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866. Bible Study: Ezekiel 41 and 42 (The Third Temple layout) · Faith by annm2705

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  Ezekiel chapter 41. OK, for this one, I am going to
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  switch to use the suggestion that Amir suggested in his book
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  Exploring Ezekiel, and that recommendation was to use the
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  New Living Translation so that these cubit measurements are
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  spoken in terms that I can understand from the United
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  States perspective about using feet rather than qubits to
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  understand the sizes of these things.
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  So I am going to an online Bible, blueletterbible.org, and
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  I'm reading from Ezekiel 41 in the New Living Translation,
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  which is the NLT version. So I will get started in there
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  and then I'll go back to the questions and answers in the
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  study guide. So Ezekiel 41, verse one.
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  After that, the man brought me into the sanctuary of the
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  temple. He measured the walls on either
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  side of its doorway, and they were 10 1/2 feet thick.
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  The doorway was 17 1/2 feet wide, and the walls on each side
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  of it were 8 3/4 feet long. The sanctuary itself was 70 feet
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  long and 35 feet wide. Then he went beyond the
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  sanctuary and into the inner room.
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  He measured the walls on either side of its entrance, and they
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  were 3 1/2 feet thick. The entrance was 10 1/2 feet
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  wide, and the walls on each side of the entrance were 12 and A
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  and a quarter feet long. The inner room of the sanctuary
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  was 35 feet long and 35 feet wide.
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  This, he told me, was or is the most holy place.
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  I think that's important too, to know where it's the inner room
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  of the sanctuary. And right now we're Ezekiel's
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  getting a revelation from whomever showing him this, that
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  this inner room of the sanctuary is the most holy place.
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  And I think that's important for us to just know where that is
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  the most holy place. It's the inner sanctuary, and
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  it's a square shape. It's 35 feet long and 35 feet
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  wide, and that's verse 4. I want to look at that.
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  It was 2020 cubits is what it is in the cubit version.
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  It's a 20 cubit by 20 cubit, which equals 35 feet by 35 feet.
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  Then he measured the wall of the temple and it was 10 1/2 feet
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  thick. There was a row of rooms along
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  the outside wall. Each room was 7 feet wide.
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  These side rooms were built in three levels, one above the
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  other, with 30 rooms on each level.
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  The supports for these side rooms rested on exterior ledges
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  on the temple wall. They did not extend into the
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  wall. Each level was wider than the
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  one below it, corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall
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  as it rose higher. A stairway LED up from the
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  bottom level through the middle level to the top level.
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  I saw that the temple was built on a terrace that's interesting,
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  which provided a foundation for the side rooms.
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  The terrace was 10 1/2 feet high.
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  The outer wall of the temple's side rooms was 8 3/4 feet thick.
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  This left an open area between the side rooms and the row of
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  the rooms along the outer wall of the inner courtyard.
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  This open area was 35 feet wide and it went all the way around
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  the temple. The two are two doors opened
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  from the side rooms into the terrace yard which was 8 3/4
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  feet wide. One door faced north and the
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  other SA large building stood on the West facing the temple
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  courtyard. It was 122 1/2 feet wide and 157
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  1/2 feet long, and its walls were 8 3/4 thick.
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  These are extremely thick walls. I mean, this is really very
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  interesting. Then the man measured the
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  temple, and it was 175 feet long.
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  The courtyard around the building, including its walls,
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  was an additional 175 feet and length.
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  The inner courtyard to the east of the temple was also 175 feet
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  wide. The building to the West,
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  including its walls, was also 175 feet wide.
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  The sanctuary, the inner room, and the entry room of the temple
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  were all paneled with wood, as were the frames of the recessed
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  windows. The inner walls of the temple
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  were paneled with wood above and below the windows.
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  The space above the door leading into the inner room and its
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  walls inside and outside were also paneled.
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  All the walls were decorated with carvings of cherubim, each
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  with two faces, and there was a carving of a palm tree between
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  each of the cherubim. On one face, that of a man
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  looked toward the palm tree on one side.
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  The other face, that of a young lion, looked toward the palm
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  tree on the other side. The figures were carved all
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  along inside the temple. Now this is interesting.
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  It's just a side thought, but as we know the I guess from another
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  version, it talks about like the the face of a cherub.
