Today, I am reading and commenting on Ezekiel 44-45.

Today’s passage begins with Ezekiel concluding his description of the temple he saw in his vision.  Ezekiel tells us that the east gate of the temple will remain shut and never be opened because God entered the temple through the east gate.  Then he mentions that only “the prince” would be allowed to sit in the gateway, which is where he would eat (I am assuming Ezekiel is referring to the prince eating of the offerings which he had made).  My initial reaction was to just move past this without giving it much thought because it was part of Ezekiel’s description of the temple he saw in his vision, and I have never understood what we are supposed to understand from that description.  However, today it struck me that there is something very specific about the gate through which the glory of the Lord entered the temple remaining shut and no one else ever passing through it.  Even having that thought left me with no understanding of what meaning it has for us.  As I wrote this it occurred to me that in some way it reflects on the fact that Jesus went through death and resurrection so that He might enter into our hearts.  No one else can pass through what He did in that experience.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.