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266. The New Temple Area

10/16/2017

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266.


Visions of the Man with a Measuring Rod

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Today's Passage: Ezekiel 40:1-16


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New Living Testament (NLT).



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1. On April 28, during the twenty-fifth year of our captivity⏤fourteen years after the fall of Jerusalem⏤the LORD took hold of me.
2. In a vision from God he took me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain. From there I could see toward the south what appeared to be a city.
3. As he brought me nearer, I saw a man whose face shone like bronze standing beside a gateway entrance. He was holding in his hand a linen measuring cord and a measuring rod.

4. He said to me, "Son of man, watch and listen. Pay close attention to everything I show you. You have been brought here so I can show you many things. Then you will return to the people of Israel and tell them everything you have seen."

5. I could see a wall completely surrounding the Temple area. The man took a measuring rod that was 10 1/2 feet long and measured the wall, and the wall was 10 1/2 feet thick and 10 1/2 feet high.

6. Then he went over the the eastern gateway. He climbed the steps and measured the threshold of the gateway; it was 10 1/2 feet front to back.
7. There were guard alcoves on each side built into the gateway passage. Each of these alcoves was 10 1/2 feet square, and a distance between them of 8 3/4 feet along the passage wall. The gateway's inner threshold, which led to the entry room at the inner end of the gateway passage, was 10 1/2 feet front to back.
8. He also measured the entry room of the gateway.
9. It was 14 feet across, with supporting columns 3 1/2 feet thick. This entry room was at the inner end of the gateway structure, facing toward the Temple.

10. There were three guard alcoves on each side of the gateway passage. Each had the same measurements, and the dividing walls separating them were also identical.
11. The man measured the gateway entrance which was 17 1/2 feet wide at the opening and 22 3/4 feet wide in the gateway passage.
12. In front of each of the guard alcoves was a 21-inch curb. The alcoves themselves were 10 1/2 feet on each side.

13. Then he measured the entire width of the gateway, measuring the distance between the back walls of facing guard alcoves; this distance was 45 3/4 feet.
14. He measured the dividing walls all along the inside of the gateway up to the entry room of the gateway; this distance was 105 feet.
15. The full length of the gateway passage was 87 1/2 feet from one end to the other.
16. There were recessed windows that narrowed inward through the walls of the guard alcoves and their dividing walls. There were also windows in the entry room. The surfaces of the dividing walls were decorated with carved palm trees.
Ezekiel 40: 1-16 NLT


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14th strategy.
Instructions Given

  • Prepare your heart
  • Ask Jesus to bring you into the very presence of God Himself as you read instructions
  • Imagine God or Jesus handing these instructions.
  • Who are the instructions given to? a group, a nation, a particular person?
  • Why is He giving these instructions?
  • Is there a consequence from these instructions either good or bad?
  • Contemplate these instructions.
  • List them either mentally or write them down.
  • What do they mean? What do they represent?
  • Are these instructions wise for anyone anytime to follow?
  • Would they help your own life, if applied?
  • Pray over what God has given.
  • Thank Him for His guidance either in the past, or presently.

3.

Thank You Lord for your instruction.
Let us have ears to hear when you give us instructions.
Help us be open to your guidance.
In your name we pray
Jehoshua
Amen.


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3 Comments
RC
10/16/2017 07:14:54 am

Taking stock of my surroundings.

From what I see here God, you want me, on this day, to take very careful measurements of where I am.

Perhaps not just where but how the people and places fit together.
How each person (wall) is made. And how these rooms (your children) are arranged into the city plans of my world.

How do these five rooms and two buildings (people/cultures/nations) fit together?

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CC
10/16/2017 09:16:46 am

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BJ
10/18/2017 09:09:59 am

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