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EZEKIEL CHAPTER FORTY - FOUR

This passage in Ezekiel describes the East Gate of the sanctuary and the Lord's command for it to be shut because He has entered through it. The prince is permitted to sit in this gate, eat bread before the Lord, and enter and exit through the vestibule. This raises questions about the identity of the prince and his role in the temple.

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EZEKIEL CHAPTER FORTY - FOUR

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  1. EZEKIEL CHAPTER FORTY - FOUR

  2. OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR THE EAST GATE AND THE PRINCE v. 1-3 THOSE ADMITTED TO THE TEMPLE v.4-9 LAWS GOVERNING PRIESTS V.10-31

  3. READ: EZEKIEL 44:1-3 THE EAST GATE AND THE PRINCE 1 Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the east, but it was shut. 2 And the LORD said to me, ‘This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut. 3 As for the prince, because he is the prince, he may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way.’

  4. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:1-3 THE EAST GATE AND THE PRINCE 1 Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the East, but it was shut. 2 And the LORD said to me, ‘This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut. 3 As for the prince, because he is the prince, he may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way.’ WHERE IS EZEKIEL & WHAT DID HE SAY TO EZEKIEL? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THE PRINCE? WHO IS THIS PRINCE?

  5. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:1 THE EAST GATE AND THE PRINCE 1 Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the East, but it was shut. WHERE DID THE LORD BRING EZEKIEL? ‘back to the outer gate of the sanctuary’ ‘which faces toward the East’ ‘but it was shut’ WHAT DID HE SEE PREVIOUSLY AT THIS GATE? READ: EZEKIEL 43:1-2 1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the East. 2 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the East. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory. NKJV

  6. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:2 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL? ‘This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened’ ’No man shall enter by it’ WHY IS THE DOOR SHUT? Because ‘the LORD God of Israel has entered by it’ READ: EZEKIEL 43:4 4 The glory of the LORD came into the temple by way of the gate which faces toward the East. NKJV HOW DID THE LORD ENTER THE TEMPLE? by way of the gate which faces toward the East

  7. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:2 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL? ‘This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened’ ’No man shall enter by it’ Because ‘the LORD God of Israel has entered by it’ WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO OPEN THIS GATE? READ: ISAIAH 22:22 22 The key of the house of David I will lay on His shoulder; So He shall open, and no one shall shut; And He shall shut, and no one shall open. NKJV READ: REVELATION 3:7 7 These things says He who is holy, He who is true, ‘He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens’ NKJV

  8. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:3 3 As for the prince, because he is the prince, he may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way.’ WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THE PRINCE? ‘He may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD’ ‘He shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway’ ‘He shall go out the same way.’ WHO IS THIS PRINCE? DAVID? JESUS? READ: EZEKIEL 34:24 24 I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.

  9. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:3 WHO COULD EAT BEFORE THE LORD? READ: EXODUS 25:30 30 You shall set the showbread on the table before Me always. NKJV WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES? ‘You shall set the showbread on the table before Me’ READ: LEVITICUS 24:9 9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings of the LORD made by fire, by a perpetual statute. NKJV WHERE SHOULD AARON AND HIS SONS EAT? ‘they shall eat in a holy place’

  10. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:3 WHAT WERE THEY PERMITTED TO EAT? WHEN? READ: LEVITICUS 7:15-18 15 The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until morning. 16 But ifthe sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; but on the next day the remainder of it also may be eaten; 17 the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day must be burned with fire. 18 And ifany of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, nor shall it be imputed to him; it shall be an abomination to him who offers it, and the person who eats of it shall bear guilt. NKJV

  11. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:3 READ: DEUTERONOMY 12:5-7 5 You shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go. 6 There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 7 There you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you. NKJV WHERE DID THE LORD SAY THEY SHOULD EAT? ‘The place where the LORD your God chooses’ ‘There you shall eat before the LORD your God’

  12. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:3 WHO COULD COME BEFORE THE LORD? READ: 2 CHRONICLES 26:16 16 When he was strong his heart was lifted up, to his destruction, for he transgressed against the LORD his God by entering the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense. WHAT DID KING UZZIAH DO? ‘he entered the temple of the LORD’ ‘to burn incense on the altar of incense’

  13. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:3 WHO COULD COME BEFORE THE LORD? READ: 2 CHRONICLES 26:17-18 17 Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him were eighty priests of the LORD — valiant men. 18 They withstood King Uzziah, and said to him, ‘It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed! You shall have no honor from the LORD God.’ WHAT DID AZARIAH DO? ‘Azariah went in after him with 80 priests of the LORD’ WHAT DID THEY SAY TO UZZIAH? ‘It is not for you to burn incense to the LORD’ ‘Get out of the sanctuary for you have trespassed’

  14. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:3 WHO COULD COME BEFORE THE LORD? READ: 2 CHRONICLES 26:19 19 Uzziah became furious; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense. And while he was angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead, before the priests in the house of the LORD, beside the incense altar. NKJV WHAT HAPPENED TO KING UZZIAH? ‘Uzziah had a censer in his hand to burn incense’ ‘While he was angry with the priests’ ‘Leprosy broke out on his forehead’

  15. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:3 ‘He may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD’ WHO COULD EAT BEFORE THE LORD? READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 10:16-18 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17 For we, though many, are one bread and one body;forwe all partake of that one bread. 18 Observe Israel after the flesh: Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? NKJV WHAT DID PAUL SAY TO THE CHURCH? ‘We all partake of that one bread’ ‘Those who eat of the sacrifices are partakers of the altar’

  16. READ: EZEKIEL 44:4-5 THOSE ADMITTED TO THE TEMPLE 4 Also He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple; so I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD; and I fell on my face. 5 And the LORD said to me, ‘Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and all its laws. Mark well who may enter the house and all who go out from the sanctuary.

  17. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:4-5 4 Also He brought me by way of the North Gate to the front of the temple; so I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD; and I fell on my face. 5 And the LORD said to me, ‘Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and all its laws. Mark well who may enter the house and all who go out from the sanctuary. WHERE DID THE LORD TAKE EZEKIEL? WHAT DID HE SEE? WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?

  18. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:4 WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE? ‘the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD’ WHAT DID ISAIAH SEE? READ: ISAIAH 6:1-4 1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 One cried to another and said: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!’ 4 The posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

  19. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:4 WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE? ‘the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD’ READ: REVELATION 15:8 8 The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power, and no one was able to enter the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. NKJV WHAT DID JOHN SEE? ‘The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God’

  20. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:4 WHERE WAS EZEKIEL & WHAT DID HE SEE? ‘the North Gate of the temple’ ‘the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD’ READ: EZEKIEL 8:4 4 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the plain. NKJV WHAT DID HE SEE PREVIOUSLY AT THE NORTH GATE? ‘the glory of the God of Israel was there’ ‘like the vision that I saw in the plain’

  21. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:4 READ: EZEKIEL 10:3-4 3 The cherubim were standing on the South side of the temple when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 The glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and paused over the threshold of the temple; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’S glory. NKJV WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE? ‘The glory of the LORD went up from the cherub’ ‘and paused over the threshold of the temple’ ‘The house was filled with the cloud’ ‘The court was full of the brightness of the LORD’S glory’

  22. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:4 READ: EZEKIEL 10:18-19 18 The glory of the LORD departed from the threshold of the templeand stood over the cherubim. 19 The cherubim lifted their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the wheels were beside them; and they stood at the door of the East gate of the LORD‘S house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. NKJV WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE? ‘The glory of the LORD departed’ ‘from the threshold of the temple’ WHERE WERE THEY GOING? ‘They stood at the door of the East gate’ ‘of the LORD‘S house’ ‘The glory of the God of Israel was above them’

  23. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:4 READ: EZEKIEL 11:22-23 22 The cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was high above them. 23 The glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain, which is on the East side of the city. NKJV WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE? ‘the glory of the God of Israel was high above them’ WHERE DID THE GLORY OF THE LORD GO? ‘The glory of the LORD’ ‘Went up from the midst of the city’ ‘Stood on the mountain’ ‘Which is on the East side of the city’

  24. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:5 5 And the LORD said to me, ‘Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and all its laws. Mark well who may enter the house and all who go out from the sanctuary. WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO? ‘see with your eyes and hear with your ears’ WHAT DOES ‘mark well’ MEAN? WRITE IT DOWN? WHY?

