View one
A temple still to come
Many readers, especially in dispensational and premillennial traditions, expect a real temple built to these measurements in the age to come, during Christ’s reign on earth.
Interactive experiences
The TabernacleExperience I · Exodus 25–40 Solomon’s TempleExperience II · 1 Kings 6–8 · 2 Chronicles 3–7 The Temple Ezekiel SawExperience III · Ezekiel 40–48Ezekiel 40–48 · A guided walk
Walk through the temple Ezekiel saw in his vision, from the outer gate to the most holy place and the river that flows out of it. Every wall, gate and room is drawn to the measurements in the Bible.
“Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee.”Ezekiel 40:4 · KJV
Before we walk
Ezekiel was a priest who had been taken away to Babylon. Jerusalem had fallen, and Solomon’s temple lay in ruins. Then God showed him a new temple on a very high mountain, and a guide measured it out for him one reed at a time. You are going to walk the same route. Each stop shows what was measured, quotes the King James Bible, and explains it simply.
The prophet
A priest living among the exiles by the river Chebar (Ezekiel 1:1–3).
The moment
The 25th year of the captivity, 14 years after Jerusalem fell (40:1).
The guide
Holding a line of flax and a measuring reed (40:3).
The guided tour · 25 stops
The last words of Ezekiel
“And the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.”
Ezekiel 48:35 · KJVWhat does it mean?
God told Ezekiel why: “shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern” (43:10). Christians have understood the vision in several ways.
View one
Many readers, especially in dispensational and premillennial traditions, expect a real temple built to these measurements in the age to come, during Christ’s reign on earth.
View two
Others read it as a picture of God living among his people. It is fulfilled in Jesus, who “spake of the temple of his body” (John 2:21), in the church (1 Corinthians 3:16), and in the new creation, where “the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it” (Revelation 21:22).
View three
Some see an ideal plan given to exiles returning home. It shows God’s holiness and his promise to dwell among his people “for ever” (43:7), and it calls them to keep his ways.
All agree on the heart of the vision: the glory of the LORD returns and fills the house (43:5).
The tour film
A narrated film of the tour, about seven minutes long, drawn live in your browser. Press play to hear the narration, or jump to any chapter.
Narrated with Kokoro (Michael voice), an open-source AI voice. Captions are part of the picture.
For young explorers
Tap a card to check your answer. Every answer is in the Bible text.
The surveyor’s ledger
All measurements of the temple from Ezekiel 40–48, in long cubits, with metres worked out at about 52.5 cm per cubit.
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