In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, and on it to the south there was a structure like a city.This appears to be the new temple, perhaps the one that would be rebuilt Ezra? It would be the central place for worship of God, and therefore important to the Jews. Knowing that it would one day exist would give them hope.
However, I wonder why the rest of the chapter, and I think the next, are given to such precise detail of its dimensions? Is this to be used as a blueprint for when it is built? Or is it meant to be prophetic, and prove that when it is built it will "turn out" to match the vision?
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