EZEKIEL CHAPTER FORTY - THREE

EZEKIEL CHAPTER FORTY - THREE

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OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER FORTY-THREETHE GLORY OF THE LORD RETURNS V. 1-6

THE LORD WILL REMAIN IN TEMPLEIF ISRAEL REPENTS OF THE SINSWHICH CAUSED HIM TO LEAVE V. 7-12

DESCRIBE THE TEMPLE TO ISRAELAND THE LAWS PERTAINING TO IT

DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR V.13-18

CONSECRATING THE ALTAR V. 19-27

READ: EZEKIEL 43:1-2THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE

1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the east.

2 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:1-2THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE

1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the East. 2 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the East. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.

WHERE DID HE TAKE EZEKIEL?‘He brought me to the gate that faces toward the East’

WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?‘The glory of the God of Israel;

‘Came from the way of the East’‘His voice was like the sound of many waters’

‘The earth shone with His glory’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:11 Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the East.


WHEN DID EZEKIEL FIRST SEE VISIONS OF GOD?READ: EZEKIEL 1:1

1 It came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the River Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. NKJV

WHERE WAS EZEKIEL?‘I was among the captives by the River Chebar’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:1


WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE AT THE EAST GATE?

READ: EZEKIEL 8:1616 He brought me into the inner court of the LORD‘S house; and there, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the East, and they were worshiping the sun toward the East. NKJV

WHAT WERE THESE MEN DOING?‘They were worshiping the sun toward the East”

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:2WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?‘The glory of the God of Israel;

‘Came from the way of the East’

READ: EZEKIEL 10:44 The glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and paused over the threshold of the temple; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD‘S glory. NKJV

WHERE DID THE GLORY OF THE LORD GO?‘The glory of the LORD went up from the cherub’

‘and paused over the threshold of the temple’



READ: EZEKIEL 10:18-1918 The glory of the LORD departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim. 19 The cherubim lifted their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the wheels were beside them; and they stood at the door of the East gate of the LORD‘S house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. NKJV

WHERE DID THE GLORY OF THE LORD GO?‘The glory of the LORD departed from the threshold’

‘of the temple and stood over the cherubim’‘They stood at the door of the East gate’



READ: EZEKIEL 11:2323 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain, which is on the East side of the city. NKJV

WHERE DID THE GLORY OF THE LORD GO?‘the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city’

AND‘Stood on the mountain on the East side of the city’



READ: ZECHARIAH 14:44 His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the East. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From East to West, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the North And half of it toward the South.

WHO IS ZECHARIAH TALKING ABOUT?WHERE IS THE MOUNT OF OLIVES?

‘His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives’‘facing Jerusalem on the East’



READ: MATTHEW 24:33 As He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, ‘Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?’ NKJV

WHERE WAS JESUS?‘He sat on the Mount of Olives’

EAST OF JERUSALEM?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:22 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the East. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.

WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?‘His voice was like the sound of many waters’

‘The earth shone with His glory’

READ: EZEKIEL 1:2424 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a tumult like the noise of an army; and when they stood still, they let down their wings. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:2WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?

‘His voice was like the sound of many waters’‘The earth shone with His glory’

WHAT DID JOHN BEHOLD?

READ: REVELATION 1:13-1513 In the midst of the seven lamp-stands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. 14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; 15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters;




READ: REVELATION 14:22 I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. NKJV

READ: REVELATION 18:11 After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. NKJV




READ: REVELATION 21:10-1110 He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.


3 It was like the appearance of the vision which I saw — like the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the city. The visions were like the vision which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face.

4 And the glory of the LORD came into the temple by way of the gate which faces toward the east.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:3-43 It was like the appearance of the vision which I saw — like the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the city. The visions were like the vision which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face. 4 And the glory of the LORD came into the temple by way of the gate which faces toward the East.

WHAT DID EZEKIEL LIKEN THIS VISION TO?

