How is the Book of Revelation Communicated

The Temple

What is this?

What is “Literal” Translation?What is Allegorical Translation?

• 1 ¶ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

• 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.

• 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.

• 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."

• 5 He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."

• 6 He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life.

• 7 He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

• 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practise magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulphur. This is the second death."

• 9 ¶ One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."

• 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

• 11 It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.

• 12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• 13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.

• 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

• 15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls.

• 16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long.

• 17 He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits thick, by man’s measurement, which the angel was using.

• 19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

• 20 the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

• 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass.

• 22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

• 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.

• 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendour into it.

• 25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.• 26 The glory and honour of the nations will be brought into it.• 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is

shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

The Problem

• 1 ¶ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

Does John describe what he saw?What is he equating?Why so localized?Does he have hermeneutical integrity over Ezekiel 40—48?Should we look for a “literal temple?”

To Find the answer . . .

• Go to the Old Testament– It can tell us “Why he does it,”– It can tell us “What this means to you and me.”

Luther: Creation and the Garden

Back to the Beginning• The Garden of Eden was . . .

– The place of God’s special presence– The place where God communicated with Adam

and his wife– Hint . . . In the Tabernacle, God spoke to Moses

“face to ________”

Gen 1:8 ¶ Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground —trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Lucas Cranach der Ältere 1536• Ge 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put

him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. KJV

Literal translation:

Ge 2:15 And Jehovah God took the man, and caused him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

Beza: 1519-1605

The Fall of Adam and Eve

The serpent tempts Eve to partake of the forbidden fruit as Adam sits nearby; to the left, gambling, leisure, suicide, murder and perhaps drunkenness are depicted as the consequences of the sin in the garden. The Latin superscription reads, "Three, bringing disaster to souls,"

Thomas Cole (1828)Gen 2: 15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Tilling and cultivating are garden terms.“Serving and guarding” are priestly terms.

WalkingThe same word for God walking in Eden, the very word, that only occurs a few times in the Old Testament is found, in its Hebrew Hiph Form for the walking that God does in the Temple.Genesis 3:8-Lev 26 12: Deut 23:14 2 Sam 7:6-7 14

Did Adam “guard” the temple?

What unclean thing did he allow in the temple?

Expulsion from Paradise, Caedmon Manuscript AD 1000

“Serve, Work, Cultivate,” . . . These are OT words for “Worship.”

These are priestly words that “serve and guard” the Temple.

And with the Garden being a “Temple” Adam was to “serve” God by “gardening” and “guarding it.”

Ezekiel 28• 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and

say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

• 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

• 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

• 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Ezekiel 28

Lorenzo Maitani

English: Genesis : Expulsion from Paradise; marble bas-relief by Lorenzo Maitani on the left pier of the façade of the cathedral; Orvieto, Italy

When Adam was cast out of the Garden, two Cherubs were stationed to guard the Garden.Genesis 3:24

And the Cherubs become memorialized

1 Kings 623 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

• Description: A rendering of the Ark of the Covenant and the altar of incense. Woodcut by Lucas Cranach, the Elder (1472-1553).

The Two Cherubs

What do you see on the walls?What do you see on the floor?

Holy of Holies

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Then, there is a tree of life in the middle of the Garden.

The Garden Atmosphere

• 1Ki 6:15 ¶ And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: [and] he covered [them] on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

• 29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.

The Great Commission

• Ge 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

• He was to increase the boundaries of the Edenic Temple, and the Temple was to encompass the whole earth.

Part 2 Symbolism of Temples

Depiction of Solomon’s Temple

A Temple is a Model?

Heb 8:5 They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain."

Wormhole

Wormhole

Psalm 78:69

• Rsv: 69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded for ever.

• YLT 69 And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.

• What is the psalmist saying?

• So, is the Temple a “model” of heaven or a “wormhole” to heaven?

Exodus 25:9 The Model View

• God says to Moses . . .

• 9 You must make this Tabernacle and its furnishings exactly according to the plans I will show you.

Seems like a model?

Exod 26:30• Num 8:4 4 The

entire lampstand, from its base to its decorative blossoms, was made of beaten gold. It was built according to the exact design the LORD had shown Moses.

Seems as a model?

General Symbolism of the Temple

• The Outer Court

• 1Kings 7: 23 Then Huram cast a large round tank, 15 feet across from rim to rim; it was called the Sea. It was 7 1/2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.

How many main parts did the Temple contain?

Seems as a model?

The Wormhole View

• 1Ch 28:2 Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: [As for me], I [had] in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:

Seems as a wormhole

• Ps 99:5 Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; [for] he [is] holy.

• Isa 66:1 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest?

Seems as a wormhole?

Isaiah 6• 1 ¶ In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting

upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.• 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with

twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

• 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

• 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

• 5 ¶ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

Seems as a wormhole?

