Ezekiel 44

If you, if you don't know what is clean and what is unclean and you can't teach it, God did not commission you as a priest.

In Ezekiel 44:23-24, he was talking about the priests of Zadok, the God, God's priests.

He said, "And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and unholy, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean." Yes.

So if you cannot, if you cannot, you don't, you don't agree, eh, and then you cannot also talk about that, or you don't agree in the first place.

He is the second person of the Trinity.

But what does it matter if she's ever virgin? Well, the theological significance of this doctrine is found in the prophet Ezekiel, specifically chapter 44.

Ezekiel prophesies about the future priesthood, that one will come and establish this eternal priesthood.

And in the context of this prophecy, Ezekiel says something rather interesting.

He talks about the Lord entering through the eastern gate.

And he says that this gate shall be shut and no one else shall enter through it.

He's using the term, the denotative term, connotatively.

He obviously knew that the priesthood descended from the sons of Aaron, from Leviticus 8, or from the sons of Zadok later in Ezekiel 44.

He uses the broader term Levi to include all who served around the temple, not just those that were at the altar, in effect.

He's deliberately using what a rhetorical analyst would call a synecdoche, a general for the specific or specific for the general.

It was there to point the finger as to what was right.

I mean, when you look in Ezekiel 44, 23, it talks about making distinction.

And how do we make distinction between that which is holy, that which is defiled, that which is good, that which is bad, that which is righteous, that which is evil before God.

So to me, it's not a complicated matter.

Today, I am going to be reading Isaiah 44, teaching a little bit on it as well.

I also have Ezekiel 44.

God gave me that message this morning.

So I had that message opened in my other Bible.

And this word was on Isaiah 44.

So I knew right then and there, God, like, no, you're going to read this today.

So now I'm like, okay, so with the Ezekiel 44, Lord, because that Ezekiel 44 is going to be a couple of you know it's going to be a couple of chapters it's going to be pretty long or whatever so that's what I'm trying to figure out now but I am going to start off just reading Isaiah 44 and I'm going to pray with you all first Father God in the name of Jesus I pray for everyone who comes on this podcast, who you lead to this podcast episode, Father God, I pray for their knowledge, their understanding, their wisdom in the name of Jesus.

I pray that they will take this word back to you, Father God, and get a great understanding out of it in the name of Jesus.

He's going to say you're not coming in.

Ezekiel 44 verse 9 says, if you're not circumcised in heart or flesh, you will not come into his sanctuary into that area.

And so we must continue going on.

Oh, there's Scott.

See, there's a second Exodus coming prophesied in Jeremiah 16, Jeremiah 23, all through the book of Hosea, all through the book of Isaiah.

that talks about Yah bringing back the children of Israel.

Remember Ezekiel 37, where the dry bones of Israel didn't know who they were, but the bones rattle and come to life.

That's not an arbitrary picture just for the quote church.

I am so glad that you are making the Bible a part of your day today and to allow God to speak to your heart, to renew your mind, to feed your soul, and to guide you into him who is all truth on this day.

We are making our way through the book of Ezekiel.

We're almost there.

Today we'll read Ezekiel chapters 44 and 45.

This week we are reading the New International Version.

Ezekiel chapter 44.

Then the man brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, the one facing east, and it was shut.

The Lord said to me, This gate is to remain shut.