Ezekiel 44: Whole Chapter Commentary

 


1: Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looks toward the east and it was shut 2: And he YHWH is saying to me

 This gate shall be shut It shall not be opened and no one ua-ish shall enter in by it because YHWH ELOHIM alei of Israel has entered in by it therefore it shall be shut

Notes: Ezekiel 44:2 is an instance where the masculine word iysh is not used exclusively of the male sex and correctly translates as no one rather than no man.

YHWH ELOHIM of Israel will pass through the east gate of the millennial temple when the resurrected man, Christ Jesus (God who became flesh and dwelt among us) returns and enters through that gate.

3: It is for THE PRINCE. THE PRINCE, he shall sit in it to eat of—to eat of—bread to faces Godhead of YHWH he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate and shall go out by the way of the same

Notes: BB / RR Three of the most well-known titles of the Most High God, including YHWH Jehovah, are PLURAL; that’s why he has faces. This refers to the Godhead. The Rabbis understood THE PRINCE as referring to Messiah. They also understood that when Messiah came, he would be YHWH ELOHIM in the flesh. The One who Inhabits Eternity Isaiah 57:15 is the same as the ruler who will come out of Bethlehem Micah 5:2 whose goings forth are from before time aforetime and days of eon eternity. Jesus is YHWH ELOHIM.

Jesus is the one who inhabits eternity, God incarnate, the resurrected human, Messiah, THE PRINCE of Peace. Ezekiel 44:2-3 says that YHWH ELOHIM, THE PRINCE, shall enter the east gate and leave by it.

Messiah THE PRINCE is YHWH ELOHIM John 1:1, Colossians 2:9. Messiah shall sit in the Gate to eat bread to the faces of the triune God, who is YHWH ELOHIM, our ADONAI All three of these titles are plural.

Sitting in the Gate was what ancient rulers/elders did to hear the people and pass judgments. Will the Judge of All the Earth also hold the Judgment of the Nations at the East Gate? Is this the place where every knee shall bow to Israel as head nation Deuteronomy 28:13 / Isaiah 2:2-3, 60:12-14  and to Yahshua/ Iēsous and confess that he is YHWH ELOHIM—ADONAI—to the glory of God the Father? Isaiah 45:23/Romans 14:11 / Philippians 2:9-11

Alternatively: If the prince in Ezekiel 45:7 is the same person as THE PRINCE in Ezekiel 44:3, then he cannot be Messiah, as the prince in Ezekiel 46:17 has sons.

4: Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house and I looked and behold the glory of YHWH filled the house of YHWH and I am falling to faces of me

Notes: 'Âdâm humanity is created in the triune image of ELOHIYM The Godhead / Genesis chapter one. 'Âdâm humanity is body soul and spirit. Every mortal is a triune being, made in the image of a triune God. Therefore, it is entirely correct for the word faces, when used of only one person to be plural, as in Ezekiel 44:4, when used of the man Ezekiel.

5: And YHWH said unto me Son of mortals 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 YHWH and all the laws thereof and mark well the entering in of the house with every going forth of the sanctuary 6: And you shall say to the rebellious even to the house of Israel Thus saith the ADONAI YHWH O ye house of Israel let it suffice you of all your abominations 7: In that you have brought into my sanctuary strangers uncircumcised in heart Psalm 51 and uncircumcised in flesh to be in my sanctuary to pollute it even my house when you offer my bread the fat and the blood and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations 8: And you have not kept the charge of my holies qadoshi [holy things?] but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves 9: Thus says ADONAI YHWH 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 :15 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 servants in my sanctuary having charge at the gates of the house and serving to the house they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people and they shall stand before them to serve them 12: Because they served them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into depravity Because of this have I lifted up mine hand against them saith ADONAI YHWH and they shall bear their iniquity 13: And they sons of Aaron 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 holy place of the HOLY ONES Godhead Cooke Jocelyn Andersen: The Six Purposes of Daniel's 70 Weeks: Purpose 6

but they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed 14: But I will make them Sons on Aaron :15 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 serve me and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood declares ADONAI YHWH  Malachi 3:3 16: They shall enter into my sanctuary and they shall come near to my table to serve 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 serve 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 anything that causeth sweat 19: And when they go forth into the outer court even into the outer court to the people they shall put off their garments wherein they served 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 Num 6 they shall only trim their heads

Comment: Shaving heads and growing hair long are holy things reserved for taking the Nazarite Vow (Numbers 6:5). Sampson was a life-long Nazarite. That's why he lost his strength after cutting his hair. It broke the vow. It is likely that Samuel and John the baptizer were Nazarites as well. It is probable that Anna the prophetess took the vow of the Nazarite before entering life-long service in the temple. She was respected in the beginning as a Nazarite and later as a prophetess.

21: Neither shall any priest drink wine when they enter into the inner court

Comment: Wine is not forbidden to believers, only that they not over-indulge and that they not imbibe while doing the work of the ministry.


22: Neither shall they
The priests take for their wives a widow nor her that is driven out but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel or a widow that had a priest before

Comment: This instruction is for the sons of Zadok only. It is perfectly Ok for any other man to marry a widow or one who has been divorced. In Israel, every woman who was put away (driven out) was not divorced and free to marry. Husbands often by-passed the expense of the divorce settlement by driving out one wife and taking another without freeing the rejected wife. Moses, because of the hardness of these men’s hearts, allowed for divorce Mark 10:2-9. But Moses did not allow putting away a wife without divorcing her (and divorce in Israel included a divorce settlement). Wives, who were driven out without divorce settlements, were forced to live as though they were divorced but with no support from their treacherous husbands Malachi 2:15-16. If the wife who was driven out married another, she and her new “spouse” would, in the eyes of God, be guilty of adultery Luke 16:18. But wives who were divorced were free to marry.


