Where will that throne actually be?
17At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and
all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem:
neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
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The future temple of which Ezekiel prophesied will have water flowing
out of the altar (Ezekiel 47:1-5). The Fountain of Eternal Life
Ezekiel describes the water flowing eastward from the temple and rising
continually until it becomes a river too large to pass over.
God’s truth will fill the entire world like the ocean beds
are filled with water (Isaiah 11:9; Habakkuk 2:14).
“And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow
all trees for meat … because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and
the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine” Ez 47:12
God’s Holy Spirit will spiritually heal people of human nature and wrongful thinking.
People will also be healed of physical problems, a dual healing, spiritual and physical.
The water will flow right out of the holy of holies in that millennial temple!
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“In Gilgal, the first site of the tabernacle in the Holy Land, there were the
springs from Jericho that supplied an abundance of water,”
“When the tabernacle was at Shiloh (from the times of Joshua to Samuel), there was
a natural spring that supplied water to the temple, the city, and the surrounding area.”
Jerusalem only has one fresh water source: the Gihon Spring, must be special to God.
It’s where Zadok anointed Solomon king (1 Kings 1:38-39) Water from the same
spring flowed within the walls of the temples that Solomon and Zerubbabel built.
Josephus wrote , in the tabernacle in the wilderness, the priests in Israel purified
themselves in spring waters. There is always a spring associated with the sanctuary.
David placed the ark of the covenant directly over the Gihon Spring. The ark is a
symbol of God’s throne. The place from which God ruled the Israelites on Earth.
God’s throne on this Earth was right over the Gihon Spring!
“David also made it clear that there was a fountain, or a spring, within the precincts
of the holy temple in heaven, and there was also a fountain (a spring) positioned in
the replica of God’s house in Jerusalem.
David related these things in his psalms, when the ‘house of the Lord’ was reckoned
to be the tent of the ark located at the Gihon Spring. - That special sanctuary for the
ark remained at the Gihon for 38 years.”
Psalm 68:24, 26 read, “They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God,
my King, in the sanctuary. … Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from
the fountain of Israel.” God’s sanctuary was by a spring. The blessings came from
the fountain of Israel. That’s where the sanctuary was.
“The earthly symbol for this fountain was the Gihon Spring.”
Isaiah 8:5-6 speak of “the waters of Shiloah that go softly,”
Isaiah 12:3 talks about the “water … of the wells of salvation.”
God is “the fountain of living waters” (Jeremiah 17:13).
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Hillel Giba wrote in 'the book Ancient Jerusalem Revealed' He said
“The Gihon does not maintain a constant flow, but is a siphontype karst spring,
fed by groundwater that gushes intermittently through cracks in the cave floor.
“Three subterranean water supply systems were devised to capture, store,
distribute and protect itswaters. And these three systems are known as
Warren’s Shaft, the Siloam Channel, and Hezekiah’s Tunnel.”
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These three systems all brought water from that spring. Warren’s Shaft
is the earliest supply system that enabled Jerusalem’s residents to draw
water without having to leave the fortified confines of the city.
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Solomon had engineers design and then chisel out of the rock a shaft which
led down to the Gihon Spring.Was Warren’s Shaft dug by Solomon’s men?
The second water system to be built, the Siloam Channel would take excess
water down to an “old” pool area at the southwestern end of the City of David.
“But during times of siege, the pool area was exposed outside the city wall.”
Hezekiah’s tunnel was the third water system to be built.
What King Hezekiah did to ensure that Jerusalem’s water supply remained
safe from an Assyrian invasion. 2 Kings 20:20 mentions “how he made
a pool, and a conduit,and brought water into the city.” [2 Chronicles 32]
“Warren’s Shaft … provided the city with a convenient access to its
water source in peacetime as well as wartime.
Hezekiah directed the water flowing from his tunnel into the Siloam Pool.
“In Jesus’s day, the blind man who was healed was directed to go and wash in
this pool.” Christ directed the blind man to the water to be healed (John 9:1-7).
Isaiah 22:9: “Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that
they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.”
The lower pool was the pool inside the fortified city.
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the Gihon is Jerusalem’s only source of water, but theres only one source
that comes from Jerusalem above. (John 6:44) the spring waters symbolism
of the fountains of salvation from God in heaven.”
Nehemiah 3:15 also mentions the “pool of Siloah,” referring to the waters
of the Gihon Spring. Verse 26 talks about the“water gate,” which is right
by the spring. That gate is where Ezra stood up and taught the law to the Jews
(Nehemiah 8:1-3). Ezra and his priestly group stood in front of the water gate,
while Nehemiah and a secular group stood in front of the prison gate (Neh 12:39).
Joel 3:18 says that “all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain
shall come forth of the house of the Lord ….” A fountain is going to spring from
the Ezekiel temple! The wells of salvation will extend to the entire world!
prophesied to be (once again) a single fountain giving forth pure spring water,
which will wellupwards from within the house of the Lord (God’s temple).
Zechariah 14:8-9 give the same picture of “living waters [going] out from
Jerusalem” at a time when the Messiah is “king over all the earth.”
Psalm 29:3 says that God “is upon the waters”—those living waters.
Psalm 36:8-9 say that God is going to make people “drink of the river
of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life ….”
Isaiah 32:14-20 a millennial picture that includes these living waters.
those waters are associated with the throne of God! current the river
of life exists in God’s heavenly throne room! the physical “precisely
duplicate the pattern … of God’s temple in heaven.”
the World Tomorrow is going to revolve around Jerusalem! (e.g. Isaiah 62:1-7).
Even after the Millennium and the Last Great Day, everything in the universe
is going to revolve around NEW Jerusalem! (Isaiah 65:17-19, 66:10-12).
“As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be
comforted in Jerusalem. And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice,
and your bones shall flourish like an herb …”
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee”
“And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising”
Ezekiel gives us detailed dimensions of the city of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 48:17)
will be built on the same place Zerubbabel and Solomon built their temples.
“It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city
from that day shall be, The Lord is there”(verse 35).
The name of Jerusalem is also going to be called by another name then:
The Lord is there! The Son of God is going to be ruling there.
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When Israel came into the Promised Land, it first had a tabernacle in Gilgal.
Then the Israelites established the tabernacle at Shiloh. Later, Solomon built
a temple in Jerusalem. Still later, Zerubbabel built one in the same place.
The next temple will be Ezekiel’s temple. That will come to an end when
the Father brings down new Jerusalem. Solomon’s temple was constructed
just south of what is commonly believed to be the Temple Mount today.
Ezekiel’s temple is going to be built on the same, identical spot.
David’s throne belongs in Jerusalem, where it is soon going to be forever
(Isaiah 9:7). It is, after all, God’s throne - 2 Chronicles 13:5
the ‘Mount Zion’ of King David’s time was located in the southern part
of Jerusalem on its southeast ridge, this means that the temples would
have to be located immediately north on what was called the ‘Ophel’ in
the Scriptures. The Ophel and the Gihon Spring are in the same area.
The real site of the temples was a few yards (meters) west of the Gihon Spring,
about a third of a mile south of the Dome of the Rock now situated within the
enclosure of the Haram esh- Sharif”
Psalm 137:5-6 says we should prefer Jerusalem above our chief joy.