Vision of the Future Temple: Introduction and Commission
Ezekiel 40:1-4
1In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city had been struck, on that very day the hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me there.2In visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain, and on it there was something like the structure of a city from the Negeb.3Then he brought me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze; a cord of flax was in his hand and a measuring branch, and he was standing in the gate.4The man spoke to me: Son of man, look with your eyes and listen with your ears, and set your heart on everything I am showing you, because you were brought here so that it might be shown to you; declare everything you see to the house of Israel.