1. The Tabernacle…It's Pattern
2. The Tabernacle…It's Purpose
3. Temple Priests, Implements and Sacrifices
4. David's Preparations for the Temple
5. Solomon's Temple
6. Zerubbabel's Temple
7. Herod's Temple
8. The Temples "Day of Destruction"
9. Preparation for the Third Temple
10. The Tribulation Temple
11. Messiah's Temple
12. The Temple in Eternity Future
Learning Objectives
What it is the Learner to should know when
they are finished with this course.
Primary Resources
1. King James Bible
2. Interlinear Greek New Testament
3. Interlinear Hebrew Old Testament
4. Strong's Concordance
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Websites
These are websites that you may find useful
in your study for this course.
MAJOR SOURCE SITE FOR THIS COURSE http://www.templeinstitute.org/
Project Gutenberg: Free electronic books
(ebooks) Full text.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
bookcrossing.com
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
HighWire Press: Free online full-text
articles.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
Baen Free Library: Baen Books make
available a number of their publications in electronic format.
http://www.baen.com/library/
Free Books: Many books in the public domain
may be freely accessed here.
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online.
http://www.bartleby.com/
Mr.FreeFree: Free Libraries Online.
http://www.mrfreefree.com/reference/free_libraries_online.html
BibleGateway.com
http://www.biblegateway.com/
Online Bible in over 50 versions.
Strong's Concordance with Hebrew and Greek
Lexicon
http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html
Crosswalk
http://bible.crosswalk.com/
Commentaries, concordances, dictionaries, encyclopedias, lexicons.
Bible Atlas
http://www.painsley.org.uk/re/Atlas/
Biblical Maps
http://www.blueletterbible.org/images_maps.html
About.com: Ancient Classical History
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/biblicalmaps/ig/Biblical-History-Maps/Historical-Maps-of-Israel.htm
Berean Bible Society: Cornelius R. Stam
http://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/history.html
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WEEK ONE:
The Tabernacle…It's Pattern
Reading: Messiah's Coming Temple: Ezekiel's
Prophetic Vision of the Future Temple.
John W. Schmitt & J. Carl Laney.
1997. Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, MI ISBN 0-8254-3727-x
Read Exodus 24-40
Listen to J. Vermon McGee on these chapters
Deliverables:
1. Paper on the tabernacle and its pattern
2. 10-page paper on: What scripture supports the literal creation
as recorded in Genesis
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WEEK TWO:
The Tabernacle…It's Purpose
Read Exodus 24-40
Listen to J. Vermon McGee on these chapters
Deliverables:
10-page Paper on the tabernacle and its purpose
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WEEK THREE:
Temple Priests, Implements and Sacrifices
Read the Book of Leviticus
Listen to J. Vermon McGee on this book
Deliverables:
10 page paper on topic: The Levitical instructions for Temple
priests, implements, and sacrifices.
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WEEK FOUR:
David's Preparations for the Temple
Read II Samuel 5-7; I Chronicles 21-29
Listen to J. Vermon McGee on these chapters
Deliverables: 10 page paper: What are the major events in
David’s preparation for the first Jewish temple.
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WEEK FIVE:
Solomon's Temple
Read I Kings 2-8; II Chronicles 1-7
Listen to J. Vermon McGee on these chapters
Deliverables: 10 page on: What major events occurred in
Solomon’s planning for the temple, building the temple, and
dedicating the temple.
Explain how the Davidic Covenant establishes Jerusalem as the eternal
cap of the Jewish people. How does Jeremiah 33:17-26 interact
with His Covenant Promise.
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WEEK SIX:
Zerubbabel's Temple
Read Ezra 1-6; Haggai, Zachariah
Deliverables: 10 page: Circumstances of the rebuilding of
the Zerubbabel’s (second) temple and the role played by the two
prophets Haggai and Zachariah.
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WEEK SEVEN:
Herod's Temple
Deliverables: Using various search engines research
“Harold’s Temple” and write a 10-page paper.
With references…all papers note
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WEEK EIGHT:
The Temples "Day of Destruction"
Visit The Temple Institute's website - templeinstitute.org
Read Mark 13:1-13, Luke 21:1-24
Listen to J. Vermon McGee on these chapters
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WEEK NINE:
Preparation for the Third Temple
Preparing to build a temple (the wrong temple) see what Jews are going
today to prepare to rebuild the temple.
Watch Ready to Rebuild Revisited DVD, available on ProphecyBookstore.com
Visit The Temple Institute's website - templeinstitute.org
Deliverables: The preparation for the third or next temple.
Looking at what preparations the Jews are making for the rebuilding of
this third temple.
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WEEK TEN:
The Tribulation Temple
Read Daniel 9:27 & 11:44-45; Matthew 24:15; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 11:1,2.
These refer to the tribulation temple being built.
Deliverables: Write a paper explaining how world events will allow them to build this
temple that will be a false temple for a messiah (Antichrist).
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WEEK ELEVEN:
Messiah's Temple
Read Ezekiel 40-46
Supplemental Reading: The Messiah's Coming Temple.
Deliverables: Write a paper describing similarities to the other temples and its
differences. And its purpose and eternality.
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WEEK TWELVE:
The Temple in Eternity Future
Read Psalm 132:13-14; Ezekiel 37:24-28; Revelation 21:22.
Deliverables: Write a paper discussing the following:
Two of these passages appear to contradict each other, with Ezekiel saying there will be a temple forever, and Revelation saying there will be no temple. How do you explain these two passages?
1. Two different location new earthly Jerusalem and “new Jerusalem”
2. That this temple (Messiah’s temple) is forever.
3. In the new Jerusalem there is no temple but in Ezekiel speaking
of the earthly Jerusalem says the temple is there forever.
Messiah's temple is the Millennium. And at the end of the
millennium new heaven and new earth but the Messiah's temple will be
saved and then put back onto New Earth and New Jerusalem
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FINAL PROJECT
(16 percent)
Write a paper discussing the similarities and
differences in the tabernacle and the temples (1st, 2nd, Tribulation,
and Messiah’s temple) as they related to the purposes of God.
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