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OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
LAND APPOINTED FOR THE SANCTUARY V. 1-5
LAND APPOINTED FOR THE CITY
V. 6
LAND APPOINTED FOR THE PRINCE
V. 7-8
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
V. 9-12
SACRIFICES
V. 13-25
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:1-2
THE HOLY DISTRICT
1
Moreover, when you divide the land by lot into
inheritance, you shall set apart a district for the LORD, a
holy section of the land; its length shall be twenty-five
thousand cubits, and the width ten thousand. It shall be
holy throughout its territory all around.
2
Of this there shall be a square plot for the
sanctuary, five hundred by five hundred rods, with fifty
cubits around it for an open space.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:1-2
THE HOLY DISTRICT
1
Moreover, when you divide the land by lot into
inheritance, you shall set apart a district for the LORD, a
holy section of the land; its length shall be twenty-five
thousand cubits, and the width ten thousand. It shall be
holy throughout its territory all around.
2
Of this there shall be a square plot for the
sanctuary, five hundred by five hundred rods, with fifty
cubits around it for an open space.
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
WHAT SHOULD BE SET ASIDE FOR THE LORD?
WHAT WERE ITS DIMENSIONS?
WHAT PART WAS SET ASIDE FOR THE SANCTUARY?
WHAT WERE ITS DIMENSIONS?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:1
1
Moreover, when you divide the land by lot into
inheritance, you shall set apart a district for the LORD, a
holy section of the land; its length shall be twenty-five
thousand cubits, and the width ten thousand. It shall be
holy throughout its territory all around.
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
‘divide the land by lot into inheritance’
‘set apart a district for the LORD’
‘a holy section of the land’
‘It shall be holy throughout its territory all around’
WHAT WERE ITS DIMENSIONS?
‘length 25,000 cubits & width 10,000 cubits’
‘37,500 feet by 15,000 feet’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:1
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
‘divide the land by lot into inheritance’
READ:
NUMBERS 34:13-15
13
Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying:
‘This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the
LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to
the half-tribe.
14
For the tribe of the children of Reuben according
to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children
of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have
received their inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh
has received its inheritance.
15
The two tribes and the half-tribe have received
their inheritance on this side of the Jordan, across from
Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:1
READ:
NUMBERS 34:13
13
Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying:
‘This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the
LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to
the half-tribe.
WHAT DID MOSES SAY TO ISRAEL?
‘This is the land which you shall inherit by lot’
‘which the LORD has commanded’
‘give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe’
HOW MAY TRIBES WERE THERE?
TWELVE?
WHAT DID THE OTHER 2 ½ TRIBES RECEIVE?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:1
WHAT DID MOSES SAY TO ISRAEL?
‘This is the land which you shall inherit by lot’
‘which the LORD has commanded’
‘give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe’
READ:
JOSHUA 13:7
7
Now therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to
the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JOSHUA?
‘divide this land as an inheritance to’
‘the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh’
HOW MAY TRIBES WERE THERE?
TWELVE?
WHAT DID THE OTHER 2 ½ TRIBES RECEIVE?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:1
READ:
NUMBERS 34:14
14
For the tribe of the children of Reuben according
to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children
of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have
received their inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh
has received its inheritance. NKJV
WHAT DID THE OTHER 2 ½ TRIBES RECEIVE?
‘The tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad
and
‘the half-tribe of Manasseh’
‘had already received their inheritance’
WHEN DID THEY RECEIVE THEIR INHERITANCE?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:1
READ:
NUMBERS 34:15
15
The two tribes and the half-tribe have received
their inheritance on this side of the Jordan, across from
Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.’ NKJV
WHEN DID THEY RECEIVE THEIR INHERITANCE?
‘The two tribes and the half-tribe’
‘received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan’
‘across from Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise’
WHAT DID THE TRIBE OF LEVI RECEIVE?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:1
WHAT DID THE TRIBE OF LEVI RECEIVE?
READ:
LEVITICUS 27:30
30
All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the
land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD‘S. It is holy to
the LORD. NKJV
READ:
NUMBERS 18:21
21
Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the
tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work
which they perform, the work of the tabernacle of
meeting.
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
‘All the tithe of the land is the LORD‘S’
‘I have given the children of Levi’
‘all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:1
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
‘divide the land by lot into inheritance’
WHAT DID THE TRIBE OF LEVI RECEIVE?
READ:
EZEKIEL 44:28
28
It shall be, in regard to their inheritance, that I am
their inheritance. You shall give them no possession in
Israel, for I am their possession.
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL?
‘In regard to their inheritance’
‘I am their inheritance’
‘You shall give them no possession in Israel’
‘I am their possession’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:2
2
Of this there shall be a square plot for the
sanctuary, five hundred by five hundred rods, with fifty
cubits around it for an open space.
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
set apart a district for the LORD
‘a holy section of the land’
‘It shall be holy throughout its territory all around’
WHAT PART WAS SET ASIDE FOR THE SANCTUARY?
‘a square plot 500 rods by 500 rods’ (rod = 6 cubits)
3000 cubits by 3000 cubits = 4500 feet by 4500 feet
‘with an open space around it 50 cubits wide’
‘75 feet wide’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:2
WHAT PART WAS SET ASIDE FOR THE SANCTUARY?
‘a square plot 500 rods by 500 rods’ (rod = 6 cubits)
3000 cubits by 3000 cubits = 4500 feet by 4500 feet
READ:
EZEKIEL 42:16-19
16
He measured the east side with the measuring rod,
five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around.
17
He measured the north side, five hundred rods by
the measuring rod all around.
18
He measured the south side, five hundred rods by
the measuring rod.