  25. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:5 WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO? ‘See with your eyes and hear with your ears’ WHAT DOES ‘mark well’ MEAN? READ: EZEKIEL 40:4 4 ‘Son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears, and fix your mind on everything I show you;for you were brought here so that I might show them to you. Declare to the house of Israel everything you see.’ WHY? ‘Declare to the house of Israel everything you see’

  26. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:5 WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO? ‘See with your eyes and hear with your ears’ WHAT DOES ‘mark well’ MEAN? READ: EZEKIEL 43:11 11 If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and perform them.’ NKJV WHY WRITE IT DOWN? ‘They may keep its whole design’ ‘all its ordinances and perform them’

  27. READ: EZEKIEL 44:6-7 THOSE ADMITTED TO THE TEMPLE 6 Now say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘O house of Israel, let Us have no more of all your abominations. 7 When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to defile it — My house — and when you offered My food, the fat and the blood, then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations.

  28. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:6-7 6 Now say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘O house of Israel, let Us have no more of all your abominations. 7 When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to defile it — My house — and when you offered My food, the fat and the blood, then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL? ‘let Us have no more of all your abominations’ WHO DEFILED THE TEMPLE? ‘foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh’ ‘entered My sanctuary to defile it’ ‘They broke My covenant’ ‘Because of all your abominations’

  29. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:6 READ: EZEKIEL 3:4-9 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you, because they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. NKJV WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL? ‘the house of Israel will not listen to you’ Because ‘they will not listen to Me’ ‘all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted’ ‘They are a rebellious house’

  30. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:7 WHO DEFILED THE TEMPLE? HOW? ‘You brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart anduncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to defile it’ READ: GENESIS 17:13-14 13 He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant. WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL? ‘He who is born in your house must be circumcised’ ‘the uncircumcised male child’ ‘shall be cut off from his people’

  31. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:7 HOW DID THEY DEFILED THE TEMPLE? ‘When You offered My food, the fat and the blood’ READ: EXODUS 12:43-44; 48 43 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, ‘This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat it. 44 But every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it. 48 When a stranger dwells with you and wants to keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as a native of the land. For no uncircumcised person shall eat it. NKJV WHAT WAS THEE LAW OF THE PASSOVER? ‘No foreigner shall eat it’ ‘No uncircumcised person shall eat it’

  32. READ: EZEKIEL 44:8-9 THOSE ADMITTED TO THE TEMPLE 8 And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but you have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.’ 9 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary, including any foreigner who is among the children of Israel.

  33. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:8-9 THOSE ADMITTED TO THE TEMPLE 8 And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but you have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.’ 9 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary, including any foreigner who is among the children of Israel. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRIESTS? ‘you have not kept charge of My holy things’ you have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary’ ‘No foreigner ‘uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh’ ‘shall enter My sanctuary’

  34. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:8 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THE PRIESTS? ‘You have not kept charge of My holy things’ ‘You have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary’ READ: LEVITICUS 22:2 2 ‘Speak to Aaron and his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name by what they dedicate to Me: I am the LORD.‘ NKJV WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AARON & HIS SONS? ‘Separate yourselves’ ‘from the holy things of the children of Israel’ ‘Do not profane My holy name’ ‘by what they dedicate to Me’

  35. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:8 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THE PRIESTS? ‘You have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary’ READ: NUMBERS 18:7 7 ‘You and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar and behind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood to you as a gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.’ NKJV WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND AARON? ‘You and your sons shall attend to your priesthood’ ‘for everything at the altar and behind the veil’ ‘The outsider who comes near shall be put to death’

  36. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:9 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THE PRIESTS? ‘No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart’ ‘or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary’ ‘including any foreigner among the children of Israel’ READ: LEVITICUS 26:41-42 41 ….if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt — 42 thenI will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with AbrahamI will remember; I will remember the land. NKJV WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL? ‘if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled’ ‘and they accept their guilt’ ‘then I will remember My covenant with them’

