Transcript EZEKIEL CHAPTER FORTY - THREE PROPHET - DATE JONAH (825-785BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA (785-725BC)? MICAH (785-710BC)? AMOS (784BC)? ISAIAH (701-681BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH (629-588BC)? DANIEL (606-534BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? OBADIAH (588-562BC)? EZRA (536-456BC)? HAGGAI (532-512BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)? ESTHER (485-465BC)? NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)? MALACHI (420-397BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE BELSHAZZAR CYRUS BABYLON DESTROYED DARIUS (605-562BC)? (597-586BC)? (586BC)? (541-523BC)? (559-529BC)? (536BC)? (511-475BC)?

EZEKIEL CHAPTER FORTY - THREE
PROPHET - DATE
JONAH
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JOEL
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HOSEA
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MICAH
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AMOS
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ISAIAH
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NAHUM
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ZEPHANIAH
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JEREMIAH
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DANIEL
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HABAKKUK
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EZEKIEL
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OBADIAH
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EZRA
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HAGGAI
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ZECHARIAH
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ESTHER
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NEHEMIAH
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MALACHI
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KING / EVENT - DATE
TIGLATH-PILESER
(745-727BC)?
HEZEKIAH (JUDAH)
(726-698BC)?
SHALMANESER
(727-722BC)?
ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)?
SENNACHERIB
(705-681BC)?
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH)
JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE
BELSHAZZAR
CYRUS
BABYLON DESTROYED
DARIUS
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(597-586BC)?
(586BC)?
(541-523BC)?
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(536BC)?
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OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
THE GLORY OF THE LORD RETURNS
V. 1-6
THE LORD WILL REMAIN IN TEMPLE
IF ISRAEL REPENTS OF THE SINS
WHICH CAUSED HIM TO LEAVE
V. 7-12
DESCRIBE THE TEMPLE TO ISRAEL
AND THE LAWS PERTAINING TO IT
DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR
V.13-18
CONSECRATING THE ALTAR
V. 19-27
READ:
EZEKIEL 43:1-2
THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE
1
Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that
faces toward the east.
2
And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came
from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of
many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:1-2
THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE
1
Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that
faces toward the East.
2
And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came
from the way of the East. His voice was like the sound of
many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.
WHERE DID HE TAKE EZEKIEL?
‘He brought me to the gate that faces toward the East’
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘The glory of the God of Israel;
‘Came from the way of the East’
‘His voice was like the sound of many waters’
‘The earth shone with His glory’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:1
1
Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that
faces toward the East.
WHERE DID HE TAKE EZEKIEL?
‘He brought me to the gate that faces toward the East’
WHEN DID EZEKIEL FIRST SEE VISIONS OF GOD?
READ:
EZEKIEL 1:1
1
It came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth
month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the
captives by the River Chebar, that the heavens were
opened and I saw visions of God. NKJV
WHERE WAS EZEKIEL?
‘I was among the captives by the River Chebar’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:1
WHERE DID HE TAKE EZEKIEL?
‘He brought me to the gate that faces toward the East’
WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE AT THE EAST GATE?
READ:
EZEKIEL 8:16
16
He brought me into the inner court of the LORD‘S
house; and there, at the door of the temple of the LORD,
between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five
men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and
their faces toward the East, and they were worshiping the
sun toward the East.
NKJV
WHAT WERE THESE MEN DOING?
‘They were worshiping the sun toward the East”
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:2
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘The glory of the God of Israel;
‘Came from the way of the East’
READ:
EZEKIEL 10:4
4
The glory of the LORD went up from the cherub,
and paused over the threshold of the temple; and the
house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of
the brightness of the LORD‘S glory. NKJV
WHERE DID THE GLORY OF THE LORD GO?
‘The glory of the LORD went up from the cherub’
‘and paused over the threshold of the temple’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:2
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘The glory of the God of Israel;
‘Came from the way of the East’
READ:
EZEKIEL 10:18-19
18
The glory of the LORD departed from the threshold
of the temple and stood over the cherubim.
19
The cherubim lifted their wings and mounted up
from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the
wheels were beside them; and they stood at the door of
the East gate of the LORD‘S house, and the glory of the
God of Israel was above them. NKJV
WHERE DID THE GLORY OF THE LORD GO?
‘The glory of the LORD departed from the threshold’
‘of the temple and stood over the cherubim’
‘They stood at the door of the East gate’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:2
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘The glory of the God of Israel;
‘Came from the way of the East’
READ:
EZEKIEL 11:23
23
And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst
of the city and stood on the mountain, which is on the
East side of the city. NKJV
WHERE DID THE GLORY OF THE LORD GO?
‘the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city’
AND
‘Stood on the mountain on the East side of the city’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:2
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘The glory of the God of Israel;
‘Came from the way of the East’
READ:
ZECHARIAH 14:4
4
His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which
faces Jerusalem on the East. And the Mount of Olives
shall be split in two, From East to West, Making a very
large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the
North And half of it toward the South.
WHO IS ZECHARIAH TALKING ABOUT?
WHERE IS THE MOUNT OF OLIVES?
‘His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives’
‘facing Jerusalem on the East’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:2
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘The glory of the God of Israel;
‘Came from the way of the East’
READ:
MATTHEW 24:3
3
As He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples
came to Him privately, saying, ‘Tell us, when will these
things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and
of the end of the age?’ NKJV
WHERE WAS JESUS?
‘He sat on the Mount of Olives’
EAST OF JERUSALEM?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:2
2
And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came
from the way of the East. His voice was like the sound of
many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘His voice was like the sound of many waters’
‘The earth shone with His glory’
READ:
EZEKIEL 1:24
24
When they went, I heard the noise of their wings,
like the noise of many waters, like the voice of the
Almighty, a tumult like the noise of an army; and when
they stood still, they let down their wings. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:2
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘His voice was like the sound of many waters’
‘The earth shone with His glory’
WHAT DID JOHN BEHOLD?
READ:
REVELATION 1:13-15
13
In the midst of the seven lamp-stands One like the
Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and
girded about the chest with a golden band.
14
His head and hair were white like wool, as white as
snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire;
15
His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a
furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters;
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:2
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘His voice was like the sound of many waters’
‘The earth shone with His glory’
WHAT DID JOHN BEHOLD?
READ:
REVELATION 14:2
2
I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many
waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard
the sound of harpists playing their harps. NKJV
READ:
REVELATION 18:1
1
After these things I saw another angel coming
down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth
was illuminated with his glory. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:2
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘His voice was like the sound of many waters’
‘The earth shone with His glory’
WHAT DID JOHN BEHOLD?
READ:
REVELATION 21:10-11
10
He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high
mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy
Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11
having the glory of God. Her light was like a most
precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.
READ:
EZEKIEL 43:3-4
THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE
3
It was like the appearance of the vision which I saw
— like the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the
city. The visions were like the vision which I saw by the
River Chebar; and I fell on my face.
4
And the glory of the LORD came into the temple by
way of the gate which faces toward the east.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:3-4
3
It was like the appearance of the vision which I saw
— like the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the
city. The visions were like the vision which I saw by the
River Chebar; and I fell on my face.
4
And the glory of the LORD came into the temple by
way of the gate which faces toward the East.
WHAT DID EZEKIEL LIKEN THIS VISION TO?
‘It was like the vision which I saw‘
‘when I came to destroy the city’
‘The visions were like the vision’
‘which I saw by the River Chebar’
WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE?
‘the glory of the LORD came into the temple’
‘by way of the gate which faces toward the East’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:4
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘the glory of the LORD came into the temple’
‘by way of the gate which faces toward the East’
READ:
EZEKIEL 10:18-19
18
The glory of the LORD departed from the threshold
of the temple and stood over the cherubim.
19
The cherubim lifted their wings and mounted up
from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the
wheels were beside them; and they stood at the door of
the East gate of the LORD‘S house, and the glory of the
God of Israel was above them. NKJV
WHERE DID THE GLORY OF THE LORD GO?
‘The glory of the LORD departed from the threshold’
‘of the temple and stood over the cherubim’
‘They stood at the door of the East gate’
READ:
EZEKIEL 43:5
THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE
5
The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the
inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the
temple.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:5
THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE
5
The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the
inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the
temple.
WHAT DID THE SPIRIT DO?
‘The Spirit lifted me up & brought me into the inner court’
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘the glory of the LORD filled the temple’
WAS EZEKIEL IN THE TEMPLE?
WHY NOT?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:5
WHAT DID THE SPIRIT DO?
‘The Spirit lifted me up’
WHERE DID THE SPIRIT TAKE HIM?
‘brought me into the inner court’
HAD THE SPIRIT DONE THIS BEFORE?
READ:
EZEKIEL 11:24
24
The Spirit took me up and brought me in a vision
by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity.
And the vision that I had seen went up from me. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:5
WHAT DID THE SPIRIT DO?
‘The Spirit lifted me up & brought me into the inner court’
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘the glory of the LORD filled the temple’
WAS EZEKIEL IN THE TEMPLE?
WHY NOT?
HOW DID THE LORD GUIDE ISRAEL?
READ:
EXODUS 13:21-22
21
The LORD went before them by day in a pillar of
cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to
give them light, so as to go by day and night.
22
He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or
the pillar of fire by night from before the people. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:5
WHAT DID THE SPIRIT DO?
‘The Spirit lifted me up & brought me into the inner court’
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘the glory of the LORD filled the temple’
WAS EZEKIEL IN THE TEMPLE?
WHY NOT?
HOW DID THE LORD GUIDE ISRAEL?
READ:
NUMBERS 9:15-16
15
On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the
cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the Testimony;
from evening until morning it was above the tabernacle
like the appearance of fire.
16
So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and
the appearance of fire by night. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:5
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘the glory of the LORD filled the temple’
WAS EZEKIEL IN THE TEMPLE? WHY NOT?
READ:
EXODUS 40:34-35
34
The cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and
the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
35
Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of
meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory
of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
NKJV
WHAT COVERED THE TABERNACLE?
‘The cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting’
WHY COULDN’T MOSES ENTER THE TABERNACLE?
‘the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:5
WHAT DID EZEKIEL BEHOLD?
‘the glory of the LORD filled the temple’
WAS EZEKIEL IN THE TEMPLE? WHY NOT?
READ:
1 KINGS 8:10-11
10
….When the priests came out of the holy place, the
cloud filled the house of the LORD,
11
So that the priests could not continue ministering
because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the
house of the LORD.
WHAT COVERED THE HOLY PLACE?
‘the cloud filled the house of the LORD’
WHAT COULDN’T THE PRIESTS DO? WHY?
‘continue ministering because of the cloud’
the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD
READ:
EZEKIEL 43:6-7
THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE
6
Then I heard Him speaking to me from the temple,
while a man stood beside me.
7
And He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place
of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where
I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever.
No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name,
they nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the
carcasses of their kings on their high places.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:6-7
6
Then I heard Him speaking to me from the temple,
while a man stood beside me.
7
And He said to me, ‘Son of man, this is the place of
My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I
will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. No
more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they
nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the carcasses of
their kings on their high places.
WHO IS BESIDE EZEKIEL?
‘a man stood beside me’
WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘this is the place of My throne’
‘the place of the soles of My feet’
WHERE
‘I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:6
6
Then I heard Him speaking to me from the temple,
while a man stood beside me.
WHO IS BESIDE EZEKIEL?
‘a man stood beside me’
IS THIS THE SAME MAN?
READ:
EZEKIEL 40:3
3
He took me there and behold, there was a man
whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze. He
had a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand, and he
stood in the gateway.
NKJV
WHO IS THIS PERSON?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:7
WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘this is the place of My throne’
‘the place of the soles of My feet’
WHERE
‘I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever’
WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?
READ:
PSALMS 99:5
Exalt the LORD our God
worship at His footstool; He is holy.
READ:
PSALMS 132:7
Let us go into His tabernacle
Let us worship at His footstool.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:7
WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘this is the place of My throne’
‘the place of the soles of My feet’
WHERE
‘I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever’
WHAT DID DAVID SAY?
