VI: The Prophets' Visions

Measuring Rod

a court instrument preserving what is Yahuah's

Root
Ezek 40:3 · qaneh (H7070)
Old Testament chain
  1. Amos 7:7-8
  2. Jer 31:39
  3. Ezek 40:3
  4. Ezek 42:20
  5. Zech 2:1-5
  6. Rev 11:1
New Testament
Rev 11:1; Rev 11:1-2; Rev 21:15

Amos first sees Yahuah with a plumbline, "I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people" (Amos 7:8). Jeremiah's measuring line goes forth over the restored city (Jer 31:39), Ezekiel's man holds "a measuring reed" (Ezek 40:3) whose wall makes "a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place" (Ezek 42:20), and Zechariah's measured Jerusalem has Yahuah as "a wall of fire round about" (Zech 2:5). Revelation's rod is a court instrument, not a builder's tool: what is measured is preserved, what is excluded is surrendered. The golden rod declares the New Jerusalem Yahuah-defined, Yahuah-owned, Yahuah-protected. The teaching of a rebuilt third temple misses that John measures "them that worship therein."

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 155–157, 357