This chapter is a continuation of the previous chapter, as Ezekiel continues to learn about the design of the Lord’s new Temple. Here’s how the chapter begins: “After that, the man brought me into the Holy Place, the large main room of the Temple, and he measured the columns that framed its doorway. They were 10 ½ feet square. The entrance was 17 ½ feet wide, and the walls on each side were 8 ¾ feet wide. The Holy Place itself was 70 feet long and 35 feet wide.
Then he went into the inner room at the end of the Holy Place. He measured the columns at the entrance and found them to be 3 ½ feet thick. The entrance was 10 ½ feet wide, and the walls on each side of the entrance extended 12 ½ feet to the corners of the inner room. The inner room was 35 feet square. “This,” he told me, “is the Most Holy Place.”
Then he measured the wall of the Temple and found that it was 10 ½ feet thick. There was a row of rooms along the outside wall; each room was 7 feet wide. These rooms were built in three levels, one above the other, with thirty rooms on each level. The supports for these rooms rested on ledges in the Temple wall, but the supports did not extend into the wall. Each level was wider than the one below it, corresponding to the narrowing of the Temple wall as it rose higher. A stairway led up from the bottom level through the middle level to the top level.” (Ezekiel 41:1-7) (Wow! That is cool. I would love to build a structure, maybe a shelf, like that with narrowing walls.)
Read the rest of the chapter for yourself to learn more details of God’s Temple.
Lord, thank you for your Word today! Help us represent you in our lives in all the ways possible! Lord, we love you!
May the Lord bless you and protect you. May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord show you his favor and give you his peace.” (Numbers 6:24-26)
….AND MAY WE ALL PRACTICE THIS WITH ONE ANOTHER.
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