READ:
1 CHRONICLES 28:2-3
2
King David rose to his feet and said, ‘Hear me, my
brethren and my people: I had it in my heart to build a
house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD,
and for the footstool of our God, and had made
preparations to build it.’
3
But God said to me, 'You shall not build a house
for My name, because you have been a man of war and
have shed blood.' NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:7
WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘this is the place of My throne’
‘the place of the soles of My feet’
WHERE
‘I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever’
WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY TO ISRAEL?
WHY?
READ:
LAMENTATIONS 2:1
1
How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger! He cast down from heaven to
the earth The beauty of Israel, And did not remember His
footstool In the day of His anger.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:7
WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘this is the place of My throne’
‘the place of the soles of My feet’
WHERE
‘I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
ISAIAH 60:13
13
‘The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, The
cypress, the pine, and the box tree together, To beautify
the place of My sanctuary; And I will make the place of
My feet glorious. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:7
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
WHY?
READ:
EXODUS 34:13-16
13
You shall destroy their altars, break their sacred
pillars, and cut down their wooden images
14
(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD,
whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
15
Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of
the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and
make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you
and you eat of his sacrifice,
16
and you take of his daughters for your sons, and
his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make
your sons play the harlot with their gods. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:7
WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name’
HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE HIS HOLY NAME?
‘by their harlotry’
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
WHY?
READ:
LEVITICUS 18:21
21
You shall not let any of your descendants pass
through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the
name of your God: I am the LORD.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:7
WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name’
HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE HIS HOLY NAME?
‘by their harlotry’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:30-31
30
…. ‘Are you defiling yourselves in the manner of
your fathers, and committing harlotry according to their
abominations?
31
When you offer your gifts and make your sons
pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your
idols, even to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, O
house of Israel? As I live, I will not be inquired of by you.’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:7
WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name’
HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE HIS HOLY NAME?
‘by their harlotry
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
ISAIAH 52:1
1
Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion;
Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy
city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean Shall no
longer come to you.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:7
WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name’
HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE HIS HOLY NAME?
‘by their harlotry
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
JEREMIAH 3:17
17
At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne
of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to
the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they
follow the dictates of their evil hearts. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:7
WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name’
HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE HIS HOLY NAME?
‘by their harlotry
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
EZEKIEL 37:23
23
They shall not defile themselves anymore with
their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any
of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all
their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and I will
cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be
their God. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:7
WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘this is the place of My throne’
AND
‘I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever’
WHAT DID ISAIAH SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
ISAIAH 2:2-3
2
It shall come to pass in the latter days That the
mountain of the LORD‘S house Shall be established on
the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the
hills; And all nations shall flow to it.
3
Many people shall come and say, ‘Come, let us go
up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God
of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in
His paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the
word of the LORD from Jerusalem.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:7
WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘this is the place of My throne’
AND
‘I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
MALACHI 3:1
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, Even the Messenger of the
covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,’
Says the LORD of hosts.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 43:8-9
THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE
8
When they set their threshold by My threshold, and
their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them
and Me, they defiled My holy name by the abominations
which they committed; therefore I have consumed them
in My anger.
9
Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses
of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their
midst forever.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:8-9
8
When they set their threshold by My threshold, and
their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them
and Me, they defiled My holy name by the abominations
which they committed; therefore I have consumed them
in My anger.
9
Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses
of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their
midst forever.
HOW DID THEY DEFILE HIS HOLY NAME?
‘they set their threshold by My threshold’
‘they set their doorpost by My doorpost’
‘with a wall between them and Me’
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THEM TO DO?
‘put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings‘
‘far away from Me’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:8
8
When they set their threshold by My threshold, and
their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them
and Me, they defiled My holy name by the abominations
which they committed; therefore I have consumed them
in My anger.
WHAT DID KING AHAZ DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 16:11-15
WHAT DID KING MANASSEH DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 21:4-7
WHAT DID KING AMON DO?
READ:
2 CHRONICLES 33:21-23
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:8
WHAT DID KING AHAZ DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 16:11-15
11
Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that
King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. Urijah the priest
made it before King Ahaz came back from Damascus.
12
When the king came back from Damascus, the king
saw the altar; and the king approached the altar and
made offerings on it.
13
He burned his burnt offering and his grain offering;
and he poured his drink offering and sprinkled the blood
of his peace offerings on the altar.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:8
WHAT DID KING AHAZ DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 16:11-15
14
He brought the bronze altar which was before the
LORD, from the front of the temple — from between the
new altar and the house of the LORD — and put it on the
north side of the new altar.
15
King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying,
‘On the great new altar burn the morning burnt offering,
the evening grain offering, the king's burnt sacrifice, and
his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people
of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings;
and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering and
all the blood of the sacrifice. And the bronze altar shall
be for me to inquire by.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:8
WHAT DID KING MANASSEH DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 21:4-7
4
He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which
the LORD had said, ‘In Jerusalem I will put My name.’
5
He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
courts of the house of the LORD.
6
He made his son pass through the fire, practiced
soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists
and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD,
to provoke Him to anger.
7
He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had
made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David
and to Solomon his son, ‘In this house and in Jerusalem,
which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will
put My name forever;’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:8
WHAT DID KING AMON DO?
READ:
2 CHRONICLES 33:21-23
21
Amon was twenty-two years old when he became
king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
22
He did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father
Manasseh had done; for Amon sacrificed to all the
carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and
served them.
23
He did not humble himself before the LORD, as his
father Manasseh had humbled himself; but Amon
trespassed more and more. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:9
9
Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses
of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their
midst forever.
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THEM TO DO?
‘put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings‘
‘far away from Me’
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FIRST?
READ:
JEREMIAH 16:18
18
First I will repay double for their iniquity and their
sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled
My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and
abominable idols.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:9
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THEM TO DO?
‘put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings‘
‘far away from Me’
‘I will dwell in their midst forever’
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHEN?
READ:
EZEKIEL 37:26-28
26
I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it
shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will
establish them and multiply them, and I will set My
sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
27
My tabernacle shall be with them; indeed I will be
their God, and they shall be My people.
28
The nations will know that I, the LORD, sanctify
Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.
READ:
EZEKIEL 43:10-11
THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE
10
‘Son of man, describe the temple to the house of
Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and
let them measure the pattern.
