Ezekiel 46

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Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 

 6 days the gate will shut, and it will be opened on the 7th day and the day of celebrating the new moon.  

And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. 
 
We are told where the prince will be standing, the priest will prepare the sacrifice He will offer, and the prince will worship at the entrance of the gate: then he will go in; the gate will not close until later. (evening)

Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons. 

Also, the people will worship at the same place the prince worshipped.

And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. 

The prince will offer six healthy and well lambs and one ram without blemish.

And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 

With the ram, the side dish will be fine flour
With the lambs, it will be the grain of choice
A gallon of olive oil is to be served with each dish.

And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish. 

And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

The prince will serve exactly what God the Father said to serve from His menu. 

And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.

The prince's moves are already planned for this time.  He will move according to this verse. 

But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it. 

God told Ezekiel the order in how the people will move.

And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth. 

The prince will make sure the direction of the Father are followed.

And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 

God repeats the menu.

Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate. 

If the prince decides to do something extra,  he can do it as long as he follows the order of God.  

Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.

God said to prepare a lamb every morning with no defects. 
 God is organized. 



And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD. 

Prepare one lamb, and the side dish of grain measured 1/6 and 1/3 of olive oil to mix with the flour; do this continuously as an offering to the Lord.

Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering. 

God repeats what He said concerning how to prepare the daily offerings.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance. 

As I was reading I thought I saw the prince being Jesus, but this verse gave me an understanding it is not Him.  Whoever this man is, he can be trusted.  God is saying if he has property and gives it to his son, the property belongs to the son he gave it to.

But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them. 

But if he gives it to a servant, then the servant can keep it until the year of Jubilee.  When that year comes, the property given to the servant goes back to the prince.

Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession. 

God has commanded that the prince does right concerning the property of others.

After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward. 

Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people. 

The priest has a kitchen where they will cook food for the occasions God has appointed.  

Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. 

Ezekiel looked around at the four corners and saw that each corner had a court. 

In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure. 

And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about. 

Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

The four corners with courts had designed a place where the minister who assisted the priest will also cook food brought by the people.


God has shown Ezekiel details that are easy to comprehend.  It seems God put things in such that anyone can understand what is happening when they see this prophecy happening.
When God spoke to Moses, it was the first time I read; perhaps the details are easier to read because the more I read, the easier it is to understand what I have not known.


 

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