Above it a corrected version of my Post, yes I made some typos.
GOD continues to deal with ISREAL, threw the PHYSICAL TEMPLE. IT is GOD's Plan that ISRAEL will be the RULING COUNTRY some Day, with Christ as it's KING.
Zechariah 14:20 (YLT)
20 In that day there is on bells of the horse, `Holy to Jehovah,'
And the pots in the house of Jehovah Have been as bowls before the altar.
Ezekiel 41:5-10 (ESV)
5 Then he measured
the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.
6 And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should
not be supported by the wall of the temple.
7 And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story.
8 I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.
9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. The free space between the side chambers of
the temple and the
10 other chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits
all around the temple on every side.
Ezekiel 41:25-26 (ESV)
25 And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, such as were carved on the walls. And there was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside.
26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule,
the side chambers of the temple, and the canopies.
THAT IS PROPHECY YET IN THE FUTURE, AND HERE IS DR. JOHN MACARTHUR'S COMMENTARY ON THAT PORTION OF SCRIPTURE.
QUOTE:
39:17, 18 My sacrificial meal. Since God describes the feast by the imagery of a sacrificial meal, the warriors who fell (
v. 19) are described figuratively in words such as rams and other animals used in sacrifice.
39:21-29 I will set My glory. God vanquishes Israel’s foes to show His glory so that His enemies and Israel will all know that He is the Lord (
vv. 6,
22). This is Israel’s salvation spoken of in
Zechariah 12:10-13:9;
Romans 11:25-27.
39:29 poured out My Spirit. God’s provision of His Spirit at the Second Advent complements the regathering (cf.
36:27;
37:14;
Joel 2:28).
40:1-48:35 Following the great battle at the end of the Tribulation time, this section provides explicit details about Christ’s millennial reign which follows, giving more detail about the one-thousand-year kingdom than all other OT prophecies combined. It is the “holy of holies” among millennial forecasts. As has been done with the previous thirty-nine chapters, this concluding portion will also be approached in a literal, historical manner which best serves the interpreter in all Scripture. In many ways these chapters are the most important in the book since they form the crowning reality, the climax of Ezekiel’s prophecy and Israel’s restoration. The section includes: (1) the new temple (
40:1-43:12); (2) the new worship (
43:13-46:24); and (3) the new apportionment of the land (
47:1-48:35).
C. Reinstatement of True Worship in Israel (40:1-46:24)
1. New Temple (40:1-43:12)
40:1 the twenty-fifth year. 573 b.c., in the first month of the ecclesiastical year, Nisan. The tenth day was the start of preparations for Passover.
40:2 In the visions of God He took me. Ezekiel 40-48 narrates another vision, as before in
1:1-3:27;
8-11;
37:1-14. The characterization of the prophecy as a vision in no way detracts from its literal reality, any more than Ezekiel’s visions of Jerusalem’s sins, idolatry, and destruction did.
into the land of Israel. The vision pertains to Israel, as did chapters 1-24; 33; 34-39.
a very high mountain. The mountain is not named; however, it is most likely Mt. Zion (cf.
17:22;
20:40;
Isa. 2:2;
Mic. 4:1), lifted up from its surroundings by a great earthquake (
Zech. 14:4, 5,
10).
like the structure... a city. God will be explaining details relating to Israel’s spiritual future (
vv. 2,
4), so this must be the temple in particular and Jerusalem in general. This new and glorious temple will stand in contrast to the desecration and destruction of Solomon’s temple (chs. 8-11).
The MacArthur Bible Commentary.
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Get used to it, GOD says the mortals will worship HIM inside the TEMPLE. AND Maybe we will REIGN with CHRIST and have the title as preists inside that TEMPLE. We will sit in Judgement of the mortals of Israel. One of the responsiblilties was to TEACH the mortal people, which they did not do very well.
Revelation 20:4-5 (HCSB)
4 Then I saw thrones, and people seated on them who were given authority to judge. ⌊I⌋ also ⌊saw⌋ the people who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of God’s word, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and who had not accepted the mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with the Messiah for 1,000 years.
5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the 1,000 years were completed. This is the first resurrection.