Meditations

Openline radio on February 25, 2023 hour 1:

Listener:

My question is from Ezekiel. I am a little confused, you know you read Revelation 21, 22 and it talks about the holy city coming down. But before that, I was thinking the building of the temple in Ezekiel and then the layout of the land for Israel and I am just confused, is that the land and then the temple that is laid out in the millennium kingdom or is it part of the Revelation at the end of time?

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

Well, you have Ezekiel 37 which has the regathering of the Jewish people back to the land and then some time in the tribulation period Ezekiel 38 to 39, what follows is the war of Gog and Magog, sometime after the regathering of the Jewish people back to the land during the tribulation, maybe part of the middle or near the end, then you have Ezekiel 40 through 48, which is the millennium temple, which is the thousand year reign of Jesus, that’s what Ezekiel 40 through 48 about but there will be a temple actually built beforehand, it says in the middle of the tribulation, the future false Messiah, the Anti-Christ will take his seat in the temple and demand that everyone worship him. That’s in 2 Thessalonian 2 and it’s in Daniel 9, 24 through 27, so the idea that there’s going to be, no one knows when or how, I don’t think Israel is going to do anything to the Dome of the Rock, maybe there be an earthquake, I don’t know but in the tribulation period a temple will be rebuilt, maybe even before, I just don’t know. But, there will be a temple. That will be, I guess you can call the Anti-Christ temple but then you will have a temple with different dimensions, built by the Messiah so to speak, Ezekiel 40 through 48. That’s the millennium temple and it’s not part of the new creation, which follows the millennium. It’s part of the millennium period. ok?

Listener:

I thought so but I wanted real clarification on that, thank you so much Michael.

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

It’s my pleasure. Thanks for calling.

Note: The above answer comes from the view point of pre-tribulation eschatology