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Ezekiel 45

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1 And when you shall allot the land over inheritance, you shall lift·​·up an uplifting to Jehovah, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all her borders all around.

2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred by five hundred, foursquare all around; and fifty cubits all around for its suburbs*.

3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand; and in it shall be the sanctuary and the holy of holies.

4 The holy of the land, it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall draw·​·near to minister unto Jehovah; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a sanctuary for the sanctuary.

5 And the five and twenty thousand in length, and the ten thousand in breadth, shall also be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, for themselves, for a possession for twenty rooms.

6 And you shall give for the possession of the city five thousand in breadth, and the length shall be five and twenty thousand, alongside the uplifting of the holy portion; it shall be for all the house of Israel.

7 And a portion shall be for the chief on this side and on this side of the uplifting of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, to the face of the uplifting of the holy portion, and to the face of the possession of the city, from the west quarter westward, and from the eastern quarter eastward; and the length shall be alongside one of the parts, from the border of the west to the border eastward.

8 As for the land, it shall be his possession in Israel; and My chiefs shall not exploit My people any·​·more; and the land shall they give to the house of Israel according·​·to their tribes.

9 Thus says the Lord Jehovih*; Let it be much for you, O chiefs of Israel; put·​·aside violence and devastation, and do judgment and justice, lift·​·up your driving·​·out from on My people, says the Lord Jehovih.

10 There shall be for you just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath*.

11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one fixed·​·measure, that the bath may carry the tenth of an homer, and the ephah the tenth of an homer; its fixed·​·measure shall be according to the homer.

12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, ten and five shekels, shall be the maneh* for you.

13 This is the uplifting that you shall lift·​·up; the sixth of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and you shall give the sixth of an ephah of an homer of barley;

14 and the statute of oil, the bath of oil, you shall offer the tenth of a bath out·​·of the cor*; ten baths an homer, for ten baths is an homer;

15 and one lamb from the flock, from the two·​·hundred, from the watered flocks of Israel; for a gift·​·offering, and for a burnt·​·offering, and for peace·​·offerings, to make·​·atonement for them, says the Lord Jehovih.

16 All the people of the land shall give this uplifting for the chief in Israel.

17 And it shall be for the chief to give burnt·​·offerings, and gift·​·offerings, and poured·​·offerings, in the festivals, and in the new·​·moons, and in the Sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel; he shall make the sin offering, and the gift·​·offering, and the burnt·​·offering, and the peace·​·offerings, to make·​·atonement for the house of Israel.

18 Thus says the Lord Jehovih; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a son of the herd, a perfect bullock, and purge the sanctuary;

19 and the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it onto the posts of the house, and onto the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.

20 And so thou shalt do in the seventh day in the month for a man who errs, and for him who is simple; and you shall atone·​·for the house.

21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, to you shall be the Passover, a festival of a week of days in which unleavened bread shall be eaten.

22 And in that day shall the chief make for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.

23 And seven days of the festival he shall make a burnt·​·offering to Jehovah, seven bullocks and seven perfect rams for the day seven days; and a male goat of the goats for the day for a sin offering.

24 And he shall make a gift·​·offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah.

25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do as these in the festival of the seven days, as the sin offering, as the burnt·​·offering, and as the gift·​·offering, and as to the oil.

   


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 191

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191. "'I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God.'" This symbolically means that the truths they possess, springing from goodness derived from the Lord, sustain the Lord's church in heaven.

A temple symbolizes the church, and the temple of My God symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven. It is apparent from this that a pillar symbolizes what sustains and stabilizes the church, and that is the Divine truth in the Word.

In the highest sense, a temple symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, particularly in respect to Divine truth. In a representative sense, however, a temple symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven, and so also the Lord's church in the world.

That a temple in the highest sense symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, and particularly in respect to Divine truth, is apparent from the following passages:

(Jesus said to the Jews,) "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." ...He was speaking of the temple of His body. (John 2:19, 21)

I saw no temple in (the New Jerusalem), for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. (Revelation 21:22)

Behold..., the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire. (Malachi 3:1)

I will bow myself toward Your holy temple... (Psalms 138:2)

...I will look again toward Your holy temple... And my prayer went to You, to Your holy temple. (Jonah 2:4, 7)

Jehovah is in His holy temple. (Habakkuk 2:20)

The holy temple of Jehovah or of the Lord is His Divine humanity, for it is to this that people bow, look to, and pray, and not to the temple merely, as the temple is not, in itself, holy. It is called a holy temple, because holiness is predicated of Divine truth (no. 173).

"The temple that sanctifies the gold" in Matthew 23:16-17 means nothing else than the Lord's Divine humanity.

[2] That a temple in a representative sense symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven, is apparent from the following passages:

(The) voice (of Jehovah) from the temple...! (Isaiah 66:6)

...a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven... (Revelation 16:17)

The temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. (Revelation 11:19)

...the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. And out of the temple came the seven angels... And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God... (Revelation 15:5-6, 8)

I called upon Jehovah, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple... (Psalms 18:6)

I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, and His skirts filled the temple. (Isaiah 6:1)

[3] That a temple symbolizes the church in the world is apparent from these passages:

Our holy... temple... has become a conflagration... (Isaiah 64:11)

I will shake all nations..., that I may fill this house with glory... The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former... (Haggai 2:7, 9)

The new temple in Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48 describes a church to be established by the Lord. A church is also meant in Revelation 11:1 by the temple that the angel measured. So likewise elsewhere, as in Isaiah 44:28, Jeremiah 7:2-4, 9-11, Zechariah 8:9.

...the disciples (of Jesus) came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, ."..Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left... upon another, that shall not be demolished." (Matthew 24:1-2)

The temple here symbolizes the church today; and its demolition means, symbolically, that not one stone would be left upon another. This symbolizes the end of that church, when not any truth would remain. For when the disciples spoke with the Lord about the temple, the Lord foretold the consecutive states of this church, even to its last one, or the end of the age; and the end of the age means the final period of the church, which is the one that exists today. This was represented by the destruction of that temple to its foundations.

[4] A temple has these three symbolic meanings, namely the Lord, the church in heaven, and the church in the world. Because these three are bound up together, they cannot be separated. Consequently one cannot be meant without the other. Therefore anyone who divorces the church in the world from the church in heaven, or the one or the other from the Lord, is without the truth.

The temple here means the church in heaven, because reference to the church in the world follows after this (no. 194).

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.