Ezekiel's Temple

Is it possible that Ezekiel's vision of the Temple was instructional rather than predictive?

Instruction - for Israel returning from captivity; rather than predictive - for us, of events still in our future?

Further thoughts which possibly support that idea:

Just because something was written by a prophet does not mean it is predictive. Moses was a prophet but most of what he wrote was instructional not predictive. Therefore not everything Ezekiel wrote need be taken as predictive.

When a prophet's writings is predictive, it's worded clearly as predictive. But Ezekiel's vision is not written using the terminology of prediction but rather the terminology of instruction.

If you buy a model aeroplane kit, and look at the instruction sheet, the instruction sheet is not a prophetic prediction, it's merely instructions.

A prophet's instructions settled Israel into the land in the first place; it's only natural that a prophet's instructions should resettle Israel into the land again after captivity.

Moses' instructions covered the dimensions of the tabernacle, the service of the tabernacle and the divisions of the land. Ezekiel's instructions similarly covered the dimensions for a rebuilt house of God, instructions for its service, and the reallocation of land allotments.

Ezekiel was told that he should give the plans for the new Temple to the Jews only if they showed signs of repenting. In other words, Ezekiel's vision was no guarantee that it would be achieved fully by the Jews.

Ezra and Nehemiah did begin the task. Perhaps Herod's Temple took it a step further. Perhaps it was never fully fulfilled. We don't know.

Part of it may have been symbolic, such as the river flowing from the threshold of the door to the Temple.