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• EZEKIEL CHAPTER FORTY - FOUR

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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

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READ EZEKIEL 441-3

• 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.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 441-3

• 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?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 441

• 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 431-2
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 442

• 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 434
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 442

• 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 2222
• 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 37
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 443

• 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 3424
• 24 I, the LORD, will be their God, and My
  servant David a prince among them I, the LORD,
  have spoken.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 443

• WHO COULD EAT BEFORE THE LORD?
• READ EXODUS 2530
• 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 249
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 443

• WHAT WERE THEY PERMITTED TO EAT? WHEN?
• READ LEVITICUS 715-18
• 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 if the 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 if any 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 443

• READ DEUTERONOMY 125-7
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 443

• WHO COULD COME BEFORE THE LORD?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 2616
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 443

• WHO COULD COME BEFORE THE LORD?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 2617-18
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 443

• WHO COULD COME BEFORE THE LORD?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 2619
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 443

• He may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD
• WHO COULD EAT BEFORE THE LORD?
• READ 1 CORINTHIANS 1016-18
• 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 for we 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

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READ EZEKIEL 444-5

• 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.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 444-5

• 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?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 444

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE?
• the glory of the LORD filled the house of the
  LORD
• WHAT DID ISAIAH SEE?
• READ ISAIAH 61-4
• 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.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 444

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE?
• the glory of the LORD filled the house of the
  LORD
• READ REVELATION 158
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 444

• 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 84
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 444

• READ EZEKIEL 103-4
• 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 LORDS
  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
  LORDS glory

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 444

• READ EZEKIEL 1018-19
• 18 The glory of the LORD departed from the
  threshold of the temple and 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 LORDS 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 LORDS house
• The glory of the God of Israel was above them

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 444

• READ EZEKIEL 1122-23
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 445

• 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?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 445

• WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
• See with your eyes and hear with your ears
• WHAT DOES mark well MEAN?
• READ EZEKIEL 404
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 445

• WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
• See with your eyes and hear with your ears
• WHAT DOES mark well MEAN?
• READ EZEKIEL 4311
• 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

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READ EZEKIEL 446-7

• 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.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 446-7

• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 446

• READ EZEKIEL 34-9
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 447

• WHO DEFILED THE TEMPLE? HOW?
• You brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in
  heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My
  sanctuary to defile it
• READ GENESIS 1713-14
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 447

• HOW DID THEY DEFILED THE TEMPLE?
• When You offered My food, the fat and the blood
• READ EXODUS 1243-44 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

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READ EZEKIEL 448-9

• 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.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 448-9

• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 448

• 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 222
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 448

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THE PRIESTS?
• You have set others to keep charge of My
  sanctuary
• READ NUMBERS 187
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 449

• 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 2641-42
• 41 .if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled,
  and they accept their guilt
• 42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob,
  and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with
  Abraham I 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 449

• No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart
• or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My
  sanctuary including any foreigner among the
  children of Israel
• READ DEUTERONOMY 1016
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 449

• No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart
• or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My
  sanctuary including any foreigner among the
  children of Israel
• READ DEUTERONOMY 233
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 449

• No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart
• or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My
  sanctuary including any foreigner among the
  children of Israel
• READ COLOSSIANS 211-12
• 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 also
  were 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 449

• READ NEHEMIAH 137-9
• 7 I came to Jerusalem and discovered the evil
  that Eliashib 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 449

• No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart
• or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My
  sanctuary including any foreigner among the
  children of Israel
• READ JOEL 317
• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 449

• No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart
• or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My
  sanctuary including any foreigner among the
  children of Israel
• READ ZECHARIAH 1421
• 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

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READ EZEKIEL 4410-11

• 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.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4410-11

• 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

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4410

• 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 39-10
• 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

47
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4410

• 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 169-10
• 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?

