What is Jesus and God building? What the builders brought in to help this building? What is the Holy Spirit building? It is in answer to prayers of the righteous leaders among the ancient Sumerians before the Flood when wickedness was rife. Enoch and Methuselah and others prayed that God would wipe the wickedness out completely but create a righteous people who would survive. The start was The Flood when Noah was selected to be made righteous by God and survive it and reboot the human race but this was just the preliminary act of God to answer those prayers. He selected Abraham to learn to reason and then live in belief that the idols were nothing and God is real and created all things. From this root the LORD would create a great plant of righteousness, a living temple, metaphorically of course - the people of righteousness that Enoch and the prophet leaders before the Flood had prayed to see as replacement of the wicked so God could eventually destroy the wicked in the Lake of Fire. This people, though, would be made righteous in nature by faith, not righteous in imposed force by Law. Yet to build a root from which to make the plant God used Law and Moses. Yet it was planned even before Enoch's prayers that God would send the Son of Man to build a truly righteous people by faith and spirit and the Holy Spirit and would be for them the "Lamb slain" but God kept this largely quiet until Paul was given it to preach.