11
And if they are ashamed of all that they have done,
make known to them the design of the temple and its
arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design
and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write
it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole
design and all its ordinances, and perform them.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:10-11
THE TEMPLE: THE LORD‘S DWELLING PLACE
10
‘Son of man, describe the temple to the house of
Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and
let them measure the pattern.
11
And if they are ashamed of all that they have done,
make known to them the design of the temple and its
arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design
and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write
it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole
design and all its ordinances, and perform them.
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:10
10
‘Son of man, describe the temple to the house of
Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and
let them measure the pattern.
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
‘describe the temple to the house of Israel’
WHY?
‘That they may be ashamed of their iniquities’
WHEN WILL THEY BE ASHAMED?
READ:
EZEKIEL 16:61
61
You will remember your ways and be ashamed,
when you receive your older and your younger sisters;
for I will give them to you for daughters, but not because
of My covenant with you.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:11
11
And if they are ashamed of all that they have done,
make known to them the design of the temple and its
arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design
and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write
it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole
design and all its ordinances, and perform them.
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
‘Make known to them the design of the temple’
‘Its arrangement, its exits. its entrances, its entire design’
‘All its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws
‘Write it down in their sight’
WHY?
SO THAT
‘They may keep its whole design’
‘All its ordinances and Perform them’
READ:
EZEKIEL 43:12-14
12
This is the law of the temple: The whole area
surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this
is the law of the temple.
DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR
13
These are the measurements of the altar in cubits
(the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one
cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its
edge of one span. This is the height of the altar:
14
from the base on the ground to the lower ledge,
two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the
smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the
width of the ledge, one cubit.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:12-14
12
This is the law of the temple: The whole area
surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this
is the law of the temple.
13
These are the measurements of the altar in cubits
(the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one
cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its
edge of one span. This is the height of the altar:
14
from the base on the ground to the lower ledge,
two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the
smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the
width of the ledge, one cubit.
WHAT IS THE LAW OF THE TEMPLE?
WHAT IS MOST HOLY?
WHAT IS THIS ALTAR?
WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:12
12
This is the law of the temple: The whole area
surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this
is the law of the temple.
WHAT IS THE LAW OF THE TEMPLE?
WHAT IS MOST HOLY?
‘The whole area surrounding the mountaintop’
WHERE DID THE PRIESTS PUT THE ARK?
READ:
1 KINGS 8:6
6
The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of
the LORD to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the
temple, to the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the
cherubim. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:12
WHAT IS THE LAW OF THE TEMPLE?
WHAT IS MOST HOLY?
‘The whole area surrounding the mountaintop’
DESCRIBE THE WALL AROUND THE TEMPLE?
READ:
EZEKIEL 42:20
20
He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all
around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred wide,
to separate the holy areas from the common. NKJV
WHY WAS THERE A WALL AROUND THE TEMPLE?
‘to separate the holy areas from the common’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:12
WHAT IS THE LAW OF THE TEMPLE?
WHAT IS MOST HOLY?
‘The whole area surrounding the mountaintop’
WHAT DID JOHN SEE?
READ:
REVELATION 21:22-23
22
I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty
and the Lamb are its temple.
23
The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to
shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is
its light.
NKJV
WHY WAS THERE NO TEMPLE?
‘the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:13-14
13
These are the measurements of the altar in cubits
(the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one
cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its
edge of one span. This is the height of the altar:
14
from the base on the ground to the lower ledge,
two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the
smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the
width of the ledge, one cubit.
WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THIS ALTAR?
WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE BASE?
WHAT ALTAR DID EZEKIEL SEE?
ALTAR OF INCENSE?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:13
THE LAW OF THE ALTAR
READ:
EXODUS 20:24-25
24
An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you
shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace
offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place
where I record My name I will come to you, and I will
bless you.
25
If you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not
build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you
have profaned it. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD WANT MOSES TO BUILD?
‘An altar of earth or of stone’
WHY NOT BUILD IT OF HEWN STONE?
‘If you use your tool on it, you have profaned it’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:13
READ:
2 CHRONICLES 4:1
1
He made a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its
length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.
WHAT ALTAR DID SOLOMON MAKE? BRAZEN ALTAR?
‘He made a bronze altar’
WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THIS ALTAR?
Length 20 cubits = 30 feet
Width 20 cubits = 30 feet
Height 10 cubits = 15 feet
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:13-14
13
These are the measurements of the altar in cubits
(the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one
cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its
edge of one span. This is the height of the altar:
14
from the base on the ground to the lower ledge,
two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the
smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the
width of the ledge, one cubit.
WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THIS ALTAR?
Length 1 cubit = 1.5 feet
Width 1 cubit = 1,5 feet
Height 2 cubits = 3 feet
WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE BASE?
Bottom layer: 4 cubits x 4 cubits = 6 feet x 6 feet
Second layer: 2 cubits x 2 cubits = 3 feet x 3 feet
(Each layer: 1 cubits high) = 1.5 feet high
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:13-14
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND MOSES?
READ:
EXODUS 30:1-3
1
You shall make an altar to burn incense on; you
shall make it of acacia wood.
2
A cubit shall be its length and a cubit its width — it
shall be square — and two cubits shall be its height. Its
horns shall be of one piece with it.
3
You shall overlay its top, its sides all around, and
its horns with pure gold; and you shall make for it a
molding of gold all around.
NKJV
WHAT ALTAR WAS THIS? ALTAR OF INCENSE?
WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THIS ALTAR?
Length 1 cubit = 1.5 feet
Width 1 cubit = 1.5 feet
Height 2 cubits = 3 feet
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:13-14
WHAT ALTAR DID EZEKIEL SEE?
ALTAR OF INCENSE?
READ:
EXODUS 40:26-27
26
He put the gold altar in the tabernacle of meeting in
front of the veil;
27
And he burned sweet incense on it, as the LORD
had commanded Moses. NKJV
WHERE DID MOSES PUT THE ALTAR OF INCENSE
‘He put the gold altar in the tabernacle of meeting’
‘in front of the veil’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:13-14
READ:
EXODUS 30:7-10
7
Aaron shall burn on it sweet incense every
morning; when he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense
on it.
