Just as the prophet Ezekiel’s ancient predictions about Israel’s literal revival are currently being fulfilled in the Land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, so too are his prophecies about a future Temple in Jerusalem going to one day materialize. Today, nobody can ignore the modern national, political and military restoration of Israel. Since the late 19^th century, the scattered ‘Dry Bones’ of Jewry, as Ezekiel put it, are physically being restored in their ancestral homeland:

“Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them…then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.” (Ezekiel 37:13, 21)

In his prophecies, Ezekiel refers to real and tangible realities, not to abstract allegories. Historically, first comes Israel’s territorial restoration with Jerusalem as its capital city, and then...