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: 5 minutesQuestion 60042 This is a question that sceptics love to raise. If Jesus said that not one stone would be left upon another, how is it that the Western Wall—also called the Wailing Wall—is still standing in Jerusalem today? Did Jesus get it wrong? Was His prophecy a failure? The answer lies in understanding exactly…
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…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10091 The temple occupies a unique place in Scripture’s prophetic landscape. From Solomon’s magnificent construction to the Roman destruction of Herod’s temple in AD 70, from Ezekiel’s extraordinary vision of a future temple to Jesus’ own references to the temple’s eschatological role, the subject runs like a thread through prophetic Scripture. For those who…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10198 The question of millennial worship strikes at the heart of what Ezekiel 40-48 actually describes and how it fits within the broader framework of redemptive history. These nine chapters contain the most detailed description of a future temple, its priesthood, its sacrificial system, and its worship practices anywhere in Scripture. The question they…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10124 The absence of a temple in the New Jerusalem is one of the most striking features of the eternal city described in Revelation 21-22. Throughout the entire Old Testament, the temple was the centre of Israel’s worship, the dwelling place of God’s glory on earth, and the focal point of the entire sacrificial…