From ba8e6de4b8b897a8191c12d268bdd1323c39aaa5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 13:58:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Ezekiel 40:1-27 --- content/bible_journal/ezekiel_40:1-27.md | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/ezekiel_40:1-27.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_40:1-27.md b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_40:1-27.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..14c6f8a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_40:1-27.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ ++++ +title = "Ezekiel 40:1–27" +date = "2023-07-02" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ezekiel40.1-27) + +Long after Jerusalem was destroyed, Ezekiel receives a vision of a restored +city with the temple built on Mount Zion as it was before. In the vision, he is +taken on a grand tour by an angelic guide. This guide has a cord and a reed, +surveyor's tools to measure the temple. The angel instructs Ezekiel to pay +attention to all he sees and hears during this vision, to meditate on them, and +to tell them to the house of Israel. + +Why would Israel need to hear about this? If they wanted to recreate Solomon's +temple, they have the bill of materials and something like blueprints in 1 +Kings. But at this time they were still exiled in Babylon, and it would be +another 50-ish years before Cyrus would let them return and rebuild the city. +Hearing how large and well-appointed the temple would some day be would give +them hope for the future and a trust in the Lord to see it through. + +At six long cubits long, the angel's measuring reed is very close to ten modern +feet long. He measures the platform on which the temple complex sits, +containing the outer court, the inner court, and the temple proper. The +stairways up the platform and the vestibule of the gateway are measured, along +with three guard rooms on either side of the vestibule. The court and its +decorations are described, and the north and south gates identical to the east +gate. Palm tree decorations, like the pomegranates on Solomon's temple before, +evoke images of natural beauty. They remind the worshippers of the Garden of +Eden where God first lived with Man. + +* * * + +Your love of beauty brings us delight, and we are grateful you share it with +us.