‘It was like the vision which I saw‘‘when I came to destroy the city’‘The visions were like the vision’‘which I saw by the River Chebar’

WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE?‘the glory of the LORD came into the temple’

‘by way of the gate which faces toward the East’


‘the glory of the LORD came into the temple’‘by way of the gate which faces toward the East’

READ: EZEKIEL 10:18-1918 The glory of the LORD departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim. 19 The cherubim lifted their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the wheels were beside them; and they stood at the door of the East gate of the LORD‘S house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. NKJV

WHERE DID THE GLORY OF THE LORD GO?‘The glory of the LORD departed from the threshold’

‘of the temple and stood over the cherubim’‘They stood at the door of the East gate’

READ: EZEKIEL 43:5THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE

5 The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:5THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE

5 The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

WHAT DID THE SPIRIT DO?‘The Spirit lifted me up & brought me into the inner court’

WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?‘the glory of the LORD filled the temple’

WAS EZEKIEL IN THE TEMPLE?WHY NOT?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:5WHAT DID THE SPIRIT DO?

‘The Spirit lifted me up’

WHERE DID THE SPIRIT TAKE HIM?‘brought me into the inner court’

HAD THE SPIRIT DONE THIS BEFORE?

READ: EZEKIEL 11:2424 The Spirit took me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. And the vision that I had seen went up from me. NKJV


‘The Spirit lifted me up & brought me into the inner court’WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?

‘the glory of the LORD filled the temple’

WAS EZEKIEL IN THE TEMPLE? WHY NOT?

HOW DID THE LORD GUIDE ISRAEL?READ: EXODUS 13:21-22

21 The LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. 22 He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people. NKJV


‘The Spirit lifted me up & brought me into the inner court’WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?

‘the glory of the LORD filled the temple’

WAS EZEKIEL IN THE TEMPLE? WHY NOT?

HOW DID THE LORD GUIDE ISRAEL?

READ: NUMBERS 9:15-1615 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the Testimony; from evening until morning it was above the tabernacle like the appearance of fire. 16 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. NKJV


‘the glory of the LORD filled the temple’WAS EZEKIEL IN THE TEMPLE? WHY NOT?

READ: EXODUS 40:34-3534 The cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. NKJV

WHAT COVERED THE TABERNACLE?‘The cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting’

WHY COULDN’T MOSES ENTER THE TABERNACLE?‘the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle’


‘the glory of the LORD filled the temple’WAS EZEKIEL IN THE TEMPLE? WHY NOT?

READ: 1 KINGS 8:10-1110 ….When the priests came out of the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD, 11 So that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

WHAT COVERED THE HOLY PLACE?‘the cloud filled the house of the LORD’

WHAT COULDN’T THE PRIESTS DO? WHY?‘continue ministering because of the cloud’

the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD


6 Then I heard Him speaking to me from the temple, while a man stood beside me.

7 And He said to me, "Son of man, this is 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 forever. No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:6-76 Then I heard Him speaking to me from the temple, while a man stood beside me. 7 And He said to me, ‘Son of man, this is 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 forever. No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places.

WHO IS BESIDE EZEKIEL?

‘a man stood beside me’WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?

‘this is the place of My throne’‘the place of the soles of My feet’

WHERE‘I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:66 Then I heard Him speaking to me from the temple, while a man stood beside me.

WHO IS BESIDE EZEKIEL?‘a man stood beside me’

IS THIS THE SAME MAN?

READ: EZEKIEL 40:33 He took me there and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze. He had a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway. NKJV

WHO IS THIS PERSON?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:7WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?



WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?

READ: PSALMS 99:5Exalt the LORD our God

worship at His footstool; He is holy.

READ: PSALMS 132:7Let us go into His tabernacle

Let us worship at His footstool.




WHAT DID DAVID SAY?

READ: 1 CHRONICLES 28:2-32 King David rose to his feet and said, ‘Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made preparations to build it.’ 3 But God said to me, 'You shall not build a house for My name, because you have been a man of war and have shed blood.' NKJV




WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY TO ISRAEL?WHY?

READ: LAMENTATIONS 2:1

1 How the Lord has covered the daughter of ZionWith a cloud in His anger! He cast down from heaven to the earth The beauty of Israel, And did not remember His footstool In the day of His anger. NKJV




WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?

READ: ISAIAH 60:1313 ‘The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, The cypress, the pine, and the box tree together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I will make the place of My feet glorious. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:7WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?

WHY?

