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Today we will complete the book of Ezekiel 43-48.  And I’m going to have to beg your indulgence for just one more day. Tomorrow I will have comments after the reading, but today will be just the reading.  Title: “The Lord Is There.”

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Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 43-48 NKJV

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Steve Webb 0:08
This is the Lifespring family Audio Bible coming to you from Riverside, California, podcasting since 2004. I’m your OG God caster Steve Webb, welcome. How are you today? This is the daily show where we’re reading through the entire Bible in a year. And today we’ll complete the book of Ezekiel by reading chapters 43 through 48. And I’m afraid I’m going to have to beg your indulgence just one more day tomorrow, I will have comments after the reading, but today will just be the reading. The title of today’s show is the Lord is there and tomorrow we’ll begin the book of John with chapters one and two. The shownotes page for today’s episode is at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e to 12. And my email address is Steve at Lifespring media.com. I do appreciate your patience, and I will be back with a normal show tomorrow.

Steve Webb 1:00
Ezekiel chapter 43. Afterward, he brought me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the east, 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 in the earth shown with his glory. It was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the city. The visions were like the vision which I saw by the river key bar, and I fell on my face, and the glory of the Lord came into the temple by the way of the gate, which faces toward the east. The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple. Then I heard him speaking to me from the temple, while a man stood beside me. And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne in the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. No more shall the house of Israel defiled My Holy Name, they nor their kings, by their harlotry, or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places. When they set their threshold by my threshold, and their doorposts, by my door post, with a wall between them and me, they defiled My Holy Name by the abominations which they committed, therefore, I have consumed them in my anger. Now, let them put their harlotry in the carcasses of their kings far away from me, and I will dwell in their midst forever, Son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities, and let them measure the pattern. And 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 in all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws, write it down in their site, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances and perform them. This is the law of the temple, the whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy, behold, this is the law of the temple. These are the measurements of the altar in cubits, the qubit is one qubit and a handbreadth. The base one qubit high and one qubit wide with a rim all around its edge of one span. This is the height of the altar. From the base on the ground to the lower ledge two qubits, the width of the ledge, one qubit, from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits and the width of the ledge one qubit. The altar hearth is for qubit tie with four horns extending upward from the hearth. The altar hearth is 12 qubits long, 12 wide square at its four corners, the ledge, 14 cubits long in 14 wide on its four sides, with a ram of half a qubit around it. Its base one qubit all around, and it steps face toward the east. And he said to me, Son of man, Thus says the Lord God, these are the ordinances for the altar on the day when it is made for sacrificing burnt offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it. You shall give a young bowl for a sin offering to the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of say, Doc who approached me to minister to me, says the Lord God, You shall take some of its blind and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge and on the rim around it. Thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it. Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering and burn it in the appointed place at the temple outside the sanctuary. On the second day, you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall cleanse the altar as they cleansed it with the bowl. When you have finished cleansing it you shall offer a young bowl without blemish and a ram from the flock without blemish. When you offer them before the Lord, the priests shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord. Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young boy And around from the flock, both without blemish. Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar in purified and so consecrated. When these days are over, it shall be on the eighth day and thereafter that the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on the altar. And I will accept you says the Lord God.

Steve Webb 5:20
Ezekiel chapter 44. Then he brought me back to the aggregate of the sanctuary, which faces toward the east, but it was shut. 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 shot. 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.

