TEACHING BOX 13A
Different Temples, Different Lessons
Ezekiel’s Visionary Temple:
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Is described by Ezekiel for the Jews exiled in Babylon
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Has an altar on which many sacrifices are offered
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Highlights Jehovah’s righteous standards for worship
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Focuses our attention on the spiritual restoration that began in 1919
The Great Spiritual Temple:
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Is explained by Paul, addressing the Hebrew Christians
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Has an altar on which only one sacrifice is offered, “once for all time” (Heb. 10:10)
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Explains the spiritual reality to which the tabernacle and the physical temples had long pointed—Jehovah’s arrangement for pure worship based on the ransom sacrifice of Christ
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Focuses our attention on the work that Christ did as the Greater High Priest from 29 to 33 C.E.