READ: EXODUS 34:13-1613 You shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images 14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods. NKJV


‘No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name’

HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE HIS HOLY NAME?‘by their harlotry’

WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?

WHY?

READ: LEVITICUS 18:2121 You shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. NKJV



HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE HIS HOLY NAME?‘by their harlotry’


READ: EZEKIEL 20:30-3130 …. ‘Are you defiling yourselves in the manner of your fathers, and committing harlotry according to their abominations? 31 When you offer your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, I will not be inquired of by you.’



HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE HIS HOLY NAME?‘by their harlotry


READ: ISAIAH 52:11 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion;Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean Shall no longer come to you. NKJV





READ: JEREMIAH 3:1717 At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts. NKJV




WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?READ: EZEKIEL 37:23

23 They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God. NKJV


‘this is the place of My throne’AND

‘I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever’

WHAT DID ISAIAH SAY TO ISRAEL?

READ: ISAIAH 2:2-32 It shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the LORD‘S house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it. 3 Many people shall come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.’ NKJV


‘this is the place of My throne’AND

‘I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever’


READ: MALACHI 3:11 ‘Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,’Says the LORD of hosts. NKJV


8 When they set their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My holy name by the abominations which they committed; therefore I have consumed them in My anger.

9 Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:8-98 When they set their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My holy name by the abominations which they committed; therefore I have consumed them in My anger. 9 Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.

HOW DID THEY DEFILE HIS HOLY NAME?‘they set their threshold by My threshold’‘they set their doorpost by My doorpost’

‘with a wall between them and Me’

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THEM TO DO?‘put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings‘

‘far away from Me’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:88 When they set their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My holy name by the abominations which they committed; therefore I have consumed them in My anger.

WHAT DID KING AHAZ DO?READ: 2 KINGS 16:11-15

WHAT DID KING MANASSEH DO?READ: 2 KINGS 21:4-7

WHAT DID KING AMON DO?READ: 2 CHRONICLES 33:21-23


WHAT DID KING AHAZ DO?

READ: 2 KINGS 16:11-1511 Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. Urijah the priest made it before King Ahaz came back from Damascus. 12 When the king came back from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached the altar and made offerings on it. 13 He burned his burnt offering and his grain offering; and he poured his drink offering and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:8WHAT DID KING AHAZ DO?

READ: 2 KINGS 16:11-1514 He brought the bronze altar which was before the LORD, from the front of the temple — from between the new altar and the house of the LORD — and put it on the north side of the new altar. 15 King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, ‘On the great new altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, the king's burnt sacrifice, and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice. And the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.’ NKJV


WHAT DID KING MANASSEH DO?

READ: 2 KINGS 21:4-74 He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, ‘In Jerusalem I will put My name.’5 He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 He made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger. 7 He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, ‘In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;’ NKJV


WHAT DID KING AMON DO?

READ: 2 CHRONICLES 33:21-2321 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 22 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done; for Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and served them. 23 He did not humble himself before the LORD, as his father Manasseh had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:99 Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THEM TO DO?‘put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings‘

‘far away from Me’

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FIRST?

READ: JEREMIAH 16:1818 First I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:9WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THEM TO DO?

‘put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings‘‘far away from Me’

‘I will dwell in their midst forever’

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHEN?

READ: EZEKIEL 37:26-2826 I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27 My tabernacle shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 28 The nations will know that I, the LORD, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.


10 ‘Son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

11 And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and perform them.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:10-11THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE

10 ‘Son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and perform them.

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?

WHY?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:1010 ‘Son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?‘describe the temple to the house of Israel’

WHY?‘That they may be ashamed of their iniquities’

WHEN WILL THEY BE ASHAMED?

READ: EZEKIEL 16:6161 You will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters; for I will give them to you for daughters, but not because of My covenant with you. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:1111 And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and perform them.

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?‘Make known to them the design of the temple’

‘Its arrangement, its exits. its entrances, its entire design’‘All its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws

‘Write it down in their sight’

WHY? SO THAT ‘They may keep its whole design’

‘All its ordinances and Perform them’

READ: EZEKIEL 43:12-1412 This is the law of the temple: The whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.

DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR

13 These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. This is the height of the altar:

14 from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the width of the ledge, one cubit.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:12-1412 This is the law of the temple: The whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.13 These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. This is the height of the altar: 14 from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the width of the ledge, one cubit.

WHAT IS THE LAW OF THE TEMPLE?WHAT IS MOST HOLY?

WHAT IS THIS ALTAR?WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:1212 This is the law of the temple: The whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.

WHAT IS THE LAW OF THE TEMPLE?

WHAT IS MOST HOLY?‘The whole area surrounding the mountaintop’

WHERE DID THE PRIESTS PUT THE ARK?READ: 1 KINGS 8:6

6 The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:12WHAT IS THE LAW OF THE TEMPLE?


DESCRIBE THE WALL AROUND THE TEMPLE?

READ: EZEKIEL 42:2020 He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred wide, to separate the holy areas from the common. NKJV

WHY WAS THERE A WALL AROUND THE TEMPLE?

‘to separate the holy areas from the common’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:12WHAT IS THE LAW OF THE TEMPLE?


WHAT DID JOHN SEE?

READ: REVELATION 21:22-2322 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. NKJV

WHY WAS THERE NO TEMPLE?‘the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:13-1413 These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. This is the height of the altar: 14 from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the width of the ledge, one cubit.

WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THIS ALTAR?

WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE BASE?

WHAT ALTAR DID EZEKIEL SEE?ALTAR OF INCENSE?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:13THE LAW OF THE ALTAR

READ: EXODUS 20:24-2524 An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you. 25 If you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD WANT MOSES TO BUILD?‘An altar of earth or of stone’

WHY NOT BUILD IT OF HEWN STONE?‘If you use your tool on it, you have profaned it’


READ: 2 CHRONICLES 4:11 He made a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.

WHAT ALTAR DID SOLOMON MAKE? BRAZEN ALTAR?‘He made a bronze altar’

WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THIS ALTAR?

Length 20 cubits = 30 feetWidth 20 cubits = 30 feetHeight 10 cubits = 15 feet

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:13-1413 These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. This is the height of the altar: 14 from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the width of the ledge, one cubit.

WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THIS ALTAR?Length 1 cubit = 1.5 feetWidth 1 cubit = 1,5 feetHeight 2 cubits = 3 feet

WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE BASE?Bottom layer: 4 cubits x 4 cubits = 6 feet x 6 feetSecond layer: 2 cubits x 2 cubits = 3 feet x 3 feet

(Each layer: 1 cubits high) = 1.5 feet high

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:13-14WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND MOSES?

READ: EXODUS 30:1-31 You shall make an altar to burn incense on; you shall make it of acacia wood. 2 A cubit shall be its length and a cubit its width — it shall be square — and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. 3 You shall overlay its top, its sides all around, and its horns with pure gold; and you shall make for it a molding of gold all around. NKJV

WHAT ALTAR WAS THIS? ALTAR OF INCENSE?WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THIS ALTAR?

Length 1 cubit = 1.5 feetWidth 1 cubit = 1.5 feetHeight 2 cubits = 3 feet

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:13-14WHAT ALTAR DID EZEKIEL SEE?

ALTAR OF INCENSE?

READ: EXODUS 40:26-2726 He put the gold altar in the tabernacle of meeting in front of the veil; 27 And he burned sweet incense on it, as the LORD had commanded Moses. NKJV

WHERE DID MOSES PUT THE ALTAR OF INCENSE

‘He put the gold altar in the tabernacle of meeting’‘in front of the veil’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:13-14READ: EXODUS 30:7-10

7 Aaron shall burn on it sweet incense every morning; when he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it. 8 When Aaron lights the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense on it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations. 9 You shall not offer strange incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering; nor shall you pour a drink offering on it. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND AARON?‘Aaron shall burn on it sweet incense every morning’

‘You shall not offer strange incense on it’‘or a burnt offering, or a grain offering’

‘nor shall you pour a drink offering on it’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:13-14WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND AARON?

