Ezekiel 40-48 Millennial Temple

Importance of the temple to Israel

Psalm 5:7

7  But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy:

And in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

Psalm 11:4

4  The LORD is in his holy temple,

The LORD’s throne is in heaven:

His eyes behold,

His eyelids try, the children of men.

Psalm 18:6-7

6  In my distress I called upon the LORD,

And cried unto my God:

He heard my voice out of his temple,

And my cry came before him, even into his ears.

7  Then the earth shook and trembled;

The foundations also of the hills moved

And were shaken, because he was wroth.

Psalm 27:3-6

3  Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear:

Though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

4  One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after;

That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,

To behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

5  For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:

In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me;

He shall set me up upon a rock.

6  And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me:

Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;

I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

How many temples are their in scripture?

1) Tabernacle in the wilderness

Exodus 25:8,9

8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

Exodus 26, 27 Gives the details of this temple!

2) Solomon's temple

King James Version

1 Kings 6:1-3

1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

Built after the pattern of the tabernacle in the wilderness!

Destroyed by King of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar around 586 BC

3) Zachariah's temple

Ezra 6:3-5

3 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

4 With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences be given out of the king’s house:

5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.

Expanded by King Herod made part of Herod’s temple

4) Herods temple

Matt. 24:1,2

1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

Destroyed in 70 AD by Titus and the Roman army

5) Church temple of Holy Ghost

1 Corinthians 6:19,20

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

6) Tribulation temple

Rev. 11:1,2

1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein

2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

7) Millennial temple

Rev. 3:10-13

10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Rev. 21:22-27

22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Isaiah 2:1-4 Topography changed

1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2  And it shall come to pass in the last days,

That the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains,

And shall be exalted above the hills;

And all nations shall flow unto it.

3  And many people shall go and say,

Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,

To the house of the God of Jacob;

And he will teach us of his ways,

And we will walk in his paths:

For out of Zion shall go forth the law,

And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

4  And he shall judge among the nations,

And shall rebuke many people:

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,

And their spears into pruninghooks:

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

Neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah 4:2-6

2  In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious,

And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely

For them that are escaped of Israel.

3  And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion,

And he that remaineth in Jerusalem,

Shall be called holy,

Even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:

4  When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,

And shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof

By the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

5  And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion,

And upon her assemblies,

A cloud and smoke by day,

And the shining of a flaming fire by night:

For upon all the glory shall be a defence.

6  And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat,

And for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

Isaiah 11

11 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,

And a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

2  And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him,

The spirit of wisdom and understanding,

The spirit of counsel and might,

The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

3  And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD:

And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,

Neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

4  But with righteousness shall he judge the poor,

And reprove with equity for the meek of the earth:

And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth,

And with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

5  And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,

And faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

6  The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,

And the leopard shall lie down with the kid;

And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;

And a little child shall lead them.

7  And the cow and the bear shall feed;

Their young ones shall lie down together:

And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8  And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp,

And the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.

9  They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain:

For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

As the waters cover the sea.

10  And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse,

Which shall stand for an ensign of the people;

To it shall the Gentiles seek:

And his rest shall be glorious.

11  And it shall come to pass in that day,

That the Lord shall set his hand again the second time

To recover the remnant of his people,

Which shall be left, from Assyria,

And from Egypt, and from Pathros,

And from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar,

And from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

12  And he shall set up an ensign for the nations,

And shall assemble the outcasts of Israel,

And gather together the dispersed of Judah

From the four corners of the earth.

13  The envy also of Ephraim shall depart,

And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off:

Ephraim shall not envy Judah,

And Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

14  But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west;

They shall spoil them of the east together:

†They shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab;

And the children of Ammon shall obey them.

15  And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea;

And with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river,

And shall smite it in the seven streams,

And make men go over dryshod.

16  And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people,

Which shall be left, from Assyria;

Like as it was to Israel

In the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.