Ezekiel 43:1-27 Ezekiel's Vision About Purifying the Altar After Major Sins

 

Ezekiel's Vision About Purifying the Altar After Major Sins

Ezekiel 43:1-27             The Book of Ezekiel [in Smaller Chunks]

Afterward, he brought me to the gate, even the gate that [faces] toward the East. [Ezekiel 40:3-4 He brought me [there] & [I saw] there was a man, whose appearance was like the [resemblance] of brass, with a flax [measuring] line & a measuring reed in his hand & he stood in the gate.

And the man said to me, Son of man, [look] with your eyes & hear with your ears. And [focus] your heart upon all that I shall [declare] to you, [in order] that I might [show] them to you. [That's why] you are brought [here.] Declare all you see to the house of Israel.]

And [I saw,] the glory of the God of Israel came from the [road] in the East. And His voice was like the noise of many waters & the earth [shone, a.k.a. glowed,] with His glory.

[Revelation 1:14-15 His head & His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow. And His eyes were [like] a flame of fire. And His feet [were similar] to brass, as if they burned in a furnace. And His voice [was] like the sound of many waters.]

And, [Who] I saw was according to the vision, even the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city. And the visions were like the [visions] that I saw by the River Chebar, [a.k.a. Kebar,] & I fell upon my face. [Ezekiel 1:28 This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.

[Like] the appearance of the [rainbow] that is in the cloud [on a rainy] day. So was the appearance of the brightness [all around.] And when I saw it, I fell upon my face & I heard the voice of [the] One, [Who spoke.]

And the glory of the Lord came into the [Lord's] house, by the [gate's road facing] East. So, the Spirit took me up & brought me into the inner court. And [I saw] the glory of the Lord filled the house. And I heard Him speaking to me, [from inside] the house.

And the man stood by me. And He said to me, Son of man, the house of Israel & their kings shall no [longer] defile My Holy Name; the place of My throne; & the place of the soles of My feet, where I dwell in the midst of the children [people] of Israel forever, by their [acts of unfaithful harlotry,] nor by the [corpses] of their kings in their high places.

They have even defiled  My Holy Name, by their abominations that they have committed, [by] their [idols'] threshold by My thresholds & their post, by My posts & the wall between Me & them. [For this reason,] I have consumed them in [My] anger.

[2 Kings 21:4-7 And he built altars in the [Lord's] house, of which the Lord said, I will put My Name in Jerusalem. And he built altars for all the host, [a.k.a. stars, or constellations,] of heaven, in the 2 courts of the [Lord's] house.

And he made his son pass through the fire; & observed times, [a.k.a. astrology or horoscopes;] used enchantments, & dealt with familiar spirits, [a.k.a. talking with the dead;] & wizards. He [brought about] much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.

And he [put from] the grove, a [carved] image that he had made, [into] the [Lord's] house, of which the Lord said to David & Solomon, his son, I will put My Name forever in this house & in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.]

Now, let them put away their [unfaithful harlotry,] & the [corpses] of their kings far from Me & I will dwell in the midst of them forever. You, Son of man, [declare] [about the Lord's] house, to the house of Israel, [so] that they may be ashamed of their [sinfulness] & let them measure [the temple's] pattern.

And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, [show] them the [diagram] of the [Lord's] house & [its design;] and [its: exits & entrances & structure] of it. And all [its: rules; requirements; & laws of it.] And write [these] in their sight, [so] that they may keep [all the requirements & rules of it] & do them.

This is the Law of the [Lord's] house; upon the top of the mountain, the whole [boundary surrounding all around it,] shall be Most Holy. [See,] this is the Law of the [Lord's] house. [Revelation 21:10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great & high mountain & [showed] me that great city, the holy Juerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.]

And these are the [measurements] of the altar, [according] to the [cubit.] The cubit is: a cubit [plus] a [hand's width.] Even [its] bottom shall be a cubit [long] & a cubit [wide.] And [its] border, by the edge [of it all around] shall be a [hand's] span.

