In Ezekiel's grand 9 chapter long vision, this chapter is one of the most intruiging features, and strongly suggests we are not talking about a physical temple, but a spiritual one. The river gets deeper and deeper as it goes, eventually flowing all the way to the dead sea, which it turns into a living sea full of fish. This is nothing other than the fruitfulness of God's people, who have springs of living water welling up within them.