Ezekiel 41:1-26

Ezekiel continues to receive a vision of a temple where he is accompanied by a celestial being who helps him to measure the building and all of the rooms in the building.  Solomon’s temple has relatively recently been destroyed, and the temple that was built after the captivity was not as big as the one described here; so we must conclude that this temple being described by Ezekiel has yet to be built.  It would be no problem for our eternal God to reveal things to Ezekiel that are still in the future of us today.  God holds the future in His hands and He is at work in the history of this planet to bring all things to a culmination that is for His glory.  We can rest and take comfort in that truth.

THE TEMPLE WILL BE LARGE: In the previous chapter we had the description and measurements of the outside courts surrounding the temple.  We now get to see the measurements of the temple itself as well as all of the rooms within this structure.  The temple has a room for the holy of holies, the main meeting room and three stories of champers with thirty champers on each level. 

THE TEMPLE WILL BE LAVISH: Besides the size of the temple, Ezekiel is also given the description of the furnishings and the decorations of the temple.  It seems that that furniture is made out of wood with ornate carvings of palm trees being on the furnishings as well as the walls of the building.  One thing that is not described is a veil that was part of the original temple but was torn in two when Christ died on the cross.  Due to the forgiveness of sin we have in Jesus, there will be free access to the holy of holies through our High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ.