Read: Ezekiel 20:1-49; Hebrews 9:11-28; Psalm 107:1-43; Proverbs 27:11
Three times Ezekiel made the statement that the man who obeys God’s decrees will live by them. This statement sounded like a parable to them that they couldn’t understand just like Jesus told parables that the people didn’t understand. What God was saying to his people through this parable was that He was the only one who could give them abundant life on earth and eternal life in heaven. The way to get it was by obeying him. He gave them Sabbaths as a sign of his covenant with hem. But they desecrated his Sabbaths and chose to reflect his laws and follow the statues of other nations that were not good for them and follow other gods that could not bring them life but would give them death instead.
At the end of his prophecy he spoke expressly to the people in the south. Jerusalem was in this region. Judgement that could not be stopped was coming and it would be a consuming fire.
Everything good on earth is a copy of what is in heaven. In heaven there is a priesthood and a tabernacle and all the furniture that was in Moses’ tabernacle. Moses was shown heaven’s tabernacle and told to duplicate it on earth. Jesus had to die on earth to take his blood to heaven to cleanse the tabernacle there once and for all. He put an end to sin once and for all. When he appears again he will be bringing salvation to the earth and a nation will be saved in a day.
In Hebrews we learn that Jesus became the high priest of heaven’s tabernacle which was cleansed by his own blood, not the blood of animals like the tabernacle here on earth. The tabernacle here on earth was a picture of what God’s tabernacle in heaven was like.
Lord, help us to grasp the power of your blood and the redemption you bought for us that we can now have a clear conscience and stand before you without sin.
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