19
He came around to the west side and measured
five hundred rods by the measuring rod.
WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE SANCTUARY?
A SQUARE: 500 rods by 500 rods
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:2
WHAT PART WAS SET ASIDE FOR THE SANCTUARY?
‘a square plot 500 rods by 500 rods’ (rod = 6 cubits)
3000 cubits by 3000 cubits = 4500 feet by 4500 feet
‘an open space around it 50 cubits wide’ (75 feet wide)
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
WHAT WAS AROUND THE SANCTUARY? A WALL?
WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE SANCTUARY?
‘500 cubits by 500 cubits’ = 750 feet by 750 feet
WHY A WALL?
‘to separate the holy areas from the common’
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:3-4
THE HOLY DISTRICT
3
So this is the district you shall measure: twentyfive thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide; in it
shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
4
It shall be a holy section of the land, belonging to
the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come
near to minister to the LORD; it shall be a place for their
houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:3-4
THE HOLY DISTRICT
3
So this is the district you shall measure: twentyfive thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide; in it
shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
4
It shall be a holy section of the land, belonging to
the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come
near to minister to the LORD; it shall be a place for their
houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
WHAT WAS IN THE CENTER OF THIS DISTRICT?
WHAT WAS IT CALLED?
WHAT WERE ITS DIMENSIONS?
WHO DID THE LORD GIVE THIS DISTRICT TO?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:3
THE HOLY DISTRICT
3
So this is the district you shall measure: twentyfive thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide; in it
shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
WHAT WAS IN THE CENTER OF THIS DISTRICT?
‘the sanctuary’
WHAT WAS IT CALLED?
‘the Most Holy Place’
WHAT WERE ITS DIMENSIONS?
‘25,000 cubits long by 10,000 cubits wide’
‘37,500 feet by 15,000 feet’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:4
4
It shall be a holy section of the land, belonging to
the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come
near to minister to the LORD; it shall be a place for their
houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
WHAT WAS IN THE CENTER OF THIS DISTRICT?
‘the sanctuary’ - ‘the Most Holy Place’
WHO DID THE LORD GIVE THIS DISTRICT TO?
‘This holy section of the land belongs to the priests’
‘The ministers of the sanctuary’
‘Who come near to minister to the LORD’
‘It shall be a place for their houses’
‘a holy place for the sanctuary’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:4
WHO DID THE LORD GIVE THIS DISTRICT TO?
‘This holy section of the land belongs to the priests’
‘The ministers of the sanctuary’
‘Who come near to minister to the LORD’
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 DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THESE CHAMBERS
‘The chamber which faces North’
‘is 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’
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:5
THE HOLY DISTRICT
5
An area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten
thousand wide shall belong to the Levites, the ministers
of the temple; they shall have twenty chambers as a
possession.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:5
THE HOLY DISTRICT
5
An area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten
thousand wide shall belong to the Levites, the ministers
of the temple; they shall have twenty chambers as a
possession.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THIS DISTRICT?
‘An area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide’
‘Shall belong to the Levites’
‘the ministers of the temple’
‘They shall have twenty chambers as a possession’
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:6
PROPERTIES OF THE CITY AND THE PRINCE
6
You shall appoint as the property of the city an
area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand
long, adjacent to the district of the holy section; it shall
belong to the whole house of Israel.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:6
PROPERTIES OF THE CITY AND THE PRINCE
6
You shall appoint as the property of the city an
area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand
long, adjacent to the district of the holy section; it shall
belong to the whole house of Israel.
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THIS CITY?
WHERE IS THIS CITY LOCATED?
WHO DID THIS PROPERTY BELONG TO?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:6
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
‘You shall appoint as the property of the city’
WHAT WERE THE DIMENSIONS OF THIS CITY?
‘An area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long’
‘An area 7,500 feet wide and 37,500 feet long’
WHERE IS THIS CITY LOCATED?
‘Adjacent to the district of the holy section’
WHO DID THIS PROPERTY BELONG TO?
‘It shall belong to the whole house of Israel’
NOTICE: TEMPLE INSIDE CITY OF JERUSALEM
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:7-8
PROPERTIES OF THE CITY AND THE PRINCE
7
The prince shall have a section on one side and
the other of the holy district and the city's property; and
bordering on the holy district and the city's property,
extending westward on the west side and eastward on
the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of
the tribal portions, from the west border to the east
border.
8
The land shall be his possession in Israel; and My
princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall
give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according
to their tribes.’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:7-8
PROPERTIES OF THE CITY AND THE PRINCE
7
The prince shall have a section on one side and
the other of the holy district and the city's property; and
bordering on the holy district and the city's property,
extending westward on the west side and eastward on
the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of
the tribal portions, from the west border to the east
border.
8
The land shall be his possession in Israel; and My
princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall
give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according
to their tribes.’
WHO IS THE PRINCE? THE KING? THE PRIEST?
WHAT PROPERTY SHOULD THE PRINCE HAVE?
WHAT SHOULD THE PRINCES DO?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:7
7
The prince shall have a section on one side and
the other of the holy district and the city's property; and
bordering on the holy district and the city's property,
extending westward on the west side and eastward on
the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of
the tribal portions, from the west border to the east
border.
WHO IS THE PRINCE? THE KING? THE PRIEST?
WHAT PROPERTY SHOULD THE KING HAVE?
‘The prince shall have a section on one side’
and the other of the holy district and the city's property;
and bordering on the holy district and the city's property,
Extending westward on the west side
and Extending eastward on the east side’
‘It shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions’
‘From the west border to the east border’
DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL ABOUT THIS?
