Bible Questions Answered: Temple-Millennial

Bible Questions Answered:
Bible Error?
I see that in Ezek. 43:21, it speaks of a temple and sacrifices, how can this be in light of the scripture, Heb. 10:8?
Madhu/ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Bible Answers:
Ezekiel 43:21 NLT (A new Temple, to be built, revealed to Ezekiel – 40:1-48:35.)
Then take the young bull for the sin offering and burn it at the appointed place outside the Temple area.

Hebrews 10:8 NLT
First, Christ said, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of Moses)

And let us continue in Hebrews 10, with verses 9-23.
9 Then He said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect.
10 For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ,
once for all time.
11 Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins.
12 But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then He sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand.
13 There He waits until His enemies are humbled and made a footstool under His feet.
14 For by that one offering He forever made perfect those who are being made holy.
15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For He says,
16 “This is the new covenant I will make with My people on that day, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.”
17 Then He says,“I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.”
18 And when sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices.
19 And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.
20 By His death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place.
21 And since we have a Great High Priest who rules over God’s house,
22 let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting Him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep His promise.

The Lord had given Ezekiel a vision of a “future temple,” to be built.
No, it has never been built yet.
No, it is not the temple the Jews will build in the time of the Tribulation, which will be desecrated by the Anti-Christ (Daniel 11:31.)
It is a yet future – a Millennial Temple.

But dear brother, didn't you hear the Apostle Paul, say, that Christ has forever accomplished, “once and for all,” what animal sacrifices could never accomplish?
Yes, so the question then is, what can this be?

Here is a thought to ponder.

Genesis 14:17-20 NLT
17 After Abram returned from his victory over Kedorlaomer and all his allies, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
18 And Melchizedek, the king of Salem and a priest of God Most High, brought Abram some bread and wine.
19 Melchizedek blessed Abram with this blessing:“Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
20 And blessed be God Most High, who has defeated your enemies for you.”
Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the goods he had recovered.

Melchizedek and Abram, together ate the Lord's Supper, some 1,900 years before the Lord's death at Calvary.
It showed the way that was to come.
We today celebrate the Lord's Supper, celebrating His victory of sin and death, some 2,000 years after the fact, remembering that great victory, by looking back.

We know the God of the Bible is in the business of “memorials,” such as altars.
Would it not be proper to, “remember,” by pointing back at our Lords' great triumph, of Calvary, yes even during the Millennium?
And apparently so it shall be!
To abrogate the sins of the people? Never, for as the Apostle so aptly stated...

Hebrews 10:10 NLT
For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.

As a people, should we not always, be brought to remember, by what great sacrifice, our sins have been cleansed, yes.

I John 1:7 KJV
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Selah