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🗓️ 9 September 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | Today we continue with Ezekiel's vision tour of a new temple design, but instead of the whole place being empty, today we get to see it being filled with people and their jobs and even with Yahweh himself. |
0:24.7 | But before we jump in, just a reminder that this section of scripture, Ezekiel 40 through 48, |
0:29.9 | is one of the most challenging for commentators. So take it easy on yourself if you're having |
0:34.3 | a hard time with this. Even Bible scholars find it difficult. And take it easy on me if we happen to |
0:39.1 | disagree on any points. Remember back in chapter 10 when God's presence left the temple on his |
0:44.4 | chair of him chariot and headed east to Babylon? Today in Chapter 43 we see |
0:49.0 | him returning the same way he left through the Eastern Gate. When he sees this Ezekiel falls on his face in worship, |
0:56.1 | but then the spirit lifts him up again, as is his way, and takes him from the outer court to the |
1:00.9 | inner court where Ezekiel hears God speaking to him from inside |
1:04.5 | the temple. In the layout of the temple complex the outer courts are very large, the |
1:09.5 | inner courts are smaller, the holy place is smaller and the most holy place, the holy of holies, where God's |
1:14.3 | manifest presence dwells in his most saturated form is the smallest of all. |
1:19.7 | You may wonder why God's room is the smallest, why he doesn't get the most square footage. |
1:24.2 | But as we know, he's actually everywhere, so he does. |
1:27.1 | He's in dimensions we haven't even accessed yet, so we don't have to worry about him being |
1:30.8 | confined to a 900 square foot space. And on top of that, there's some meaningful |
1:35.7 | symbolism in this layout. It corresponds to what we talked about yesterday with |
1:39.5 | the separation of the Holy and the Common. We'll talk a little more about that in a few minutes. |
1:44.0 | When God speaks to Ezekiel, he tells him to do two main things. |
1:48.0 | First, write down all the dimensions of this temple and then tell the people about it because it will humble |
1:53.4 | them. Second, write down all the laws God gives and command the people to obey them. |
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