READ:
1 SAMUEL 8:14-17
14
He will take the best of your fields, your vineyards,
and your olive groves, and give them to his servants.
15
He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage,
and give it to his officers and servants.
16
He will take your male servants, your female
servants, your finest young men, and your donkeys, and
put them to his work.
17
He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be
his servants. NKJV
WHAT WOULD THEIR KING DO?
QUESTIONS:
WHO IS THE PRINCE?
EZEKIEL 45:7
THE KING?
THE PRIEST?
READ:
2 KINGS 23:35
35
Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh; but
He taxed the land to give money according to the
command of Pharaoh; He exacted the silver and gold
from the people of the land, from every one according to
his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necho. NKJV
WHAT DID THE KING OF JUDAH DO?
‘Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh’
‘He taxed the land to give money to Pharaoh’
‘He exacted the silver and gold from the people’
‘To give it to Pharaoh Necho’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:7
READ:
JEREMIAH 22:3-5
3
Thus says the LORD: ‘Execute judgment and
righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand
of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the
stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent
blood in this place.
4
If you indeed do this thing, then shall enter the
gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots,
accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on
the throne of David.
5
If you will not hear these words, I swear by Myself,
says the LORD, ‘that this house shall become a
desolation.’
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE KING OF JUDAH?
IF HE OBEYS, WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
IF HE REFUSES, WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:7
READ:
JEREMIAH 22:3
3
Thus says the LORD: ‘Execute judgment and
righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand
of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the
stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent
blood in this place.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE KING OF JUDAH?
‘Execute judgment and righteousness’
‘Deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor’
‘Do no wrong and do no violence’
‘To the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow’
‘Nor shed innocent blood in this place’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:7
READ:
JEREMIAH 22:4
4
If you indeed do this thing, then shall enter the
gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots,
accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on
the throne of David.
IF HE WILL NOT OBEY, WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
Then
‘Kings shall enter the gates of this house’
‘To sit on the throne of David’
‘Riding on horses and in chariots’
‘Accompanied by servants and people’
QUESTIONS:
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:7
JEREMIAH 22:5
5
If you will not hear these words, I swear by Myself,
says the LORD, ‘that this house shall become a
desolation.’
IF HE REFUSES, WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
If
‘You will not hear these words’
Then
‘I swear by Myself’
‘This house shall become a desolation’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:8
8
The land shall be his possession in Israel; and My
princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall
give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according
to their tribes.’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRINCES?
‘My princes shall no more oppress My people’
WHAT KING AHAB DO?
READ:
1 KINGS 21:2-3; 18-19
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:8
‘My princes shall no more oppress My people’
READ:
1 KINGS 21:2
2
Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, ‘Give me your
vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden,
because it is near, next to my house; and for it I will give
you a vineyard better than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I
will give you its worth in money.’
WHAT DID AHAB SAY TO NABOTH?
‘Give me your vineyard’
‘That I may have it for a vegetable garden’
Because it is near, next to my house’
‘I will give you a vineyard better than it’
Or ‘I will give you its worth in money’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:8
‘My princes shall no more oppress My people’
READ:
1 KINGS 21:3
3
Naboth said to Ahab, ‘The LORD forbid that I
should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!’ NKJV
HOW DID NABOTH RESPOND?
‘The LORD forbid’
‘That I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:8
‘My princes shall no more oppress My people’
READ:
1 KINGS 21:18
18
Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who
lives in Samaria. There he is, in the vineyard of Naboth,
where he has gone down to take possession of it.
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL ELIJAH TO DO?
‘Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel’
‘He lives in Samaria’
‘There he is, in the vineyard of Naboth’
‘He has gone down to take possession of it’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:8
‘My princes shall no more oppress My people’
READ:
1 KINGS 21:19
19
You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the
LORD: ‘Have you murdered and also taken possession?’
You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the LORD: ‘In
the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs
shall lick your blood, even yours.’
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD HAVE TO SAY TO AHAB?
‘Have you murdered and also taken possession?’
‘In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth’
‘Dogs shall lick your blood’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:8
8
The land shall be his possession in Israel; and My
princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall
give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according
to their tribes.’
WHAT SHOULD THE PRINCES DO?
‘They shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel’
‘according to their tribes’
READ:
NUMBERS 26:53
53
….the land shall be divided as an inheritance,
according to the number of names. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
‘The land shall be divided as an inheritance;
‘according to the number of names’
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:9
LAWS GOVERNING THE PRINCE
9
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Enough, O princes of
Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice
and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people,’
says the Lord GOD.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:9
9
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Enough, O princes of
Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice
and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people,’
says the Lord GOD.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRINCES?
‘Remove violence and plundering’
‘Execute justice and righteousness’
‘Stop dispossessing My people’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:9
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRINCES?
‘Remove violence and plundering’
‘Execute justice and righteousness’
‘Stop dispossessing My people’
READ:
PSALMS 12:5
5
‘For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of
the needy, I will arise, says the LORD; ‘I will set him in the
safety for which he yearns.’
NKJV
‘I will arise’
‘For the oppression of the poor’
‘For the sighing of the needy’
‘I will set him in the safety for which he yearns’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:9
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRINCES?
‘Execute justice and righteousness’
READ:
ZECHARIAH 7:9-10
9
'Execute true justice, Show mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother.
10
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, The
alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.‘
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HIS PEOPLE?
'Execute true justice’
‘Show mercy and compassion everyone to his brother’
‘Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless’
‘Do not oppress the alien or the poor’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:9
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRINCES?
‘Execute justice and righteousness’
‘Stop dispossessing My people’
READ:
ZECHARIAH 8:16
16
These are the things you shall do: Speak each man
the truth to his neighbor; Give judgment in your gates for
truth, justice, and peace;
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO?
