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My Note:  The Zadok Ref. Scripture Ezekiel 44:15-16 & 23

Israel to be restored and converted.
(no silly, not that little country in the middle east called Israel)

Ezekiel 39:25  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
26  After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
27  When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
28  Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29  Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.


The last nine chapters of Ezekiel have posed numerous problems for expositors.
One train of thought is that they describe the Millennial Temple
That train of thought goes as follows.
We leave it up to you with the Holy Spirit's guidance to determine if the following is correct doctrine.

Remember, What we read in the closing Millennial Chapters of the Book of Ezekiel is spiritual, not physical.
The physical examples given are only used to help you see and understand what will happen in the spirit!

1 Cor. 2:14 " But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."


The Millennial Temple
There will be a WALL around the Temple (that true temple being Christ) all during the Millennium.

Ezekiel 40:5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about,...

We know that the Glory of God is returning to the temple, even Jesus Christ, but the "spiritually dead" cannot partake of that "Tree of Life" until after the 1000 years is finished. Thus, there will be a "wall" between them and Christ (See Ezek. 43:8 now or wait until we get there.). In other words, those who were not part of the first resurrection cannot approach Christ and receive eternal life until the time of second resurrection, the Great White Throne Judgment.The very fact alone that a "Temple" will once again be set up should tell us that, shouldn't it? Remember, after the lake of fire and the city of New Jerusalem comes down out of heaven, there will be no temple therein: Rev. 21:22 "And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.


Right now, during this dispensation of grace, when many do not even believe that God exists, all who WILL can approach Christ and enter the Holy of Holies, but during the Millennium that will not be the case. For everyone SHALL KNOW that He is Lord, for they shall see His Glory, but they must "learn" and "want" of their own free will to follow Him and His ways and not Satan and his ways. They will have NO CHOICE but to learn and follow His ways during the Millennium. (That's where we will see the Zadok and the saints of the 1st Resurrection come in.) After that, Satan will be released for a short season when they can PROVE on their own whether they still want to or not! THEN... the judgment!

Let's complete verse 5.

[5... continued] and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
To understand this verse and its profound significance, one must know that a cubit is made up of 6 hand breadths. But LOOK, the cubit used here has an ADDED hand breadth, a SEVENTH one! The number "7" in Biblical Numerics means "Spiritual Perfection" (see appendix 10 in the Companion Bible). Since the reed used here is one seventh larger than that used in Solomon's Temple, this gives the Millennium Temple an ADDED DIMENSION and that dimension and the measurements thereof are SPIRITUAL. Behold? (Remember, we are in the Lord's Day, the Sabbath Day, the 7th Day, and we are all in our spiritual bodies.)



The Zadok in the Millennial Temple
The priests of the future temple.

Scripture:  Ezekiel 44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
16  They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.

Ezekiel 44:23  And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Complete text:Ezekiel 44:1  ¶Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
2  Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
3  It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
4  ¶Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
5  And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
6  And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
7  In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
8  And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
9  Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
10  ¶And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
11  Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
12  Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
13  And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
14  But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
15  But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
16  They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
17  ¶And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
18  They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
19  And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
20  Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
21  Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
22  Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
23  And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
24  And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
25  And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
26  And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
27  And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
28  And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
29  They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30  And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
31  The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.


Please log unto and read We are about to see Ezekiel carried "in vision" to the land of Israel and shown that glorious sanctuary of the Millennium. #1290 through #1310 for further information about the Millennial temple. Be sure to read #1301!

We are about to see Ezekiel carried "in vision" to the land of Israel and shown that glorious sanctuary of the Millennium #1290
God has unique ways of revealing His truth to us. [You Better Pay Attention] #1291,
There will be a WALL around the Temple (that true temple being Christ) all during the Millennium.#1292,
Learn what the various peoples will be doing during the 1000 year Millennium. #1293,
What will be happening spiritually during the Millennium. #1294,
When this flesh age is over and Jesus Christ returns, the dispensation of grace also ends #1295a,
There were Palm Tree decorations everywhere. #1295b,
What is the Plan of God for the final 1000 years commonly called the Millennium, which precedes the Great White Throne Judgment and the entering into the Third Earth Age, the age of eternal happiness? #1295c,
Now Jesus is going to speak directly to Ezekiel from the Inner Court as the angel stands by him. #1296,
What is the salvation plan for the rest of the "dead" (the spiritually dead) during the Millennium. #1297,
Ezekiel 43:13 is one of those verses that if you glance over or miss the key phrase in it, then you will probably read the remainder of this chapter and the next two chapters without much understanding of what we are to learn. #1298,
When the Millennium is over the "dead" (those alive with mortal souls during the Millennium) will be judged according to their WORKS, #1299,
What we are seeing here in the sacrifices we are about to read of, is an analogy representing that which is spiritual. #1300,
Is everyone who claims to be a Christian going to be able to enter the kingdom and sit at the feet of Jesus during the Millennium? #1301,
The spiritually dead must remain that way [spiritually dead] for 1000 years during the Millennium (Rev. 20:5) #1302,
It is too bad that so many Christians have such a weak and uninspiring concept of what heaven and the eternity has in store for those who love and serve God. #1303,
What a blessing it will be indeed for those who are part of the First Resurrection. #1304
You see, the entire vast universe, plumb full of awesome fun filled galaxies, was created for God's pleasure, and His pleasure is to give it to His sons, who overcome and love Him, as their INHERITANCE! #1305,
Are you a "watchman"? Do you eat your "daily bread" from the table of the Lord? If so, you know that we have been instructed to "WATCH" in this final generation. #1305b,
God's Word contains a great deal of information, especially in these last nine chapters of Ezekiel, about what will be happening during the soon coming 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ. #1305c
For many, worshipping God is something they do just on the weekend. #1306,
The "Dead Sea", symbolic of "dead spiritual waters" that nothing can live in, shall be healed. #1307,
Do you know where David's throne is today? #1308,
So what about it? Are you going to wait until the Millennium to drink from the water of life, or are you thirsty now? #1309,
The Spirit of God will flow from the throne of the LORD like a grand river all through the Millennium. #1310,

Kind of reminds one of a picture of Paradise, doesn't it?

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