THE FOREVER TEMPLE
Today’s Reading: Ezekiel 44-45
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Rev. Rick Hiebert teaches how the High Priest would apply blood (he’s not using real blood) to the horns of the altar in a full-sized replica of the Tabernacle of Moses. This has been on display behind the Crossroads Centre in Burlington for two entire summers, 1997 and 2012. Moses, and in today’s reading, Ezekiel, both spell out carefully, and in great detail, the importance of approaching God correctly with great reverence.
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Key Verses: Ezekiel 44:4-5
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. 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…”
Jesus Christ (Messiah) replaced all the symbolism of the Tabernacle, and later the Temple, with ultimate reality. The essential message of the entire book of Hebrews teaches us this eternal truth (read Hebrews 9:11-28). The last Jerusalem Temple was destroyed just 40 years after Jesus entered the Holy of Holies in Heaven with His own blood, the final Sacrifice for sin. The modern state of Israel has been a reality for almost 70 years now and there has been no attempt by the government or by the chief religious leaders to rebuild the Temple. Some fringe groups are trying to move Israel in that direction, but they have no authority to do so. Approximately 40 years after Ezekiel wrote the final words of his book, Ezra, under the authority of the Persian emperor, would follow the instructions given by God to Moses, David, Solomon, and Ezekiel, and rebuild a Temple, which, during the first century B.C., Herod would restore, enlarge, and beautify. This was the Temple in the time of Jesus. Jewish believers in Jesus would worship in this Temple, observing their Jewish feasts and customs up until its destruction by the Romans.
PRAYER FOR TODAY:
Lord God, I thank You for Jesus, my High Priest, who brought His own blood, which He shed on the Cross, before You as the final Sacrifice for my sin. Oh sacrificial Lamb of God, my Saviour, I worship in that forever Tabernacle/Temple in Your Presence right now! I pray that I will, by Your grace, remain faithful, remaining in Your Presence with an attitude of repentance and worship 24/7. I pray in the Name of the One Who is “able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He ever lives to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25). Amen!!!
100 PERSONAL WORDS:
I’m singing (under my breath as people are still sleeping) the magnificent worship hymn, “I will praise Him. Praise the Lamb for sinners slain. Give Him glory all you people, for His blood has washed away each stain” (click here for a rendition). I’m worshipping in God’s “FOREVER” Temple!
I have a suggestion for younger people. Buy Grandma and Grandpa a laptop computer and teach them, if they don’t already know how, to use it. My daughter and son-in-law, Elaine and Bruce Stacey, got me started with a gift of my first laptop. And Grandma and Grandpa, why not buy, if you are able, one of these ultra fast, easy to carry, laptops and present it to a grandchild, providing they promise to access regularly God’s Holy Scriptures. Have them turn on the computer and show you how they can find the Bible online. You could ask them to access 100words.ca, and there, by clicking the spot at the top of this page, they can hear the reading of the Scriptures by an excellent reader. The day after tomorrow we’ll be in 2 Peter, and then into the book of Daniel. With just 10 minutes a day, a person can start at any time and complete God’s Word to His human family in 24 months with the encouragement of this blog!!!
Yours for actually reading, or hearing, all that God has to tell us in His written Word!
David
We revere You, Lord our God. We thank You, for Your shed blood and ultimate sacrifice for us. We hear Your Word and eat it up, everyday, so that it sinks into our bodies and nourishes our souls. Let it become us, Lord, so that we may become ever more like You. We are so grateful for the continued blog and remain fed by David’s teachings. Wishing all saints a blessed day in the Lord.
Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings.
Psalm 17:8 WEB
Lincoln Brewster – No One Like Our God (Official Lyric Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbsRIcihwcE
(woke up to this song singing in my ears)
Amen Beverlee
Jesus shed his blood
His blood for us.
Amen Beverlee. Thank you for your shed blood Lord Jesus and for fulfilling all the requirements all the requirements of the law and temple worship. Was watching a video of Kathyrn Kuhlmann and she quoted that Bible verse as one of her favorite verses Beverlee.
Amen Ger!!
Awesome, Ger. It is indeed one of my favourites. Just to contemplate the magnitude of it all–that God loves us and shelters us as His own. Amen!
Praise you Father for your Great love for us. Praise You Jesus for shedding Your blood for us, for providing saving us through Your Precious Blood! Glory to God in the Highest!!!
TY Irene Ochotta for your prayer support yesterday! I telephoned my daughter’s place of work and left a message on her answering machine, I said she can telephone me and I gave my number or e mail me at the address!
It is her birthday today; and as I mentioned I have not seen my children in over 20 years!
I pray she will phone me, because I do desire to apologize to her for the horrible parent I was in my younger years….
I know it was rough! I used to smoke and drink and my mental illness was at an all time high and I didn’t know what it was at that time!
I do wish to apologize to my children, and I am prepared if they do not forgive me…..
And I do realize that ants are God’s Creation BUT…………I pray I can get rid of them completely….
I also come to the Lord asking for a financial break to clear debts, help family/friends/missions/invest some in Jesus Name I Pray amen amen amen
There are ant traps you can buy….I don’t know where you can get them in your area. I know that is what my son used when ants entered his home. He does not have trouble with them coming in since then and that was a number of years ago.
I think he also had to find where they entered, besides putting the traps where ever they were.
hope that helps.