By Dr. Charles Ruark, MD
Mystery 1: Size of the House
We believe that there exists within the Bible a massive physically holy architectural structure whose physical existence and dimensions have not been interpreted literally by mainstream Christian denominations both Catholic and Protestant. However, we believe that it is real and possesses astonishingly real, physical dimensions, and that the whole structure is a symbol of the Cross. We refer to it as the House or the Millennial Temple. Let us explain.
A cross has a simple geometry consisting of two crossed rectangles with a square in the center. The House is therefore modular and consists of a set of independent architectural modules that are squares or rectangles of 25, 50, 75,100, or 150 cubits. Therefore, its entire floor plan can be resolved to zero uncertainty by means of progressively smaller squares or rectangles using these modules as a starting point. We call this property the Geometric Principle. To learn more about the supernatural dimensions of the House visit the millennialtemple.tv website and read “The Modular Temple” and purchase Bundle 04 of our Schematics titled “Principles and Layout of the Temple”. The undeniable existence of such a structure leads to the generation of four mysteries. The first one has to do with the disposal of human waste. Let’s look at Deuteronomy 23:12-14:
12 “You shall also have a place outside the camp and go out there, 13 and you shall have a spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn to cover up your excrement. 14 “Since athe Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy; and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you. NASU
Let’s also examine Ezekiel 42:15-20:
15 Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faced east and measured it all around. 16 He measured on the east side with the measuring rod: five hundred rods by the measuring rod. 17 He measured on the north side: five hundred rods by the measuring rod. 18 On the south side he measured five hundred rods with the measuring rod. 19 He turned to the west side and measured five hundred rods with the measuring rod. 20 He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, the length five hundred rods and the width five hundred, to divide between the holy and the common. 2020 NASB
Dr. Dan Black Senior Editor of Pathway Press and bible scholar par excellence was the one who pointed these verses found in Deuteronomy out to me. In the 2020 NASB Bible Dr. Don Wilkins Scholar in Residence of the Lockman Foundation inserted “rods” into verse 20 of Ezekiel 42 to eliminate any possibility of future translators of an updated NASB inserting “cubits” into the verse as the translators of the NKJV have done. The KJV uses “reeds” in this verse. I believe this to be a critical translational error made by the translators of the NKJV that has caused confusion in our understanding of the layout of the overall dimensions of the House. Please go to the blog on the millennialtemple.tv website and read the article “Ezekiel 40-42” for a more thorough understanding of this important issue.
It is a fact from the above verses found in Ezekiel that the House is surrounded by an enormous yard. The size of this yard relative to the size of the House is shown in Bundle 02 “Holy Allotment” and the first picture of Bundle 03 “Temple Principles and Layout of the Temple”. This ground is physically holy, beyond human comprehension. It is a little piece of the new heavens and new earth of Revelation 21:1 transplanted on to a common or physically profane planet. Thus, the existence of the above verses found in Deuteronomy eliminate any possibility of generation of human waste within the one-square-mile property of the House, which would render it profane.
The solution to this first mystery is the answer to the question, “Has property ever existed on earth similar to the physical holiness of the House?” I believe it has, and the property was the original Garden called Eden found in Genesis 2:8. In Genesis 3:8 the Lord God was walking in the garden in the cool of the day much as I believe that He will walk in His millennial yard. It was around that moment of time when Adam and his wife Eve discovered their nakedness when their bodies began to produce human waste and thus profaned the Lord’s Garden. Adam and Eve had ingested the toxic fruit that had destroyed 99% of their genomes and had thus forfeited their immortality. They had become mortals, and their corrupted (profane) bodies had recently begun to produce human waste.
Thus, I believe that the permanent residents of the House, both the Levites (the House ministers or housekeepers) and the sons of Zadok (the House priests who may approach the Lord), will at minimum possess immortal bodies with genomes similar to those of Adam and Eve before the Fall. They will be immortal, and their bodies will produce no waste. This solves the first mystery of the House.
Mystery 2: Millennial Sacrifices
The Cross creates a great mystery regarding the House that has never been solved, until now. A sacrificial system similar to the system of the Old Testament will be instituted at the beginning of the Millennium. But why would Jesus do this? Hebrew 10:8-18 quoted below appears to close the door to any possibility of future animal sacrifices for sin, or does it?
8 After saying above, “SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND bWHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them” (which are offered according to the Law), 9 then He said, “aBEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second. 10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, 13 waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET. 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. 15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,
16 “THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM
AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD:
I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEART,
AND ON THEIR MIND I WILL WRITE THEM,”
He then says,
17 “AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS
I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE.”
