No temple: this can be said “no place for worship” or “no building (or, house) in which to worship God.”

Its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb: a temple is a special place for worshiping the God who is in heaven. In the new Jerusalem God and Jesus Christ are always present in the whole city, and no separate place for worshiping them is needed. In some languages one will say, for example, “Because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb take the place of a temple.”

Lord God the Almighty: see 1.8; 4.8; 11.17; 15.3; 16.7.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on The Revelation to John. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1993. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .