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EZEKIEL:  LESSON NINE

FUTURE PURITY: THE TEMPLE AND THE COMMUNITY

Time: 572 B.C. (Chapters 40-48)

         I. FUTURE PURITY: THE TEMPLE AND THE COMMUNITY (Chapters 40-48)

A. The Temple (chapters 40-43)

1. Ezekiel’s vision: sees a man with a line of flax and measuring reed (40:3).

2. Measuring of the wall, the temple, parts of the temple and all the furniture.  

3. Purpose: to make a separation between that which is holy and that which is common (42:40).

B. The City of Community (chapters 44-48)

1. City is Holy – God has entered – gate shut (44:2, cf. 43:4-5).

    a. Test of circumcision (44:1-14)

    b. Only Zadokites priests (44:15-31)

2. Land set apart for Prince, Priests, and Levites (45:1-12)

3. Sacrifices and sacred days (45:13-46:24)

4. Healing river proceeds deeper and deeper from throne (47:1-12).

5. Land divided among people (47:13-48:35).

    a. Glory of city: “Jehovah is there” (v. 35).  

QUESTIONS:

1. When did Ezekiel receive this vision?   What does he see?

2. What is the purpose for the minute and extensive measuring of the temple?  

3. What are two things being continually emphasized in chapters 40-44?

4. What is significant of God entering the east gate which is then shut?

5. What is remarkable about the river flowing from the throne?

6. What is so great about the new temple and community?   

7. Draw a chart of the division of the land among the Prince, Priests and Levites, and People (45:1-13, 47:13-48:35).    

8. If these chapters describe the GLORIOUS “Millennium” as some believe show from Scripture that its makeup is but a dark SHADOW of what we have now: