Measured and Unmeasured

Revelation 11 and the Third Temple

To Measure or Not to Measure

Welcome to the Unveiling Jesus Christ Newsletter!

Last week, we explored Daniel’s 70th week and its connection to the seven-year battle of Armageddon. This week, we shift our focus to the visions in Revelation 11, where John is commanded to measure the Third Temple in Jerusalem and its worshipers. These symbols reveal who will be protected and who will be cast out during the final 3½ years before the Lord’s return.

Measuring and Withholding in Revelation 11

In Revelation 11:1, an angel (Christ) directed John to measure worshipers in the future Third Temple that will be built by the Jews in Jerusalem. In Revelation 11:2, Christ then directed John to leave out the “court which is without the temple … and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles.”

Measuring or not measuring has two symbolic meanings. To be measured means that people receive a measure of godly chastisement, but measuring is also a symbol of the Lord's acceptance, ownership, and protection of the measured.

“Thus saith the Lord unto you whom I love, and whom I love I also chasten that their sins may be forgiven, for with the chastisement I prepare a way for their deliverance in all things out of temptation.”
Doctrine and Covenants 95:1

Jewish Worshipers in the Third Temple

So who are the worshipers in the Third Temple that are to be measured as both a sign of their chastisement and the Lord’s loving protection? It can only be the Jews.

Since the death of Solomon in about 975 BC, only the Jews have worshipped God at the altars of a temple in Jerusalem. Why should this be any different when the Jews build a future Third Temple, which is already on the proverbial “drawing board”?

Bruce R. McConkie wrote about their temple worship:

“Jehovah was the God of Jerusalem; Jerusalem, with its temple, was the focal point of all their religious devotions; it was Jehovah himself who had so decreed; and whenever Israel, either those of old or the Jews of Jesus' day, were in line of their duty, they turned to their capital city for spiritual refreshment.”
The Mortal Messiah, Vol. 1, p. 87

If we want to observe the true form of Christian worship in the last 3½ years of the Great Tribulation just before the Second Coming, we must look to Zion in Missouri.
If we want to observe Jewish worship, we must look to Jerusalem.

There the Jews will be measured as a sign of acceptance by the God whom they worship in form, without fully knowing who He is. The Jews measured by John in Revelation 11:1 symbolize those who will be worthy to stand with Christ when He appears to them on the Mount of Olives at the Second Coming.

The Unmeasured Gentiles

In Revelation 11:2, John did not measure the outer courtyard of the Third Temple because it is given to the Gentiles.

Historically, there was a Court of the Gentiles in the Second Temple of Herod in Jerusalem. It was the place where money changers and merchants transacted business, and was cleansed twice by the Savior at the start and end of His mortal ministry. (See Matthew 21:13)

The worldly and wicked “Gentiles”, symbolized by this unmeasured court, shall rise up against the Jews:

“And the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.”
Revelation 11:2

The Gentiles that come against Jerusalem during Armageddon are unmeasured for these last 3½ years before the Second Coming. This means:

• They face no apparent chastisement from the Lord
• But they are also not accepted, approved, or protected by Him

At the Second Coming, they shall be destroyed because they are unmeasured and symbolically “without the temple.”

Mercy, Judgment, and Protection

This does not mean the Gentile nations will have unfettered power over the Jews during these last 3½ years. The Two Witnesses who minister in Jerusalem shall protect the Jews according to the mercy and measure of God during these final 42 months. (Revelation 11:3–6)

Learn More

For a deeper dive into the measured and unmeasured Jews and Gentiles of the Great Tribulation, check out my podcasts from:

🎧 July 27, 2025 – → Listen here

🎧 July 29, 2025 – → Listen here

(Also available wherever you get your podcasts)

John Cassinat
Unveiling Jesus Christ