Ezekiel 41: Solomon's Temple?

One theory about what Ezekiel was seeing in his final vision is that he was remembering Solomon's Temple from his youth before his captivity in exile.

Ezekiel spent about the first 24 years of his life in the area around Jerusalem.  He was descended from the priestly line of Ithamar and was in training to be a priest before being sent to Babylon.  He would have been very familiar with Solomon's Temple before it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar's army in 587 B.C.  Could Ezekiel's vision in chapters 40 through 47 be his recollections of that first Temple?  Perhaps Ezekiel was simply reconstructing from memory the structure that Solomon originally built.

This theory has been advanced, but there are problems with it.  When Ezekiel receives his vision, that first Temple had already been destroyed for thirteen years.  Why would he describe it as if it was something real that Israel was to use in its future worship of the Lord?  Moreover, the size and scale of the Temple in Ezekiel's vision does not match the one that Solomon had built.

There are several other features of the Temple that argue against it being Solomon's Temple remembered.  No river flowed out from Solomon's Temple as described in Ezekiel 47.  The priesthood and style of worship detailed in these chapters, though similar and reminiscent of Mosaic prescriptions, was never practiced in this way.  In 43:2-5, Ezekiel describes seeing the glory of the Lord fill the Temple.  But his earlier vision of chapter 10 concerned the glory of the Lord leaving the Temple.

There is really no evidence to support the theory that Ezekiel's vision was of Solomon's Temple.  It is just too different.