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  And we know that the cherubim that Ezekiel saw earlier, they
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  had four faces originally. The study Bible is going to talk
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  a little bit about that. But the four faces, sometimes it
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  says cherub is 1 face, human is another, lion is another and
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  eagle is another. So four different faces.
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  And I do think the way God is, there is some symbology in there
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  and I don't quite understand. And I was going to address it.
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  I think I, I think I might understand, but I prayed about
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  it and God did not give me the go ahead.
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  So I'm not going to talk about my speculation on that.
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  But I will mention that the two faces that are showing up in
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  this temple are the lion and the man.
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  And it just made me think about Jesus, that Jesus became, you
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  know, came as a human, but also symbolically he is the lion of
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  God. And it's, you know, here it says
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  the young lion, the young lion and the man.
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  So everything does point to Jesus.
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  And I think that could be, that's my own thought, but it
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  maybe it is symbolic. Anyway, let's get back to verse
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  20. From the floor to the walls to
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  the top of the walls, including the outer wall of the sanctuary.
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  There were square columns at the entrance to the sanctuary, and
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  the ones at the entrance of the most Holy Place were similar.
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  There was an altar made of wood 5 1/2 feet high and 3 1/2 feet
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  across. Its corners, base, and sides
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  were all made of wood. This, the man told me, is the
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  table that stands in the Lord's presence.
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  Both the Sanctuary and the Most Holy Place had double doorways,
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  each with two swinging doors. The doors leading into the
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  sanctuary were decorated with carved cherubim and palm trees,
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  just as on the walls, and there was a wooden roof at the front
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  of the entry room to the temple. On both sides of the entry room
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  were recessed windows decorated with carved palm trees.
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  The side rooms along the outside wall also had roofs.
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  Then Chapter 42. Then the man led me out of the
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  temple court, out of the temple courtyard by way of the north
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  gateway. We entered the outer courtyard
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  and came to a group of rooms against the N wall of the inner
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  courtyard. The structure, whose entrance
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  open toward the north, was 175 feet long and 87 1/2 feet wide.
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  One block of rooms overlooked the 35 foot width of the inner
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  courtyard. Another block of rooms looked
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  out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard.
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  The two blocks were built 3 levels high and stood across
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  from each other. Between the two blocks of the
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  room ran a walkway 17 1/2 feet wide.
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  It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex and all the doors
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  faced N. Each of the two upper levels of
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  the rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the upper
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  levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them.
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  Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting
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  columns as is in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set
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  back from the level beneath it. There was an outer wall that
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  separated the rooms from the outer courtyard.
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  It was 87 1/2 feet long. The wall added length to the
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  outer block of rooms, which extended for only 87 1/2 feet,
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  while the inner block, the rooms toward the temple, extended for
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  175 feet. There was an eastern entrance
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  from the outer courtyard to these rooms on the South side of
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  the temple. There were two blocks of rooms
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  just outside the inner courtyard between the temple and the outer
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  courtyard. These rooms were arranged just
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  like the rooms on the north. There was a walkway between the
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  two blocks of rooms, just like the complex on the north side of
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  the temple. This complex of rooms was the
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  same size and length as the other one, and it had the same
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  entrances and doors. The dimensions of each were
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  identical, so there was an entrance in the wall facing the
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  doors of the inner block of rooms, and another on the east
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  at the end of the interior walkway.
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  Then the man said to me, These rooms that overlook the temple
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  from the North and South are holy.
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  Here, the priest who offer sacrifices to the Lord will eat
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  the most holy offerings, and because these rooms are holy,
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  they will be used to store the sacred offerings, the grain
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  offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings.
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  When the priests leave the sanctuary, they must not go
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  directly to the outer courtyard. They must first take off the
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  clothes they were they wore while ministering.
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  Because these clothes are holy, they must put on other clothes
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  before entering the parts of the building complex open to the
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  public. When the man had finished
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  measuring the inside of the temple area, he led me out
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  through the east gateway to measure the entire perimeter.
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  He measured it, measured the east side with his measuring
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  rod. It was 875 feet long.
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  Then he measured the north side and it was 8, also 875 feet.
