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Sons To Glory
Jesus’ ministry was focused on the cross. He was constantly talking
about his purpose of going to the cross and admonishing his followers
to “take up their cross and follow him” (Mark 10:21). Jesus did not
only die on a cross; he lived the message of the Cross daily. He was
always laying down His life for the sake of others. A selfless life of
sacrifice for others is the Cross which Jesus taught and lived.
The apostle Paul’s message and mission was also the Cross (Gal. 6:14)
and he was determined to make his focus “Jesus Christ and him
crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2). Therefore Paul could say in Gal. 2:20:
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live but Christ
lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in
the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Just like the entire life of the believer revolves around the Cross, the
entire Millennial Temple is set up for the purpose of sacrifice with the
altar in the very geometric center of the temple. At each of the four
corners of the temple outer court there are kitchens. Each kitchen has
rows of stones around their courts with cooking hearths all around the
rows of stones. These are the kitchens where the ministers of the
temple boil the sacrifices of the people in the outer court. (See #13 in
the Pictures section for the kitchen locations)
There is also a place in the Priest’s Chambers where the priests can
prepare the offerings so that they don’t have to bring them out into the
outer court. This is where the priest’s boil the trespass offering, and sin
offering, and bake the grain offering. This chamber is on the north
west side of the Priest’s Chambers. (See #23 in the Pictures section for
the priest’s boiling/baking chamber).
The place where the sacrifices are first prepared is in the inner court
northern gateway. There are eight tables in the vestibule of this
gateway where they slay the burnt offerings, sin offerings and trespass
offerings. There are tables for slaughtering the animals and for the
flesh of the sacrifices, and there were also tables for laying the
instruments with which to slaughter the offerings. Hooks were fastened
all around the area, probably used for hanging the instruments of
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