‘You shall not offer strange incense on itOr a burnt offering, or a grain offering

Nor shall you pour a drink offering on it‘

READ: LEVITICUS 10:1-21 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. 2 So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. NKJV

WHAT DID NADAB AND ABIHU DO?‘they each took his censer, put fire in it, put incense on it’

‘they offered profane fire before the LORD’‘fire went out from the LORD and devoured them’

‘they died before the LORD’

READ: EZEKIEL 43:15-17DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR

15 The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns extending upward from the hearth.

16 The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide, square at its four corners;

17 the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the East.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:15-1715 The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns extending upward from the hearth. 16 The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide, square at its four corners; 17 the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the East.

HOW DID EZEKIEL DESCRIBETHE HEARTH OF THE ALTAR?

HOW DID EZEKIEL DESCRIBETHE LEDGE OF THE ALTAR?

WHAT ALTAR WAS THIS? BRAZEN ALTAR?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:15DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR


READ: EXODUS 27:32 You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL MOSES TO DO?‘You shall make its horns on its four corners’

‘Its horns shall be of one piece with it’‘You shall overlay it with bronze’


QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:15WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THE PRIEST TO DO?

READ: EXODUS 29:1212 You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the base of the altar. NKJV

READ: LEVITICUS 4:30 30 The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar.


READ: 1 KINGS 1:50-53 50 Adonijah was afraid of Solomon; so he arose, and went and took hold of the horns of the altar. 51 It was told Solomon, saying: Indeed Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon; for look, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, 'Let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.’ 52 Then Solomon said, ‘If he proves himself a worthy man, not one hair of him shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.’ 53 So King Solomon sent them to bring him down from the altar. And he came and fell down before King Solomon; And Solomon said to him: ‘Go to your house.’

WHAT DID ADONIJAH DO? WHY?


READ: 1 KINGS 2:28-3128 Then news came to Joab, for Joab had defected to Adonijah, though he had not defected to Absalom. So Joab fled to the tabernacle of the LORD, and took hold of the horns of the altar. 29 King Solomon was told: ‘Joab has fled to the tabernacle of the LORD; there he is, by the altar’. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, ‘Go, strike him down.’ 30 Benaiah went to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said to him: Thus says the king, 'Come out!‘ And he said, ‘No, but I will die here.’ Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, ‘Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.’ 31 The king said to him, ‘Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may take away from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood which Joab shed. NKJV

WHAT DID JOAB DO? WHY?WHAT ALTAR WAS THIS? BRAZEN ALTAR?



HOW DID EZEKIEL DESCRIBE THE HORNS?‘four horns extending upward from the hearth’

WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY ABOUT THE HORNS?

READ: PSALMS 118:2727 God is the LORD, And He has given us light; Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:15-16DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR

15 The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns extending upward from the hearth. 16 The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide, square at its four corners;

HOW DID EZEKIEL DESCRIBETHE HEARTH OF THE ALTAR?

Height 4 cubits = 6 feetHearth: 12 cubits x 12 cubits = 18 feet x 18 feet

‘with four horns extending upward from the hearth’



17 the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the East.

HOW DID EZEKIEL DESCRIBETHE LEDGE OF THE ALTAR?

Ledge: 14 cubits x 14 cubits = 21 feet x 21 feet

‘with a rim of half a cubit around it’‘Its base, one cubit all around’‘Its steps face toward the East’


QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:17HOW DID EZEKIEL DESCRIBE THE LEDGE OF THE ALTAR?

Ledge: 14 cubits x 14 cubits = 21 feet x 21 feet‘with a rim of half a cubit around it’

‘Its base, one cubit all around’‘Its steps face toward the East’

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?READ: EXODUS 20:25-26

25 If you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it. 26 Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.' NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 43:18CONSECRATING THE ALTAR

18 And He said to me, "Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: 'These are the ordinances for the altar on the day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:18CONSECRATING THE ALTAR

18 And He said to me, ‘Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: 'These are the ordinances for the altar on the day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it.

WHEN WERE THESE ORDINANCES GIVEN?'These are the ordinances for the altar’

‘on the day when it is made’


18 And He said to me, ‘Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: 'These are the ordinances for the altar on the day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it.

READ: EXODUS 40:2929 He put the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses. NKJV

WHERE DID MOSES PUT THE ALTAR?‘before the door of the tabernacle’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:18'These are the ordinances for the altar on the day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it.

