Renderings

Explore the visions.

A guide to our interactive renderings: what each one depicts, how to explore it, and how its measurements relate to the text.

01 / Ezekiel 40–48

Sulley’s temple

Walk through the courts and the circular sanctuary of the reconstruction associated with Henry Sulley. The rendering brings its large scale into view: a square of 500 reeds, or 3,000 cubits, with the model’s 24-inch cubit giving a side of about 1.83 km.

Explore the east wall, colonnades, separate place, elevated altar and river. The location menu offers ground-level and aerial views. Tap surfaces for measurements and passage references; Text? distinguishes measured and supplied features, while Cubits adds an outline illustrating an alternative unit reading.

Sulley’s circular plan, elevations and landscape are an interpretation of Ezekiel’s description. The model makes those choices visible; it does not turn every reconstructed feature into a stated biblical measurement.

Explore the temple

02 / Ezekiel 45 & 48

The Holy District

Step back from individual buildings to the arrangement of land for the priests, Levites and city. Two portions of 25,000 by 10,000 units and a city portion of 25,000 by 5,000 form the larger square. A marker identifies the sanctuary’s location within the priestly portion.

This is a land-allocation diagram rather than another temple reconstruction. It uses cubits of 52.5 cm, giving a total side of 13.125 km. The source passages, unit assumptions and the relationship between sanctuary and district should be examined together.

Choose District in the temple viewer, or open this starting view directly. The location menu includes views above the whole district and the city portion.

Open the district view

03 / Revelation 21–22

New Jerusalem

Turn the cube to explore the city whose length, breadth and height are equal. The rendering shows twelve gates, coloured foundations, and an illustrative river and trees. At the model’s approximate conversion of 185 metres to a stadion, each 12,000-stadia edge is about 2,220 km.

Illustrative mode enlarges small features so they can be seen. True scale shows why a wall of 144 cubits is tiny beside the city. The highlight adds the lengths of twelve edges to reach 144,000: a mathematical observation from the model, not an explicit identification made in Revelation.

John is shown the bride, the Lamb’s wife, as a city. The cube helps us contemplate the dimensions and imagery; its geometry alone does not establish a literal building. Gate positions follow an illustrative use of Ezekiel 48.

Explore New Jerusalem

Read, explore, return to the passage.

Begin with the linked chapter. Use the model to locate a feature, then compare its explanation with the text. Measurements help answer questions of scale; they do not settle every question of prophetic meaning. The temple viewer supports walking, flying and a location menu. The New Jerusalem viewer supports drag-to-rotate, pause, labels and scale controls.

On a phone, the full-page models give the controls more room. The temple requires WebGL2; the written descriptions and Scripture links remain available if a device cannot render it.

Ezekiel 40:1-5 Ezekiel 42:15-20 Ezekiel 45:1-6 Ezekiel 48:8-20 Revelation 21:9-27 Revelation 22:1-5

Continue with prophecy, Israel and the coming Kingdom.

Explore the visions.

Sulley’s temple

The Holy District

New Jerusalem

Read, explore, return to the passage.

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