Ezekiel's Temple is the Third Temple

When creating the plan of the Third Temple, we will follow the prophecy of Ezekiel, when choosing possible options, we will proceed from their functionality. We assume that the plan of the Third Temple is rational and all architectural elements of this plan should have an understandable purpose.

First of all, we draw attention to the fact that the size of 60 cubits (40:14) of height for pillars having a thickness of 2 cubits (40:9) seems inappropriate. Turning to the Hebrew original, we see that about the size of 60 cubits it is not written that it is the height of the pillars. Verbatim:  "There are 60 cubits in the pillars at the court and at the gates round and round." That is, this verse may say that the size of 60 cubits should be measured in a horizontal plane from the first pair of pillars at the entrance to the last pair of pillars near the court.

Along the way, we note that the pillars referred to here are not columns. The Hebrew word denotes a supporting structure, a support, it is a pillar, not a column: to designate round columns, another word exists. Therefore, at first we depict the profile of this pillar as a rectangular, square with a side of 2 cubits.

We draw attention to the fact that when the prophecy refers to the size of the gate, we mean the internal size of the hall where the gate is located. Also, we notice that at the gate (that is, at the hall) there are porches (at least two) having a length of 25 cubits and a width of 5 cubits. It is written that these porches are located on the side of the Temple (40:9). It would seem that we should draw two porches near the facade of the gate adjacent to the court. But immediately the question arises about the functionality of such an arrangement of the porches.



Why is it necessary to divide the flow of people into two or three parts in front of the court? To approach these porches, a stream of people must go through the hall, where the guard rooms are located on the sides. It is very inconvenient if the flow of people passes by the guards in both directions, both entering the Temple and leaving it. Therefore, we can accept the interpretation of the verse, which says about the location of the porches on the side of the Temple, that the porches is not located on the outside of the outer wall, but on the inner side of the wall of the temple complex.

Further, we draw our attention to the fact that the structure of the gate hall located in the inner court is similar to the structure of the gate hall located in the outer court near the outer wall (40:33). We carefully look at the list of matching elements: guardrooms, side pillars, porches.

We know the length of the hall at the gate located in the outer court, it is the same as the hall at the gate located in the inner court: 50 cubits. But according to the functional version, when the porches, which are located near the external wall and serve to separate the flows of people into the incoming stream and the outgoing flows, the width of these porches of 5 cubits fits into the length of the hall at the gate of 50 cubits.

Therefore, in order for the porches located near the inner court to be functional, they must be moved to the territory of the outer court, and the hall where the gates are located will be moved along with them.

This makes our model of the temple complex functional, the functions of all the elements get a rational explanation, but we lose the opportunity to compare the length of the gap between the border of the courtyard and the border of 100x100 cubits in front of the facade of the Sanctuary House. And this distance must be known in order to determine the length of buildings for the Kohanim located in the inner court.

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The main building of Ezekiel's Temple, the House of Sanctuary, consists of two isolated buildings, each of which has its own foundation. The inner building is the "Tabernacle", before the Tabernacle there is a porch. The outer building has two small porches on the west side. In the outer building there are storerooms, where items and food belonging to the Temple are stored.

This temple should stand for many thousands of years. To protect the building of the Tabernacle, there is an external building. The prophecy of Ezekiel does not say that the Tabernacle's building should have a dome, but such an addition would be very useful.

After much thought, we decided to make a dome, similar to the vision from the first chapter of the book of the prophet Ezekiel. This dome rests on 8 wheels in the form of Möbius strips.

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In general, I advise you to check all the verses where there is a description of the Temple, according to the Masoretic text. Because all translations of the Bible have a distortion of meaning, sometimes more, sometimes less. Occasionally, there are direct mistakes in the translations. Sometimes you have to look at variants of the Masoretic text. For example, about 10 steps of the staircase in front of the entrance to the House of Sanctuary.

The center of the temple complex is in the middle of the square in front of the House. This square has a size of 100 by 100 cubits. The center of the temple complex is the center of the altar.

If you move from any gate in the direction of the altar, then from the inner surface of the wall, which is located on all sides of the temple complex, you can measure the sequence of sizes:

50 cubits - the length of the gate building, and exactly the same width at the pavement, on which 30 rooms are located. This size is indicated in the prophecy of Ezekiel.

100 cubits - the size of the outer courtyard area, from the gate to the gate of the inner court. This size is indicated in the prophecy of Ezekiel.

60 cubits is the gap between the outer fence of the inner court  and the square that is located in front of the facade of the House of Sanctuary and which has a size of 100 by 100 cubits. This size is missing from the prophecy of Ezekiel. How did I get this size?



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