The Mysteries of Ezekiel 40-48 Unlocked: Jesus and His Living Stones, the Church
Preparatory Verses/Information for Ezekiel 40-48
Name
Meanings
Ezekiel=
God is my Strength-This is the theme of the book.
Son
of Buzi=Son of Contempt
Hebrews
3:1-6 (Jesus Greater
Than Moses)- Therefore, holy
brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and
high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed
him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than
Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the
house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the
builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God's
house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken
later, but Christ
is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his
house, if indeed we hold fast
our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
Hebrews 4:14-16-Since
then we have
a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of
God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high
priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every
respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with
confidence draw near to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find
grace to help in time of need.
Psalm 127:1-Unless the LORD builds the
house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the
watchman stays awake in vain.
Revelation 21:1-3 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for
the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no
more. And I saw
the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared
as a bride adorned for her husband. And
I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He
will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with
them as their God.
Hebrews 11:13-16 -These
all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen
them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were
strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that
they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land
from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to
return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called
their God, for he has prepared
for them a city.
Notes:
We don’t seek physical land in earthly terms, but of heavenly terms (The
Already & not Yet-We have the promise now-partial fulfillment, but it’s not
in its ultimate expression/fulfillment).
Hebrews 12:22-24 - But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of
the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in
heaven, and to God, the judge
of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the
mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better
word than the blood of Abel.
Hebrews 13:13-14 Therefore let us go to him outside the
camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but
we seek the city that is to come.
Hebrews 10:4-12: For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and
goats to take away sins.
Consequently, when Christ came into the world,
he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not
desired,
but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt
offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O
God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the
book.’”
When he said above, “You have neither desired
nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin
offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I
have come to do your will.” He
does away with the first in order to establish the second. And
by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all.And every
priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices,
which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single
sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
NOTES: The old way is
gone Forever…There is no justification for Millennial Memorial Animal Sacrifices. The old order is not
coming back at all.
Hebrews 10:19-20- Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the
blood of Jesus, by the new and living
way that he opened for us through
the curtain, that is, through his flesh
John 1:14: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us (Tabernacle within us), and we have seen his glory, glory as of
the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
NOTES: Jesus says he has entered the Temple, but now he says his flesh is
the curtain. We have the new/living way. We don’t go back to the old/dead way. He tabernacles within us.
John 2:19-22: Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple (Greek word Naos, not Hieron),
and in three days I will raise it up.”The Jews
then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and
will you raise it up in three days?” But he was
speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was
raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said
this, and they believed the Scripture AND the word
that Jesus had spoken
NOTES: Naos-means Spiritual Sanctuary/Portable
worship area (Paul uses this throughout the New Testament to refer to the Body
of Christ/The Church). Hieron- is the Physical Temple. Interestingly, it is
noted that this information is IN THE SCRIPTURE (OLD TESTAMENT REFERENCE). The
question is where in the Bible does Jesus mention his body as Temple
beforehand? This is Ezekiel 40-48.
John 7:37-38 - On the last day
of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone
thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his
heart will flow rivers of living water.’
NOTES: Again, it is noted that a past scripture
spoke of this in the Old Testament. This is answered in Ezekiel 47 and
Zechariah 14:8.
Zechariah 14:8 On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.
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Matthew 12:6 I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.
Isaiah
11:1 In
that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples—of him
shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
Hebrews 9:3-12-Behind the second curtain was a second section
called the Most Holy Place, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of
the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding
the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these
things we cannot now speak in detail. These
preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first
section, performing their ritual duties, but into the second only the high priest goes, and he
but once a year , and not without taking
blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the
people. By this the Holy Spirit
indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the
first section is still standing (which
is symbolic for the present age). According
to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the
conscience of the worshiper, but deal only with food and drink and various
washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things
that have come, then through the
greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this
creation) he
entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Hebrews
9:24-26 :For Christ did not enter a
sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he
entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. 25 Nor did he
enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters
the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26 Otherwise
Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But
he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin
by the sacrifice of himself.