48
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4410

• 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 1823
• 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

49
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4410

• they shall bear their iniquity
• READ 1 KINGS 1421-22
• 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 REHOBOAMS MOTHER?
• Rehoboam mother's was an Ammonitess
• HOW DID THIS AFFECT JUDAH?
• Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD

50
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4410

• 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 816
• 16 He brought me into the inner court of the
  LORDS 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

51
READ 2 CHRONICLES 1114 16

• 14 The Levites left their common-lands and their
  possessions and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for
  Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from
  serving as priests to the LORD.
• 16 After the Levites left, those from all the
  tribes of Israel, such as set their heart to seek
  the LORD God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to
  sacrifice to the LORD God of their fathers. NKJV
• WHAT DID THESE LEVITES DO? WHY?
• The Levites came to Judah and Jerusalem
• Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them
• from serving as priests to the LORD
• WHAT DID THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL DO?
• They set their heart to seek the LORD God of
  Israel
• and came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD

52
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4411

• 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 be ministers in My sanctuary
• they shall slay the burnt offering
• they shall slay the sacrifice for the people
• they shall stand before them to minister to them

53
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4411

• 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.
• READ EZRA 21 40
• 1 These are the people of the province who came
  back from the captivity, of those who had been
  carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of
  Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who
  returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his
  own city.
• 40 The Levites the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel,
  of the sons of Hodaviah, seventy-four. NKJV
• HOW MANY PRIESTS CAME BACK TO JERUSALEM?
  seventy-four

54
READ 2 CHRONICLES 2931-33

• 31 Hezekiah answered and said, Now that you
  have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come
  near, and bring sacrifices and thank offerings
  into the house of the LORD. So the assembly
  brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and as
  many as were of a willing heart brought burnt
  offerings.
• 32 The number of the burnt offerings which the
  assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200
  lambs all these were for a burnt offering to the
  LORD.
• 33 The consecrated things were 600 bulls and
  3.000 sheep.
• WHAT DID HEZEKIEH SAY TO THE PEOPLE?
• HOW GREAT WAS THEIR SACRIFICES OFFERINGS?

55
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4411

• READ 2 CHRONICLES 2934
• 34 But the priests were too few, so that they
  could not skin all the burnt offerings therefore
  their brethren the Levites helped them until the
  work was ended and until the other priests had
  sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more
  diligent in sanctifying themselves than the
  priests. NKJV
• WHAT WAS THEIR PROBLEM?
• the priests were too few
• they could not skin all the burnt offerings
• WHAT DID THESE LEVITES DO?
• The Levites helped them until the work was
  ended
• Until the other priests had sanctified
  themselves
• the Levites were more diligent in sanctifying
  themselves than the priests

56
READ EZEKIEL 4412-13

• LAWS GOVERNING PRIESTS
• 12 Because they ministered to them before their
  idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into
  iniquity, therefore I have raised My hand in an
  oath against them, says the Lord GOD, "that they
  shall bear their iniquity.
• 13 And they shall not come near Me to minister
  to Me as priest, nor come near any of My holy
  things, nor into the Most Holy Place but they
  shall bear their shame and their abominations
  which they have committed.

57
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4412-13

• LAWS GOVERNING PRIESTS
• 12 Because they ministered to them before their
  idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into
  iniquity, therefore I have raised My hand in an
  oath against them, says the Lord GOD, "that they
  shall bear their iniquity.
• 13 And they shall not come near Me to minister
  to Me as priest, nor come near any of My holy
  things, nor into the Most Holy Place but they
  shall bear their shame and their abominations
  which they have committed.
• WHAT DID THESE LEVITES DO?
• WHAT WAS THEIR PUNISHMENT?

58
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4412

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THESE PRIESTS?
• they ministered to them before their idols
• they caused the house of Israel to fall into
  iniquity
• they shall bear their iniquity
• READ JEREMIAH 1410
• 10 They have loved to wander They have not
  restrained their feet. Therefore the LORD does
  not accept them He will remember their iniquity
  now, and punish their sins.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HIS PEOPLE?
• They have loved to wander
• They have not restrained their feet
• Therefore the LORD does not accept them
• He will remember their iniquity and punish their
  sins

59
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4412

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THESE PRIESTS?
• they ministered to them before their idols
• they caused the house of Israel to fall into
  iniquity
• they shall bear their iniquity
• READ JEREMIAH 1815
• 15 My people have forgotten Me, They have burned
  incense to worthless idols. And they have caused
  themselves to stumble in their ways, From the
  ancient paths, To walk in pathways and not on a
  highway, NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HIS PEOPLE?
• My people have forgotten Me
• They have burned incense to worthless idols
• They have caused themselves to stumble in their
  ways

60
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4412

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THESE PRIESTS?
• I raised My hand in an oath against them
• READ PSALMS 10626-27
• 26 Therefore He raised His hand in an oath
  against them, To overthrow them in the
  wilderness,
• 27 To overthrow their descendants among the
  nations, And to scatter them in the lands. NKJV
• HOW DID THE LORD PUNISH THEM?
• He raised His hand in an oath against them
• To overthrow them in the wilderness
• To overthrow their descendants among the
  nations
• To scatter them in the lands

61
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4412

• I raised My hand in an oath against them
• READ EZEKIEL 205 7
• 5 .On the day when I chose Israel and raised My
  hand in an oath to the descendants of the house
  of Jacob, and made Myself known to them in the
  land of Egypt, I raised My hand in an oath to
  them, saying, 'I am the LORD your God.'
• 7 Then I said to them 'Each of you, throw away
  the abominations which are before his eyes, and
  do not defile yourselves with the idols of
  Egypt. I am the LORD your God.' NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• 'I am the LORD your God'
• Throw away the abominations which are before his
  eyes
• Do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt

62
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4413

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRIESTS?
• They shall not come near Me to minister to Me as
  priest
• They shall not come near any of My holy things
• They shall not come into the Most Holy Place
• READ NUMBERS 183
• 3 They shall attend to your needs and all the
  needs of the tabernacle but they shall not come
  near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar,
  lest they die they and you also. NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD CONCERNING THE LEVITES?
• They shall attend to your needs
• They shall attend to all the needs of the
  tabernacle
• They shall not come near the sanctuary and the
  altar
• Lest they die they and you also

63
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4413

• They shall not come near Me to minister to Me as
  priest
• They shall not come near any of My holy things
• They shall not come into the Most Holy Place
• READ 1 SAMUEL 236
• 36 It shall come to pass that everyone who is
  left in your house will come and bow down to him
  for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and
  say, Please, put me in one of the priestly
  positions, that I may eat a piece of bread. NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY CONCERNING ELI?
• everyone who is left in your house will come and
  say
• Please, put me in one of the priestly positions
• that I may eat a piece of bread

64
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4413

• They shall not come near Me to minister to Me as
  priest
• They shall not come near any of My holy things
• They shall not come into the Most Holy Place
• READ 2 KINGS 239
• 9 .the priests of the high places did not come
  up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but
  they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.
  NKJV
• WHAT DID THESE PRIESTS DO?
• the priests of the high places
• did not come up to the altar of the LORD in
  Jerusalem BUT
• they ate unleavened bread among their brethren

65
READ EZEKIEL 4414-15

• LAWS GOVERNING PRIESTS
• 14 Nevertheless I will make them keep charge of
  the temple, for all its work, and for all that
  has to be done in it.
• 15 But the priests, the Levites, the sons of
  Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the
  children of Israel went astray from Me, they
  shall come near Me to minister to Me and they
  shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and
  the blood, says the Lord GOD.

66
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THE LEVITES?
• I will make them keep charge of the temple
• For all its work and for all that has to be done
  in it
• WHO WILL KEEP CHARGE OF THE SANCTUARY?
• The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok
• They shall come near Me to minister to Me
• They shall stand before Me
• To offer to Me the fat and the blood
• WHY?
• They kept charge of My sanctuary
• when the children of Israel went astray from Me

67
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHO WILL KEEP CHARGE OF THE SANCTUARY?
• The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok
• They shall come near Me to minister to Me
• READ 1 SAMUEL 232-36
• 32 .there shall not be an old man in your house
  forever.
• 34 This shall be a sign to you that will come
  upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas in
  one day they shall die, both of them.
• 35 Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful
  priest who shall do according to what is in My
  heart and in My mind. I will build him a sure
  house, and he shall walk before My anointed
  forever. NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ELI? WHY?
• there shall not be an old man in your house
  forever
• Hophni and Phinehas shall both die

68
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHO WILL KEEP CHARGE OF THE SANCTUARY?
• The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok
• They shall come near Me to minister to Me
• READ 1 KINGS 234-35
• 34 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and
  struck and killed Joab and he was buried in his
  own house in the wilderness.
• 35 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in
  his place over the army, and the king put Zadok
  the priest in the place of Abiathar. NKJV
• WHAT HAPPENED TO JOAB?
• Benaiah killed Joab
• WHAT DID SOLOMON DO?
• He put Benaiah over the army
• He put Zadok as priest

69
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHO WILL KEEP CHARGE OF THE SANCTUARY?
• The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok
• They shall come near Me to minister to Me
• READ 1 CHRONICLES 2128-30
• 28 When David saw that the LORD had answered him
  on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he
  sacrificed there.
• 29 For the tabernacle of the LORD and the altar
  of the burnt offering, which Moses had made in
  the wilderness, were at that time at the high
  place in Gibeon.
• 30 But David could not go before it to inquire
  of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the
  angel of the LORD.
• WHAT DID DAVID DO?
• David made a sacrifice on the threshing floor of
  Ornan
• BUT David could not go before it to inquire of
  God

70
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHO WILL KEEP CHARGE OF THE SANCTUARY?
• The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok
• They shall come near Me to minister to Me
• READ 1 CHRONICLES 2332
• 32 They should attend to the needs of the
  tabernacle of meeting, the needs of the holy
  place, and the needs of the sons of Aaron their
  brethren in the work of the house of the LORD.
  NKJV
• WHAT DID DAVID SAY CONCERNING THE PRIESTS?
• They should attend to the needs of the
  tabernacle
• the needs of the holy place
• the needs of the sons of Aaron

71
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHO WILL KEEP CHARGE OF THE SANCTUARY?
• The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok
• They kept charge of My sanctuary
• READ 1 CHRONICLES 242-3
• 2 Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and
  had no children therefore Eleazar and Ithamar
  ministered as priests.
• 3 Then David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar,
  and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided
  them according to the schedule of their service.
  NKJV
• WHO DID THE LORD RAISE UP?
• Nadab and Abihu died
• Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests
• Then Zadok of the sons of Eleazar

72
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHO WILL KEEP CHARGE OF THE SANCTUARY?
• The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok
• They shall come near Me to minister to Me
• READ LEVITICUS 1621
• 21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of
  the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities
  of the children of Israel, and all their
  transgressions, concerning all their sins,
  putting them on the head of the goat, and shall
  send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a
  suitable man.
• WHAT DID GOD COMMAND AARON TO DO? WHY?
• Aaron shall lay his hands on the head of the
  live goat
• He shall confess over it the iniquities of
  Israel
• all their transgressions, concerning all their
  sins
• Putting them on the head of the goat
• send it away into the wilderness

73
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHO WILL KEEP CHARGE OF THE SANCTUARY?
• The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok
• They shall come near Me to minister to Me
• READ JEREMIAH 3317-18
• 17 'David shall never lack a man to sit on the
  throne of the house of Israel
• 18 Nor shall the priests, the Levites, lack a
  man to offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle
  grain offerings, and to sacrifice
  continually. NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
• the priests, the Levites shall never lack a man
• to offer burnt offerings before Me
• to kindle grain offerings, and to sacrifice
  continually.

74
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHO WILL KEEP CHARGE OF THE SANCTUARY?
• The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok
• They shall come near Me to minister to Me
• READ EZEKIEL 4046
• 46 The chamber which faces North is for the
  priests who have charge of the altar these are
  the sons of Zadok, from the sons of Levi, who
  come near the LORD to minister to Him. NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL?
• The chamber which faces North
• is for the priests who have charge of the altar
• these are the sons of Zadok from the sons of
  Levi
• who come near the LORD to minister to Him

75
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHAT ARE THE PRIESTS COMMANDED TO DO?
• To offer to Me the fat and the blood
• READ LEVITICUS 1710-11
• 10 Whatever man of the house of Israel, or of
  the strangers who dwell among you, who eats any
  blood, I will set My face against that person who
  eats blood, and will cut him off from among his
  people.
• 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood,
  and I have given it to you upon the altar to make
  atonement for your souls for it is the blood
  that makes atonement for the soul.' NKJV
• WHAT DID GOD SAY CONCERNING BLOOD?
• the life of the flesh is in the blood
• it is the blood that makes atonement for the
  soul

76
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHAT ARE THE PRIESTS COMMANDED TO DO?
• They shall stand before Me
• To offer to Me the fat and the blood
• READ EXODUS 2913
• 13 You shall take all the fat that covers the
  entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver,
  and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them,
  and burn them on the altar.
• WHAT DID MOSES SAY TO AARON?
• You shall take all the fat that covers the
  entrails
• the fatty lobe attached to the liver
• the two kidneys and the fat that is on them
• and burn them on the altar

77
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHAT ARE THE PRIESTS COMMANDED TO DO?
• They shall stand before Me
• To offer to Me the fat and the blood
• READ 1 SAMUEL 1522
• 22 So Samuel said Has the LORD as great
  delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in
  obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is
  better than sacrifice ,
• And to heed than the fat of rams. NKJV
• WHAT DID SAMUEL SAY TO SAUL?
• To obey is better than sacrifice
• To heed is better than the fat of rams

78
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHAT ARE THE PRIESTS COMMANDED TO DO?
• They shall stand before Me
• To offer to Me the fat and the blood
• READ ISAIAH 111
• 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your
  sacrifices to Me? Says the LORD. I have had
  enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of
  fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of
  bulls, or of lambs or goats. NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• To what is purpose of your sacrifices to Me?
• I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and
  cattle
• I do not delight in the blood of bulls, of lambs
  or goats

79
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4415

• WHAT ARE THE PRIESTS COMMANDED TO DO?
• They shall stand before Me
• To offer to Me the fat and the blood
• READ ROMANS 323-25
• 23 All have sinned and fall short of the glory
  of God,
• 24 being justified freely by His grace through
  the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
• 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His
  blood, through faith, to demonstrate His
  righteousness, because in His forbearance God had
  passed over the sins that were previously
  committed, NKJV
• WHAT DID GOD DO?
• God set forth Christ as a propitiation by His
  blood
• BECAUSE
• All have sinned and fall short of the glory of
  God

80
READ HEBREWS 911-14

• 11 Christ came as High Priest of the good things
  to come, with the greater and more perfect
  tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of
  this creation.
• 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but
  with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place
  once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
  
• 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the
  ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean,
  sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,
• 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who
  through the eternal Spirit offered Himself
  without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from
  dead works to serve the living God? NKJV
• WHAT DID CHRIST DO?
• Christ came as High Priest with His own blood
• BECAUSE
• the blood of bulls and goats
• could not sanctify or purify the flesh

81
READ HEBREWS 101-4

• 1 For the law, having a shadow of the good
  things to come, and not the very image of the
  things, can never with these same sacrifices,
  which they offer continually year by year, make
  those who approach perfect.
• 2 For then would they not have ceased to be
  offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would
  have had no more consciousness of sins.
• 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of
  sins every year.
• 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls
  and goats could take away sins. NKJV
• WHAT COULD THE LAW NOT DO?
• with all its sacrifices could not clear the
  conscience
• BECAUSE
• the blood of bulls and goats could not take
  away sins

82
READ EZEKIEL 4416-17

• LAWS GOVERNING PRIESTS
• 16 They shall enter My sanctuary, and they shall
  come near My table to minister to Me, and they
  shall keep My charge.
• 17 And it shall be, whenever they enter the
  gates of the inner court, that they shall put on
  linen garments no wool shall come upon them
  while they minister within the gates of the inner
  court or within the house.

83
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4416-17

• LAWS GOVERNING PRIESTS
• 16 They shall enter My sanctuary, and they shall
  come near My table to minister to Me, and they
  shall keep My charge.
• 17 And it shall be, whenever they enter the
  gates of the inner court, that they shall put on
  linen garments no wool shall come upon them
  while they minister within the gates of the inner
  court or within the house.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRIESTS?
• WHAT SHOULD THEY WEAR?

