To understand why God needed to Have His Temple, should not be a surprise to you. When man sinned in the Garden of Eden, this made necessary for God to provide a Redeemer; a second Adam to fix first Adam's mistake. The first Temple also was flawed, it was to show the Jews that they needed a Redeemer. God would provide a new Temple, set up by Him in order to show the Jews, the correct way to worship God. This is what this Temple is supposed to do. Now we will look at Ezekiel Chapters 40-48.
Chapter 40 starts out with Ezekiel being transported to a high mountain where he could see the Temple Mount in a vision and sees the destruction of the first temple. Ezekiel sees a man whose appearance was like bronze, this is an angel, he has a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. Chapters 40 - 42 describe the outer parts of the temple. Take time to calculate the size of these dimensions, the place will be huge! Now remember who it is that is doing the measuring for Ezekiel, God is using the angel to call out the information and is making sure Ezekiel is writing it down; I don't believe God is going through all this trouble for a symbolic exercise; I believe that like it or not at some point you will see this Temple. In chapter 43 the glory (Shekhinah) of the Lord comes and fills this temple. Through out the discussion of the Temple, God keeps making Ezekiel aware of where in His house man has defiled it. Man will not defile this Temple!!! This is what God says, not me!
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