Acts
17:24 The
God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and
earth, does
not live in temples made by man (human hands in KJV)
Acts
17:48 Yet
the Most High does
not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,
Deuteronomy
27:5-Build
there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool on
them.
Isaiah 66:1 Thus says the LORD, "Heaven is My
throne and the earth is My footstool. Where
then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest?
Daniel
2:34-As
you looked, a
stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron
and clay, and broke them in pieces.
Exodus
20:25-If you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you
wield your tool on it, you will profane it.
Zechariah 6:12-13 And say to him,
‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, the man whose name is the
Branch: for he shall branch out from his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord. It
is he who shall build the temple of the Lord and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule on
his throne. And there shall be
a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.”
Ezekiel 37:26 I will
make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant
with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst (within
them) forevermore.(Compare Luke 17:21 The Kingdom of God is in your
midst(within)
NOTES: HE has entered a Spiritual Reality
(Not made with hands) to make the sacrifice for humanity a possible thing.
2 Samuel 7:5-13-“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: Would you build me
a house to dwell in? I have not lived in a house since the day I
brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving
about in a tent for my dwelling. In all places where I have moved
with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the
judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel,
saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” Now, therefore, thus you
shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took
you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel. And I have been with you wherever you went and
have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great
name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will
plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,
from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give
you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make YOU (INTO) a house. When your days are fulfilled
and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring
after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house
for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
1
Samuel 2:35-'But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart
and in My soul; andI will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed always.
Ezekiel 11:16-16 Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I
removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the
countries, yet I have been a
sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they
have gone.’
Haggai
2:3 & 9 Who is left among you who saw this temple in its former glory? And how
do you see it now? Does it not seem to you like nothing in comparison?....The latter glory of this house will be greater than
the former,' says the LORD of
hosts, 'and in this place I
will give peace,' declares the
LORD of hosts
Malachi
3:1 “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; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you
delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts
Ezra 3:12-13: Yet many of the priests and Levites and
heads of fathers' households, the
old men who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when the
foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, while many shouted aloud
for joy, so that the people could not distinguish the sound
of the shout of joy from the sound of the weeping of the people, for the people
shouted with a loud shout, and the sound was heard far away.
NOTES: Jesus is the Third Temple.
There was no peace in the Zerubbabel Temple and Herod Temple because THE PRESENCE OF GOD was missing. By Christ walking into the
Physical Temple, he gave us a physical picture of the Latter Glory of the House
of God. Even in the Dispensationalism Millennial age, there is no peace because 2ndfall occurs later according to their interpretation. This is talking about a peace only God can give; a permanent peace with Him.
Hebrews 8:4-13 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at
all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was
instructed by God, saying, “See that
you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”
But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since
it is enacted on better
promises. For if that first
covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a
second. For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are
coming, declares the Lord,
when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the
house of Judah, not like the
covenant that I made with their fatherson the day when I took them by the hand
to bring them out of the land of Egypt.For they did not continue in my
covenant,and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israelafter those days,
declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their
hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall
not teach, each one his neighborand each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the
Lord,’for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I
will be merciful toward their iniquities,and I will remember their sins no
more.”In speaking of a new covenant,
he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old
is ready to vanish away.
Colossians
2:17-These are a shadow of the things
to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Hebrews
10:1-For since the law has but a
shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities,
it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year,
make perfect those who draw near.
Notes: In Ezekiel 40-48, Israel (represents the carnal religious Jews) and Judah (represented the “faithful remnant” Jews). The Old
covenant is gone. We don’t go back to types and shadows.
Ezekiel 40-48= Symbolic Numbers/Imagery Table
- 1=Unity/ God
- 2=Division/Separation
- 3=Triune God/Divine Approval
- 4=Creation/Universal effect Note: Varies on Context
- 5=Grace
- 6=Man
- 7=Spiritual Completeness
- 8=New Beginning/Resurrection
- 9=Prayer/Judgment/ Fruitfulness Note: Varies on Context
- 10=Completeness of a set/period or Man’s Responsibility to the Law (or used to describe the intensity of the other numbers) Note: Varies on Context
- 12=God’s Government/12 Tribes & Apostles
- 13=Man’s Rebellion
- 14=Deliverance
- 15=God’s Rest for Man
- 18=Abundant Life/Prosperity
- 20=Expectancy of Reward after a time of waiting/Levite Age of Service
- 25=Grace upon Grace/Levite Age of Service
- 30=Maturity/Leadership/Calling/Priest Age of Service
- 40=Trials, Testing, and/or Tribulation
- 45=Provision through a Trial (see Joshua 14:10-11)
- 50=Jubilee/Deliverance/Set apart
- 60=In need of support/help
- 70=Divine Mercy/Judgment/ Unspecified Period of Time
- 90=Judgment/Bearing Fruit (varies on context)
- 100=God’s approval /Fullness (or modifier used to describe the intensity of the other numbers)/Complete ideal Testimony Note: Varies on Context
- 200=A price paid to obtain justice, insufficiency of man’s efforts, safety, obtaining a wife, atonement/peace/reconciliation, and/or joy. Note: Varies on Context.
- 250/500=Priesthood/Holy Spirit/ Separation from the Holy and Common Things.
- 1000=Universal/Cosmic Order or a modifier for the inheritance of the 144,000- Note: Varies on Context
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- Palm Trees-Victory& Fruitful Abundance
- Wall=Separation between Man and God
- Carvings-Suffering & Pain
- Sweat=Sin/Worldly Influences
- Zadok= Redeemed Jews and Gentiles/Christians (his name means the "RIGHTEOUS ONE"- We are righteous in God the Father's eyes because of Christ.
- East Gate=God’s Glory/Entrance to the Spiritual Holy of Holies (The Cross)
- Levites=Jews
- Outer Court Chambers=Storerooms (Tithes & offerings)-The Riches of Christ
- Stairs=Upward Progression/Maturity of Believer’s life
- Inner Court=Progression of Internal Spiritual Truths/Closer relationship with God
- Vestibule/Hallway of Temple =Suffering /Finding Strength in Weakness/Prayer
- Tables=Communion/Fellowship
- Inner Court Chambers=Communion with God (Worship/Service)
- Squared Buildings/Property=Perfect completion and approval
- Inner Temple=Jesus Christ as the most qualified to meet with God in the Holy Place
- Windows=Letting light in/Public Acknowledgement
- Wood=Christ’s Humanity/Cross
- The Altar=the Purpose and Function of the Cross/sweet aroma of sacrifice
- Overall Purpose of the Temple=The embodied expression of Christ’s relationship to the redeemed believer in Temple language, testimony ,confirmation, fellowship, grace, stability, support, strength, security, depths, heights, and dimensions of God’s Love/Redemption.
- Measure the Pattern=Conformity to God’s Standard
- Grain offering-The acknowledgement of service and God’s ownership over one’s goods
- Bull= Redemption for Priesthood
- Male Goat=Redemption for Rulers
- Ram= Redemption of individuals/commoners
- Salt-Taste/Preservation from Decay/Purity
- Barley=Abundance
- Wheat=Believers
- Oil= the Holy Spirit/anointing
- New Moon=New beginning/at the right appointed time/Worship
- Boiling places=Meditation/Reflection/Sanctification/Communion
- Water Flowing from Temple-Christ and the Church and The Influential Power of the Holy Spirit
- Great Sea-Dead Sea/Marshes/Swamp-Non-Believers/The Wicked
- Trees & Fishermen=Believers/Abundance/Fruitfulness, Vitality.
- The Prince=Jesus Christ
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