The Tripartite Temple

The Outer Court• What might

the Outer Court of the Temple have represented? What might have been its function?

Who could worship there?

The Holy Place

What were some of the characteristics of the holy place, or the inner court?What was it made of?

Holy of Holies

• What did the most holy place have for furniture?

• What is missing?• Who can enter?• What does it represent

Part 3: Expansion of the Temple

Adam’s Commission = Ours?

• Adam’s commission as a priest-king to rule and expand the temple is passed on to others.

Some Adams• Ge 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said

unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

• Ge 9:1 ¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Ge 9:7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem on the earth and multiply in it.”

Who is this?

• Gen 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

• 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Who is this?

• 4 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

Who is this?

• Gen 35: 11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.

• 12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.”

• Gen 47: 27 ¶ Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.

The four basic elements.

• 1. God blessed them• 2. Be fruitful and multiply• 3. Fill the earth• 4. Subdue the earth• 5. Rule over all the earth.

Abraham’s “Temple.”

• God appears to him (Gen 12:2• He pitches a tent (literally a

tabernacle”• On a mountain• He builds alters and worships

God, calling on the name of the LORD

• The place where these activities occur is often located at “Bethel” meaning “the House of God”

• What did it symbolize when Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Israel went around in their travels making altars, pitching tabernacles, etc?

Jacob’s Temple• At Bethel• Near Abraham’s earlier altar• Comes after the divine promises of blessing (Gen 28:13)• A dream of a “stairway” connecting heaven and earth and

angles ascending and descending and God appearing beside.

• Jacob “This is none other than the house of God and the “gate of heaven” (wormhole)

• “This stone which I have sut up as a pillar, will be God’s house (28:22)

• Establishes a sacred “pillar”’Later Phineas, Aaron’s grandson, served as high priest at Bethel and Israel offered burnt offerings (Judges 20:18 and 1 Sam 7:16)

• It was a

The Tower of Babel• Gen 11:1 ¶ Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.• 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.• 3 They said to each other, "Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They

used brick instead of stone, and bitumen for mortar.• 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the

heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

• 5 ¶ But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.• 6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do

this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.• 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each

other."• 8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the

city.• 9 That is why it was called Babel— because there the LORD confused the language of the

whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

1. Make a name for themselves

2. Re 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Tower of Babel Gen 11:1--9

The Tower of Babel

A STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN?

Part 4: The Expansion of the Temple

• Adam• Abraham• Isaac• Jacob• Israel

– Evil in Babel– Step back to Noah

Hieronymus Bosch” The Garden of Earthly

Delights”• But when Adam was cast out, he lost his

function as a priest.• Finally, as the world becomes more wicked,

God says, “I’m going to destroy the earth.”• So,, God brings about the conditions of the

first creation again.• Genesis 1:2 compare to Genesis 8:1 and

there, God caused the “wind,” same name for “Spirit” to pass over the earth and the water. And the waters were separated from the Land as they subsided.

Quick Review

Part 5 Noah:• The creation ended in

“Rest”• In Mt. Ararat, the Arc

“rested” same Hebrew.• Noah’s sacrifice was a

“fragrance of rest.”• The temple was an Arc

(same Greek as Arc of the Covenant.

• Detailed architectural plans to Noah

Noah on Ararat

1. Noah offered burnt offerings2. These offerings were a ‘soothing aroma’

before the Lord (Tabernacle language)3. Noah offers these sacrifices on a

mountain4. The distinction between ‘clean and

unclean’ animals is made here (temple language) and the first time in the Bible we see it.

Ge 8:20 ¶ And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.Ge 9:1 ¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

• The Temple had 3 Sections.

Israel at SinaiIsrael worships on a mountain.Sinai is called “the mountain of God” (Exod 3:1, 18:5, 24:13

Just as with the tabernacle and temple, so Mount Sinai was divided into three sections of increasing sanctity.

The people at the bottomEx 19:12 Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful that you do not go up the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

The Priests and Elders

• Ex 24:1 ¶ And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

Moses at the topEx 24:2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.

Holy of Holies at Sinai• Exod 24: 15 And Moses went

up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

• 16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

• 17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

• What do you see here like the holy of holies?

Where does the cloud lie?Ex 40:35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Moses as priest• 5 And he sent young

men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

• 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

An altar at the lowest level of the “Temple”

The Burning Bush

• Earlier in Exodus, God’s presence at Sinai was depicted as a “cassia tree” or “bush” burning with fire,

The Burning Bush• Ex 3:2 And the angel of

the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed. Was the tree consumed?

• What temple light is also not consumed?

Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.“ (Leviticus 6:12-13, ESV)

Holy Ground

• The ground around the burning tree is called “the place” of “holy Ground.

• Compare Lev 10:17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it [is] most holy, and [God] hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?

Conclusion

• 1. What was the commission given to Adam?• (Gen 1:28)

Ge 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

The four basic elements.