And this shall be the [highest] place of the altar. And from the bottom, [a.k.a. base,] on the ground, even to the lower [ledge] shall be 2 cubits & the [width] 1 cubit. And from the [lower ledge,] even to the [highest ledge,] shall be 4 cubits & the [width] 1 cubit.

So, the altar shall be 4 cubits, & from the altar & [on the top] [corners] shall be 4 horns. [Exodus 27:2 And you shall make the horns of it upon the 4 corners [there.] [Its] horns shall be the same & you shall overlay it with brass.]

And the altar shall be 12 cubits long & 12 [wide] & square [within its] 4 square [corners of it.] And the [ledge] shall be 14 cubits long & 14 [wide, from] the 4 [corners of it.] And the border [around] it, shall be 1/2 a cubit, [around it.] And [its] stairs shall [face] toward the East.

And he said to me, Son of man, The Lord God says [this;] These are the [rules] of the altar [on] the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings & to sprinkle blood [on it.]

[Hebrew 9:21-22 [Also, Moses] sprinkled with [the] blood [on] both the tabernacle & all the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are purged with blood, by the Law. And without [the] shedding of blood, [there] is no remission, [a.k.a. forgiveness.]

And The Lord God says, You shall give a young [bull] for a sin offering, to the priests, the Levites, [who are] of the seed, [a.k.a. descendants] of Zadok, to minister to Me. And you shall take [some] of [its] blood & put it on the 4 horns of it, [that are] on [ts] 4 corners of the [ledge,] upon [its] border [all around it.]

[By this,] you shall cleanse & purge it, [a.k.a. make atonement for it.] You shall also take the [bull] of the sin offering & he shall burn it in the appointed place of the [Lord's] house, [outside] the sanctuary.

[Leviticus 4:11-12 And the skin of the [bull;] & all [its] flesh; with [its] head; & legs; [internal parts; & feces;] even he shall carry [out] the whole [bull, outside] the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out & burn him on the wood, with fire. [And] he shall be burnt where the ashes are poured out.]

And on the 2nd day, you shall offer a kid [goat] without blemish, for a sin offering. And they shall cleanse the altar, [like] they [cleansed] it with the [bull.] When you have [finished] cleansing it, you shall offer a young [bull,] without blemish & a ram, out of the flock without blemish.

And you shall offer them before the Lord & the priests shall [throw] salt upon them. And they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to the Lord. You shall prepare every day, [for] 7 days, a: goat for a sin offering & they shall also prepare a young [bull] & a ram out of the flock without blemish.

[Leviticus 8:33 And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation [for] 7 days, until the days of your consecration [are finished.] [Because] he shall consecrate you for 7 days.]

They shall purge the altar & purify it 7 days. And they shall consecrate themselves. And when these days are [finished,] it shall [happen] that the 8th day, [on,] the priests shall make your burnt offerings & peace offerings upon the altar. And I will accept you, [said] the Lord God.

Ezekiel 42:1-20 The Man Measures the Outer Court

 

The Man Measures the Outer Court

Ezekiel 42:1-20            The Book of Ezekiel [in Smaller Chunks]

Then, he brought me, [out] & into the [outer] court, [by] the [road facing] North,. And he brought me into the [room] that was over [next to] the separate [courtyard, in front of] the building [facing] North.

[In front,] the length [to] the North door, [was] 100 cubits & [its width] 50 cubits. Over [next to] the 20 cubits [that belonged to] the inner court & [next to] the pavement [walkway for] the [outer] court, was [a] gallery, [on top of a] gallery, [a.k.a. hallway or walkway] in 3 stories.

[Ezekiel 40:17 Then he brought me into the [outer] court & [look,] there were [rooms] & pavement made for the court [all around it.] 30 rooms [faced] the pavement.]

And [in front of] the rooms, [of which] their doors [faced] North, was [an inner walkway] 10 cubits [wide] & [a] 1 cubit [path.] Now, the upper [rooms] were shorter: [because] the [upper] [hallways] [were larger,] than the lower & [middle] [stories] of the building.

