Ezekiel’s temple
Explore the spaces and measurements of Ezekiel’s temple vision.
Use the model’s own controls below. On a small screen, the full-page view gives more space to explore.
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Sulley’s reconstruction and the Holy District
The temple now opens in the Sulley view. Use its Sulley / District button to switch to the diagram of the priestly, Levitical and city portions. The temple follows a 24-inch cubit; the independent district diagram uses a 52.5 cm cubit. These conversions and reconstructed details are modelling choices.
Read the vision alongside the model.
Ezekiel’s vision describes gates, courts, the sanctuary and an ordered place of worship. A model makes spatial relationships easier to follow. Its reconstruction also makes choices about measurements, interpretation and details that the text does not fully specify.
The temple and Christ’s sacrifice
Ezekiel’s offerings and purification language should be read with Hebrews 9–10, where Christ’s saving offering is once for all. In a future-temple interpretation, proposed commemorative rites cannot supply an additional effective sacrifice for forgiveness. Describing them as memorial is an interpretation that requires argument, not Ezekiel’s explicit label for every rite.
Other readers understand the vision as an ideal restoration fulfilled in Christ and the new creation. The architecture alone does not decide between these readings.
Continue with God’s Kingdom and the earth.
Interactive model supplied for this website. Study notes adapted from the reference guide’s discussion of the kingdom and final fulfilment.