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  The South side was also 875 feet and the West side was also 875
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  feet. So the area was 875 feet on each
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  side with a wall all around it to separate what was wholly from
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  what was common. And that concludes to chap the
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  the structure. And that's chapters 41 and 42.
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  So I will read through the questions and answers from the
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  study Bible for those two chapters, which there really
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  isn't a lot, but let's see. The first one is why were the
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  windows covered? So in verse 16 in the NIV
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  version, it says I'll read the full sentence though the main
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  hall, the inner sanctuary in the portico facing the court, as
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  well as the thresholds and the narrow windows and galleries
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  around three of them. Everything beyond and including
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  the threshold was covered with wood.
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  Well, I don't know if the narrow windows were actually covered
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  with wood. That's probably an
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  interpretation, but it could be wood framed the way the NLT
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  states it. But anyway, this is what it says
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  here. Who knows?
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  I mean, and it's not really probably that important, it'll
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  be whatever it will be, but it says why were the windows
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  covered? And the study Bible says to shut
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  the world out of the sacred space where the where God's
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  glory resided. The interior walls of the most
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  holy place were lined from floor to ceiling, floor to ceiling
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  with wood, which also provided a sweet aroma to balance the smell
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  of the sacrifices. Solomon's temple was also built
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  this way according to First Kings chapter 6 verse 15.
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  Then it says what are cherubim? The word is the plural of
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  cherub, which is a specific type of Angel.
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  The cherubim carved on the walls of the temple had two faces, a
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  human beings and a lions. These cherubim may have been
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  different from the cherubim with the four faces from chapter 10
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  simply because the carving showed only A1 sided view.
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  Well, that's the study Bibles thought about it.
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  But I was thinking, you know, maybe it's because Jesus came as
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  a human, but he's also the lion of God.
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  So the lion from the tribe of Judah.
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  Just a thought. OK.
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  Why did the priest eat the offerings?
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  A priest stood before God on behalf of the people, but he
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  also was God's representative to the people standing in for God.
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  The priest ate from the offerings brought by the people.
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  Did the priests and their families live in the temple?
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  Certain priests may have resided in the temple for the sake of
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  performing necessary duties, and that's referencing Eli and
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  Samuel. However, it was probably not
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  common for a priest and his family to live in the temple.
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  Well, it also says that in this NLT version that they had
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  separate places where the priests lived, administered to
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  the temple. So then it also there's a
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  question in the study Bible that says what were the differences
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  between the various offerings grain, sin and guilt.
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  There were two kinds of offerings, blood and blood.
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  Less blood offerings were necessary for serious offenses.
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  The blood covered the sins and washed them away, just as
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  Jesus's sacrifice and death on the cross cleanses us.
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  Blood offerings included the sin offering an animal sacrifice for
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  sins of Commission or omission for ceremonial impurity.
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  Without this offering, a Sinner could not worship in the temple.
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  The guilt offering, another animal sacrifice, enabled
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  restoration for a legal infraction which required
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  restitution or some other form of satisfaction.
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  The burnt offering was an animal sacrifice in which the entire
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  animal was consumed and by which the worshipper was cleansed from
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  all sin. Bloodless offerings affirmed or
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  restored fellowship with God and included the grain offering and
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  the drink offering. A grain offering in a grain
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  offering unleavened bread made of fine flour and salt, olive
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  oil, if a confession of sin was involved, was burned as a
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  fragrant offering to the Lord. The drink offering, which also
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  affirmed fellowship, was more of a free will rather than a
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  required offering. It's really kind of interesting
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  because it's like the bread and the drink.
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  And just like Jesus at the Last Supper had the bread and the
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  wine and it just, you know, all of it was pointing to Jesus, the
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  things that were happening that people just maybe didn't always
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  see. So there's one more question and
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  answer for chapter 42. What was holy and what was
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  common? The temple and everything within
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  it was reserved for God alone. Those things dedicated for use
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  in honoring God were holy and only by designated priests.
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  Common things, on the other hand, could be used in everyday
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  life by anyone. Wall that distinguished the
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  boundary between the two categories was important so that
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  the people would meet maintain respect for God's holiness.
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  So that concludes the description of the future temple
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  and we will stop here and our next podcast will be about God's
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  glory returning to the temple.