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place of the soles of My feet, where I will Jesus succinctly cailed"the"H6~d-sE%TFli~ " .....
dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for- Father. He will come
ever." Now we have come to the third homecoming t:O a ITIO5ClUe
of the Jewish people, from all the countries "Son of man, describe the temple to the nor -ko ,,
house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of where they had been scattered.
their iniquities; and let them measure the Wes'ces Wall- And again this exodus will be climaxed in the
pattern. Write it down in their sight, so that building of the Third Temple, fulfilling the
they may keep its whole design and all its He wl,llcome words of the Prophet Isaiah: "And it shall
ordinances, and perform them. This is the "suddenlq Lo come to pass in the last days, that the moun-
law of the temple: The whole area surround- tain of the LORD's temple will be established
ing the mountaintop shall be most holy. His Hot e, as chief among the mountains; it will be
Behold, this is the law of the temple." (Eze. 43) raised above the hills, and all nations will His Tcrn lc."
stream to it. And many people shall go and "He will suddenly come to His Temple" says
say, 'Come, and let us go up to the mountain the Prophet Malachi (Malachi 3:1) and even in
of the LORD, to the house of the God of the New Testament, we can see in 2 If this is so, then there will not be a coming of
Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and Thessalonians 2:1-4 that there is no possibil- the Messiah in glory unless there is a House,
we shall walk in his paths: for out of Zion ity, according to the Apostle Paul, of the Lord a Temple to welcome Him.
shall go forth Torah, and the Word of God coming except after the Temple has been
In the Bible we find clearly written that there from Jerusalem'" (Is. 2:2-3) built.
will not be a restoration of the divine pres- As it is put in the beautiful book: The
This is also the pattern of every exodus of ence of the Messiah UNLESS THERE WILL
the Jewish people. After each exodus, the Odyssey of the Third Temple, "It is in this FIRST BE A TEMPLE BUILT. He certainly is
future Jerusalem that the Shekhinah, the Jewish people did not just come home to not coming to a mosque - or the Dome of the
Divine Glory of God, will again reside. And it their Promised Land, but eventually, the Rock. He is coming, as Ezekiel sees, to a
is here that the Kingdom of God will be Temple was built so that God could dwell in third Temple. "And behold, the glory of the
revealed to the world, and all of humanity will the midst of His City and His Land - among God of Israel came from the way of the east
His People. After the first Exodus from come before Him." Therefore, it is truly ... and the earth shone with His glory. And
amazing, whereas the Bible is so clear upon Egypt, Solomon's Temple was built to which the glory of the Lord came into the temple by
this point, how both among the Jewish peo- the Lord came in such power and glory that way of the gate which faces towards the
the priests could not even continue to minis- ple and Christians there generally is so little east. And behold, the glory of the Lord filled
understanding about the centrality of ter before His awesome presence. After the the temple. Then I heard Him speaking to me
Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the soon second Exodus from Babylon, the Temple of from the temple. And He said to me, "Son of
Zerubbabel was built, the Temple which to be built Third Temple in relation to the man, this is the place of My throne and the
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