So what do you dispensationalist who fancy yourselves as literalists think of the horrendous discrepancies in Ezekiel's and John's visions of the New Jerusalem? Since you believe this to be a timeline of future prophetic events that both clearly come after the Gog and Magog prophecy. You can't possibly say these are different prophecies. Yet in Ezekiel's vision the New Jerusalem is 1.5 miles squared and in Johns vision it is 144 miles cubed. Essentially Ezekiel sees the New Jerusalem about the same size as it was and John see's a city that if you put 10 foot stories in it could hold hundreds of billions of people as it could contain 1.5 billion square miles of floor space. The land area of the earth is only approx. 58 million square miles. That quite a discrepancy if you take this literally. Note* Gingerbeer pointed out my calculations on the size of Revelations New Jerusalem were wrong based on its not 144 miles cubed but 1400 miles cubed. Sorry. If there were 12 foot stories in that it would give it 1.2 Trillion square miles of floor space. Which is about 21,000 times the land are of the earth.Then there are other things like the number of the trees' precisely what are they for etc etc.
So what are you to do with this? Did God change his mind on the scope and size of the city somewhere down the line? Did more people get saved than he anticipated so he decided to make a new dispensation? Does God like the idea of mega churches better than small intimate churches so he decided to go mega? Was ancient Israel all he had in mind at the time but then decided to branch out to the gentile nations? Or is it as the secularists say. This is positive proof that God did not write the Bible because we have a contradiction as big as the east is from the west? O wait I know. The Jews both the believers and unbelievers get the little city as promised to Abraham and the church gets the mega city. Come on now think. There can be only one reasonable and logical answer to this dilemma. Any takers?
You are free to make a case against the Millennium if you like but you will have a 1000 years to rethink it. You have made one error in your assumption of the the new Jerusalem being a cube. You see the definition is the length, width and height are the same. A pyramid can also have these features and it would seem all the ancient religions and current Illuminati types are using this image for the coming of their kingdom and perhaps it was ripped of from something already revealed to them.
The Temple Ezekiel sees is the one that will stand during the Millennium. What kind of service will be held in those days I do not know but I already agree that there will be no sin offering as Jesus is going to be both king and priest. The Bible very clearly speaks of a literal kingdom on earth, In Rev 20
1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is
the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
In this portion there is a time when Satan is bound and the nations are not deceived until he is loosed and the given time is 1000 years. Furthermore the passage goes on
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then
I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received
his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a[fn] thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This
is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy
is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
The faithful dead are raised and reign with Jesus 1000 year. At the end of this period we see what happens when Satan is loosed.
7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number
is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet
are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
You see the chronology is set the beast and false prophet are still in lake of fire and have been 1000 years. The beast and false prophet arise during the 7 year tribulation. Gog and Magog are demonic names for the principalities mentioned in Ezekiel 38 and these events are 1000 years apart.
You have a 7 year tribulation with the abomination of desolation as the midpoint and then the 2nd coming at Armegeddon. This is where the antichrist and false prophet are condemned and Satan is bound and the dead in Christ live and reign with Him. Daniel 7 points this out too.
11 “I watched then because of the sound of the pompous words which the horn was speaking; I watched till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given to the burning flame. 12 As for the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
13 “I was watching in the night visions,
And behold,
One like the Son of Man,
Coming with the clouds of heaven!
He came to the Ancient of Days,
And they brought Him near before Him.
14 Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom,
That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him.
His dominion
is an everlasting dominion,
Which shall not pass away,
And His kingdom
the one
Which shall not be destroyed.
In verse 11 the beast is slain and its body given to the flame and the rest of the beasts had their dominion taken away yet their lives were prolonged a season and a time. This season is being bound 1000 years and the time is the short window when they are loosed. You see they lost their dominion and do not get it back. In Rev the angels sing out the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdom of our LORD and his Christ and he shall rule forever. This transfer happens at the 2nd coming which Daniel speaks here of his everlasting dominion. In Zech 14 we see the 2nd coming of Jesus very clear. It says in that chapter That the LORD comes with His saints and that the MT of Olives Splits in two creating a new valley and a river. It says in that day the LORD is King over all the earth and that He has melted the enemies. It shows that from this point on all nations must come and keep the feast of Tabernacles or they get no rain. This shows a continuation of events on earth after the LORD becomes king over all the earth. It shows He has not taken this kingdom until this day when He comes with his saints.
This is a long reply but really just a micro fraction of all the scriptures that support this chronology. What happens in the Temple should not be of prime concern as Jesus will be running it so I trust it will be glorious and pure.