PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Ezekiel 41-42
What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?
“To separate the holy from the common.” (Ezekiel 42:20)
I have to admit, I lost interest in the dimensions of this temple.
No doubt the Jews loved to imagine its perfect layout and design.
The vision was meant to inspire them that one day, things would be restored.
But this verse jumped out at me, “to separate the holy from the common.”
Does God see this world as separated into holy and common (profane, unholy)?
Isn’t all the world holy to God… or at least it was at first.
When humanity ruined this world in sin, it became unholy.
God set up a foothold in Abraham’s family, symbolized by the temple.
But as long as the curtain hung before the ark, there was a separation.
Through Jesus God has torn the curtain, and removed the separating wall.
Now, in Christ, all of creation is sacred, and no temple is needed.
For we are the temple of God, perfect in layout and design.
Jesus has reunited the heavenly temple (God’s presence) with creation.
We can now imagine ourselves as God’s perfect temple, being restored!
PRAYER
Lord, I am not yet a perfect temple. But you are restoring me, making me holy, a place where God can live again. May this vision inspire me, as I await your full restoration.
“he measured the temple” – the detail and the sizes are amazing – the thickness of the walls and the size of the rooms – especially as they widen as you go up the levels. In today’s construction it would not be hard – but then – it was totally labour intensive – just thinking of the scaffolding out of bamboo or wood that they would have had to use in its construction. The details of the sizes are written down. Jesus referred to himself as a temple when he answered the ‘amazement’ of the disciples when they oo’ed and awed the temple – He said tear it down and in 3 days I will built it up again – referring to himself and his resurrection. Jesus goes on to say that we are living temples of the living God when we receive the HS. Jesus knows the ‘details’ of my temple too – there is no room in my heart that is not hidden from his view. Lord you know me and you test me – help me to grow in transparency so that I may fully devoted to you – may your HS continue its sweep of this temple!
A lot of details here describing the temple. Impressive.
There are many rooms and my mind can’t see how it is all put together. It was God’s dwelling place for His people.
But through Christ
‘Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?’
The temple of God was a holy place and so I too need to be holy for God to dwell in me to lead me and guide me in the way to walk.
Lead me, guide me along the way;
For if You lead me, I cannot stray;
Lord, let me walk each day with Thee.
Lead me, O Lord, lead me.