READ: LEVITICUS 8:10-1110 Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them. 11 He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and its base, to consecrate them. NKJV

WHAT DID MOSES DO? WHY?‘Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle

and all that was in it and consecrated them’ ‘He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times’

‘He anointed the altar and all its utensils and the laver and its base, to consecrate them’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:18WHAT WERE THE ORDINANCES FOR THE ALTAR?

READ: LEVITICUS 1:5-95 He shall kill the bull before the LORD; and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 6 He shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces. 7 The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay the wood in order on the fire. 8 The priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar; 9 He shall wash its entrails and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

READ: 1 KINGS 8:63-6463 Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, 22,000 bulls and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. 64 On the same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house of the LORD; for there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. NKJV

WHAT DID SOLOMON DO? WHY?‘He consecrated the middle of the court’

‘that was in front of the house of the LORD’BECAUSE:

‘the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small’

READ: EZEKIEL 43:19-21CONSECRATING THE ALTAR

19 You shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who approach Me to minister to Me,' says the Lord GOD.

20 You shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

21 Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside the sanctuary.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:19-2119 You shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who approach Me to minister to Me,' says the Lord GOD. 20 You shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it. 21 Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside the sanctuary.

WHO SHOULD THEY BRING THEIR SIN OFFERING TO?WAS EZEKEIL A PRIEST? WAS EZRA A PRIEST?

WHAT SHOULD THEY DO WITH THIS SIN OFFERING?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:1919 You shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who approach Me to minister to Me,' says the Lord GOD.

WHO SHOULD THEY BRING THEIR SIN OFFERING TO?‘the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok’

‘who approach Me to minister to Me’

WHY?WHAT HAPPENED TO KORAH , DATHAN AND ABIRAM?

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL MOSES TO DO?WHAT DID ELEAZAR DO? WHY?

READ: NUMBERS 16:37-40

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:19WHAT DID THE LORD TELL MOSES TO DO?

37 Tell Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, to pick up the censers out of the blaze, for they are holy, and scatter the fire some distance away.38 The censers of these men who sinned against their own souls, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar. Because they presented them before the LORD, therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel’

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL MOSES TO DO? WHY?‘Tell Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,’

‘to pick up the censers out of the blaze, for they are holy’‘Let them be made into hammered plates’

‘as a covering for the altar’‘They shall be a sign to the children of Israel’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:19READ: NUMBERS 16:39-40

39 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned up had presented, and they were hammered out as a covering on the altar, 40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel that no outsider, who is not a descendant of Aaron, should come near to offer incense before the LORD, that he might not become like Korah and his companions, just as the LORD had said to him through Moses. NKJV

WHAT DID ELEAZAR DO?‘He took the censers of those who were burned up’

‘They were hammered out as a covering on the altar’WHY? SO THAT

‘No outsider, who is not a descendant of Aaron’‘Should come near to offer incense before the LORD’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:19WHO SHOULD THEY BRING THEIR SIN OFFERING TO?‘the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok’


READ: EZEKIEL 40:4646 The chamber which faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; these are the sons of Zadok, from the sons of Levi, who come near the LORD to minister to Him. NKJV

WHAT WERE THE NORTH CHAMBERS FOR?‘the priests who have charge of the altar’‘the sons of Zadok, from the sons of Levi’

‘who come near the LORD to minister to Him’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:19WHO SHOULD THEY BRING THEIR SIN OFFERING TO?‘the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok’


READ: EZEKIEL 1:33 the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was upon him there. NKJV

WAS EZEKIEL A PRIEST?‘Ezekiel the priest’


READ: EZRA 7:1-51 In the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, 2 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, 3 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, 4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, 5 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest- NKJV

WAS EZRA A PRIEST?

A HIGH PRIEST?



WHAT WAS THE ORDINANCE OF THE ALTAR?‘You shall take some of its blood’

‘put it on the four horns of the altar’‘on the four corners of the ledge’

‘on the rim around it’WHY?

‘Thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it’



WHAT WAS THE ORDINANCE OF THE ALTAR?

