End Days Jewish Temple

[Dad Ernie]

Greetings All,

Somewhere's in this forum I believe I have discussed this, but on another Board, I received this post from a researcher that you may find of interest:

Temple Building Word Studies

Dad Ernie suggested a word study for "hieron" and for "naos." That struck me as reasonable and intelligent. Too many such ideas are consigned to eternal oblivion. So, I gave Bibleworks for Windoze a kick and generated a few statistics. My eyes don

[Guest shiloh357]

Interesting post. I learned a lot from it. What do you think about the building of Ezekiel's Temple during the Millenium. I consider it a literal temple that Messiah shall reign from for 1,000 years. What are your thoughts? If you commented this on another post, let me know which one.

[Dad Ernie]

Interesting post. I learned a lot from it. What do you think about the building of Ezekiel's Temple during the Millenium. I consider it a literal temple that Messiah shall reign from for 1,000 years. What are your thoughts? If you commented this on another post, let me know which one.

Greetings Shiloh,

You must be speaking of the Ezekiel Temple. I hesitate here because Christ and all the saints do not need a "physical" temple. But on the other hand there has to be a physical location (I think) to which the nations must come to pay respects. We also see the nations gathered against the chosen people at the end of the mill. reign. I am not dogmatic on this, as I am with the end-times temple supposedly erected to usher in those days.

Blessings,

Dad Ernie

[OneAccord]

Thanks for bringing this up, Dad Ernie. I just did a quick search typing in "Hieron and Naos" and there are a lot of interesting sites that came up. I will try to review this when I have time, as I am also intrigued by this topic, for several reasons----one is trying to settle in my mind the Ezekiel's Temple anomaly, another is the whole end-times temple craze, and also just the personal revelation of being a living stone in God's holy temple. Good study topic.

[George]

Interesting post. I learned a lot from it. What do you think about the building of Ezekiel's Temple during the Millenium. I consider it a literal temple that Messiah shall reign from for 1,000 years. What are your thoughts? If you commented this on another post, let me know which one.

My thread on the Ezekiel Temple

Your brother in Messiah with much agape love,

George

[ginakay]

Thanks for sharing the thread on the Ezekiel Temple!

In reading that thread there was a comment made about the New Jerusalem. I hope it is okay to ask on this Temple thread, but I would like to have your thoughts on this. There is the Jerusalem that now exists, then there is the Jerusalem from which Jesus will rule over the earth in the millinium, which I had thought would be the New Jerusalem that would come down from God out of Heaven and would be where he ruled the earth from. However if that is not the case, what/where is the New Jerusalem and is that where the souls/spirits of the saved go when they die?

[George]

Ginakay, GREAT QUESTION!

You have to understand that Jerusalem -- Yerusalim -- is plural! im's in Hebrew indicate there's a plurality. For example -- Elohim, Mayim, Rachim, etc.

This is my understanding of the Jerusalem's of the Word. First of all, you have to understand that the Jerusalem that Messiah will rule from for a 1000 years is 3500 square miles and there's going to be a physical Temple rebuilt (which is 3 1/2 square miles). Now after the 1000 years, then the New Jerusalem will descend from heaven where there will be NO TEMPLE. Finally, all aspects of sin will be destroyed after the 1000 years -- and the kingdom will be delivered into the hands of the Father from the Son.

Your brother in Messiah with much agape love,

George

[Dad Ernie]

Greetings George,

I didn't know that about the 'ims', that helps explain the mirror images of the one in heaven and the one on earth.

But again, just to let Ginakay know, I do not believe there shall be another "physical temple" on this earth, and I believe I have given sufficient reason to believe this.

Thank you for your insights George.

Blessings & have a Great Christmas,

Dad Ernie

[nebula]

Hey, George!

I always heard that Jerusalem meant "city of peace." I'm feeling a bit confused now.

[George]

Hello Nebula,

It does! In Hebrew it's pronounced -- yeh-roo-sha-la-yim. Yeh-roo in Hebrew means they will "see", or they will get a "vision". Shalem is a derivitive of Shalom which means peace. The --im indicates a plurality in Hebrew, although many times we think of it in a "singular" sense in English.

For example in Hebrew, the word for mercy is rach-amim. Yet, in English we think of "mercy" of God, but in Hebrew it's "mercies" of God. It cannot be said in a singular sense in Hebrew. So always know that God's mercies is always greater than your "sin" ("chet" in Hebrew). Your "singular" sins are never greater than God's "mercies"!

Your brother in Messiah with much agape love,

George