Chapter Twenty-Five/Reviving the Two Witnesses

 Before the second woe is finally past, the strong angel calls upon John to take part in another prophetic presentation, this one having to do with the temple. (Revelation 9:2; 12; 10:1) Here is what John reports: "And a reed like a rod was given me as he said: 'Get up and measure the temple sanctuary of God and the altar and those worshipping in       it,' " -REVELATION 11:1. 

The Temple Sanctuary

The temple here mentioned cannot be any literal temple in Jerusalem, since the last of these was destroyed by the Romans in 70 C.E. The apostle Paul, however, showed that even before that destruction, there had appeared another temple sanctuary that fulfilled the prophetic types that would endure up to our day. This was the great spiritual temple that fulfilled the prophetic types provided by the tabernacle and later by the temples built in Jerusalem. It is "the true tent, which Jehovah put up, and not man," and its High Priest is Jesus, whom Paul describes as have already "sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens." Its Most Holy is the location of Jehovah's presence in heaven itself. - HEBREWS 8:1, 2; 9:11, 24. 

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