SCRIPTURE: EZEKIEL 46
OTHER INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY THE SOVEREIGN LORD (vs. 1-24)
- The gate of the inner court facing east is to be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon, it is to be opened. (v. 1)
- The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost to sacrifice his burnt offerings and his fellowship offerings. (v. 2)
- On the Sabbaths and New Moons, the people of the land are to worship in the presence of the Lord at the entrance to that gateway. (v. 3)
- The burnt offering the prince brings to the Lord on the sabbath day is to be six male lambs and a ram all without defect. (v. 4)
- The grain offering given with the ram is to be an ephah and the grain offering with the lambs is to be as much as he pleases, along with a hin of oil for each ephah. (v. )
- On the day of the New Moon, he is to offer a young bull, 6 lambs and a ram, all without defect. (v. 6)
- He is to provide as a grain offering one ephah with the bull, one ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wants to give, along with a hin of oil with each ephah. (v. 7)
- The prince should enter through the portico of the gateway and come out the same way. (v. 8)
- The people who come at the appointed feast should enter and exit at the same gate. (vs. 9-10)
- Grain offering festivals and the appointed feast is to be an ephah with a bull or ram or lamb along with a hin of oil for each ephah. (v. 11)
- When the prince provides a freewill offering, he should offering his burnt offering or fellowship offering as he does on a Sabbath. He shall enter and go out at the east gate. (v. 12)
- They are required to provide a burnt offering morning by morning with a hear old lamb and a grain offering consisting of1/6 of an ephah with 1/3 of a hin of oil to moisten the flour. This has to be a regular burnt offering. (vs. 13-15)
- If the prince makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his sons, it will also belong to his descendants, it is to be their property by inheritance. (v. 16)
- If he makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, the servant may keep it until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs to his sons only. (v. 17)
- The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people, driving them off their property. He is to give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that one of the people will be separated from his property. (v. 18)
- The priests will cook the guilt offering and the sin offering and bake the grain offering in a certain place at the west end. (v. 19-20)
- There is a designated kitchen for those who minister at the temple will cook the sacrifices of the people (vs,. 21-24)
THOUGHTS:
God continued to tell Ezekiel the aspect of daily worship with order and continuity. This continuity gave the people a healthy rhythm to their spiritual life.