Steve Webb 5:51
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. Now say to the rebellious to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God, oh, House of Israel, let us have no more of your abominations. 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, and you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep charge of my sanctuary for you. Thus says the Lord God, no foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh shall enter my sanctuary, including any foreigner who was among the children of Israel, 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, 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, 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, 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. Nevertheless, I will make them keep charge of the temple for all its work, and for all that has to be done in it. But the priests, the Levites, the sons of say, Doc, 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 in the blood, says the Lord God, they shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall come near my table to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge. And it shall be whenever they enter the gates of the inner court, that they shall put on linen garments, no wolf shall come upon them while they minister within the gates of the inner court, or within the house. They shall have linen turbans on their heads and linen trousers on their bodies. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that causes sweat. 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, they shall neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long, but they shall keep their hair well trimmed. No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court. They shall not take his wife, a widow or a divorced woman, but take versions of the descendants of the house of Israel, or widows of priests, and they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the unholy, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. In controversy, they shall stand as judges and judges according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes and all my appointed meetings, and they show Hello my Sabbath. They shall not defile themselves by coming near a dead person, only for father or mother for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister may they defile themselves after he is cleansed, they shall count seven days for him. And on the day that he goes into the sanctuary to minister in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering in the inner court, says the Lord God, it shall be in regard to their inheritance that I am their inheritance. You shall give them no possession in Israel for I am their possession. They shall eat the grain offering the sin offering and the trespass offering, every dedicated thing in Israel shall be there’s the best of all first fruits of any kind, and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices shall be the priests. Also you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal to cause the blessing to rest on your house. The priest shall not eat anything bird or beast that died naturally or was torn by wild beasts.

Steve Webb 10:27
Ezekiel chapter 45.

Steve Webb 10:30
Moreover, when you divide the land by lot into inheritance, you shall set apart a district for the Lord, a holy section of the land, its length shall be 25,000 cubits in the width 10,000 It shall be holy throughout its territory all around. Of this there shall be a square plot for the sanctuary 500 by 500 rods, with 50 cubits around it for an open space. So this is the district you shall measure 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 wide in it shall be my sanctuary, the most holy place. It shall be a holy section of the land belonging to the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the Lord, it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary, an area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 wide shall belong to the Levites the ministers of the temple, they shall have 20 Chambers as a possession, you shall appoint is the property of the city and area 5000 cubits wide and 25,000 long, adjacent to the district of the holy section. It shall belong to the whole house of Israel. The prince shall have a section on one side and the other of the holy district and the city’s property, and bordering on the holy district and the city’s property extending westward on the west side, and eastward on the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions from the west border to the east border. The land shall be his possession in Israel, and my princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according to their tribes. Thus says the Lord God, enough, oh princes of Israel, remove violence and plundering execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing my people says the Lord God, You shall have honest scales, and honest etha and an honest bath, the ether and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains 1/10 of a homer and the etha 1/10 of a homer. There measures shall be according to the Homer, the shekel shall be 20 girIs 20 shekels 25 shekels and 15 shekels shall be your minor. This is the offering which you shall offer, you shall give 1/6 of an etha from a homer of wheat, and 1/6 of an EVA from a homer of barley. The ordinance concerning oil the bath of oil is 1/10 of a bath from a core. A core is a homer or 10 baths for 10 baths are a homer and one lamb shall be given from a flock of 200 from the rich pastures of Israel. These shall be for grain offerings, burnt offerings and peace offerings to make atonement for them, says the Lord God, all the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel, then it shall be the princes part to give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings at the feasts, the new moons, the Sabbath, and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel, He shall prepare the sin offering the grain offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel. Thus says the Lord God, in the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary. The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the gate of the inner court. And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance. Thus you shall make atonement for the temple. In the first month on the 14th day of the month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, unleavened bread shall be eaten. On that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land, a bowl for a sin offering. On the seven days of the feast, he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bowls and seven rams without blemish daily for seven days, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering, and he shall prepare a grain offering of one etha for each bull and one Eva for each RAM, together with a hint of oil for each etha in the seventh month, on the 15th day of the month,at the feast he shall do likewise for seven days according to the sin offering the burnt offering the grain offering and the oil.

