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Ezequiel 46

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1 Así dijo el Señor DIOS: La puerta del atrio de adentro que mira al oriente, estará cerrada los seis días de trabajo, y el día del sábado se abrirá: y asimismo se abrirá; el día de la nueva luna.

2 Y el príncipe entrará de afuera por el camino del portal de la puerta, y estará al umbral de la puerta, (mientras los sacerdotes harán su holocausto y sus pacíficos) y adorará a la entrada de la puerta; después saldrá; mas no se cerrará la puerta hasta la tarde.

3 Asimismo adorará el pueblo de la tierra delante del SEÑOR, a la entrada de la puerta, en los sábados y en las nuevas lunas.

4 Y el holocausto que el príncipe ofrecerá al SEÑOR el día del sábado, será seis corderos sin defecto, y un carnero sin tacha;

5 y por presente un efa de flor de harina con cada carnero; y con cada cordero un presente, don de su mano, y un hin de aceite con el efa.

6 Mas el día de la nueva luna, un becerro, hijo de vaca, sin tacha, y seis corderos, y un carnero; deberán ser sin defecto.

7 Y hará presente de un efa de flor de harina con el becerro, y otro efa con cada carnero; mas con los corderos, conforme a su facultad; y un hin de aceite con cada efa.

8 Y cuando el príncipe entrare, entrará por el camino del portal de la puerta; y por el mismo camino saldrá.

9 Mas cuando el pueblo de la tierra entrare delante del SEÑOR en las fiestas, el que entrare por la puerta del norte, saldrá por la puerta del mediodía; y el que entrare por la puerta del mediodía, saldrá por la puerta del norte; no volverá por la puerta por donde entró, sino que saldrá por la de enfrente de ella.

10 Y el príncipe, cuando ellos entraren, él entrará en medio de ellos; y cuando ellos hubieren salido, él saldrá.

11 Y en las fiestas y en las solemnidades será el presente un efa de flor de harina con cada becerro, y otro efa con cada carnero; y con los corderos, don de su mano; y un hin de aceite con cada efa.

12 Mas cuando el príncipe libremente hiciere holocausto o pacíficos al SEÑOR, le abrirán la puerta que mira al oriente, y hará su holocausto y sus pacíficos, como hace en el día del sábado; después saldrá; y cerrarán la puerta después que saliere.

13 Y sacrificarás al SEÑOR cada día en holocausto un cordero de un año sin defecto, cada mañana lo sacrificarás.

14 Y con él harás todas las mañanas presente de la sexta parte de un efa de flor de harina , y la tercera parte de un hin de aceite para mezclar con la flor de harina; esto será presente para el SEÑOR continuamente por estatuto perpetuo.

15 Ofrecerán, pues, el cordero, y el presente y el aceite, todas las mañanas en holocausto continuo.

16 Así dijo el Señor DIOS: Si el príncipe diere algún don de su heredad a alguno de sus hijos, será de ellos; posesión de ellos será por herencia.

17 Mas si de su heredad diere don a alguno de sus siervos, será de él hasta el año de libertad, y volverá al príncipe; mas su herencia será de sus hijos.

18 Y el príncipe no tomará nada de la herencia del pueblo, por no defraudarlos de su posesión; de lo que él posee dará herencia a sus hijos; para que mi pueblo no sea echado cada uno de su posesión.

19 Me metió después por la entrada que estaba hacia la puerta, a las cámaras santas de los sacerdotes, las cuales miraban al norte, y había allí un lugar a los lados del occidente.

20 Y me dijo: Este es el lugar donde los sacerdotes cocerán el sacrificio por el pecado y por la expiación; allí cocerán el presente, por no sacarlo al atrio de afuera para santificar al pueblo.

21 Luego me sacó al atrio de afuera, y me llevó por los cuatro rincones del atrio; y en cada rincón había un patio.

22 En los cuatro rincones del atrio había patios juntos de cuarenta codos de longitud, y treinta de anchura; tenían una misma medida todos cuatro a los rincones.

23 Y había una pared alrededor de ellos, alrededor de todos cuatro, y chimeneas hechas abajo alrededor de las paredes.

24 Y me dijo: Estos son los aposentos de los cocineros, donde los servidores de la casa cocerán el sacrificio del pueblo.

   

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Scriptural Confirmations #53

  
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53. 25. A day of cloud and thick darkness (Ezekiel 34:12).

(I will make Mount Seir and the cities thereof into a waste and devastation, into a waste of eternity (Ezekiel 35:3-4, 7, 9, 12, 14-15).

Then the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built (Ezekiel 36:10).

When I shall sanctify Myself among you, then I will give you a new heart, and I will give a new spirit in the midst of you and I will take away the heart of stone, and will give you a heart of flesh, and I will give a new spirit in your midst, and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God (Ezekiel 36:23, 26-28).

In the day that I have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will make you to dwell in cities, and the waste places shall be built; they shall say, This land that was devastated is become as the garden of Eden, and the desolate and devastated cities are fortified and inhabited (Ezekiel 36:33-38).

Behold I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people, and I will lead you upon the land of Israel, and I will put my spirit in you that ye may live (Ezekiel 37:12-14). Concerning the dry bones: by the inflowing of the breath among them, and their living again, regeneration is described.

After many days thou shalt be visited, and in the latter days they shall come upon the land that was made a waste (Ezekiel 38:8, 16).

They shall bury Gog in the day in which I shall be glorified (Ezekiel 39:11-12, 13). Gog is one who is in external worship, but not in internal.

Of the great sacrifices upon the mountains of Israel, and that thus He will set His glory among the nations that they may know that Jehovah is their God from that day, and hence-forward (Ezekiel 39:17-22).

Of the New Church which is described by many things in Ezekiel 40-48: of the city which is the New Jerusalem, and of its gates (40): of the temple, etc. (41): of the court and of the chambers there (42): of the eastern gate where the glory of the God of Israel is seen, and of His worship (43): next of His worship and of ministration (44): of the statutes for the prince (45, 46): of waters from the house (47) of the allotment of the land according to tribes (47, 48). That the name of the city is, Jehovah there (48:35).

  
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Ezekiel 43

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1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east.

2 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.

3 It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

4 The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

5 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house.

6 I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.

7 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. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;

8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was [but] the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in my anger.

9 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.

10 You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

11 If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.

12 This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

13 These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.

14 From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.

15 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

16 The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it.

17 The ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.

18 He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

19 You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering.

20 You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

21 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.

22 On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bull.

23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

24 You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

25 Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.

26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.

27 When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.