Explore the Targum Neofiti of Genesis 1 and 19:24 . Why is language used such as mountains, gardens, or heavens? The ancients thought that anywhere humans can't inhabit is where the gods must live. Consider “Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Near East by Nicolas Wyatt. The cosmic mountain is where the business of the world and cosmos is done. When the Temple was destroyed, the people thought God was gone. Consider Isaiah 40. We read in 1 Corinthians 3:16 , “Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?” Explore sacrifices and burnt offerings. Sacrifices are almost exclusively about making us fit to occupy the same space in which God resides. Consider the Day of Atonement and Leviticus 16.The blood of the sacrifice sanctified the holy place, holy objects, and the high priest and made them fit for the ritual itself. The sin offering is actually a purification offering. A guilt offering is about possibly restoring a relationship with God but definitely about restoring a relationship with another person and only available if there was contrition. Consider atonement. All of the sacrifices have some role about access to God. We read in 2 Corinthians 6:16 ,“What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, ‘I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.’”