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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Revelation 3:12 → Ezekiel 48:35

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 3:12BSB

The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.

Earlier text

Ezekiel 48:35BSB

The perimeter of the city will be 18,000 cubits, and from that day on the name of the city will be: THE LORD IS THERE.”

Significance

Ezekiel's temple vision concludes with the climactic declaration that the eschatological city's name will be YHWH Shammah — "The LORD is there" (Ezek 48:35). This name signifies the permanent, unmediated presence of God dwelling with His people, reversing the devastating departure of God's glory from Solomon's temple (Ezek 10-11). Christ's promise to write "the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem" on the overcomer draws on this Ezekielian tradition. The city's identity is defined by God's name being upon it — and now upon the believer. The overcomer becomes a living embodiment of YHWH Shammah: a person in whom God permanently dwells, who will "never again leave" the temple. This connects to the broader Revelation theme that culminates in 21:3: "the dwelling place of God is with man." Ezekiel's architectural vision of restored sacred space finds its ultimate fulfillment in persons, not merely buildings.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme