Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10184. Scripture indicates that temple sacrifices will resume during the Tribulation, because several prophecies require a functioning altar which the Antichrist can stop. That is not a comfortable conclusion for a Christian who knows the letter to the Hebrews, and it needs handling with care. Two things have to be said together. A revived…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10198. Millennial worship is described in more detail than most Christians realise, and the details are the reason the subject causes trouble. Ezekiel spends nine chapters on a temple, a river, a prince, a priesthood and a calendar of offerings, and anyone who believes the sacrifice of Jesus was once for all wants to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10124. There is no temple in the New Jerusalem because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple, and once you grasp what a temple was for, that sentence stops being a puzzle and becomes the point of the whole Bible. John gives us the reason in the same breath as…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10091. The temple in prophecy is one of those threads that, once you see it, runs through the whole Bible and refuses to be tidied away. It begins with a tent in a desert, becomes Solomon’s building, is destroyed and rebuilt, is destroyed again by Roman armies, and then reappears in passages describing events…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10069. Will a third temple be rebuilt in Jerusalem? I believe the answer is yes, and not because of anything in the newspapers. Several prophecies about the last days assume a functioning sanctuary standing on that site, with sacrifices being offered in it and a man of appalling arrogance eventually desecrating it. That said,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10041. Sceptics love to wave 1 Kings 9 in my face and claim the temple promise God made to Solomon collapsed in ruins, so the Bible cannot be trusted after all. When the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time He spoke of that house and His name being there for ever, and centuries…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2113. The shekinah glory is the visible, radiant presence of God dwelling among His people – the cloud and fire and brightness that filled the tabernacle, settled on the temple, and made Israel unique among all the nations of the earth. Curiously, the word “shekinah” itself never appears in the Bible. It comes from…