Since the creation of Adam and Eve, God has been building a house to put his glory in. The completion of this house will be at the return of Jesus Christ, who is the chief cornerstone in the building. The foundation has been laid and the building has been going on for centuries, and the house is nearly complete. It is made up of living stones that are not made by the hands of men, but by the hands of God.
The apostle Peter wrote about this building in his first epistle. “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.” I Peter 2:5. Paul wrote about this building in his letter to the Ephesians. “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.” Ephesians 2:19-22. This scripture shows that the building of God was started in Old Testament times, because the prophets were from that time period. Nevertheless, Jesus Christ is the first stone to be laid, and the prophets of the Old Testament spoke of Him and of His Kingdom. He was with Adam, walking with him in the garden, with Abraham, discussing the judgment to come on Sodom and Gomorrah, and appeared to or spoke with many prophets in the Old Testament. He said, “Before Abraham was, I am” John 8:58. He was in the beginning, before the world was made.