旧约 - 以西结书(Ezekiel)第44章

Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
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.
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.
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.
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
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.
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
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.
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.
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
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.
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.
They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
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.
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
以西结书第四十四章   第 44 章 

  结 44:2> 东门何故要关闭着? 

  44:2 这东门一直关闭,有下列几种原因:( 1 )这是神进入圣殿的门,没人能走神走的路( 43:2 );( 2 )这紧闭的门说明神不会再离开圣殿( 10:19 ; 11:23 );( 3 )当太阳从东边升起的时候,这扇门会挡住它,阻止圣殿内的百姓去拜太阳( 8:16 )。 

  结 44:3> 这里的王是指谁? 

  44:3 基督虽然被称为王( 37:25 ),但是此处的“王”大概不是基督,因为他向神献了祭( 46:4 ),而且他只能走“门的廊”。他是该城的统治者,但因他的公义正直又区别于其他的君王( 45:8 )。另一种观点认为,这是说明基督以自己的生命向神献祭。 

  结 44:9> 以色列中的外邦人为何不可进入圣殿? 

  44:9 不信神的人不允许进入圣殿。所以在以西结的异象中的敬拜,指的是被神恢复并洁净过的敬拜。人要在身体和灵性上都预备好了才能够参加。在 47 章 22 至 23 节中我们发现,从其他国家来的人,只要接受律法中的信仰准则和规定做法,就可以参与敬拜(参利 24:22 ;民 15:29 )。 

  结 44:15> 祭司撒督和他的后代有何突出的表现? 

  44:15 撒督的后代在这里被提到的原因,是因为在撒督的家谱上有许多作祭司的人对神都很忠心,当然也有后来腐败堕落了的。撒督支持所罗门继承大卫的王位,并认为这是神的拣选。所以他在所罗门执政期间被任命为大祭司(参王上 1:32-35 ; 2:27 , 35 )。从旧约至新约的时期内,撒督后代的家谱,被认为是真正的祭司家谱。 

  结 44:20-31> 有关祭司的条例,其核心是什么?你怎样理解? 

  44:20-31 这些律法最初是神在旷野赐给百姓的。它们在出埃及记和利未记中都有所记载。这些律法揭示了接近神要心存敬畏的重要性,为祭司过无可指责的生活定出了指南。这样祭司就可以履行教导百姓的责任了。他们的责任就是要教导百姓“分辨洁净的和不洁净的”( 44:23 )。──《灵修版圣经注释》