#9 The End of Genealogy and the Priesthood: The Fulfillment of Ezekiel's Temple (Part 3)
Our next subject to tackle the timing of the fulfillment of Ezekiel's temple is genealogy, specifically, the priesthood identified in Ezekiel as the "descendants of Zadok". Genealogy does not tie the timing of Ezekiel's temple to one generation like Ezekiel's role did in my previous post but it nonetheless marks a huge factor in limiting the time-frame for which to identify Ezekiel's temple to the days when the second temple was standing (516 BC-19 BC). See, if this priesthood cannot be identified today, then we are left with only one option, that the temple of Ezekiel was built in the past, at a time when the priesthood existed. I am not embarking on a quest to trace people groups in their migration through different lands, that is a study called population genetics and is the faulty path that most take to identify the priesthood of Ezekiel's temple. Population genetics can identify that a living individual may have ancestry to certain other people gr...