‘Speak each man the truth to his neighbor’
‘Give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:9
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRINCES?
‘Execute justice and righteousness’
‘Stop dispossessing My people’
READ:
EZEKIEL 22:6-8
6
Look, the princes of Israel: each one has used his
power to shed blood in you.
7
In you they have made light of father and mother;
in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you
they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THE PRINCES?
‘Each one has used his power to shed blood’
‘They have made light of father and mother’
‘They have oppressed the stranger’
‘They have mistreated the fatherless and the widow’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:9
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRINCES?
‘Execute justice and righteousness’
READ:
EZEKIEL 33:14-15
14
When I say to the wicked: 'You shall surely die,' If
he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right,
15
If the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what
he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without
committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE WICKED?
‘If he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right
‘If he restores the pledge’
‘If he gives back what he has stolen’
‘If he walks without committing iniquity’
‘He shall surely live; he shall not die’
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:10-12
LAWS GOVERNING THE PRINCE
10
You shall have honest scales, an honest ephah,
and an honest bath.
11
The ephah and the bath shall be of the same
measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer,
and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall
be according to the homer.
12
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels,
twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your
mina.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:10-12
LAWS GOVERNING THE PRINCE
10
You shall have honest scales, an honest ephah,
and an honest bath.
11
The ephah and the bath shall be of the same
measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer,
and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall
be according to the homer.
12
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels,
twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your
mina.
WHO IS THE PRINCE? THE KING? THE PRIEST?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRINCE?
‘You shall have honest scales’
YOU SHALL HAVE HONEST WEIGHTS & MEASURES?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:10
YOU SHALL HAVE STANDARD WEIGHTS & MEASURES?
READ:
LEVITICUS 19:35-36
35
You shall do no injustice in judgment, in
measurement of length, weight, or volume.
36
You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an
honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the LORD your
God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
‘You shall do no injustice in judgment’
‘in measurement of length, weight, or volume’
‘You shall have honest scales’
‘You shall have honest weights’
‘You shall have an honest ephah’
‘‘You shall have an honest hin’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:10
WHO IS THE PRINCE? THE KING? THE PRIEST?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRINCE?
‘You shall have honest scales’
YOU SHALL HAVE HONEST WEIGHTS & MEASURES?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 25:15
15
You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect
and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in
the land which the LORD your God is giving you. NKJV
‘
‘You shall have a perfect and just weight’
‘You shall have a perfect and just measure’
WHY?
‘That your days may be lengthened’
‘in the land which the LORD your God is giving you
QUESTIONS:
WHO IS THE PRINCE?
EZEKIEL 45:10
THE KING?
THE PRIEST?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRINCE?
‘You shall have honest scales’
YOU SHALL HAVE HONEST WEIGHTS & MEASURES?
READ:
PROVERBS 11:1
1
Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD,
But a just weight is His delight.
NKJV
WHY?
‘Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD’
BUT
‘A just weight is His delight’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:10
YOU SHALL HAVE HONEST WEIGHTS & MEASURES?
READ:
AMOS 8:5
5
….When will the New Moon be past, That we may
sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat?
Making the ephah small and the shekel large,
Falsifying the scales by deceit,
NKJV
WHAT WERE THE EVIL PRINCES SAYING?
‘When will the New Moon be past’
‘That we may sell grain?
‘When will the Sabbath be past’
‘That we may trade wheat?’
‘Making the ephah small and the shekel large’
‘Falsifying the scales by deceit’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:10
YOU SHALL HAVE HONEST WEIGHTS & MEASURES?
READ:
MICAH 6:10-11
10
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness In the
house of the wicked, And the short measure that is an
abomination?
11
Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales,
And with the bag of deceitful weights?
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD ASK THEM?
‘Are there yet the treasures of wickedness’
‘In the house of the wicked’
‘Are there yet the short measure that is an abomination?’
‘Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales’
‘and those with the bag of deceitful weights?’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:11-12
11
The ephah and the bath shall be of the same
measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer,
and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall
be according to the homer.
12
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels,
twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your
mina.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRINCES?
‘You shall have honest scales’
YOU SHALL HAVE STANDARD WEIGHTS & MEASURES?
EPHAH (dry) = 1/10 of an homer OR 1 bushel
BATH (liquid) = 1/10 of an homer OR 7 ½ gallons
HOMER (liquid/dry) = 220 liters
OR 10 bushels
SHEKEL (wt) = 20 gerahs GERAH = 1/20 of a shekel
MINA (wt) = 100 shekels? 60 shekels? 50 shekels?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:11
YOU SHALL HAVE HONEST WEIGHTS & MEASURES?
READ:
ISAIAH 5:10
10
‘Ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a
homer of seed shall yield one ephah.’ NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘Ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath’
‘An homer of seed shall yield one ephah’
EPHAH (dry) = 1/10 of an homer OR 1 bushel
BATH (liquid) = 1/10 of an homer OR 7 ½ gallons
WHY SO LITTLE?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:12
READ:
EXODUS 30:13
13
This is what everyone among those who are
numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the
shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs). The
half-shekel shall be an offering to the LORD. NKJV
READ:
LEVITICUS 27:25
25
All your valuations shall be according to the shekel
of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel. NKJV
READ:
NUMBERS 3:47
47
You shall take five shekels for each one
individually; you shall take them in the currency of the
shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs.
WHAT IS A SHEKEL?
SHEKEL (weight) = 20 gerahs GERAH = 1/20 of a shekel
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:13-14
OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES
13
This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall
give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and
one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.
14
The ordinance concerning oil, the bath of oil, is
one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a homer or ten
baths, for ten baths are a homer.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:13-14
OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES
13
This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall
give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and
one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.
14
The ordinance concerning oil, the bath of oil, is
one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a homer or ten
baths, for ten baths are a homer.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY CONCERNING OFFERINGS?
WHO WERE THESE OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES FOR?
WHAT IS THE ORDINANCE CONCERNING OIL?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:13-14
OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES
13
This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall
give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and
one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY CONCERNING OFFERINGS?
‘This is the offering which you shall offer’
‘You shall give 1/6 of an ephah from a homer of wheat’
‘You shall give 1/6 of an ephah from a homer of barley’
EPHAH (dry) = 1/10 of an homer = 1 bushel
‘1/6 bushel of wheat & 1/6 bushel of barley”
WHO WERE THESE OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES FOR?
LEVITES? PRIESTS?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:13
WHO WERE THESE OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES FOR?
LEVITES? PRIESTS?
READ:
EZEKIEL 44:30
30
The best of all first-fruits of any kind, and every
sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices, shall be the
priest's; also you shall give to the priest the first of your
ground meal, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
‘The best of all first-fruits of any kind’
‘The best of every sacrifice of any kind’
‘Shall be the priest's’
‘You shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal’
‘To cause a blessing to rest on your house’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:13
READ:
MALACHI 3:8-9
8
Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me!
But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?‘ In tithes
and offerings.
9
You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed
Me, Even this whole nation.
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD ASK ISRAEL?
‘Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me!’
HOW DID ISRAEL RESPOND?
‘In what way have we robbed You?‘
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
‘In tithes and offerings’
‘You are cursed with a curse For you have robbed Me’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:14
OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES
14
The ordinance concerning oil, the bath of oil, is
one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a homer or ten
baths, for ten baths are a homer.
WHAT IS THE ORDINANCE CONCERNING OIL?
‘1 bath of oil = 1/10 of a bath of 1 kor = 7.5 gallons’
LIQUID MEASURE:
‘1 kor = 1 homer = ten baths = 75 gallons’
DRY MEASURE:
‘1 kor = 1 homer = 10 bushels’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:14
LIQUID MEASURE:
‘1 kor = 1 homer = ten baths = 75 gallons’
DRY MEASURE:
‘1 kor = 1 homer = 10 bushels’
READ:
1 KINGS 5:11
11
Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of
wheat as food for his household, and twenty kors of
pressed oil. Thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.
WHAT DID SOLOMON GIVE HIRAM?
‘20,000 kors of wheat and 20 kors of pressed oil’
‘200,000 bushels of wheat & 1500 gallons of pressed oil’
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:15-16
OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES
15
And one lamb shall be given from a flock of two
hundred, from the rich pastures of Israel. These shall be
for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings,
to make atonement for them,’ says the Lord GOD.
16
All the people of the land shall give this offering for
the prince in Israel.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:15-16
OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES
15
And one lamb shall be given from a flock of two
hundred, from the rich pastures of Israel. These shall be
for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings,
to make atonement for them,’ says the Lord GOD.
16
All the people of the land shall give this offering for
the prince in Israel.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY CONCERNING OFFERINGS?
WHO WERE THESE OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES FOR?
THE KING? THE PRIESTS?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:15
OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES
15
And one lamb shall be given from a flock of two
hundred, from the rich pastures of Israel. These shall be
for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings,
to make atonement for them,’ says the Lord GOD.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY THEY SHOULD OFFER?
‘1 lamb shall be given from a flock of 200’
‘from the rich pastures of Israel’
WHAT OFFERINGS DID THEY GIVE?
‘grain offerings, burnt offerings and peace offerings’
WHY?
‘To make atonement for them’
READ:
LEVITICUS 1:3-4
3
If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let
him offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it of his
own free will at the door of the tabernacle of meeting
before the LORD.
4
Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt
offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make
atonement for him.
NKJV
WHAT DID GOD SAY ABOUT A BURNT SACRIFICE?
IF
‘His offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd’
‘Let him offer a male without blemish’
‘He shall offer it of his own free will at the door’
‘of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD’
THEN
‘He shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering’
‘It will be accepted to make atonement for him’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:15
OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES
READ:
LEVITICUS 6:30
30
But no sin offering from which any of the blood is
brought into the tabernacle of meeting, to make
atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten. It shall be
burned in the fire.
NKJV
WHAT DID GOD SAY ABOUT THE SIN OFFERING?
‘No sin offering from which any of the blood’
‘is brought into the tabernacle of meeting’
‘To make atonement in the holy place shall be eaten’
‘It shall be burned in the fire’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:16
OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES
16
All the people of the land shall give this offering for
the prince in Israel.
WHO WERE THESE OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES FOR?
‘All Israel shall give this offering’
‘For the prince in Israel’
WHO IS THE PRINCE?
THE KING?
THE PRIEST?
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:17
OFFERINGS & SACRIFICES
17
Then it shall be the prince's part to give burnt
offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the
feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and at all the
appointed seasons of the house of Israel. He shall
prepare the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt
offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for
the house of Israel.’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:17
17
Then it shall be the prince's part to give burnt
offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the
feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and at all the
appointed seasons of the house of Israel. He shall
prepare the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt
offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for
the house of Israel.’
WHO IS THE PRINCE?
THE KING?
THE PRIEST?
WHAT IS THE PRINCE COMMANDED TO DO?
WHY?
‘to make atonement for the house of Israel’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:17
WHO IS THE PRINCE? THE KING? THE PRIEST?
WHAT IS THE PRINCE COMMANDED TO DO?
‘Give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings’
‘at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths’
‘At all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel’
‘He shall prepare the sin offering, the grain offering’
‘the burnt offering, and the peace offerings’
WHY?
‘To make atonement for the house of Israel’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:17
READ:
LEVITICUS 23:37-38
37
These are the feasts of the LORD which you shall
proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering
made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering and a grain
offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its
day —
38
besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, besides your
gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill
offerings which you give to the LORD. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
‘These are the feasts of the LORD’
‘To offer an offering made by fire to the LORD’
‘A burnt offering, a grain offering, a sacrifice’
‘Besides the Sabbaths of the LORD’
‘Besides your gifts, besides all your vows’
‘Besides all your freewill offerings’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:17
READ:
NUMBERS 10:10
10
In the day of your gladness, in your appointed
feasts, and at the beginning of your months, you shall
blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the
sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be a
memorial for you before your God: I am the LORD your
God. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
‘In the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts’
‘At the beginning of your months’
‘You shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings’
‘And over the sacrifices of your peace offerings’
‘They shall be a memorial for you before your God’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:17
READ:
NUMBERS 15:4-5
4
….He who presents his offering to the LORD shall
bring a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine
flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil;
5
and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering
you shall prepare with the burnt offering or the sacrifice,
for each lamb.
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
‘He who presents his offering to the LORD’
‘Shall bring a grain offering of 1/10 ephah of fine flour
‘mixed with ¼ of a hin of oil’
‘You shall prepare ¼ of a hin of wine’
‘as a drink offering with the burnt offering’
‘or the sacrifice, for each lamb’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:17
READ:
HOSEA 9:4
4
They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD,
Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him. It shall be
like bread of mourners to them; All who eat it shall be
defiled. For their bread shall be for their own life; It shall
not come into the house of the LORD. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HOSEA?
‘They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD’
‘Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him’
‘It shall be like bread of mourners to them’
‘All who eat it shall be defiled’
‘For their bread shall be for their own life’
‘It shall not come into the house of the LORD’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:17
WHAT IS THE PRINCE COMMANDED TO DO?
‘Give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings’
‘at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths’
‘At all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel’
READ:
ISAIAH 66:23
23
‘It shall come to pass That from one New Moon to
another, And from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall
come to worship before Me,’ says the LORD. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISAIAH?
‘It shall come to pass’
‘That from one New Moon to another’
‘And from one Sabbath to another’
‘All flesh shall come to worship before Me’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:17
WHAT IS THE PRINCE COMMANDED TO DO?
‘Give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings’
‘at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths’
‘At all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel’
‘to make atonement for the house of Israel’
WHO IS THE PRINCE?
THE KING?
THE PRIEST?
READ:
1 KINGS 8:62
62
The king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices
before the LORD. NKJV
WHAT DID SOLOMON DO?
‘The king and all Israel with him’
‘offered sacrifices before the LORD’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:17
WHAT IS THE PRINCE COMMANDED TO DO?
‘Give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings’
‘at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths’
WHO IS THE PRINCE? THE KING? THE PRIEST?
READ:
2 CHRONICLES 31:3
3
The king appointed a portion of his possessions
for the burnt offerings: for the morning and evening
burnt offerings, the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths and
the New Moons and the set feasts, as it is written in the
Law of the LORD. NKJV
WHAT DID HEZEKIEH DO?
‘The king appointed a portion of his possessions’
‘For the morning and evening burnt offerings’
‘Burnt offerings for the Sabbaths and the New Moons’
‘As it is written in the Law of the LORD’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:17
READ:
EZRA 7:16
16
All the silver and gold that you may find in all the
province of Babylon, along with the freewill offering of
the people and the priests, are to be freely offered for the
house of their God in Jerusalem —
WHAT DID ARTAXERXES SAY TO EZRA?
‘All the silver and gold that you may find’
‘in all the province of Babylon’
‘Along with the freewill offering’
‘of the people and the priests’
‘Are to be freely offered’
‘For the house of their God in Jerusalem’
‘
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:17
READ:
EZRA 7:17
17
Therefore, be careful to buy with this money bulls,
rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink
offerings, and offer them on the altar of the house of your
God in Jerusalem. NKJV
WHAT DID ARTAXERXES SAY TO EZRA?
‘Be careful to buy with this money’
‘Bulls, rams, and lambs’
‘With their grain offerings and their drink offerings’
AND
‘Offer them on the altar’
‘of the house of your God in Jerusalem’
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:18-20
KEEPING THE FEASTS
(EX 12:1-20; LEV 23:33-43)
18
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘In the first month, on the
first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without
blemish and cleanse the sanctuary.
19
The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin
offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the
four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the
gateposts of the gate of the inner court.
20
And so you shall do on the seventh day of the
month for everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in
ignorance. Thus you shall make atonement for the
temple.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:18-20
KEEPING THE FEASTS
18
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘In the first month, on the
first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without
blemish and cleanse the sanctuary.
19
The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin
offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the
four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the
gateposts of the gate of the inner court.
20
And so you shall do on the seventh day of the
month for everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in
ignorance. Thus you shall make atonement for the
temple.
WHAT FEAST DAYS SHOULD ISRAEL KEEP?
WHAT FEAST DAY IS THIS?
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THE PRIEST TO DO?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:18
READ:
EXODUS 23:14-16
Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the
14
year:
15
You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you
shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded
you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it
you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me
empty);
16
And the Feast of Harvest, the first-fruits of your
labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of
Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have
gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field. NKJV
WHAT FEAST DAYS SHOULD ISRAEL KEEP?
‘The Feast of Unleavened Bread’
‘The Feast of Harvest’
‘The Feast of Ingathering’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:18
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THE PRIEST TO DO?
‘You shall take a young bull without blemish’
‘And cleanse the sanctuary’
READ:
LEVITICUS 16:15
15
He shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which is
for the people, bring its blood inside the veil, do with that
blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it
on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL AARON TO DO?
‘He shall kill the goat of the sin offering’
‘He shall bring its blood inside the veil’
‘Sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:19
19
The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin
offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the
four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the
gateposts of the gate of the inner court.
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THE PRIEST TO DO?
‘He shall take some of the blood of the sin offering’
‘He shall put it on the doorposts of the temple’
‘Put it on the four corners of the ledge of the altar’
‘He shall put it on the gateposts of the inner court’
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL AARON TO DO?
READ:
LEVITICUS 16:18-19
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:19
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
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL AARON TO DO?
‘He shall go out to the altar and make atonement for it’
‘Take some of the blood of the bull and the goat’
‘He shall put it on the horns of the altar all around’
‘With his finger he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it’
‘Seven times to cleanse it and consecrate it’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:20
20
And so you shall do on the seventh day of the
month for everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in
ignorance. Thus you shall make atonement for the
temple.
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THE PRIEST TO DO?
‘So you shall do on the 7th day of the month’
‘For everyone who has sinned’
‘unintentionally or in ignorance’
‘Thus you shall make atonement for the temple’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
READ:
LEVITICUS 4:27-31
READ:
LEVITICUS 4:27-29
27
If anyone of the common people sins
unintentionally by doing something against any of the
commandments of the LORD in anything which ought not
to be done, and is guilty,
28
or if his sin which he has committed comes to his
knowledge, then he shall bring as his offering a kid of the
goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has
committed.
29
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin
offering, and kill the sin offering at the place of the burnt
offering.
WHAT DID THIS PERSON DO? ‘sin unintentionally’
WHAT IS HE COMMANDED TO DO?
‘He shall offer a young female goat without blemish’
‘He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering’
‘And kill the sin offering at the place of the burnt offering’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:20
‘So you shall do for everyone who has sinned’
‘unintentionally or in ignorance’
READ:
LEVITICUS 4:30-31
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.
31
He shall remove all its fat, as fat is removed from
the sacrifice of the peace offering; and the priest shall
burn it on the altar for a sweet aroma to the LORD. So the
priest shall make atonement for him, and it shall be
forgiven him
NKJV
WHAT SHOULD THE PRIEST DO?
‘The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger’
‘Put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering’
‘Pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar’
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:21-22
KEEPING THE FEASTS
(EX 12:1-20; LEV 23:33-43)
21
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven
days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22
And on that day the prince shall prepare for
himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin
offering.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:21-22
KEEPING THE FEASTS
21
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven
days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22
And on that day the prince shall prepare for
himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin
offering.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
WHAT FEAST DAY IS THIS?
PASSOVER?
WHEN SHOULD THEY OBSERVE THE PASSOVER?
WHO IS THE PRINCE?
THE KING? THE PRIEST?
WHAT IS HE COMMANDED TO DO?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:21
21
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven
days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
WHAT FEAST DAY IS THIS?
PASSOVER?
WHEN SHOULD THEY OBSERVE THE PASSOVER?
‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day’
You shall observe the Passover’
‘A feast of seven days’
‘Unleavened bread shall be eaten’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:21
READ:
EXODUS 12:2-3
2
‘This month shall be your beginning of months; it
shall be the first month of the year to you.
3
Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: 'On
the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a
lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a
household. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL MOSES & AARON TO DO?
‘This month shall be your beginning of months’
‘It shall be the first month of the year to you’
'On the tenth of this month’
‘Every man shall take for himself a lamb’
‘According to the house of his father’
A lamb for a household’
WHAT FEAST DAY IS THIS?
PASSOVER?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:21
READ:
LEVITICUS 23:5-6
5
On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight
is the LORD‘S Passover.
6
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the
Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; seven days you
must eat unleavened bread.
NKJV
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 16:1-2
1
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover
to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD
your God brought you out of Egypt by night. nkjv
WHEN SHOULD THEY KEEP THE PASSOVER?
‘On the fourteenth day of the first month’
‘Abib is the first month of the year’
‘The fifteenth day is the Feast of Unleavened Bread’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:21
READ:
NUMBERS 9:1-3
THE SECOND PASSOVER
1
The LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of
Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had
come out of the land of Egypt, saying:
2
‘Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its
appointed time.
3
On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight,
you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its
rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.’
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
‘Let the children of Israel keep the Passover’
‘On the fourteenth day of the first month’
‘At twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:22
22
And on that day the prince shall prepare for
himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin
offering.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘On that day the prince shall prepare for himself’
‘And for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering’
WHO IS THE PRINCE?
READ:
THE KING? THE PRIEST?
LEVITICUS 4:13-19
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:22
READ:
LEVITICUS 4:13-15
13
'Now if the whole congregation of Israel sins
unintentionally, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of
the assembly, and they have done something against any
of the commandments of the LORD in anything which
should not be done, and are guilty;
14
when the sin which they have committed becomes
known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for the
sin, and bring it before the tabernacle of meeting.
15
The elders of the congregation shall lay their
hands on the head of the bull before the LORD. Then the
bull shall be killed before the LORD.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
WHAT ARE THEY GUILTY OF? ‘unintentional sin’
WHAT SHOULD THEY DO?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:22
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘On that day the prince shall prepare for himself’
‘and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering’
WHO IS THE PRINCE?
