records: "The hand of YHWH was upon me, and He brought me ... and set me on a very high mountain, on which was something like a city to the south." Revelation 21:10 echoes: "And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem." The parallels are precise: Spirit-transport, a high mountain, and a vision of the city-temple complex. Ezekiel proceeds to describe the measured temple in exhaustive architectural detail (chs. 40-48); John similarly describes the measured city (21:15-21). However, the crucial difference is that John's city has "no temple" (21:22) because God and the Lamb are its temple — the physical temple has been transcended. This typological escalation shows that Ezekiel's vision of the restored temple finds its ultimate fulfillment not in a rebuilt structure but in the unmediated divine presence.