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“They Will Have to Know That I Am Jehovah”

The Watchtower—1988 | September 15
- 17. (a) What vision was Ezekiel granted in 593 B.C.E.? (b) Of what is the existence of the visionary temple proof?
  
  ¹⁷ In 593 B.C.E., the 14th year after the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, Ezekiel was granted a vision of a new sanctuary for Jehovah’s worship. Measured by the prophet’s angelic guide, it was of gigantic proportions. (Ezekiel 40:1–48:35) This temple pictured “the true tent, which Jehovah put up,” and it had the “typical representations of the things in the heavens.” Jesus Christ entered its Most Holy, “heaven itself,” in 33 C.E. to present to God the merit of his ransom sacrifice. (Hebrews 8:2; 9:23, 24) The visionary temple proves that pure worship will survive Gog’s attack. What comfort for lovers of Jehovah’s name!