READ:
LEVITICUS 4:16-18
16
The anointed priest shall bring some of the bull's
blood to the tabernacle of meeting.
17
The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and
sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, in front of the
veil.
18
He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the
altar which is before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle
of meeting; and he shall pour the remaining blood at the
base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of
the tabernacle of meeting.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:22
READ:
NUMBERS 15:24
24
If it is unintentionally committed, without the
knowledge of the congregation, that the whole
congregation shall offer one young bull as a burnt
offering, as a sweet aroma to the LORD, with its grain
offering and its drink offering, according to the
ordinance, and one kid of the goats as a sin offering.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
WHAT ARE THEY GUILTY OF? ‘unintentional sin’
WHAT SHOULD THEY DO?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:22
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘On that day the prince shall prepare for himself’
‘and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering’
WHO IS THE PRINCE?
READ:
NUMBERS 15:25-26
25
So the priest shall make atonement for the whole
congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be
forgiven them, for it was unintentional; they shall bring
their offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD, and
their sin offering before the LORD, for their unintended
sin.
26
It shall be forgiven the whole congregation of the
children of Israel and the stranger who dwells among
them, because all the people did it unintentionally. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:23-24
KEEPING THE FEASTS
23
On the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a
burnt offering to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams
without blemish, daily for seven days, and a kid of the
goats daily for a sin offering.
24
And he shall prepare a grain offering of one ephah
for each bull and one ephah for each ram, together with a
hin of oil for each ephah.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:23-24
KEEPING THE FEASTS
23
On the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a
burnt offering to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams
without blemish, daily for seven days, and a kid of the
goats daily for a sin offering.
24
And he shall prepare a grain offering of one ephah
for each bull and one ephah for each ram, together with a
hin of oil for each ephah.
WHO IS HE?
THE PRINCE?
THE PRIEST?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HIM?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:23
23
On the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a
burnt offering to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams
without blemish, daily for seven days, and a kid of the
goats daily for a sin offering.
WHO IS HE?
THE PRINCE?
THE PRIEST?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HIM?
‘On the seven days of the feast’
‘He shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD’
‘Seven bulls and seven rams without blemish’
‘Daily for seven days’
‘And a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:23
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HIM?
‘On the seven days of the feast’
‘He shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD’
‘Seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily’
‘And a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering’
READ:
NUMBERS 28:19
19
You shall present an offering made by fire as a
burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram,
and seven lambs in their first year. Be sure they are
without blemish. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
‘You shall present an offering made by fire ‘
‘As a burnt offering to the LORD:
‘2 young bulls, 1 ram and 7 lambs in their first year’
‘Be sure they are without blemish’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:24
24
And he shall prepare a grain offering of one ephah
for each bull and one ephah for each ram, together with a
hin of oil for each ephah.
WHO IS HE?
THE PRINCE?
THE PRIEST?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HIM?
‘He shall prepare a grain offering’
‘Of one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram’
‘Together with a hin of oil for each ephah’
EPHAH (dry) = 1/10 of an homer = 1 bushel
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:24
‘He shall prepare a grain offering’
‘Of one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram’
‘Together with a hin of oil for each ephah’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
READ:
NUMBERS 28:11-13
11
'At the beginnings of your months you shall
present a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls,
one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without
blemish;
12
three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain
offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; two-tenths of an
ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for
the one ram;
13
and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with
oil, as a grain offering for each lamb, as a burnt offering
of sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:24
‘He shall prepare a grain offering’
‘Of one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram’
‘Together with a hin of oil for each ephah’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
‘You shall present a burnt offering to the LORD:
‘2 young bulls, 1 ram and 7 lambs without blemish’
‘3/10 ephah of fine flour, mixed with oil, for each bull’
‘2/10 ephah of fine flour, mixed with oil, for the one ram’
‘1/10 ephah of fine flour, mixed with oil, for each lamb’
NUMBERS 28:11-14
READ:
EZEKIEL 45:25
KEEPING THE FEASTS
25
In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the
month, at the feast, he shall do likewise for seven days,
according to the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain
offering, and the oil.’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:25
KEEPING THE FEASTS
25
In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the
month, at the feast, he shall do likewise for seven days,
according to the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain
offering, and the oil.’
NKJV
WHO IS HE?
THE PRINCE?
THE PRIEST?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HIM?
‘In the 7th month, on the 15th day at the feast’
‘He shall do likewise for seven days’
‘According to the sin offering, the burnt offering,’
‘the grain offering, and the oil’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:25
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
READ:
LEVITICUS 23:34-36
34
Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'The
fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of
Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.
35
On the first day there shall be a holy convocation.
You shall do no customary work on it.
36
For seven days you shall offer an offering made by
fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy
convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire
to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no
customary work on it. NKJV
WHAT FEAST IS THIS?
‘the Feast of Tabernacles‘
WHO SHOULD KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:25
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 16:12
12
You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven
days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor
and from your winepress.
NKJV
WHAT DID MOSES SAY TO ISRAEL?
‘You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days’
‘When you have gathered from your threshing floor’
AND
‘When you have gathered from your winepress’
WHO SHOULD KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES?
(NUMBERS 29:12-34 & LEVITICUS 23:33-44)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 45:25
WHO SHOULD KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES?
READ:
ZECHARIAH 14:16
16
It shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all
the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up
from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts,
and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ZECHARIAH?
‘Everyone who is left of all the nations’
‘Which came against Jerusalem’
‘Shall go up from year to year to worship the King’
‘The LORD of hosts’
‘To keep the Feast of Tabernacles’