Steve Webb 15:02
Ezekiel chapter 46 Thus says the Lord God, the gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six working days, but on the Sabbath it shall be opened and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. The prince shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway from the outside in stand by the gate post, the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, he shall worship at the threshold of the gate, then he shall go out but the gate shall not be shot until evening. Likewise, the people of the land shall worship at the entrance to this gateway before the Lord on the Sabbath and the new moons. The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and to ram without blemish. And the grain offering shall be one Eva for a ram and the grain offering for the lambs as much as he wants to give, as well as a hint of oil with every etha. On the day of the new moon, it shall be a young bull without blemish, six lambs and a ram, they shall be without blemish. He shall prepare a grain offering of an EVA for a bull and Eva for a ram, as much as he wants to give for the lambs and a hint of oil with every etha. When the prince enters, he shall go in by way of the vestibule of the gateway and go out the same way. But when the people of the land come before the Lord on the appointed feast days, whoever enters by way of the North Gate to worship shall go out by way of the South Gate. And whoever enters by way of the South Gate shall go out by way of the North Gate, he shall not return by way of the gate through which he came, but shall go out through the opposite gate. The prince shall then be in their midst, when they go in, he shall go in and when they go out, he shall go out at the festivals and the appointed feast days, the grain offering shall be and etha for a bull and etha for a ram, as much as he wants to give for the lambs and a hint of oil with every etha. Now, when the prince makes a voluntary bird offering or voluntary peace offering to the Lord, the gate that faces toward the east shall be opened for him, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out and after he goes out, the gate shall be shut. You shall daily make a burnt offering to the Lord have a lamb of the first year without blemish. You shall prepare it every morning, and you shall prepare a grain offering with it every morning, a six, seven etha and a third of a hint of oil to moisten the fine flour. This grain offering is a perpetual ordinance to be made regularly to the Lord. Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the grain offering and the oil as a regular burnt offering every morning.

Steve Webb 17:47
Thus says the Lord God, if the prince gives a gift of some of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons, it is their possession by inheritance. But if he gives a gift of some of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty, after which it shall return to the prince, but his inheritance shall belong to his sons, it shall become theirs. Moreover, the prince shall not take any of the people’s inheritance by evicting them from their property, he shall provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of my people may be scattered from his property. Now he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side gate into the holy chambers of the priests, which face toward the north, and their place was situated at their extreme western end. And he said to me, this is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering and where they shall bake the grain offering so that they do not bring them out into the outer court to sanctify the people. Then he brought me out to the outer court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court. And in fact, in every corner of the court, there was another quart. In the four corners of the court were enclosed courts 40 cubits long and 30 wide. All four corners were the same size. There was a row of building stones all around in them all around the four of them, and cooking hearts were made under the rows of stones all around. And he said to me, these are the kitchens where the ministers of the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.

Steve Webb 19:21
Ezekiel chapter 47. Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and there was water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east for the front of the temple faced east. The water was flowing from under the right side of the temple south of the altar. He brought me out by way of the North Gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gateway that faces east and there was water running out on the right side. And when the man went out to the east with a lion in his hand, he measured 1000 cubits and he brought me through the waters, the water came up to my ankles. Again, he measured 1000 And then brought me through the waters, the water came up to my knees. Again he measured 1000 and brought me through the water came up to my waist. Again he measured 1000. And it was a river that I could not cross, for the water was too deep water in which one must swim a river that could not be crossed. He said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he brought me and returned me to the bank of the river. When I returned there along the bank of the river were very many trees on one side and the other. The end he said to me, this water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the valley and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. And it shall be that every living thing that moves wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish because these waters go there for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes, it shall be that fishermen will stand by it from in getting to an egg lamb, they will be places for spreading their nets, their fish will be the same kinds as the fish of the great sea exceedingly many, but it swamps and marshes will not be healed, they will be given over to salt along the bank of the river on this side, and that will grow all kinds of trees used for food, their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for medicine. Thus says the Lord God. These are the borders by which you shall divide the land is an inheritance among the 12 tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions, you shall inherited equally with one another, for I raised my hand in an oath to give it to your fathers, and this land shall fall to you as your inheritance. This shall be the border of the land on the north, from the great sea by the road to half lawn as one goes to the dad. Hey Math, Bertha cyprium, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Kamath to haze our hat icon which is on the border of Horan. Thus the boundary shall be from the sea to hazer Enon, the border of Damascus and as for the North northward, it is the border of Emeth. This is the north side. On the east side, you shall mark out the border from between Horan in Damascus and between Gilead in the land of Israel along the Jordan and along the eastern side of the sea. This is the east side. The south side toward the south shall be from Tamar to the waters of merubah by Kadish along the brook to the great sea. This is the south side toward the south.