8
When Aaron lights the lamps at twilight, he shall
burn incense on it, a perpetual incense before the LORD
throughout your generations.
9
You shall not offer strange incense on it, or a burnt
offering, or a grain offering; nor shall you pour a drink
offering on it.
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND AARON?
‘Aaron shall burn on it sweet incense every morning’
‘You shall not offer strange incense on it’
‘or a burnt offering, or a grain offering’
‘nor shall you pour a drink offering on it’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:13-14
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND AARON?
‘You shall not offer strange incense on it
Or a burnt offering, or a grain offering
Nor shall you pour a drink offering on it‘
READ:
LEVITICUS 10:1-2
1
Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his
censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered
profane fire before the LORD, which He had not
commanded them.
2
So fire went out from the LORD and devoured
them, and they died before the LORD. NKJV
WHAT DID NADAB AND ABIHU DO?
‘they each took his censer, put fire in it, put incense on it’
‘they offered profane fire before the LORD’
‘fire went out from the LORD and devoured them’
‘they died before the LORD’
READ:
EZEKIEL 43:15-17
DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR
15
The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns
extending upward from the hearth.
16
The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide,
square at its four corners;
17
the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide
on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its
base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the
East.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:15-17
15
The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns
extending upward from the hearth.
16
The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide,
square at its four corners;
17
the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide
on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its
base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the
East.
HOW DID EZEKIEL DESCRIBE
THE HEARTH OF THE ALTAR?
HOW DID EZEKIEL DESCRIBE
THE LEDGE OF THE ALTAR?
WHAT ALTAR WAS THIS? BRAZEN ALTAR?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:15
DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR
15
The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns
extending upward from the hearth.
READ:
EXODUS 27:3
2
You shall make its horns on its four corners; its
horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay
it with bronze.
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL MOSES TO DO?
‘You shall make its horns on its four corners’
‘Its horns shall be of one piece with it’
‘You shall overlay it with bronze’
WHAT ALTAR WAS THIS?
BRAZEN ALTAR?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:15
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THE PRIEST TO DO?
READ:
EXODUS 29:12
12
You shall take some of the blood of the bull and
put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour
all the blood beside the base of the altar.
NKJV
READ:
LEVITICUS 4:30
30
The priest shall take some of its blood with his
finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering,
and pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar.
WHAT ALTAR WAS THIS? BRAZEN ALTAR?
READ:
1 KINGS 1:50-53
50
Adonijah was afraid of Solomon; so he arose, and
went and took hold of the horns of the altar.
51
It was told Solomon, saying: Indeed Adonijah is
afraid of King Solomon; for look, he has taken hold of the
horns of the altar, saying, 'Let King Solomon swear to me
today that he will not put his servant to death with the
sword.’
52
Then Solomon said, ‘If he proves himself a worthy
man, not one hair of him shall fall to the earth; but if
wickedness is found in him, he shall die.’
53
So King Solomon sent them to bring him down
from the altar. And he came and fell down before King
Solomon; And Solomon said to him: ‘Go to your house.’
WHAT DID ADONIJAH DO?
WHY?
WHAT ALTAR WAS THIS? BRAZEN ALTAR?
READ:
1 KINGS 2:28-31
28
Then news came to Joab, for Joab had defected to
Adonijah, though he had not defected to Absalom. So
Joab fled to the tabernacle of the LORD, and took hold of
the horns of the altar.
29
King Solomon was told: ‘Joab has fled to the
tabernacle of the LORD; there he is, by the altar’. Then
Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, ‘Go,
strike him down.’
30
Benaiah went to the tabernacle of the LORD, and
said to him: Thus says the king, 'Come out!‘ And he said,
‘No, but I will die here.’ Benaiah brought back word to the
king, saying, ‘Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.’
31
The king said to him, ‘Do as he has said, and strike
him down and bury him, that you may take away from me
and from the house of my father the innocent blood
which Joab shed.
NKJV
WHAT DID JOAB DO?
WHY?
WHAT ALTAR WAS THIS? BRAZEN ALTAR?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:15
DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR
15
The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns
extending upward from the hearth.
HOW DID EZEKIEL DESCRIBE THE HORNS?
‘four horns extending upward from the hearth’
WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY ABOUT THE HORNS?
READ:
PSALMS 118:27
27
God is the LORD, And He has given us light; Bind
the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:15-16
DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR
15
The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns
extending upward from the hearth.
16
The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide,
square at its four corners;
HOW DID EZEKIEL DESCRIBE
THE HEARTH OF THE ALTAR?
Height 4 cubits = 6 feet
Hearth: 12 cubits x 12 cubits = 18 feet x 18 feet
‘with four horns extending upward from the hearth’
WHAT ALTAR WAS THIS? BRAZEN ALTAR?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:17
DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR
17
the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide
on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its
base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the
East.
HOW DID EZEKIEL DESCRIBE
THE LEDGE OF THE ALTAR?
Ledge: 14 cubits x 14 cubits = 21 feet x 21 feet
‘with a rim of half a cubit around it’
‘Its base, one cubit all around’
‘Its steps face toward the East’
WHAT ALTAR WAS THIS? BRAZEN ALTAR?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:17
HOW DID EZEKIEL DESCRIBE
THE LEDGE OF THE ALTAR?
Ledge: 14 cubits x 14 cubits = 21 feet x 21 feet
‘with a rim of half a cubit around it’
‘Its base, one cubit all around’
‘Its steps face toward the East’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
READ:
EXODUS 20:25-26
25
If you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not
build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you
have profaned it.
26
Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your
nakedness may not be exposed on it.' NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 43:18
CONSECRATING THE ALTAR
18
And He said to me, "Son of man, thus says the
Lord GOD: 'These are the ordinances for the altar on the
day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it,
and for sprinkling blood on it.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:18
CONSECRATING THE ALTAR
18
And He said to me, ‘Son of man, thus says the
Lord GOD: 'These are the ordinances for the altar on the
day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it,
and for sprinkling blood on it.
WHEN WERE THESE ORDINANCES GIVEN?
