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Dawn over broad farmland in the hill country: a line of plain upright boundary stones runs across the fields toward a far high hill.

The LORD is there

Ezekiel 45

Who gets the first and best of what you have?

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Where we are

  1. 1–3Visions of gloryBy the Kebar, about 593 BC: the throne, the scroll, the watchman
  2. 4–7Signs of the siegeA brick, a ration, a razor: the end has come
  3. 8–11The glory departsAbout 592 BC: the temple’s abominations, the mark, the glory goes east
  4. 12–15False hopesExile acted out, false prophets, a useless vine
  5. 16–19Parables and lamentsAn unfaithful bride, two eagles, the one who sins
  6. 20–24The sword drawnRebellion retold; the siege begins, about 588 BC
  7. 25–32The nations judgedAmmon to Egypt: the LORD is Judge of all the earth
  8. 33–36A new heartThe city falls; the Good Shepherd; cleansed and made new
  9. 37–39Dry bones liveOne people raised up, and Gog of Magog defeated
  10. 40–48The LORD is thereAbout 573 BC: the new temple, the river, the landChapter 45

Consecration of the Land

God

“When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, you are to set aside a portion for the LORD, a holy portion of the land 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide. This entire tract of land will be holy.

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God

The land set apart

The holy district

  1. The sanctuary

    Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.

  2. For the priests

    From this holy portion, you are to measure off a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits, and in it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. It will be a holy portion of the land to be used by the priests who minister in the sanctuary, who draw near to minister before the LORD. It will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy area for the sanctuary.

  3. For the Levites

    An adjacent area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide shall belong to the Levites who minister in the temple; it will be their possession for towns in which to live.

  4. For the city

    As the property of the city, you are to set aside an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjacent to the holy district. It will belong to the whole house of Israel.

The land set apart

The Levites45:5: their townsThe priests45:3–4: their housesThe sanctuary45:2: 500 cubitssquareThe city45:6: for all IsraelTheprince,west45:7Theprince,east45:7

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In the middle of the land, the LORD’s portion, with the prince’s land on either side.

The Prince’s Portion

God

Now the prince will have the area bordering each side of the area formed by the holy district and the property of the city, extending westward from the western side and eastward from the eastern side, running lengthwise from the western boundary to the eastern boundary and parallel to one of the tribal portions. This land will be his possession in Israel. And My princes will no longer oppress My people, but will give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

God

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’

Honest Scales

God
On a plain wooden market table in morning light: a hand-held beam balance with stone weights hanging level, a wooden measure heaped with barley, and a clay jar of oil.

You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.

God

The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.

The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.

Question

Quick question

Think back over what the LORD asked of the princes and the people.

What does the LORD require in Ezekiel 45:10?

Offerings and Feasts

God
Evening on a stone threshing floor in the hill country: a heap of golden wheat and a smaller heap of pale barley, a basket of grain set apart beside them, a jar of oil, and sheep grazing nearby.

This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley. The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer). And one sheep shall be given from each flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the people, declares the Lord GOD.

God
Morning on the road up to the vision’s temple: a young bull and two rams led on plain ropes by herdsmen seen from behind, donkeys with grain and oil jars following, a plain gatehouse ahead.

All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel. And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.

God

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary. And the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court. You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for anyone who strays unintentionally or in ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.

God
God

On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten. On that day the prince shall provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.

God

What to bring

Seven days, twice a year

  1. Each day of the feast

    Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin offering.

  2. Grain and oil

    He shall also provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin of olive oil for each ephah of grain.

  3. The autumn feast

    During the seven days of the feast that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.’

Pray

Pray

Lord GOD, the land and all I have are Yours. Make me honest in every measure, ready to give You the first and best, and glad to keep Your feasts with Your people. Amen.

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You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.

Ezekiel 45:10

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