THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH (Part 1)
THE TEMPLE AND ITS ADMINISTRATION
THE GREAT TEMPLE
The temple is a place where we worship Jehovah. The Great Temple had two major parts (see the photo of the Temple of King Herod, at the time Jesus Christ ministered on earth, comments are written in French):
1 — The Outer Courtyard of the Gentiles (or nations), surrounded by external fortifications, constitutes the “great temple”.
2 — The temple sanctuary is the tall T-shaped building, with the small inner courtyard in front of its large porch where there was the large copper sea of water and the sacrificial altar.
In the representation of the temple, seen in vision by the prophet Ezekiel, modeled in broad outline on the plans of the tabernacle and later the temple of Solomon, allows us to have a more simplified view to better visualize the explanations that follow.
According to the prophecy of Revelation chapter 11, the great temple, with its temple sanctuary, inside, represents both, the Earth Planet (The outer courtyard of nations), in connection with the Heavens with the temple sanctuary (The Most Holy). Here is what it is written in Revelation 11: “And a reed like a rod was given to me as he said: “Get up and measure the temple sanctuary of God and the altar and those worshiping in it. But as for the courtyard that is outside the temple sanctuary, leave it out and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city underfoot for 42 months” (Revelation 11:1,2).
“But as for the courtyard that is outside the temple sanctuary, leave it out and do not measure it”, this simple sentence shows that the great temple symbolized the planet earth, which in the long run, after the thousand years of Christ reign, will be organized in its entirety to worship Jehovah (Isaiah 11:9): “I did not see a temple in it, for Jehovah God the Almighty is its temple, also the Lamb is” (Revelation 21:22).
For the moment, for as shocking as it may be, human sovereignty, without the intervention of God, is exercised in the “Outer Courtyard of the nations”, according to Revelation 11:2. The court of nations is not measured because, for a time fixed by God, it is not under His jurisdiction, but rather under the jurisdiction of the devil, according to 2 Corinthians 4:4 (“among whom the god of this system of things” (the devil) currently, reigns provisionally, on the earthly “outer courtyard” of the great temple because it has been given, provisionally, to him and the nations (Matthew 4:8,9)).
The human sovereignty without God on Earth, will soon end
Jesus Christ has been enthroned as king in the Heavens, in 1914
Satan was expelled from the Heavens in 1914
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