• 1. God blessed them• 2. Be fruitful and multiply• 3. Fill the earth• 4. Subdue the earth• 5. Rule over all the earth.

Noah• Ge 9:1 ¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons

and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Ge 9:7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem on the earth and multiply in it.”

Abraham

• Gen 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

• 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Isaac

• Gen 26: 4 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

Jacob

• Gen 35: 11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.

• 12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.”

Israel

• Gen 47: 27 ¶ Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.

• Is the Siniatic holy place linked to the development of the themes found in Genesis?

• God sends Moses to deliver Israel out of Egypt's womb because the embryonic seed of Jacob has come to full term, in fulfillment, not only of the Abrahamic promises, but of Adam’s commission.

• “But the sons of Israel were fruitful and swarmed greatly and multiplied, and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.

Revelation 11:19• Re 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was

seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

• Once Israel leaves the “Stationary Temple of Sinai,” where do they go.

Ex 25:9 Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.

40 And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.

End Part 4

• The Temple in the Babylonian Captivity

• Did Israel have a Temple in Babylon?

• Ezek 11:16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

• What does this imply?

We know that Solomon’s temple did not fulfill the prophesy of Exodus 15:17—18

• Exod 15: 17 You will bring them in and plant them In the mountain of Your inheritance, In the place, O LORD, which You have made For Your own dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.18 "The LORD shall reign forever and ever.“

• 2Sa 7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

• How did it fail?

Ezekiel 1• 1 ¶ Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the

fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the River Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

• 3 the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was upon him there.

• 4 ¶ Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

• 5 Also from within it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

• 6 Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.• 7 Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of

calves’ feet. They sparkled like the color of burnished bronze.• 8 The hands of a man were under their wings on their four sides; and

each of the four had faces and wings.

• 15 ¶ Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel was on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces.

• 16 The appearance of the wheels and their workings was like the color of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

• 17 When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went.

• 18 As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims were full of eyes, all around the four of them.

• 19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

• 20 Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

• 21 When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

• 22 The likeness of the firmament above the heads of the living creatures was like the color of an awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads.

• 26 ¶ And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it.

• 27 Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around.

• 28 Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.

• 1 ¶ And He said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you."

Israel’s End-Time Temple• The Great Promise of Leviticus 26• 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make

you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

• 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.• 8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten

thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.• 9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and

establish my covenant with you.• 10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.• 11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.• 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

• Do you see a connection to Genesis 1:28 in verse 12?• To Whom was that promise given?

Model of Ezekiel’s Temple

In Ezekiel 36—37 we have the same link: after promising that God would restore Israel and “multiply men,” and make them “increase and be fruitful” 36:10-11, he also promises a “multiplication” of the fruitfulness, so that Israel’s formerly desolated land will become like the garden of Eden’ in which God “will increase their men like a flock (36:35—38).

• Ezek 36:10 And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.

• 11 And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Return to Eden

• Eze 36:30 I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations. 35 And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’

• 36 Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.

Notice the development from Leviticus 26 to fulfillment in Ezekiel 37ff:

The chamber marked # 27 in the model contains rooms set apart for the Zadokite priests, like Ezekiel, who keep charge of the altar and make sacrifices, according to Ezekiel's hierarchical view of the priesthood

This is an end-time temple (Ezek 47:3)

• 1. God’s tabernacling

• 2. Likely not a physical handmade house, but God’s manifest presence alone that will fill Israel and earth as never before.

• “multiplying them”• Everlasting covenant• My sanctuary in their midst forever• My dwelling place over them• I the LORD sanctifies Israel

Reconsider Lev 26:11-12

I will also walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

How would God “Walk” among his people if his tabernacling presence were confined to a physical temple.

• "The area of the temple courts (500 x 500 "reeds," or about one square mile) would be larger than the entire ancient walled city of Jerusalem, and the holy portion for priests and Levites (20,000 x 25,000 reeds, or about 40 x 50 miles) would cover an area six times the size of greater London today and could not possibly be placed within present-day Palestine, that is between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea (Ezek. 47:18), to say nothing of the "portion of the prince" on either side of this area (45:7, 47:21). The Millennial Jerusalem would be about 40 miles in circumference and thus ten times the circumference of the ancient city.

Jesus

• Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

• Joh 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

Israel will finally fulfill Adam’s mandate.

“My dwelling place also will be over them. Ezek 37:27.

The New Tabernacle will extend over all of God’s people who have been “multiplied” and “shall live on the land,” that is , living throughout the land of promise.

The Nations will “know that I am the LORD.”

Jer 3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more. Jer 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

• What of the Temple remains in Jerusalem?• Nothing• Only God’s presence will exist as the new

sanctuary.• It will be the place of God’s presence, but the

entire future Jerusalem itself will be called “The Throne of the Lord.”

• Thus, Exodus 19:5-6 “You shall be to Me a kingdom of priests,” an entire nation” under God.