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The Lord’s Throne Room Series
Contributed by Thomas Swope on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: A study of chapter 41 verses 1 through 26
We all are going to die. Would you agree with me with this statement? If we die, we who are believers have put our hope and faith in the finished work of our Lord Jesus’ sacrifice. He gave His life for ours when He died and shed His Precious Blood for us at Calvary. Because of His sacrifice we are forgiven and can spend eternity with Him.
If we die as believers the bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 we read, “1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.”
We will be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and other loved ones. We will be with Him here on earth for 1000 years. At the end of this time frame our Lord will create a new heaven and earth and this friends is our final living spot.
We are looking at the time of the 1000 years of what is called the Millennium. Our King and Master Lord Jesus Christ will be living with us here on earth. We will be in our eternal bodies while others will live with temporal sinful frames.
Now picture with me we are now here in time. Everything that our Lord said would happen has occurred. We are now with Him for these 1000 years. You have been appointed as a mayor of a local city and now you have the opportunity to go to Jerusalem to see our King. You arrive and go to visit Him. You should not be surprised as to how the Temple looks because as a previous avid Bible student you have studied His Temple when you took the time to study Ezekiel chapters 40 through 48. You pass through the Temple as a veteran. I am proud of you.
We left off in chapter 40 two passages, verses 48 and 49. These verses speak about the vestibule of the Temple’s Sanctuary. So, here they are again “48 Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the doorposts of the vestibule, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and the width of the gateway was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side. 49 The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; and by the steps which led up to it there were pillars by the doorposts, one on this side and another on that side.”
Have you noticed that you are always ascending upwards when you are in the Temple? Our Lord Is seated in the highest. This is the honor due to Him. In humble submission we are below Him and lift our heads and arms up to Him in praise and worship that is due to Him. You will not have to worry about any physical deformities or wheel chair ramps because He has made everyone whole. The two pillars here are similar of what we saw in Solomon’s Temple. We read in the book of 1 kings chapter 7, “15 And he cast two pillars of bronze, each one eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each. 16 Then he made two capitals of cast bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. 17 He made a lattice network, with wreaths of chainwork, for the capitals which were on top of the pillars: seven chains for one capital and seven for the other capital. 18 So he made the pillars, and two rows of pomegranates above the network all around to cover the capitals that were on top; and thus he did for the other capital. 19 The capitals which were on top of the pillars in the hall were in the shape of lilies, four cubits. 20 The capitals on the two pillars also had pomegranates above, by the convex surface which was next to the network; and there were two hundred such pomegranates in rows on each of the capitals all around. 21 Then he set up the pillars by the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the right and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name Boaz. 22 The tops of the pillars were in the shape of lilies. So the work of the pillars was finished.”