Steve Webb 22:46
The west side shall be the great sea from the southern boundary until one comes to a point opposite Emeth This is the west side. Thus you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel, it shall be that you will divided by lot is an inheritance for yourselves and for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children among you. They shall be to you as native born among the children of Israel, they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger dwells there you shall give him his inheritance, says the Lord God.

Steve Webb 23:22
Ezekiel chapter 48. Now these are the names of the tribes from the northern border along the road to heathland at the entrance of Emeth to hazer Enon the border of Damascus northward in the direction of Emeth. There shall be one section for Dan from its east to its west side, by the border of Dan from the east side to the west, one section for Asher by the border of Asher from the east side to the west, one section for NAFTA lie by the border of NAFTA lie from the east side to the west, one section for Manasseh by the border of Manasseh. From the east side to the west, one section for Ephram by the border of efirium. From the east side to the west, one section for Reuben, by the border of Reuben from the east side to the west, one section for Judah, by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be the district which you shall set apart 25,000 cubits in width, and in length, the same as one of the other portions from the east side to the west with a sanctuary in the center. The district that you shall set apart for the Lord shall be 25,000 cubits in length, and 10,000 in width. To these two, the priests, the holy district shall belong on the north, 25,000 cubits in length, on the west, 10,000 in width, on the east, 10,000 in width, and on the South 25,000 in length, the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the center. It shall be for the priests of the sons of Zadar who were sanctified who have kept my charge who did not go with pray when the children of Israel went astray as the Levites went astray, and this destructive land that is set apart shall be to them, I think most holy by the border of the Levites opposite the border of the priests, the Levites shall have an area 25,000 cubits in length, and 10,000 in width, its entire length shall be 25,000 and its width 10,000. And they shall not sell or exchange any of it, they may not alienate the best part of the land, for it is holy to the Lord.

Steve Webb 25:34
The 5000 cubits in width that remain along the edge of the 25,000 shall be for general used by the city for dwellings and common land, and the city shall be in the center, these shall be its measurements, the north side, 4500 cubits, the south side, 4500, the East Side 4500 and the West side 4500 The common land of the city shall be to the north 250 cubits to the south 250 to the east, 250 and to the west 250. The rest of the length alongside the district of the holy section, shall be 10,000 cubits to the east, and 10,000 to the west, it shall be adjacent to the district of the holy section, and its produce shall be food for the workers of the city, the workers of the city from all the tribes of Israel shall cultivated the entire district shall be 25,000 cubits by 25,000 cubits, for square, you shall set apart the holy district with the property of the city. The rest shall belong to the prince on one side and on the other of the holy district, and of the city’s property, next to the 25,000 cubits of the holy district, as far as the eastern border, and westward next to the 25,000 as far as the western border, adjacent to the tribal portions, it shall belong to the prince, it shall be the holy district, and the sanctuary of the temple shall be in the center. Moreover, apart from the possession of the Levites, in the possession of the city, which are in the midst of what belongs to the prince, the area between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall belong to the prince. As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side to the west, Benjamin shall have one section by the border of Benjamin from the east side to the west, Simeon shall have one section, by the border of Simeon from the east side to the west, is the car shall have one section, by the border of his car from the east to the west Zeppelin shall have one section, by the border of Zeppelin from the east side to the west, Gad shall have one section, by the border of Gad on the south side toward the south, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of merubah by Kadish along the brook to the great sea. This is the land which you shall divide by lot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. And these are their portions, says the Lord God. These are the exits of the city. On the north side measuring 4500 cubits the gates of the city shall be named after the tribes of Israel, the three gates northward, one gate for Reuben, one gate for Judah, and one gate for Levi, on the east side, 4500 cubits three gates, one gate for Joseph, one gate for Benjamin, and one gate for Dan. On the south side, measuring 4500 qubits, three gates, one gate for Simeon, one gate for a car, and one gate for Zeppelin. On the west side, 4500 qubits with their three gates, one gate for Gad, one gate for Asher, and one gate for NAFTA lie. All the way around shall be 18,000 cubits and the name of the city from that day shall be the Lord is there.

Steve Webb 29:04
Thanks for hanging in there with me, beloved. I will be back tomorrow with a normal show when we begin the book of John. Until then, may God bless you richly. I’m Steve Webb

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