18th Meeting - Ezekiel 40 - 48 Millennial Temple.

This is probably the most controversial subject of end times. Modern scholarship wants to make this symbolic instead of literal, because they are more comfortable with this idea. However, this provides the following problems. We tell people that God is the Alpha and the Omega, but when it comes to interpretation of end times we seem to only focus on the Omega of ideas. In the core verses on the right side of my blog, I have listed what Jesus said in His Sermon on the Mount. "I did not come to do away with the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them, every yot and tittle will not pass away until all is fulfilled". Ezekiel is a a prophet and is found in the prophecy section of our Bible, having this position also makes it part of the authorized Word of God and part of our cannon.
Prophecy in the Old and New Testament as far as during the Life of Christ was fulfilled literally, how can we look at Revelation and say now it will be fulfilled symbolically. This idea is not consistent with the rest of the Bible. When we read the Bible, we need to remember whose words these are. God's ways are not our's. It is our interpretation of the Bible that makes Ezekiel's temple not consistent with what Hebrews says about animal sacrifice. Ezekiel and Hebrews are both part of our Bible and as such are authorized Word of God. God can not lie, and God does not contradict Himself. If you re-read my explanation of Exegesis, and Hermeneutics, the Word of God is always correct, and when we misunderstand, the fault is not God's Word, but our understanding of it. When we look at end times we need to remember that God is revealing mysteries to us and it will go His way, we don't have to explain it, just mark the signs as Jesus told us to do. This is what is important.