Why a Temple and Sacrifices in the Millennium?

Primarily covering Ezekiel 40-48

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This Bible study will discuss the fact that a functional temple system with sacrifices will exist in the Millennium and explore the reasons for that. I will use the last chapters of Ezekiel to present a number of details about this and compare with the need for the original tabernacle and Temple. 

I'll also show that first-century Jewish Christians were still participating in temple sacrifices after Jesus' sacrifice, including Paul, per Acts 21 (impossible today with the sacrifice restrictions of Deuteronomy 12). Essentially, the physical and spiritual temple systems have parallels but are distinct--and both operated together throughout history. The former tabernacle and temple situation of God dwelling amid a physical, carnal people will return in the Millennium, necessitating a physical temple system, different from the New Jerusalem when there will be no physical, carnal people and thus no physical temple.

Branson
FOT
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Tom Robinson

Tom is an elder in the United Church of God who works from his home near St. Louis, Missouri as managing editor and senior writer for Beyond Today magazine, church study guides and the UCG Bible Commentary. He is a visiting instructor at Ambassador Bible College. And he serves as chairman of the church's Prophecy Advisory Committee and a member of the Fundamental Beliefs Amendment Committee.

Tom began attending God's Church at the age of 16 in 1985 and was baptized a year later. He attended Ambassador College in both Texas and California and served for a year as a history teacher at the college's overseas project in Sri Lanka. He graduated from the Texas campus in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in theology along with minors in English and mass communications. Since 1994, he has been employed as an editor and writer for church publications and has served in local congregations through regular preaching of sermons.

Tom was ordained to the ministry in 2012 and attends the Columbia-Fulton, Missouri congregation with his wife Donna and their two teen children.