For they were in 3 stories, but [they] [didn't] have [the] pillars, [like] the pillars, [a.k.a. columns,] of the courts. Therefore, the [upper story of] the building was [shortened] more than the lowest & [middle stories] from the ground.

And the wall was 50 cubits [long,] that was [outside next to] the rooms, toward the [outer] court [facing] the [front] of the rooms. For the length was 50 cubits [for] the [rooms] that were in the [outer] court & [the front of] the temple [was] 100 cubits.

From [the lower rooms,] was the East [entrance] as [someone enters] into them from the [outer] court. The [rooms] were [within the thick walls of the court facing] East & [facing] the separate [courtyard facing] & the  building.

And the [walkway in front] of them, [looked] like the [rooms facing] North & were [the same length & width] as they [were.] And all their [exits] & doors were both according to their [plans.]

And similarly,] the doors of the [rooms facing] South, was a door in the [front] of the [hallway,] as [someone] enters into [it] & even the [path] directly [in front of] the wall [facing] East.

Then, he said to me, The North & South [rooms in front of] the separate [courtyard are] holy [rooms,] where the priests, [who] approach the Lord, shall eat the Most Holy things.

They shall lay the Most Holy things there: the meat/grain offering; sin offering & the trespass offering: for the place is Holy. When the priests enter [there,] they shall not go out of the Holy Place into the [outer] court. But they shall lay their garments, [in which] they minister [there;] for they are Holy.

And [they] shall put on other [clothing] & shall [come] to those things [that] are for the people. Now, when he had [finished] measuring the inner house [of the Lord,] he brought me [out] toward the gate [facing] East, & measured [all around it.]

With the measuring reed, he measured the East side [of the Lord's house:] 500 reeds, [a.k.a. 3,000 cubits.] With the measuring reed, he measured the North side, [of the Lord's house:] 500 reeds.

With the measuring reed, he measured the South side, [of the Lord's house:] 500 reeds. He [turned around] to the West side, & with the measuring reed, he measured 500 reeds.

He measured it [on] the 4 sides. It had a wall [all around it,] 500 reeds long & 500 reeds [wide,] to make a separation between the Sanctuary & the [common] place.

Ezekiel 41:1-26 The Man Continues to Measure the Lord's Temple

 

The Man Continues to Measure the Lord's Temple

Ezekiel 41:1-26            The Book of Ezekiel [in Smaller Chunks]

[Ezekiel 40:2-3 In the visions of God, He brought me into the land of Israel & [put] me upon a very high mountain, [in] which, [on] the South, was [what looked like] the [shape] of a city. And He brought me [there] & [I] saw, a man was [there,] whose appearance was like brass, with a flax [measuring] line in his hand & a [measuring] reed & he stood in the gate.]

[Later,] he brought me to the temple & measured the [door] posts, 6 cubits [wide,] on the one side & 6 cubits [wide] on the other side, which [were across] the width of the tabernacle.

And the [width] of the [entrance] door was 10 cubits & the sides [next to] the door were 5 cubits on one side & 5 cubits on the other side. And he measured [the temple's] length: 40 cubits & [its width:] 20 cubits.

Then, he went [inside] & measured [each of] the [doorway's side posts;] 2 cubits; the door [was] 6 cubits [high] & the [width] of [each of] the [2 doors:] 7 cubits.

And he said to me, This is the Most Holy Place, [a.k.a. The Holy of Holies.] After he measured the wall of the [Lord's] house, [a.k.a. the temple:] 6 cubits & the width of every side [room:] 4 cubits, [all around] the house on every side.

And the side [rooms] were [in] 3 [stories,] one [room] over another & [there was a total of:] 30 [side rooms: 5 on the North side of all 3 stories & 5 on the South side of all 3 stories.]

And they entered into the [walled staircase,] which was for the side [rooms] of the [Lord's] house, [all around it, so] that they might [take] hold [of the staircase rails,] but not hold [onto] the wall of the [Lord's] house. And there was an [enlarged opening] & a winding [staircase, going] upward [to the side rooms] [around] the [Lord's] house.

