With the carrying
away of the Jews into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, The
House of David, The Throne of David, The Crown of David
and the Kingdom of David were done away and not one of
these has been restored nor will be restored until Jesus
the Messiah returns to rule and reign for one thousand
years at the Millennium Temple as described by
Ezekiel.
Since AD 70, the Jews
have had no temple. as predicted by Hosea the prophet in
746 BC: "For the children of Israel shall abide many days
without a king and without a prince, and without a
sacrifice and without an ephod ...Afterward shall the
children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God,
and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his
goodness in the latter days."
We read in Zechariah,
"Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man
whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his
place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD: Even he
shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the
glory and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he
shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of
peace shall be between them both" (Zech 6:12-13). In
several prophetical passages the Messiah is referred to
as "the Branch" who will sit on the throne of David to
rule the world. "And there shall come forth a rod out
of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his
roots" (Isa 11:1). "Behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch,
and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute
judgment and justice in the earth" (Jer 23:5). In Luke,
the angel Gabriel proclaimed, "He shall be great, and
shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God
shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And
he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of
his kingdom there shall be no end" (Luke
1:32-33).
In AD 634, the
temple mount was taken over by the Muslims. In 1099, the
crusaders captured it and turned the mosques into
churches. Saladin returned it to Arab rule in 1187. The
Jews liberated the temple mount from Jordanian control in
the Six-Day War of 1967, but later returned it to the
custody of the Muslim Waqf (Jordan). Today, the "Dome of
the Rock" is situated near the centre of the temple
mount, with the Al Aqsa Mosque at its southern
end..
THE
MILLENNIAL TEMPLE
In April 572 B.C.
during Passover (14 years after the destruction of
Solomon's Temple) Ezekiel was given a detailed plan and
specifications for the Temple, the place of worship
during the Millennium.
The Millennial temple:
"As described in Ezekiel (40:5 to 42:20), the outer
dimensions of the temple complex form a square, 875 feet
(500 cubits) across and in length. The temple faces east,
as did the tabernacle and the temples of Solomon and of
the Exile. The south, east, and north sides have an outer
wall. Thirty rooms were also built on the second and
third levels. The temple itself projects from inside the
western wall, It has outer courts on three sides :south,
east, and north, 175 feet in width.
The
very first features of the Millennial Temple described
are the walls and gates (Ezekiel 40:5-37). The gates are
complex security devices that must be passed by
authorized persons only in order to enter the inner and
outer courts (Ezekiel 40:5-16
20-37).
Numerous
cherubim adorn the temple (Ezekiel 41:17-20, 25). In the
Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:24) a purpose of cherubim was
to keep persons out of unauthorized areas.
The temple area sets
inside a huge magnificent park called "the Sacred Area"
43,750
by 35,000 feet or 8.3 by 6.6 miles.
whose southern
entrance lies at Jerusalem
There will be feasts
and sacrifices. Prophecy reveals that sacrifices will
still be kept and the law of Moses strictly followed.
...The sacrifices will serve only as types and symbols.
The millennial sacrifices do not save They serve as a
memorial of what Jesus the Messiah had already done on
the cross. In Ezekiel 44 burnt offerings and sin
offerings and trespass offerings are mentioned (40:39).
The bullock, the he-goat, and the ram are to be offered
(43:19-25). The blood is to be sprinkled on the altar
(43:18). The meal offering is also incorporated (42:13).
Morning sacrifices will be offered daily (46:13). The
priests who are Levites are to officiate (43:19).
Moreover, several feasts will also be instituted. The
Passover feast will be observed again (45:21-25) and the
feast of unleavened bread (Ezekiel 45:21) and annually
the feast of tabernacles will be commemorated (45:25).The
laws and statutes delivered by Moses will be obeyed
(Ezekiel 44:24). Ezekiel 44:25 and 31 The year of Jubilee
will be observed also (43:4-5).Only the sons of Zadok.
(Zadok was a priest who was loyal to David and Solomon in
times of rebellion ) will serve as Priests.There is no
ark of the covenant, no pot of manna, no rod of Aaron, no
tables of the Law, no cherubim, no mercy-seat, no golden
candlestick, no shewbread, no veil, no Holy of Holies
where the high priest alone might enter, no high priest,
no evening sacrifice, etc. The new things added are the
glory of the Lord entering and abiding forever, the
living waters that flow from beneath the altar that
Ezekiel saw flowing from under the Temple of God. The
water started as a small stream that increased in size,
the farther it traveled. The stream began ankle-deep,
then knee-deep, then waist-deep, and then he couldn't
cross the river.(probably 3 miles wide in places )
....Ezek. 47:1to12. Wonderful trees of healing line the
banks. The Living waters flow from the huge Temple park
grounds alongside a highway that travels South 6 miles to
Jerusalem and then splits into two branches. One branch
flows East to the Dead Sea which will rise, the other
West to the Mediterranean.
Life Spans Increased ...
Isaiah 65:20-25 says, "There shall be no more thence an
infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his
days: for the child shall die an hundred years old;
but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be
accursed. And they shall build houses, and
inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and
eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another
inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as
the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine
elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They
shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble;
for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and
their offspring with them. And it shall come to
pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while
they are yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the
lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat
straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the
serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
holy mountain, saith the LORD." .... In the genealogy
from Adam to Noah given in Genesis 5 and 9:29, there are
extremely long life spans.We find that eight lived
between 895 and 969 years. After the great flood, there
was a rapid drop in life span to a little over 400 years.
Around the time of the tower of Babel, life spans dropped
to a little over 200 years. Then they began to slowly
decrease to more modern life spans over a period of
hundreds of years. In Isaiah 65:20-25
we see normal, everyday
life taking place in the Millennium We see activities
like building houses, living in them, planting vineyards,
eating fruit, bearing children, and sometimes even death.
All of these people and their descendants will be capable
of both sin and death in the millennial kingdom, even
though Satan will be in chains and unable to influence
them.
THE
WEATHER IN JERUSALEM
The land varies from the
Eastern semi-arid desert plateau, covered with
grasslands, scrub brush and desert flowers; westward to
the lowest point on the face of the earth, the Jordan
Rift Valley, 1,300 feet below sea level; to the central
hill country with peaks 2,500 feet above sea level; to
the fertile Western coastal plains bordering the
Mediterranean Sea with lush vineyards, wheat fields,
olive and fig trees These diverse land forms, along with
the winds and precipitation, means the weather varies
from place to place and season to season. Annual rainfall
on the western slopes averages 25 inches, on the east
only 12 inches. View the above
outstanding
video
by Dr. Ward R.Williams
for an interesting presentation of the weather patterns.
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