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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Ezekiel 42:1-20
In addition to the side-chambers which, as in the first temple, surround the house on three storeys (Ezekiel 41:6; cf. 1 Kings 6:5), the priests are provided with a great number of chambers opening on to the court. There they must eat the most holy things, there store them, and there also change their garments for the exercise of their holy functions.
We are reminded again, by contrast, of the heavenly position of the redeemed of the Lord Jesus, who all have their share in a "building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" (2 Corinthians 5:1). The Lord was able to reveal to His disciples that in His Father’s house there were many mansions (that is to say, room for all: John 14:2). In leaving them, He was going to prepare a place for them in the heavenly sanctuary into which all believers will soon be received.
We may notice that the chambers are holy (v. 13), that the priests are holy (v. 14), and that the offerings are most holy. The LORD remembers the defilement formerly brought into His temple by ungodly kings (Ezekiel 43:8). Henceforth a vast wall five hundred reeds in length on each side will surround the sanctuary and its precincts to separate that which is holy from that which is profane (v. 20).
