Wed.’s Devo - The Temple of God

Read: Ezekiel 40-41
They have been in captivity for 25 years and Jerusalem has been destroyed 14 years. God comes to Ezekiel on the 10th day of the month. Since it tells us it is the beginning of the year I would think that would mean the 10th day of Tishri making it the Day of Atonement. This was the day the high priest would make atonement for the whole nation. He would bring two goats to the entrance of the tabernacle and present them to the Lord. He would cast lots and the one that was chosen would be the one sacrificed for their sins and the other one stood for the people who were free from the judgment of death. This goat was set loose to go free.
God appeared to Ezekiel on this day and told him to follow him as he measured every door, gate, building, chamber, porch, etc. He was to report everything he did to the people. Then he was taken to the temple to measure it. Remember a few days ago how we said that the number 10 means to measure. This is really portrayed in this reading.
The temple has the number six in it many times because six is the number of man and the temple of God is within us. The height of the door into the temple is 10 which is two fives - double grace and its width is five - grace. The way to God is only by grace.
The whole house was 100 by 100 cubits. A hundred is the number for fullness; full measure; full recompense or reward. This is our full reward! It is decorated with faces of cherubs and palm trees. These cherubs weren’t the faces of baby angels but young lions and the face of a man. The palm tree is a symbol of strength and flexibility in the storm. It can bend and be tossed around during a storm and still stand in the end. It’s fruit is at the top and you have to climb high to get it. So these palms were the picture of the over comers who make it though life’s storms. They may be a man on the outside but they have the lion of God standing behind them. These people will be pillars in the temple of God. Revelation 3:12 says “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”
Lord, make us a pillar in Your temple. May we overcome in this life that we might reign in the next.