READ: LEVITICUS 4:77 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of meeting; He shall pour the remaining blood of the bull at the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:20WHAT WAS THE ORDINANCE OF THE ALTAR?

READ: LEVITICUS 16:18-1918 He shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD, and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around. 19 Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, cleanse it, and consecrate it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. NKJV

WHY?‘make atonement for it and consecrate it’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:2121 Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside the sanctuary.

WHAT SHOULD THEY DO WITH THE SIN OFFERING?‘burn it in the appointed place of the temple’

‘outside the sanctuary’

READ: EXODUS 29:1414 But the flesh of the bull, with its skin and its offal, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering. NKJV (offal = dung)?

WHERE SHOULD THE SIN OFFERING BE BURNED?you shall burn with fire outside the camp

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:2121 Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside the sanctuary.

WHAT SHOULD THEY DO WITH THE SIN OFFERING?‘burn it in the appointed place of the temple’

‘outside the sanctuary’

READ: HEBREWS 13:1111 The bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. NKJV

WHERE SHOULD THE SIN OFFERING BE BURNED?‘burned outside the camp’


22 On the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the flock without blemish.

24 When you offer them before the LORD, the priests shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:22-2422 On the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull. 23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the flock without blemish. 24 When you offer them before the LORD, the priests shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.

WHAT SHOULD THEY OFFER?

HOW SHOULD THEY CLEANSE THE ALTAR?

WHAT SHOULD THE PREISTS DO WITH THEM?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:22-2322 On the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull. 23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the flock without blemish.

WHAT SHOULD THEY OFFER?‘a young bull and a ram without blemish’

READ: LEVITICUS 22:2020 Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it shall not be acceptable on your behalf. NKJV

WHY?‘it shall not be acceptable on your behalf’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:22-2322 On the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull. 23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the flock without blemish.

HOW SHOULD THEY CLEANSE THE ALTAR?

‘they shall cleanse the altar’‘as they cleansed it with the bull’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:22-23

READ: EXODUS 29:1-41 This is what you shall do to them to hallow them for ministering to Me as priests: Take one young bull and two rams without blemish, 2 and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil (you shall make them of wheat flour). 3 You shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams. 4 Aaron and his sons you shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and you shall wash them with water. NKJV

WHAT DID THEY OFFER TO HALLOW THE PRIESTS?‘one young bull and two rams without blemish’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:22-23

READ: LEVITICUS 8:2-32 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, a bull as the sin offering, two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread; 3 and gather all the congregation together at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. NKJV

WHAT DID THEY OFFER TO HALLOW THE PRIESTS?

‘a bull as the sin offering, two rams’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:2424 When you offer them before the LORD, the priests shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.

WHAT SHOULD THE PRIESTS DO?‘you offer them before the LORD’

‘the priests shall throw salt on them’‘they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD’

READ: LEVITICUS 2:1313 Every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?With all your offerings you shall offer salt

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:2424 When you offer them before the LORD, the priests shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.

WHAT SHOULD THE PRIESTS DO?‘you offer them before the LORD’

‘the priests shall throw salt on them’‘they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD’

READ: MARK 9:4949 Everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HIS DISCIPLES?‘every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt’


25 Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish.

26 Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it.

27 When these days are over it shall be, on the eighth day and thereafter, that the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on the altar; and I will accept you,' says the Lord GOD. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:25-27CONSECRATING THE ALTAR

25 Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish. 26 Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it. 27 When these days are over it shall be, on the eighth day and thereafter, that the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on the altar; and I will accept you,' says the Lord GOD. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM TO DO?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:25-26CONSECRATING THE ALTAR

25 Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish. 26 Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it.

WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM TO DO?‘Every day for seven days’

‘you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering’‘a young bull and a ram without blemish’

‘Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar’purify it and consecrate it’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:2626 Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it.

READ: LEVITICUS 8:3333 You shall not go outside the door of the tabernacle of meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are ended. For seven days he shall consecrate you. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND AARON & HIS SONS?‘Do not go outside the door of the tabernacle for 7 days’

‘Until the days of your consecration are ended’‘For seven days he shall consecrate you’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:26WHO WILL CONSECRATE THEM?

