Hilasmos
Puritan Board Freshman
Trodden down by the gentiles refers to a physical temple as per Matthew 24 and Luke 21.Both preterists and others recognize that "temple" naos is in reference to Holy of Holies, which seems strange that "those who worship there" is in the plural, seeing how it would have only been the High Priest if it were in reference to a physical temple (not the spiritual temple of saints).
Why does it say not to measure the "outer courts" since that is what will be trodden, while the temple is what is measured?
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That is, the measuring signifies divine protection from being trodden. Seems strange that this refers to the physical temple that was in fact trodden.
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.Revelation 11:1-2: Then there was given me a measuring rod like a staff; and someone said, “Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it. “Leave out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they will tread under foot the holy city for forty-two months.