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Chapter 10: More about the 3 Temple

Connect…

There is more to worshiping the Lord in the temple than just the building. The temple is designed after
the tabernacle where sacrifices were offered daily for the sins of the people. There were pieces of
furniture, implements, tools, alters, wardrobes, priestly clothes, anointing oils, and a host of other parts
to come together to complete the process of daily worship at the temple. When Titus destroyed the
temple in 70 AD., everything was destroyed along with the building. The golden lampstand, the washing
basin, the ark of the covenant, the table of showbread, the brazen alter, the priests garments, and all
the tools were gone. Destroyed!

If Israel did rebuild a temple in Jerusalem as we looked at in the last section, all of these items would be
required to reestablish temple worship there. And some of the items cannot be replaced. Israel cannot
just build another Ark of the Covenant! They need the original one! They need all the five ingredients
for the oil of anointing. There is a lot more involved than just building a building. In this lesson, we will
see how Israel is preparing to provide these items for temple worship…

Objectives…

1. The student should be able to explain why the Copper Scroll find in Cave 3 near Qumran was so
significant.

2. The student should be able to explain how the Temple Institute has reconstructed all the furnishings
and furniture for temple worship.

3. The student should be able to explain the importance of finding the Ark of the Covenant and why that
is so important to temple worship.

The Lesson ...

The Third Temple

The Copper Scroll. In March of 1953 a copper scroll was found in
Cave 3 near Qumran on the west side of the Dead Sea. It took years to
break the scroll into readable pieces, but they discovered that the
scroll contained the locations of buried treasure from the sacred
Temple which included sacred Temple vessels, manuscripts, gold and
silver bullion, the oil of anointing, and even the breastplate of the high

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