The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical ExpositionGaebelein, Arno Clemens
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The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition
Gaebelein, Arno Clemens
Bible. Ezekiel -- Commentaries
Thus saith the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looketh
toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the
sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall
be opened. And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of
that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the
priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings,
and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go
forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. Likewise
the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before
the Lord in the sabbaths and in the new moons. And the burnt
offering that the prince shall offer unto the Lord in the sabbath
day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat
offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of
oil to an ephah. And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young
bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be
without blemish. And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for
a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as
his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah. And when
the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of
that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof (verses 1-8).
Here another worship scene of the Millennium is described. The prominent
eastern gate is to be closed during the six working days, but on the
Sabbath it shall be opened, as well as in the day of the new moon. The
Sabbath and the new moon are prominent in the worship of the Kingdom
Age. The Sabbath was a type of the coming rest for the people of
Israel.[55] This rest has now come. Their wanderings are ended, they are
gathered from the East and from the West, from the North and South, and
have found at last the promised rest (Ps. cvii:1-8). Therefore the
Sabbath is especially mentioned in connection with worship. On the
seventh day the gate through which the Lord and His glory passed is
opened and left open till the evening. The six working days (typical of
6,000 years) are forever gone, the seventh day, the seventh thousand,
the Day of the Lord, has come. And when the Millennium ends, the
complete, eternal rest comes for all the people of God. The new moon is
typical of Israel's re-establishment as a nation. The nation, like the
moon, had waned, and disappeared, but now she shines again like the new
moon.
[55] When it speaks of "my rest" in Hebrews iv it refers to the eternal
rest.
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