84
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4416-17

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRIESTS?
• They shall enter My sanctuary
• They shall come near My table to minister to Me
• READ LEVITICUS 316-17
• 16 The priest shall burn them on the altar as
  food, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma
  all the fat is the LORDS.
• 17 'This shall be a perpetual statute throughout
  your generations in all your dwellings you shall
  eat neither fat nor blood. NKJV
• The priest shall burn them on the altar as food
• An offering made by fire for a sweet aroma
• All the fat is the LORDS
• You shall eat neither fat nor blood

85
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4416

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRIESTS?
• They shall enter My sanctuary
• They shall come near My table to minister to Me
• They shall keep My charge
• READ LEVITICUS 176
• 6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood on the
  altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle
  of meeting, and burn the fat for a sweet aroma to
  the LORD. NKJV
• The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the
  altar
• and burn the fat for a sweet aroma to the LORD

86
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4416

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE PRIESTS?
• They shall enter My sanctuary
• They shall come near My table to minister to Me
• They shall keep My charge
• READ NUMBERS 187
• 7 Therefore 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 SAY TO AARON?
• You and your sons shall attend to your
  priesthood
• for everything at the altar and behind the veil

87
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4417

• LAWS GOVERNING PRIESTS
• 17 And it shall be, whenever they enter the
  gates of the inner court, that they shall put on
  linen garments no wool shall come upon them
  while they minister within the gates of the inner
  court or within the house.
• WHAT SHOULD THE PRIESTS WEAR?
• Whenever they enter the gates of the inner
  court
• They shall put on linen garments
• No wool shall come upon them
• while they minister within the gates of the inner
  court
• or within the house

88
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4417

• WHAT SHOULD THEY WEAR?
• Whenever they enter the gates of the inner
  court
• They shall put on linen garments
• READ REVELATION 197-8
• 7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory,
  for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His
  wife has made herself ready.
• 8 To her it was granted to be arrayed in fine
  linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is
  the righteous acts of the saints. NKJV
• WHAT DID HIS WIFE WEAR TO THE WEDDING?
• His wife has made herself ready
• To her it was granted to be arrayed in fine
  linen
• Fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints

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READ EZEKIEL 4418-19

• LAWS GOVERNING PRIESTS
• 18 They shall have linen turbans on their heads
  and linen trousers on their bodies they shall
  not clothe themselves with anything that causes
  sweat.
• 19 When they go out to the outer court, to the
  outer court to the people, they shall take off
  their garments in which they have ministered,
  leave them in the holy chambers, and put on other
  garments and in their holy garments they shall
  not sanctify the people.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4418-19

• LAWS GOVERNING PRIESTS
• 18 They shall have linen turbans on their heads
  and linen trousers on their bodies they shall
  not clothe themselves with anything that causes
  sweat.
• 19 When they go out to the outer court, to the
  outer court to the people, they shall take off
  their garments in which they have ministered,
  leave them in the holy chambers, and put on other
  garments and in their holy garments they shall
  not sanctify the people.
• WHAT SHOULD THE PRIESTS WEAR? WHY?
• WHAT SHOULD THEY DO
• WHEN THEY LEAVE THE HOLY CHAMBERS?
• WHY?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4418

• LAWS GOVERNING PRIESTS
• 18 They shall have linen turbans on their heads
  and linen trousers on their bodies they shall
  not clothe themselves with anything that causes
  sweat.
• WHAT SHOULD THE PRIESTS WEAR?
• They shall have linen turbans on their heads
• and linen trousers on their bodies
• WHY?
• They shall not clothe themselves
• with anything that causes sweat

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4418

• READ EXODUS 2839-40
• 39 You shall skillfully weave the tunic of fine
  linen thread, you shall make the turban of fine
  linen, and you shall make the sash of woven work.
  
• 40 For Aaron's sons you shall make tunics, and
  you shall make sashes for them. And you shall
  make hats for them, for glory and beauty. NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND MOSES?
• You shall skillfully weave the tunic of fine
  linen thread You shall make the turban of fine
  linen
• You shall make the sash of woven work
• For Aaron's sons you shall make tunics
• You shall make sashes for them
• You shall make hats for them
• WHY? For glory and beauty

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 4418

• READ EXODUS 2842-43
• 42 You shall make for them linen trousers to
  cover their nakedness they shall reach from the
  waist to the thighs.
• 43 They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when
  they come into the tabernacle of meeting, or when
  they come near the altar to minister in the holy
  place, that they do not incur iniquity and die.
  It shall be a statute forever to him and his
  descendants after him. NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND MOSES?
• You shall make for them linen trousers to cover
  their nakedness they shall reach from the waist
  to the thighs
• They shall be on Aaron and on his sons
• When they come into the tabernacle of meeting
• When they come near the altar in the holy place
• That they do not incur iniq