"It is in your own Scriptures, dear friend, if you would but see it. And in _our_ New Testament, in Matthew twenty-four, which is _all Jewish_ in its teaching, our Lord and Saviour, foretold all this as to come upon your people. He even showed them to be in their own land, saying, 'let them which are in Judea flee into the mountains . . . and pray that your flight be not on the Sabbath day:' (for you Godly Jews would not go beyond Moses' 'Sabbath day's journey,' and Anti-christ's myrmidons would then soon overtake you.)" As if to jerk the talk into a new channel, Cohen said, almost abruptly: "Why do you say, my friend, that _our_ temple, the temple which we shall dedicate on the tenth of this month, has probably so few mentions in the Scriptures, and those in judgment. When we say that the whole of the nine last chapters of our prophet Ezekiel are taken up with it. Nearly all our plans have followed the directions, the picture of Ezekiel's Temple?" "That temple, sketched in Ezekiel," replied Ralph, "is the millennial temple. There was no temple in the nineteen hundred odd years between the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple, and the translation of 'The church,' a few months ago. There could be no temple as regards God's people--The Church--because all that nineteen hundred years was a _spiritual_ dispensation. God's Temple then was composed of living stones, wherein a _spiritual_ priesthood offered up spiritual sacrifices. "But to go back to the temple described by Ezekiel in the last nine chapters of his prophecy--this is the temple which will be reared in the Millennium, but it will _not be_ in Jerusalem. Read carefully over all that Ezekiel's description, and you will see that when your Messiah, our Christ, comes to reign for that wonderful time of a thousand years of perfect righteousness, that your land--the land given in promise by God to your father Abraham--is to be _re_-divided (Ezekiel forty-five one to five). Ezekiel's Temple, and the division of the land, stand and fall together, and it is a subject that cannot be symbolized. "Now when the land is divided into straight lines, 'a holy oblation' is commanded of sixty square miles--if the measurement be by _reeds_, or fifteen square miles if the measurement be by _cubits_. This oblation land will be divided into three parts. The northern portion will be for the priests, and the new temple will be in the midst. The second division of land, going South will be for the Levites. And the third, the most Southerly portion, will contain Jerusalem. So that that temple of the Millenium--Ezekiel's temple--will be fully thirty miles from Jerusalem.