Of course. And there is some mystery about it . . .
Your verses referred to the
NEW JERUSALEM coming down out of heaven . . . 1,500 miles on each of four sides big--about as big as the USA.
Some contend it will hover over the Middle East. I don't think anyone knows.
However, regardless, the Heavenly New Jerusalem is still different from the current and later Jerusalem on the ground in Israel with the Mount of Olives, the Temple Mount, the Kidron valley, etc. Evidently there will be a 4th Temple there as Ezekiel makes abundantly clear with very specific measurements that there WILL BE such a Temple in the Millennial reign period. And certainly God is not going to tolerate a Temple desecrated by satan himself--i.e. the 3rd Temple.
I just want to be sure, as much as I possibly, by God's Grace can, that I'm on the first 'elevator up!'
. . . nevertheless, there are verses indicating what I've noted.
imho, The context in the text of these verses makes clear they have to do with post Armageddon Jerusalem.
Isaiah 56:7
I will bring them to My holy mountain and let them rejoice in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
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Jeremiah 17:26
Then people will come from the cities of Judah and from the area around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin and from the Judean foothills, from the hill country and from the Negev bringing burnt offerings and sacrifice, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the house of the Lord.
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Jeremiah 33:18
The Levitical priests will never fail to have a man always before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices.”
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All of these Ezekiel passages are about the period after Armageddon--the Millennial reign of Christ--as mystifying as that is.
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Ezekiel 40:42
There were also four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering, each 31½ inches long, 31½ inches wide, and 21 inches high. The utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices were placed on them.
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Ezekiel 43:18
Then He said to me: “Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings may be sacrificed on it and blood may be sprinkled on it:
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Ezekiel 43:24
You must present them before the Lord; the priests will throw salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the Lord.
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Ezekiel 44:11
Yet they will occupy My sanctuary, serving as guards at the temple gates and ministering at the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices for the people and will stand before them to serve them.
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Ezekiel 46:24
He said to me: “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the people’s sacrifices.”
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Zechariah 14:21
Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of Hosts. Everyone who sacrifices will come and take some of the pots to cook in. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts.
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I didn't find the one I was looking for. I just know that in the body of verses regarding that period of time after Armageddon and into Christ's Millennial reign, there is mention of at least some type of sacrifice being routinely made. I don't think it's merely a grain offering. But I don't recall, for sure.
It is a mystery given that Christ's sacrifice once and for all is exceedingly sufficient. Yet, God said it in His word, so it will definitely come to pass.
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In terms of the world leader--the Anti-Christ . . . it appears that Israeli's will be able to once again offer sacrifices for a relatively short period. Then, he will cut them off. Then after 3.5 years from that point, he will commit the horrid Abomination of Desolation and begin to slaughter all Israeli's within his reach.
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The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb
9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11 It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. 13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. 16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia[c] in length, and as wide and high as it is long. 17 The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits[d] thick.[e] 18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.[f] 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.
22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.