According to Ezekiel, temple will be built
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"After the Jews have . . . received the Gospel, having acknowledged Jesus Christ as their Redeemer, the temple in Jerusalem will be built according to the prophecy of Ezekiel. The description of this grand edifice is recorded in chapters 40-43," wrote Joseph Fielding Smith in The Signs of the Times.
"The glory of the Lord will rest upon it and those who officiate in it will be sanctified, holding the divine authority which was given to their fathers. Then will come the true and lawful division of the land, not only for Judah, but for all the tribes of Israel who are to return." (See Chapter 47 of Ezekiel.)Elder Smith wrote: "In Ezekiel, Chapter 48, is the detailed assignment to the twelve tribes. This will not be a narrow portion of Palestine, nor will it be assigned to the tribes of Israel by the puny arm of man; nor by a `League of Nations' whose authority to parcel out the lands of the earth is impotent, for the Lord will at this day make an end of all nations. `And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which come against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts and keep the feast of tabernacles.'
" `In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
" `Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts.' " (Zech. 14:16, 20, 21.)