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin. NASU
The first hint that millennial sacrifices are a new kind of sacrifice for new kind of sin for which the ceremonial sins of the OT and their ceremonial animal sacrifices are a type or shadow is found in Ezekiel 44:25-27:
25 “They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves. 26 “After he is cleansed, seven days shall elapse for him. 27 “On the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,” declares the Lord God . NASU
In these verses Jesus gives the priests permission to “sin,” and they must offer a sin offering in order to reenter the House. If the sin was for law breaking, i.e., breaking one of the Ten Commandments, the Cross should cover it because we have already asserted in the strongest of declarations that the House is a symbol of the Cross. Therefore, we assert that these “sins,” which occur during the Millennium, have nothing to do with the sins that Jesus died for.
In order to discover the true meaning of millennial sacrifices, we must revisit the Garden of Eden. When Adam and Eve ate the poisoned fruit they died spiritually immediately. They became sinners and enemies of God. However, they did not die physically immediately. Adam lived for 930 years, which is nothing compared to being immortal. His body went from being holy to being profane as the toxin did its awful work on his genome rendering it malfunctioning and thus profane. Every human with the exception of Jeus has inherited the genomes of Adam and Eve. All citizens of the Millennium who live outside the House will possess a profane body with a malfunctioning genome that defiles the House every time they enter the House for worship.
Let’s examine Ezekiel 45:13-18 quoted below:
13 “This is the offering that you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley; 14 and the prescribed portion of oil (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer); 15 and one sheep from each flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel — for a grain offering, for a burnt offering and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” declares the Lord God . 16 “All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel. 17 “It shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the drink offerings, at the cfeasts, on the new moons and on the sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering and the epeace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.” NASU
Two Offerings for Two Atonements
The first offering of 13-16 is much larger than the second. The people of the land provide it to the prince’s family on a daily basis in order to atone for the constant physical defilement of the House caused by the profane land and its people outside. The first offering also provides food for the House.
The prince’s family provides the second and smaller offering on the new moons, sabbaths, and appointed feasts. I estimate there will be 12 new moons, 52 sabbaths, and 5 feasts, totaling 69 offerings made by the prince’s family every year for a thousand years.
Ezekiel 46:3, 9 make it clear that the public will come before the Lord to worship at the doorway of the east inner court gate on the new moons, sabbaths, and feasts. Thus, the offerings of the prince’s family coincide with the days that the public enters the House to come before the Lord to worship. This cannot be coincidental. Hence, the public defiles the House with their profane physical bodies every time they enter the House for worship on these specified days. The prince’s family provides these offerings to atone for their sins on these days.
Therefore, it is our belief that during the Millennium there is a new kind of sin for which the ceremonial sacrifices of the Old Testament are a type or shadow. It is implicit that animal sacrifices can provide atonement for this sin, which is against a holy physical object, i.e., the Lord’s House, rendered profane by physical contact. The sacrifices restore the House to physical holiness. These sacrifices also provide food for the House. These sin offerings never vary in quantity for a thousand years.
Other than the offering made by the priest in Ezekiel 44:27, there is only one other mention in Ezekiel 40-48 of sin offerings for individuals for sin, because Jesus has forgiven all sins related to law breaking and nailed them to His Cross. This is the offering of Ezekiel 45:18-20 quoted below:
18 ‘Thus says the Lord God , “In the first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary. 19 “The priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20 “Thus you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who goes astray or is naive; so you shall make batonement for the house. NASU
The priest provides the offering and cleansing on the first day of the first month and the seventh day of the first month of each year for the duration of the Millennium. I believe that for the remaining 11 months of each year the priest repeats the sacrifice on the seventh day of each month and then the routine begins again. Every year there will subsequently be thousands of people in profane bodies who will present themselves for worship before the Lord at the doorway of the east inner court gate. Inevitably, some of them will unknowingly violate a protocol of the House and thus commit an individual sin against the House that defiles it. This monthly sacrifice cleanses the House each month from this kind of physical defilement and maintains its physical holiness.
Mystery 3: Layout of the House and a Promise Kept
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The first feature to note about the layout of the House is that, while it is essentially symmetrical south to north, it is not east to west. The living quarters of the Levites (House ministers or housekeepers) and the traffic pattern of the public traveling for worship occupy the eastern section where the gates are. The living quarters of Jesus, which are located within the inner Temple, and the bedrooms of the sons of Zadok and the bedrooms of the House guests occupy almost the entire western two thirds of the House. The only shared portion being the butcher’s chamber and the tables of sacrifice located within the north inner court gate.