READ: EXODUS 29:35-3735 You shall do to Aaron and his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Seven days you shall consecrate them. 36 You shall offer a bull every day as a sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and sanctify it. The altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar must be holy. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND MOSES TO DO?‘Seven days you shall consecrate them’


27 When these days are over it shall be, on the eighth day and thereafter, that the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on the altar; and I will accept you,' says the Lord GOD. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THE PRIESTS TO DO?

‘on the eighth day and thereafter’‘the priests shall offer your burnt offerings’

‘and your peace offerings on the altar’‘And I will accept you'

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:27WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THE PRIESTS TO DO?

‘on the eighth day and thereafter’‘the priests shall offer your burnt offerings’

‘and your peace offerings on the altar’‘And I will accept you'

WHAT DID AARON DO?

WHY?

READ: EXODUS 32:1-5

READ: EXODUS 32:1-51 When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, ’Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ 2 Aaron said to them, ‘Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.’3 So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4 He received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!5 When Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. Aaron made a proclamation and said, ‘Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD.’ NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:27READ: LEVITICUS 9:1-4

1 It came to pass on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel. 2 He said to Aaron, ‘Take for yourself a young bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD. 3 To the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, 'Take a kid of the goats as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering, 4 also a bull and a ram as peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil; for today the LORD will appear to you.’ NKJV

WHAT DID MOSES SAY TO AARON? WHY?WHAT DID MOSES SAY TO ISRAEL? WHY?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:27‘the priests shall offer your burnt offerings’

‘and your peace offerings on the altar’

READ: LEVITICUS 17:6-7 6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and burn the fat for a sweet aroma to the LORD. 7 They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?‘The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar’

‘of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting’‘and burn the fat for a sweet aroma to the LORD’

‘They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:27WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THE PRIESTS TO DO?

‘the priests shall offer your burnt offerings’‘and your peace offerings on the altar’

‘And I will accept you'

READ: ISAIAH 60:77 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; They shall ascend with acceptance on My altar, And I will glorify the house of My glory. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE GENTILES?‘All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you’

‘They shall ascend with acceptance on My altar’‘I will glorify the house of My glory’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:27READ: EZEKIEL 20:40-41

40 ‘On My holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first-fruits of your sacrifices, together with all your holy things. 41 I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?‘On My holy mountain’

‘I will require your offerings and your sacrifices’‘I will accept you as a sweet aroma’

‘I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles’



READ: ROMANS 12:11 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. NKJV

WHAT DID PAUL SAY TO THE CHRISTIANS?‘present your bodies a living sacrifice’

‘holy, acceptable to God’‘which is your reasonable service’



READ: HEBREWS 6:19-2019 We have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, 20 Where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. NKJV

WHO IS OUR HIGH PRIEST? JESUS?‘We have a High Priest, Jesus’

‘Jesus having become High Priest forever’‘according to the order of Melchizedek’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:27READ: HEBREWS 7:26-27

26 For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; 27 Who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. NKJV

HOW DOES CHRIST COMPARE TO AARON’S PRIESTS?‘Christ is our High Priest’

‘Christ does not need to offer up sacrifices daily’

‘Aaron’s high priests had to offer sacrifices daily’‘First for his own sins and then for the people’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 43:27READ: HEBREWS 9:24-25

24 Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25 Not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another — NKJV

HOW DOES CHRIST COMPARE TO AARON’S PRIESTS?‘Christ did not enter the Holy of Holies in the temple’

‘Christ is now in heaven in the presence of God’‘Christ offered himself once as a sacrifice’

‘Aaron’s high priests entered the Most Holy Place’‘ every year with blood of another sacrifice’



READ: HEBREWS 10:11-1211 Every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, NKJV

HOW DOES CHRIST COMPARE TO AARON’S PRIESTS?‘Every priest offered the same sacrifices daily’

‘which could never take away sins’

‘Christ offered one sacrifice for sins forever’‘and sat down at the right hand of God’



READ: HEBREWS 10:16-1816 ‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,’17 then He adds, ‘Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?‘there is no longer an offering for sin’

WHAT DID PAUL SAY TO THE CHRISTIANS?READ: HEBREWS 13:10-15

10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. 12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. 13 Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 14 For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come. 15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. NKJV

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