[1 Kings 6:8 The door for the middle [story] was [on] the right side of the house & they went up with winding stairs into the middle [story] & out of the middle & into the third [story.]

Therefore, the [width] of the house increased [upward] from the lowest [rooms] to the highest, [through] the midst [of it.] [1 Kings 6:5-6 And against the wall of the [Lord's] house, he built [rooms around it,] both of the temple & of the oracle, [a.k.a. The Holy of Holies,] & he made [rooms around it.]

The [rooms] [on the bottom story] [were] 5 cubits [wide] & the [rooms on the] middle [story] [were] 6 cubits [wide] & the [rooms on the] third [story] [were] 7 cubits [wide.] For [outside] in the wall of the [Lord's] house, he made [narrow ledges around it so] that the beams shouldn't be fastened to the wall of the [Lord's] house.]

I also saw the height of the [Lord's] house & [around it.] The foundations of the side [rooms] were a full reed of 6 great cubits. The thickness of the wall, for the side [rooms outside,] was 5 cubits & [what] was left was the [open] place, [a.k.a. terrace, for] the side [rooms] that were [inside.]

And between the [entrance of the] [rooms] [outside & the entrance of the rooms inside] was [a distance of] 20 cubits, around, [including the 5 cubit thick walls of] the [Lord's] house on every side [of the first story.]

And the doors of the side [rooms faced] the [open] place that was left, 1 door toward the North & another door toward the South. [The entrance of the 5 rooms inside of each of the 3 stories on the North side, would open to the South & [its] terrace door would open to the North.

The entrance of the 5 rooms inside on each of the 3 stories on the South side, would open to the North & [its] terrace door would open to the South.] And the width of the [terrace] that was left, was 5 cubits, all around it.]

Now the building that was [in front of] the separate [courtyard] at the end, [faced] West & was 70 cubits [wide] & 90 cubits long. And the [building's] wall was 5 cubits thick [all around it.]

So, he measured the [Lord's] house, 100 cubits long. And the separate [courtyard] & the building with [its] walls, [were] 100 cubits long. Also, the [width] of the [front] of the house & the separate [courtyard facing] East, [was] 100 cubits long.

And he measured the length of the building [facing] the separate [courtyard that] was behind it & [its] galleries, [a.k.a. hallways or walkways] on one side & on the other side, [were] 100 cubits.

[This included:] the inner temple; the [court's] porches, [a.k.a. covered porches & vestibules,] door posts; narrow windows; & the [hallways all around] on [its] 3 stories, [opposite the door's threshold,] [which were:] paneled all around] with wood from the ground up to the windows.

And the windows were covered, [even] above the [door, a.k.a. transom window;] even to the inner house, [a.k.a. The Holy of Holies;] & [outside] by all the [walls around it, inside & outside,] by [measurement.]

And it was [carved] with cherubims, [a.k.a. angelic figures,] & palm trees. So, that a palm tree was between a cherub & [another] cherub. And every cherub had 2 faces; so that the face of man was toward the palm tree on one side & the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side.

It was [carved all around] through the [Lord's] house. [There] were cherubims & palm trees made, from the ground to above the door & on the wall of the temple, [a.k.a. Sanctuary.]

The [temple's] door] posts were squared, [as was] the [front] of the Sanctuary. The appearance of one [doorpost] was [like] the other. The wood altar was 3 cubits high & [its] length, 2 cubits. And [its:] corners; [its] length & [its] walls, were [made] of wood.

And he said to me, This is the table before the Lord. And the temple & the Sanctuary had 2 doors, [a.k.a. double doors.] And the 2 doors [each] had 2 [folding] leaves, [a.k.a. panels.] 2 [panels] for the one door & 2 [panels] for the other door.

And cherubims & palm trees were [carved] on the doors of the temple, like [those carved] upon the walls. And there [was a wooden canopy] upon the [front] of the [outside] porch, [made with] thick planks.

And there were narrow windows, [with] palm trees on [either side of them] & on the sides of the porch & upon the side [rooms] of the [Lord's] house & [on the canopies.]