  37. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:9 ‘No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart’ ‘or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary’ ‘including any foreigner among the children of Israel’ READ: DEUTERONOMY 10:16 16 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer. NKJV WHAT DID THE LORD TELL THEM TO DO? ‘circumcise the foreskin of your heart’ ‘no longer be stiff-necked ‘

  38. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:9 ‘No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart’ ‘or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary’ ‘including any foreigner among the children of Israel’ READ: DEUTERONOMY 23:3 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD forever, NKJV WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL? ‘An Ammonite or Moabite’ ‘shall not enter the assembly of the LORD’

  39. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:9 ‘No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart’ ‘or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary’ ‘including any foreigner among the children of Israel’ READ: COLOSSIANS 2:11-12 11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you alsowere raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. HOW WERE YOU CIRCUMCISED? WHEN? ‘you were circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, the circumcision of Christ’ ‘putting off the body of the sins of the flesh’

  40. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:9 READ: NEHEMIAH 13:7-9 7 I came to Jerusalem and discovered the evil thatEliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing a room for him in the courts of the house of God. 8 And it grieved me bitterly; therefore I threw all the household goods of Tobiah out of the room. 9 Then I commanded them to cleanse the rooms; and I brought back into them the articles of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense. NKJV WHAT DID ELISHAB DO FOR TOBIAH THE AMMONITE? ‘Eliashib prepared a room for Tobiah ‘in the courts of the house of God’ WHAT DID NEHEMIAH DO? ‘threw all the household goods of Tobiah out of the room’ ‘brought back into them the articles of the house of God’

  41. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:9 ‘No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart’ ‘or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary’ ‘including any foreigner among the children of Israel’ READ: JOEL 3:17 17 ‘You shall know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion My holy mountain. Jerusalem shall be holy, And no aliens shall ever pass through her again.’ WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL? ‘Jerusalem shall be holy’ ‘No aliens shall ever pass through her again’

  42. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:9 ‘No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart’ ‘or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary’ ‘including any foreigner among the children of Israel’ READ: ZECHARIAH 14:21 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts. NKJV WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL? ‘there shall no longer be a Canaanite’ ‘in the house of the LORD of hosts’

  43. READ: EZEKIEL 44:10-11 LAWS GOVERNING PRIESTS 10 And the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who strayed away from Me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, as gatekeepers of the house and ministers of the house; they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

  44. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:10-11 10 And the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who strayed away from Me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, as gatekeepers of the house and ministers of the house; they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THE LEVITES? ‘they shall bear their iniquity’ YET ‘they shall be ministers in My sanctuary’ ‘they shall stand before My people to minister to them’

  45. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:10 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THE LEVITES? ‘the Levites who went far from Me’ ‘who strayed away from Me after their idols’ ‘they shall bear their iniquity’ READ: NUMBERS 3:9-10 9 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are given entirely to him from among the children of Israel. 10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall attend to their priesthood; but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AARON & HIS SONS? ‘they shall attend to their priesthood’ ‘the outsider who comes near shall be put to death’

  46. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:10 10 And the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who strayed away from Me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity. READ: NUMBERS 16:9-10 9 Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the work of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to serve them; 10 And that He has brought you near to Himself, you and all your brethren, the sons of Levi, with you? And are you seeking the priesthood also? WHAT DID MOSES ASK KORAH? ‘are you seeking the priesthood also?’

  47. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:10 10 And the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who strayed away from Me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity. READ: NUMBERS 18:23 23 The Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute forever, throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. NKJV WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE LEVITES? ‘The Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle‘ ‘they shall bear their iniquity’

  48. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:10 ‘they shall bear their iniquity’ READ: 1 KINGS 14:21-22 21 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. 22 Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. WHAT IS SAID ABOUT REHOBOAM’S MOTHER? ‘Rehoboam mother's was an Ammonitess’ HOW DID THIS AFFECT JUDAH? Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD

  49. QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 44:10 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THE LEVITES? ‘the Levites who went far from Me’ ‘They strayed away from Me after their idols’ READ: EZEKIEL 8:16 16 He brought me into the inner court of the LORD‘S house; and there, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the East, and they were worshiping the sun toward the East. NKJV WHO DID EZEKIEL SEE? PRIESTS? WHAT WERE THEY DOING? ‘They were worshiping the sun toward the East’

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