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62 YEHOVAH’S Glory to Reappear...

YEHOVAH’S Glory to

Reappear in Jerusalem!

John D. Keyser

T he Millennial Temple is described in the last nine chapters of the Book of Ezekiel in the Old
Testament, and is to be built and engineered by Yeshua the Messiah at his Second Coming. No-
tice:

Behold, the Man whose name is the BRANCH! From his place he shall branch out, and he
shall build the temple of the Lord [YEHOVAH]. He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and
rule on his throne; so he shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be be-
tween them both [YEHOVAH God AND the Messiah] (Zechariah 6:12-13).

Once again, as during both Solomon’s and Herod’s Temple -- the SHEKINAH GLORY of
YEHOVAH God will be present in a new Temple in Jerusalem! Here is what the Bible records of
YEHOVAH’s Shekinah Glory in Solomon’s Temple after it was dedicated –

Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the
burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. And the
priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled
the LORD’S house (2 Chronicles 7:1-2).

Just before the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D., a number of historians relate how
YEHOVAH’s Shekinah Glory (which dwelt inside the Holy of Holies in Herod’s Temple) left the
sanctuary, traveled through the East Gate and hovered over the Mount of Olives for three and a half
years. Eusebius, early church historian of the third and fourth centuries, writes:

Believers in Christ congregate from all parts of the world, not as of old time because of the
glory of Jerusalem, nor that they may worship in the ancient Temple at Jerusalem, but...that
they may worship at the Mount of Olives opposite to the city, whither the glory [the
Shekinah Glory] of the LORD migrated when it left the former city (Proof of the Gospel,
Bk. VI, Chap.18).

Similarly Jerome (almost a hundred years after Eusebius) acknowledges that the Cherubim
carried the Shekinah Glory from the Temple to a spot near the summit of the Mount of Olives –

Here also [the Mount of Olives] ...the Cherubim after leaving the Temple founded the
Church of the Lord (Letter VIII.12).

A Jewish rabbi by the name of Jonathan, who was an eyewitness to the destruction of Jeru-
salem in 70 A.D., said the Shekinah Glory left the Temple and for three and a half years –

The Berean Voice March-April 2003