'These are the ordinances for the altar’
‘on the day when it is made’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:18
CONSECRATING THE ALTAR
18
And He said to me, ‘Son of man, thus says the
Lord GOD: 'These are the ordinances for the altar on the
day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it,
and for sprinkling blood on it.
READ:
EXODUS 40:29
29
He put the altar of burnt offering before the door of
the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it
the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the LORD
had commanded Moses. NKJV
WHERE DID MOSES PUT THE ALTAR?
‘before the door of the tabernacle’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:18
'These are the ordinances for the altar on the day when it
is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it, and for
sprinkling blood on it.
READ:
LEVITICUS 8:10-11
10
Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the
tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
11
He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times,
anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and
its base, to consecrate them. NKJV
WHAT DID MOSES DO? WHY?
‘Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle
and all that was in it and consecrated them’
‘He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times’
‘He anointed the altar and all its utensils and the laver
and its base, to consecrate them’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:18
WHAT WERE THE ORDINANCES FOR THE ALTAR?
READ:
LEVITICUS 1:5-9
5
He shall kill the bull before the LORD; and the
priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle
the blood all around on the altar that is by the door of the
tabernacle of meeting.
6
He shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into its
pieces.
7
The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the
altar, and lay the wood in order on the fire.
8
The priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the
head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire
upon the altar;
9
He shall wash its entrails and its legs with water.
The priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice,
an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.
READ:
1 KINGS 8:63-64
63
Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings,
which he offered to the LORD, 22,000 bulls and 120,000
sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated
the house of the LORD.
64
On the same day the king consecrated the middle
of the court that was in front of the house of the LORD;
for there he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings, and
the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar
that was before the LORD was too small to receive the
burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the
peace offerings. NKJV
WHAT DID SOLOMON DO?
WHY?
‘He consecrated the middle of the court’
‘that was in front of the house of the LORD’
BECAUSE:
‘the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small’
READ:
EZEKIEL 43:19-21
CONSECRATING THE ALTAR
19
You shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the
priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who
approach Me to minister to Me,' says the Lord GOD.
20
You shall take some of its blood and put it on the
four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge,
and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and
make atonement for it.
21
Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering,
and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside
the sanctuary.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:19-21
19
You shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the
priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who
approach Me to minister to Me,' says the Lord GOD.
20
You shall take some of its blood and put it on the
four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge,
and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and
make atonement for it.
21
Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering,
and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside
the sanctuary.
WHO SHOULD THEY BRING THEIR SIN OFFERING TO?
WAS EZEKEIL A PRIEST? WAS EZRA A PRIEST?
WHAT SHOULD THEY DO WITH THIS SIN OFFERING?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:19
19
You shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the
priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who
approach Me to minister to Me,' says the Lord GOD.
WHO SHOULD THEY BRING THEIR SIN OFFERING TO?
‘the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok’
‘who approach Me to minister to Me’
WHY?
WHAT HAPPENED TO KORAH , DATHAN AND ABIRAM?
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL MOSES TO DO?
WHAT DID ELEAZAR DO? WHY?
READ:
NUMBERS 16:37-40
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:19
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL MOSES TO DO?
37
Tell Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, to pick up
the censers out of the blaze, for they are holy, and scatter
the fire some distance away.
38
The censers of these men who sinned against their
own souls, let them be made into hammered plates as a
covering for the altar. Because they presented them
before the LORD, therefore they are holy; and they shall
be a sign to the children of Israel’
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL MOSES TO DO? WHY?
‘Tell Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,’
‘to pick up the censers out of the blaze, for they are holy’
‘Let them be made into hammered plates’
‘as a covering for the altar’
‘They shall be a sign to the children of Israel’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:19
READ:
NUMBERS 16:39-40
39
Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which
those who were burned up had presented, and they were
hammered out as a covering on the altar,
40
to be a memorial to the children of Israel that no
outsider, who is not a descendant of Aaron, should come
near to offer incense before the LORD, that he might not
become like Korah and his companions, just as the
LORD had said to him through Moses. NKJV
WHAT DID ELEAZAR DO?
‘He took the censers of those who were burned up’
‘They were hammered out as a covering on the altar’
WHY? SO THAT
‘No outsider, who is not a descendant of Aaron’
‘Should come near to offer incense before the LORD’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:19
WHO SHOULD THEY BRING THEIR SIN OFFERING TO?
‘the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok’
‘who approach Me to minister to Me’
READ:
EZEKIEL 40:46
46
The chamber which faces north is for the priests
who have charge of the altar; these are the sons of
Zadok, from the sons of Levi, who come near the LORD
to minister to Him.
NKJV
WHAT WERE THE NORTH CHAMBERS FOR?
‘the priests who have charge of the altar’
‘the sons of Zadok, from the sons of Levi’
‘who come near the LORD to minister to Him’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:19
WHO SHOULD THEY BRING THEIR SIN OFFERING TO?
‘the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok’
‘who approach Me to minister to Me’
READ:
EZEKIEL 1:3
3
the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel
the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans
by the River Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was upon
him there. NKJV
WAS EZEKIEL A PRIEST?
‘Ezekiel the priest’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:19
READ:
EZRA 7:1-5
1
In the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the
son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
2
the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of
Ahitub,
3
the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of
Meraioth,
4
the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of
Bukki,
5
the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of
Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest- NKJV
WAS EZRA A PRIEST?
A HIGH PRIEST?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:20
CONSECRATING THE ALTAR
20
You shall take some of its blood and put it on the
four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge,
and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and
make atonement for it.
WHAT WAS THE ORDINANCE OF THE ALTAR?
‘You shall take some of its blood’
‘put it on the four horns of the altar’
‘on the four corners of the ledge’
‘on the rim around it’
WHY?
‘Thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:20
CONSECRATING THE ALTAR
20
You shall take some of its blood and put it on the
four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge,
and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and
make atonement for it.
WHAT WAS THE ORDINANCE OF THE ALTAR?
READ:
LEVITICUS 4:7
7
The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns
of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in
the tabernacle of meeting; He shall pour the remaining
blood of the bull at the base of the altar of the burnt
offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of
meeting.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:20
WHAT WAS THE ORDINANCE OF THE ALTAR?
