19th Meeting - Millennial Temple con't 7th Post

The question was raised why there had to be a Millennial Temple at all. Good question! The answer starts in the Garden of Eden with the fall into sin. When Adam sinned, he brought sin into the world. Sin separated us from God; this set up the need to be restored to God. How was this to be accomplished? We needed a second Adam to take sin out of the world, but how? This second Adam would have to be stronger than the first Adam in order to stand up to the temptation of sin. This required a God-man to be our savior (John 3:16). How do we get rid of sin? The Bible tells us that without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. If you follow the story of the Garden of Eden in Genesis; God provided the first blood sacrifice, when He provided Adam and Eve the skins of animals to cover their nakedness. The Old Testament points to the need of a Savior. The Temple in Jerusalem, pointed out the cost of sin by demanding an animal sacrifice to be brought to the Temple with the animal provided by the person requesting forgiveness. The person was to pick an unblemished animal from his own stock; this was to remind him of the cost of that sin. When he got to the Temple, he would go to the priest with his animal put his hand on the head of the animal and confess his sin in the presence of the priest transferring his sin to the unblemished (sinless) animal. When Adam and Eve sinned, they needed a blood sacrifice to atone for their sin. The animal sacrifice could only cover the sin it could not take it away. What was needed was a man who could live a sinless life, and be put to death on behalf of all mankind; in order to take sin out of the world. Only one man fits that bill, and His Name is Jesus Christ. Jesus paid the price for all mankind on the cross, when He said "It is Finished". As we needed a 2nd Adam to come into the world; in the same way we need a new Temple to show that the Savior as already come, this is the way to worship Him now. Instead of trying to dismiss the Millennial Temple, why don't you try to find all the differences between the Old Testament Temple, and this Millennial Temple. I assigned homework to find the missing Temple Furniture, but those are not all of the differences. I hope that when you contemplate these differences, you are blessed as I was, and am when I do the same.