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The Glory Returns: A Temple Measured Gate by Gate and a Presence Coming Home | Ezekiel 40–43
Episode Overview
Today we read Ezekiel chapters 40 through 43, and the tone of the book changes completely. Twenty-five years into exile, Ezekiel is taken in visions to a high mountain and shown a temple, where a man whose appearance is like bronze measures everything—gate thresholds, alcoves, jambs, porticos, courts, chambers—cubit by cubit. Modern readers often find these chapters slow. For exiles who had watched their temple burn, a blueprint recited in that much detail was an argument: this is real, this is planned, this is coming.
The precision is also theological. Order, proportion, and…
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