READ:
LEVITICUS 16:18-19
18
He shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD,
and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the
blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and
put it on the horns of the altar all around.
19
Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with
his finger seven times, cleanse it, and consecrate it from
the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
NKJV
WHY?
‘make atonement for it and consecrate it’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:21
21
Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering,
and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside
the sanctuary.
WHAT SHOULD THEY DO WITH THE SIN OFFERING?
‘burn it in the appointed place of the temple’
‘outside the sanctuary’
READ:
EXODUS 29:14
14
But the flesh of the bull, with its skin and its offal,
you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin
offering.
NKJV
(offal = dung)?
WHERE SHOULD THE SIN OFFERING BE BURNED?
you shall burn with fire outside the camp
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:21
21
Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering,
and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside
the sanctuary.
WHAT SHOULD THEY DO WITH THE SIN OFFERING?
‘burn it in the appointed place of the temple’
‘outside the sanctuary’
READ:
HEBREWS 13:11
11
The bodies of those animals, whose blood is
brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are
burned outside the camp.
NKJV
WHERE SHOULD THE SIN OFFERING BE BURNED?
‘burned outside the camp’
READ:
EZEKIEL 43:22-24
CONSECRATING THE ALTAR
22
On the second day you shall offer a kid of the
goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall
cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
23
When you have finished cleansing it, you shall
offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the
flock without blemish.
24
When you offer them before the LORD, the priests
shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a
burnt offering to the LORD.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:22-24
22
On the second day you shall offer a kid of the
goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall
cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
23
When you have finished cleansing it, you shall
offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the
flock without blemish.
24
When you offer them before the LORD, the priests
shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a
burnt offering to the LORD.
WHAT SHOULD THEY OFFER?
HOW SHOULD THEY CLEANSE THE ALTAR?
WHAT SHOULD THE PREISTS DO WITH THEM?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:22-23
22
On the second day you shall offer a kid of the
goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall
cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
23
When you have finished cleansing it, you shall
offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the
flock without blemish.
WHAT SHOULD THEY OFFER?
‘a young bull and a ram without blemish’
READ:
LEVITICUS 22:20
20
Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it
shall not be acceptable on your behalf.
NKJV
WHY?
‘it shall not be acceptable on your behalf’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:22-23
22
On the second day you shall offer a kid of the
goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall
cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
23
When you have finished cleansing it, you shall
offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the
flock without blemish.
HOW SHOULD THEY CLEANSE THE ALTAR?
‘they shall cleanse the altar’
‘as they cleansed it with the bull’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:22-23
READ:
EXODUS 29:1-4
1
This is what you shall do to them to hallow them
for ministering to Me as priests: Take one young bull and
two rams without blemish,
2
and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed
with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil (you
shall make them of wheat flour).
3
You shall put them in one basket and bring them in
the basket, with the bull and the two rams.
4
Aaron and his sons you shall bring to the door of
the tabernacle of meeting, and you shall wash them with
water.
NKJV
WHAT DID THEY OFFER TO HALLOW THE PRIESTS?
‘one young bull and two rams without blemish’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:22-23
READ:
LEVITICUS 8:2-3
2
Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the
garments, the anointing oil, a bull as the sin offering, two
rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
3
and gather all the congregation together at the
door of the tabernacle of meeting.
NKJV
WHAT DID THEY OFFER TO HALLOW THE PRIESTS?
‘a bull as the sin offering, two rams’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:24
24
When you offer them before the LORD, the priests
shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a
burnt offering to the LORD.
WHAT SHOULD THE PRIESTS DO?
‘you offer them before the LORD’
‘the priests shall throw salt on them’
‘they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD’
READ:
LEVITICUS 2:13
13
Every offering of your grain offering you shall
season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the
covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain
offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
With all your offerings you shall offer salt
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:24
24
When you offer them before the LORD, the priests
shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a
burnt offering to the LORD.
WHAT SHOULD THE PRIESTS DO?
‘you offer them before the LORD’
‘the priests shall throw salt on them’
‘they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD’
READ:
MARK 9:49
49
Everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every
sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HIS DISCIPLES?
‘every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt’
READ:
EZEKIEL 43:25-27
CONSECRATING THE ALTAR
25
Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat
for a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull
and a ram from the flock, both without blemish.
26
Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar
and purify it, and so consecrate it.
27
When these days are over it shall be, on the eighth
day and thereafter, that the priests shall offer your burnt
offerings and your peace offerings on the altar; and I will
accept you,' says the Lord GOD.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:25-27
CONSECRATING THE ALTAR
25
Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat
for a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull
and a ram from the flock, both without blemish.
26
Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar
and purify it, and so consecrate it.
27
When these days are over it shall be, on the eighth
day and thereafter, that the priests shall offer your burnt
offerings and your peace offerings on the altar; and I will
accept you,' says the Lord GOD.
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM TO DO?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:25-26
CONSECRATING THE ALTAR
25
Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat
for a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull
and a ram from the flock, both without blemish.
26
Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar
and purify it, and so consecrate it.
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM TO DO?
‘Every day for seven days’
‘you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering’
‘a young bull and a ram without blemish’
‘Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar’
purify it and consecrate it’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:26
26
Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar
and purify it, and so consecrate it.
READ:
LEVITICUS 8:33
33
You shall not go outside the door of the tabernacle
of meeting for seven days, until the days of your
consecration are ended. For seven days he shall
consecrate you. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND AARON & HIS SONS?
‘Do not go outside the door of the tabernacle for 7 days’
‘Until the days of your consecration are ended’
‘For seven days he shall consecrate you’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:26
WHO WILL CONSECRATE THEM?
READ:
EXODUS 29:35-37
35
You shall do to Aaron and his sons, according to
all that I have commanded you. Seven days you shall
consecrate them.
36
You shall offer a bull every day as a sin offering for
atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make
atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.
37
Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar
and sanctify it. The altar shall be most holy. Whatever
touches the altar must be holy. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND MOSES TO DO?
