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if our earthly house—the tent—is destroyed, we have a building from God

Here a temporary "house" or "tent" is a metaphor for a person's physical body and a permanent "building from God" is a metaphor for the new body that God will give believers after they die.

if our earthly house—the tent—is destroyed, we have

"if people destroy our earthly house—the tent—we have" or "if people kill our bodies, we have"

It is a house not made by human hands

"It is a house that humans did not make"