The second feature to note is that the singers’ chambers do not comingle the priests and the Levites. The singers’ chamber for the sons of Zadok is on the south side, whereas the singers’ chamber for the Levites is on the north side. What this means is that rehearsals for the performances and the performances themselves will not comingle the two priesthoods.
The third feature to note is the location of the holy kitchens. The sons of Zadok control them and they are physically isolated from the rest of the House. There are walls of stone 5-cubits (8.75-feet) thick and a separate area of 15-cubits (26.25-feet) separating these kitchens from the living quarters of the House guests located behind the inner Temple.
Please keep the above facts in mind as we briefly discuss the importance of foods in the Bible as medicines below.
We have seen that food poisoned Adam and Eve. A genetic toxin severely damaged their genomes, causing the aging process and mutations that modern human bodies still experience, ultimately resulting in death at an average age of about 75 years. We have seen that there exists a Tree of Life (see Genesis 3:22-24) whose food could have restored the genomes of Adam and Eve to immortality.
We have seen in Ezekiel 47 that the leaves of the trees growing on the banks of the supernatural millennial River whose source is the mighty spring of water located under the inner Temple will be for healing and their fruits for food. And we have seen how in Isaiah 25:6-8 that Jesus will at the end of the Millennium abolish death and restore the human genome to immortality by the use of foods as medicine.
It is also important that in today’s world, the food that you and I eat is the most important “medicine” that we ingest daily. For example, a strict ketogenic can eliminate most type 2 diabetes. This diet will result in weight loss and a lowering of insulin resistance by the restriction of carbohydrates in the diet, without the use of pharmaceuticals.
So, it should come as no surprise that Jesus’ most holy things are foods. Just as the ceremonial sacrifices of the OT are types and shadows of millennial sacrifices, the most holy foods which are the sin offering, grain offering, and guilt offering of Ezekiel 42:13 are supernatural foods that contain holiness comparable to the foods produced by the Tree of Life of the Garden and the leaves of the trees growing on the banks of the millennial River of Ezekiel 47. The priests cook these offerings in the physically isolated holy kitchens of Ezekiel 46:19-20 to prevent their holiness from contaminating the outer court gates and pavements where the public travels for worship. No one except the sons of Zadok may eat these foods or even come near them. The priests eat them in the holy south and north bedrooms of Ezekiel 42:13 on the new moons, sabbaths, and feasts. And the sons of Zadok may not even approach the public without wearing heavy woolen garments when they go out to the public in the outer court (see Ezekiel 42:14, 44:17-19).
At this point it’s worth quoting Zechariah 3:1-7:
Zech 3:1-7
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord , and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. 2 The Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! Indeed, the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?” 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and standing before the angel. 4 He spoke and said to those who were standing before him, saying, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” Again he said to him, “See, I have taken your iniquity away from you and will clothe you with festal robes.” 5 Then I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments, while the angel of the Lord was standing by.
6 And the angel of the Lord admonished Joshua, saying, 7 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘If you will walk in My ways and if you will perform My service, then you will also govern My house and also have charge of My courts, and I will grant you free access among these who are standing here. NASU
In these verses Joshua is the high priest of the sons of Zadok and represents the Zadokian priesthood that are permanent residents of the House. These priests do not marry or have wives as will the sons of Zadok whose families and homes surround the House. If they previously had wives before their physical resurrection (see Ezekiel 37:11-14), death has released them from their marriages (see Romans 7:1-3). However, these immortal priests will have resurrected relatives as Ezekiel 44:25 makes clear, but there is no mention of wives because they will not possess them.
In these verses Jesus makes a promise to the sons of Zadok that He keeps by means of His most holy foods, which are the foods that are the subject of our discussion. I believe that the men who are removing the Joshua’s filthy garments and replacing them with holy garments are angels. Jesus has removed Joshua’s sins and thus the sins of the priesthood through His Cross and the festive garments represent the priesthood’s immortality, i.e., their physical holiness. The most holy foods will give these priests access to the supernatural reality described in these verses. They will be able to see and converse with angels and any other supernatural beings.
However, these foods would be poisonous to the public if directly touched or if contacted through priests who are not wearing protective woolen garments. This is also the reason that the singers’ chambers do not comingle the sons of Zadok with the House ministers. Medically, casual contact is defined as physical contact that does not pose a risk of contracting an infectious disease from another person. It is implicit that the physical contact by these priests to the House ministers and guests is casual and does not cause them adverse side effects. Only Jesus knows the physical composition of the biological substances contained in these miraculous foods.