‘Seven days you shall consecrate them’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:27
CONSECRATING THE ALTAR
27
When these days are over it shall be, on the eighth
day and thereafter, that the priests shall offer your burnt
offerings and your peace offerings on the altar; and I will
accept you,' says the Lord GOD.
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THE PRIESTS TO DO?
‘on the eighth day and thereafter’
‘the priests shall offer your burnt offerings’
‘and your peace offerings on the altar’
‘And I will accept you'
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:27
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THE PRIESTS TO DO?
‘on the eighth day and thereafter’
‘the priests shall offer your burnt offerings’
‘and your peace offerings on the altar’
‘And I will accept you'
WHAT DID AARON DO?
WHY?
READ:
EXODUS 32:1-5
READ:
EXODUS 32:1-5
1
When the people saw that Moses delayed coming
down from the mountain, the people gathered together to
Aaron, and said to him, ’Come, make us gods that shall
go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought
us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has
become of him.’
2
Aaron said to them, ‘Break off the golden earrings
which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your
daughters, and bring them to me.’
3
So all the people broke off the golden earrings
which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
4
He received the gold from their hand, and he
fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded
calf. Then they said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that
brought you out of the land of Egypt!
5
When Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it.
Aaron made a proclamation and said, ‘Tomorrow is a
feast to the LORD.’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:27
READ:
LEVITICUS 9:1-4
1
It came to pass on the eighth day that Moses called
Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
2
He said to Aaron, ‘Take for yourself a young bull as
a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, without
blemish, and offer them before the LORD.
3
To the children of Israel you shall speak, saying,
'Take a kid of the goats as a sin offering, and a calf and a
lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt
offering,
4
also a bull and a ram as peace offerings, to
sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed
with oil; for today the LORD will appear to you.’
NKJV
WHAT DID MOSES SAY TO AARON? WHY?
WHAT DID MOSES SAY TO ISRAEL? WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:27
‘the priests shall offer your burnt offerings’
‘and your peace offerings on the altar’
READ:
LEVITICUS 17:6-7
6
The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of
the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and
burn the fat for a sweet aroma to the LORD.
7
They shall no more offer their sacrifices to
demons, after whom they have played the harlot. This
shall be a statute forever for them throughout their
generations.
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
‘The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar’
‘of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting’
‘and burn the fat for a sweet aroma to the LORD’
‘They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:27
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THE PRIESTS TO DO?
‘the priests shall offer your burnt offerings’
‘and your peace offerings on the altar’
‘And I will accept you'
READ:
ISAIAH 60:7
7
All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together
to you, The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; They
shall ascend with acceptance on My altar, And I will
glorify the house of My glory. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE GENTILES?
‘All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you’
‘They shall ascend with acceptance on My altar’
‘I will glorify the house of My glory’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:27
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:40-41
40
‘On My holy mountain, on the mountain height of
Israel,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘there all the house of Israel,
all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will accept
them, and there I will require your offerings and the firstfruits of your sacrifices, together with all your holy
things.
41
I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring
you out from the peoples and gather you out of the
countries where you have been scattered; and I will be
hallowed in you before the Gentiles. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
‘On My holy mountain’
‘I will require your offerings and your sacrifices’
‘I will accept you as a sweet aroma’
‘I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:27
‘the priests shall offer your burnt offerings’
‘and your peace offerings on the altar’
READ:
ROMANS 12:1
1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable
service.
NKJV
WHAT DID PAUL SAY TO THE CHRISTIANS?
‘present your bodies a living sacrifice’
‘holy, acceptable to God’
‘which is your reasonable service’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:27
‘the priests shall offer your burnt offerings’
‘and your peace offerings on the altar’
READ:
HEBREWS 6:19-20
19
We have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and
steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil,
20
Where the forerunner has entered for us, even
Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to
the order of Melchizedek.
NKJV
WHO IS OUR HIGH PRIEST?
JESUS?
‘We have a High Priest, Jesus’
‘Jesus having become High Priest forever’
‘according to the order of Melchizedek’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:27
READ:
HEBREWS 7:26-27
26
For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is
holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has
become higher than the heavens;
27
Who does not need daily, as those high priests, to
offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the
people's, for this He did once for all when He offered up
Himself.
NKJV
HOW DOES CHRIST COMPARE TO AARON’S PRIESTS?
‘Christ is our High Priest’
‘Christ does not need to offer up sacrifices daily’
‘Aaron’s high priests had to offer sacrifices daily’
‘First for his own sins and then for the people’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:27
READ:
HEBREWS 9:24-25
24
Christ has not entered the holy places made with
hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
25
Not that He should offer Himself often, as the high
priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood
of another — NKJV
HOW DOES CHRIST COMPARE TO AARON’S PRIESTS?
‘Christ did not enter the Holy of Holies in the temple’
‘Christ is now in heaven in the presence of God’
‘Christ offered himself once as a sacrifice’
‘Aaron’s high priests entered the Most Holy Place’
‘ every year with blood of another sacrifice’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:27
‘the priests shall offer your burnt offerings’
‘and your peace offerings on the altar’
READ:
HEBREWS 10:11-12
11
Every priest stands ministering daily and offering
repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take
away sins.
12
But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for
sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, NKJV
HOW DOES CHRIST COMPARE TO AARON’S PRIESTS?
‘Every priest offered the same sacrifices daily’
‘which could never take away sins’
‘Christ offered one sacrifice for sins forever’
‘and sat down at the right hand of God’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 43:27
‘the priests shall offer your burnt offerings’
‘and your peace offerings on the altar’
READ:
HEBREWS 10:16-18
16
‘This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into
their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,’
17
then He adds, ‘Their sins and their lawless deeds I
will remember no more.
18
Now where there is remission of these, there is no
longer an offering for sin. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
‘there is no longer an offering for sin’
WHAT DID PAUL SAY TO THE CHRISTIANS?
READ:
HEBREWS 13:10-15
10
We have an altar from which those who serve the
tabernacle have no right to eat.
11
For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is
brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are
burned outside the camp.
12
Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the
people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
13
Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp,
bearing His reproach.
14
For here we have no continuing city, but we seek
the one to come.
15
Therefore by Him let us continually offer the
sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips,
giving thanks to His name.
NKJV