旧约 - 以西结书(Ezekiel)第43章

Then the man brought me to the gate facing east,
and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with his glory.
The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.
The glory of the LORD entered the temple through the gate facing east.
Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple.
He said: "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile my holy name--neither they nor their kings--by their prostitution and the lifeless idols of their kings at their high places.
When they placed their threshold next to my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them, they defiled my holy name by their detestable practices. So I destroyed them in my anger.
Now let them put away from me their prostitution and the lifeless idols of their kings, and I will live among them forever.
"Son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their sins. Let them consider the plan,
and if they are ashamed of all they have done, make known to them the design of the temple--its arrangement, its exits and entrances--its whole design and all its regulations and laws. Write these down before them so that they may be faithful to its design and follow all its regulations.
"This is the law of the temple: All the surrounding area on top of the mountain will be most holy. Such is the law of the temple.
"These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits, that cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth: Its gutter is a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around the edge. And this is the height of the altar:
From the gutter on the ground up to the lower ledge it is two cubits high and a cubit wide, and from the smaller ledge up to the larger ledge it is four cubits high and a cubit wide.
The altar hearth is four cubits high, and four horns project upward from the hearth.
The altar hearth is square, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.
The upper ledge also is square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around. The steps of the altar face east."
Then he said to me, "Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: These will be the regulations for sacrificing burnt offerings and sprinkling blood upon the altar when it is built:
You are to give a young bull as a sin offering to the priests, who are Levites, of the family of Zadok, who come near to minister before me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the upper ledge and all around the rim, and so purify the altar and make atonement for it.
You are to take the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the designated part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.
"On the second day you are to offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering, and the altar is to be purified as it was purified with the bull.
When you have finished purifying it, you are to offer a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without defect.
You are to offer them before the LORD, and the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.
"For seven days you are to provide a male goat daily for a sin offering; you are also to provide a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without defect.
For seven days they are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; thus they will dedicate it.
At the end of these days, from the eighth day on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Sovereign LORD."
以西结书第四十三章   第 43 章 

  结 43 章 > 这光明的信息与前面形成鲜明对照…… 

  43 章 这是第 40 至 42 章的高潮,神的荣耀回到了圣殿。它将本书中沉闷的气氛一扫而光,与书中向少数得以存留下来的百姓发出的所有祝福交相呼应,留下一个光明的结尾。神最终将得荣耀,并永远住在百姓中间。所有真正的信徒都在渴望着这一时刻的到来。 

  结 43:2> 神的荣耀是从哪里离开耶路撒冷的? 

  43:2 在 11 章 23 节里,神的荣耀将要离开耶路撒冷的时候,停在了圣城东部的橄榄山上。这个预言说,神的荣耀要从东边来。 

  结 43:2-4> 神的荣耀一旦离开了人,将会发生什么? 

  43:2-4 神的荣耀离开了圣殿( 11:23 ),耶路撒冷就遭到了破坏。所以当以西结在异象中看见神的荣耀回来的时候,那种敬畏和欢乐真是无法形容。 

  结 43:3> 迦巴鲁河边与被掳的犹大人关系密切,因为── 

  43:3 迦巴鲁河与幼发拉底河相连,其相连处就是被流放在巴比伦的犹太人的居住地。 

  结 43:9-11> 以色列人按照神所给的殿的规模、形状,典章、礼仪、法则去做了吗? 

  43:9-11 神离开了圣城成为此城要遭毁的信号。现在神要回来了,那城必须具备神的条件,完全消除拜偶像才行。许多解经家认为,这些经文表明以西结是在向当时的百姓下命令;以西结命令百姓按照“天使建筑家”的设计和规则去建造这座殿,可是百姓就是不悔改,神要求的条件也不具备,所以建殿工程就推迟了。 

  结 43:12> 神的殿中的基本法则是什么? 

  43:12 神殿中的基本律法是圣洁。神的一切作为都是圣洁的,所以我们也要圣洁(参利 19:1 ;彼前 1:15-16 )。百姓要对神忠心,离开邪恶才能圣洁。如果我们连圣洁的基本观念都不明白,那我们基督徒的灵命就没多大长进。 

  结 43:18-27> 洁净的礼仪有何功用?今日为何不再需要? 

  43:18-27 在这个异象中也同时闪现了西奈山,然后便是骷髅岗。百姓在归国之后要按照摩西时代的献祭礼仪求神的赦免。今天,基督的死使赦罪成为可能,神因此接纳了我们(参来 9:9-15 )。人什么时候凭信心来到神面前,神就什么时候赦免他的罪。──《灵修版圣经注释》