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Mystery 4: How Will Human Longevity Be Achieved During the Millennial Reign of Christ?
Introductory Biblical Background
Based on various Bible passages, both Jews and Christians who believe in a Millennial Age on earth ruled by the Messiah, expect human healthfulness and longevity to be greatly increased during this period of time. This is suggested by the passage in Ezekiel 47:1-12 by the healing, life-giving river flowing from the Millennial Temple. While Ezekiel does not speak specifically about human life expectancy being greatly increased during the Millennial Age, Isaiah does.
Isaiah 65:17 is a prophecy about God’s making of new heavens and a new earth. Then, immediately, the subject of the prophet changes in the next verse (18), as he foretells conditions of life in Jerusalem (vv. 18-25) that cannot be part of the new heavens and the new earth. It is generally agreed among all who believe in the Millennium, that the passage in Isaiah 65:18-25 is about conditions on earth during the Millennial reign of Christ. Verse 20 says, in effect, that human life expectancy will be greatly increased, so that infant deaths will cease, old men will live out the full measure of their days, a person who dies at 100 years of age will be regarded as a child, and a sinner who dies because of his sins at 100 years of age will be thought cursed by a premature death. The implication of this statement is that human health and life expectancy will be greatly increased during the Millennium.
How Will This Come to Be?
Most Christians who believe in the Millennial reign of Christ simply accept that humans will become healthier and live longer during the Millennium, without asking how this might be brought to pass. It is thought to come under the heading of divine healing effected by Christ during His reign on earth, without any further thought about “how” this might happen. However, as a physician, the question about how better health and longer life might be achieved during the Millennial reign of Christ is of interest to me, and what follows is my answer to this question.
My answer begins with Adam and Eve and their disobedience to God in eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (see Genesis 2:15-17; 3:6, 9-11). The sin of their disobedience to God severely damaged their spiritual relationship with God, and I believe the fruit of that tree had a toxin (a poison) that malignantly altered their DNA molecule, making them subject to physical degeneration, suffering, and death. As a consequence of their sinning, Adam and Eve died spiritually immediately, but they did not immediately die physically. Adam lived 930 years (Genesis 5:5).
Mortality and the Human Genome
I believe the forbidden fruit eaten by Adam and Eve was infected with a genetic toxin that destroyed 99 percent of their genomes (chromosomes with the genes they contain), and thus they became mortal and eventually died. I believe all humans, with the exception of Jesus Christ, have inherited from Adam and Eve their genomes, and thus all humans age and eventually die.
The human lifespan has greatly decreased from what it was in earliest human history (see Genesis 5:1-32). Cell mutation (a negative change in the hereditary material in a cell) is the basic cause of declining life span, physical degeneration, and the eventual death of the human body. Each year the average human body accumulates about eighty trillion new mutations because of faulty DNA replication. By age 80, the average human body will have accumulated about thirty quadrillion mutations. Carcinogens account for about 80 percent of all cell mutations. This is an astounding number of mutations. Mutation is the fundamental cause of cancer. No one knows why a particular mutation triggers cancer, but there has never been a cancer without heavily
mutated cells. Most of our DNA (99 percent) is useless, and mutations in this 99 percent usually cause no harm.
Restoration of the Human Genome
During the Millennium, Jesus will begin the restoration of the human genome. Humans will have access to the fruit and leaves growing on the trees on the banks of the life-giving Millennial River that will flow to the ends of the earth. I believe these fruits and leaves will contain biologic substances that will greatly increase the ability of human cells to divide without damaging the ends of their chromosomes, which are their DNA molecules. Each chromosome is exactly one DNA molecule. The cells of tissues that rely on cell division will be able to divide hundreds of times without suffering damage. Senility and cancer from cellular degeneration will not occur.
Protein synthesis may become much more accurate, and there will no longer be carcinogens in the environment, so that the mutation rate, rather than being one in six billion nucleotides (basic structural molecules of RNA and DNA) could be reduced to one in a trillion nucleotides. In addition, the foods of the Millennium may supplement human genomes with additional beneficial genes that will prevent the faulty metabolism that causes diabetes, obesity, insulin resistance, arterial plaque, hypertension, and other illnesses. This will increase the health and life span of humans. However, none of these improvements in human health will grant immortality to the inhabitants of the Millennial Kingdom. Everlasting life, eternal life, will come with the advent of the new heaven and the new earth (Revelation 22:1), where there will be “no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away” (Revelation 22:4).