November 30th Ezekiel 41
1:
Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six
cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side,
which was the breadth of the tabernacle. 2:
And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door
were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side:
and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth,
twenty cubits. 3:
Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits;
and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.
4:
So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth,
twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the
most holy place. 5:
After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth
of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every
side. 6:
And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in
order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the
side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had
not hold in the wall of the house. 7:
And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the
side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward
round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still
upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by
the midst. 8:
I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of
the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. 9:
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without,
was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side
chambers that were within. 10:
And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round
about the house on every side. 11:
And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was
left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south:
and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round
about. 12:
Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward
the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was
five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
13:
So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate
place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits
long; 14:
Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place
toward the east, an hundred cubits. 15:
And he measured the length of the building over against the separate
place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side
and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and
the porches of the court; 16:
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about
on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round
about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were
covered; 17:
To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and
by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. 18:
And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree
was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;
19:
So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side,
and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side:
it was made through all the house round about. 20:
From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees
made, and on the wall of the temple. 21:
The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary;
the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other. 22:
The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two
cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the
walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table
that is before the LORD. 23:
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24:
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves
for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. 25:
And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims
and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were
thick planks upon the face of the porch without. 26:
And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on
the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers
of the house, and thick planks.
Ezekiel 42
1:
Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the
north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the
separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
2:
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the
breadth was fifty cubits. 3:
Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and
over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery
against gallery in three stories. 4:
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a
way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. 5:
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher
than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
6:
For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of
the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the
lowest and the middlemost from the ground. 7:
And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the
utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was
fifty cubits. 8:
For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty
cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits. 9:
And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one
goeth into them from the utter court. 10:
The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward
the east, over against the separate place, and over against the
building. 11:
And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which
were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all
their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according
to their doors. 12:
And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south
was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the
wall toward the east, as one entereth into them. 13:
Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers,
which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the
priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things:
there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and
the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
14:
When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the
holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their
garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on
other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the
people. 15:
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought
me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and
measured it round about. 16:
He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred
reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 17:
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring
reed round about. 18:
He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring
reed. 19:
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds
with the measuring reed. 20:
He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five
hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation
between the sanctuary and the profane place.
Ezekiel
43 The glory in the Temple
1:
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh
toward the east: 2:
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the
east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth
shined with his glory. 3:
And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw,
even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the
city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river
Chebar; and I fell upon my face. 4:
And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate
whose prospect is toward the east. 5:
So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and,
behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. 6:
And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood
by me. 7:
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the
place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the
children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of
Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their
whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places. 8:
In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post
by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled
my holy name by their abominations that they have committed:
wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. 9:
Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their
kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
10:
Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may
be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. 11:
And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form
of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof,
and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the
ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws
thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole
form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. 12:
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole
limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law
of the house. 13:
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit
is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and
the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round
about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the
altar. 14:
And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be
two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle
even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one
cubit. 15:
So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward
shall be four horns. 16:
And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in
the four squares thereof. 17:
And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in
the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a
cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs
shall look toward the east. 18:
And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are
the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to
offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. 19:
And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of
Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord
GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering. 20:
And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four
horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the
border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. 21:
Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall
burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
22:
And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without
blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they
did cleanse it with the bullock. 23:
When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young
bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
24:
And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast
salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering
unto the LORD. 25:
Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering:
they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock,
without blemish. 26:
Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall
consecrate themselves. 27:
And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth
day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon
the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the
Lord GOD.
Now
the Lord brings Ezekiel to the Temple. (The Millennial Temple) And
again the angel of the Lord measures it. There are some people that
say there will be no Millennial and that the Temple is just
figurative. If that is so, then why would it be necessary to measure
it? The reason why it is measured is to emphasis the physical reality
of its foundations, walls, rooms, doors, and pillars. From this
‘architects specification’ it is possible to draw very accurate
plans of the Temple in three dimensions. The description even
describes what we call today a winding or spiral staircase. The
temple is decorated with cherubim (with two faces - the face of a man
and a lion) alternating with palm trees. In detail Ezekiel not only
describes accurately the dimension but the materials in which things
are made. For example he states that the Altar is to be made of wood.
The doors of the temple are what we call today double leaf - double
doors. The temple has three stories to the side rooms. One of the
controversial points of the millennial temple is that it is
constructed for the purpose of sacrifice. This passage clearly states
this to be so. There will even be a sin offering however this shows
that sacrifices can look back to the cross just as OT sacrifices
looked forward to the cross. In the next chapter Ezekiel describes
the return of the Shekinah Glory from the east through the East Gate.
Then the angel said that the sanctuary was to be the location of the
throne of God. This links this passage to Isaiah’s vision of the
Lord seated in the temple and the Seraphim who say Holy, Holy, Holy
is the Lord God, etc. This temple will be the place where Christ will
sit in glory ruling the world. This is why the Message of Christ was
that Israel was to repent because the kingdom of heaven was at hand.
From this time on all the abominations and iniquities of the children
of Israel will be put away for ever. The kingdom of heaven will be
the rule of heaven over the affairs of men. Next the Lord gives the
sacrificial procedure for the cleansing of the temple making it fit
to be the place of Christ’s throne.
- What exactly does Ezekiel see in his vision?
- What do we have laid out in these passages?
- What is this temple for?