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

Comment: Some denominations forbid women to cut their hair, but, according to Ezekiel, it is not a sin for women to cut their hair. It is just the opposite. It is a sin for anyone not to refrain from cutting or trimming their hair.  Aside from taking a Nazarite vow, it is sinful (in not recognizing that which is holy) to grow hair long without ever trimming it. Additionally, the Nazarite vow was for both women and men (Numbers 6:2). 

Women taking a Nazarite vow are required to shave their heads at the beginning and end of each vow, just as men are. Both men and women are forbidden to cut their hair during the vow. But, also, both men and women are forbidden to apply the holy practice (of not cutting hair) in a common way—forbidden to apply the holy practice of growing hair without cutting or trimming as a common every-day practice. 

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 sons of Zadok 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 serve in the sanctuary he shall offer his sin offering declares ADONAI YHWH 28: And it shall be unto them for an inheritance I am their inheritance and ye shall give them no possession in [millennial] 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 sons of Zadok 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 anything that is dead of itself or torn whether it be fowl or beast

Ezekiel 44:1-4 Who is THE PRINCE?



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: And he YHWH is saying to me This gate shall be shut It shall not be opened and no one ua-ish shall enter in by it because YHWH ELOHIM of Israel has entered in by it therefore it shall be shut

Notes: Ezekiel 44:2 is an instance where the masculine word iysh is not used exclusively of the male sex and correctly translates as no one rather than no man.

YHWH ELOHIM of Israel will pass through the east gate of the millennial temple when the resurrected man, Christ Jesus (God who became flesh and dwelt among us) returns and enters through that gate.

3: It is for THE PRINCE. THE PRINCE, he shall sit in it to eat of—to eat of—bread to faces Godhead of YHWH he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate and shall go out by the way of the same

Notes: The most well-known titles of the Most High God, including YHWH Jehovah, are PLURAL; that’s why he has facesThis refers to the Godhead. The Rabbis understood THE PRINCE as referring to Messiah. They also understood that when Messiah came, he would be YHWH ELOHIM in the flesh. The One who Inhabits Eternity Isaiah 57:15 is the same as the ruler who will come out of Bethlehem Micah 5:2 whose goings forth are from before time aforetime and days of eon eternity. Jesus is YHWH ELOHIM.

Jesus is the one who inhabits eternity, God incarnate, the resurrected human, Messiah, THE PRINCE of Peace. Ezekiel 44:2-3 says that YHWH ELOHIM, THE PRINCE, shall enter the east gate and leave by it. 

Messiah THE PRINCE is YHWH ELOHIM John 1:1, Colossians 2:9. Messiah shall sit in the Gate to eat bread to the faces of the triune God, who is YHWH ELOHIM, our ADONAI All three of these titles are plural.

"Sitting in the Gate" was what ancient rulers/elders did to hear the people and pass judgments. Will the Judge of All the Earth also hold the Judgment of the Nations at the East Gate? Is this the place where every knee shall bow to Israel as head nation Deuteronomy 28:13 / Isaiah 2:2-3, 60:12-14  and to Yahshua/ Iēsous and confess that he is YHWH ELOHIM—ADONAI—to the glory of God the Father? Isaiah 45:23  / Romans 14:11 / Philippians 2:9-11

4: Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house and I looked and behold the glory of YHWH filled the house of YHWH and I am falling to faces of me

Notes: 'Âdâm humanity is created in the triune image of ELOHIYM The Godhead / Genesis chapter one. 'Âdâm humanity is body soul and spirit. Every mortal is a triune being, made in the image of a triune God. Therefore, it is entirely correct for the word faces, when used of only one person to be plural, as in Ezekiel 44:4 when used of the man Ezekiel.

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The Ezekiel 38-39 Gog Magog War Occurs at Armageddon and END of 1000 Years


Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 are written in reverse order. Chapter thirty-eight describes an attack on Israel by Russia and its hordes. This is not a pre-millennial event but rather a post-millennial event. Most every teacher of Bible prophecy gets the timing of this invasion wrong. Ezekiel chapter thirty-eight fleshes out details of the final rebellion briefly described in Revelation chapter 20. It is a pre-curser to the New Heavens and the New Earth, not a pre-curser to the millennium. 

See in-line notes. The words of ADONAI YHWH are in red.

1: And the word of YHWH came unto me saying  2: Son of mortals set your face against Gog the land of Magog the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal and prophesy against him 3: And say Thus says ADONAI YHWH Behold I am against thee O Gog the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal 4: And I will turn thee back and put hooks into thy jaws and I will bring thee forth and all thine army horses and horsemen all of them fully armed even a great company with large and small shields all of them handling swords 5: Persia Ethiopia and Libya with them all of them with shield and helmet 6: Gomer and all his bands The house of Togarmah of the north quarters and all his bands And many people with thee 7: Be thou prepared and prepare for thyself thou and all thy company that are assembled unto thee and be thou a guard unto them 8: After many days you shall be mustered In the latter years After the 1000 yrs you shall come into the land of Israel that is restored from the sword and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel which have been always deserted by its promised people but it is brought forth out of the nations 1948 (/) 1000 yrs and they dwell trustingly all of them 9: You shall ascend and come like a storm You shall be like a cloud to cover the land you and all your combatants and many people with you 10: Thus says ADONAI YHWH It shall also come to pass that at the same time shall things come into your mind Because Satan is loosed at the end of the 1000 yrs and you shall think an evil thought 11: And you shall say…“I will go up to the land of unwalled villages No Iron Dome I will go to them that are at rest Peacetime. No war. No army that dwell trustingly all of them dwelling without walls No iron dome and having neither bars nor gates No one guarding perimeter. Sitting ducks12: To take a spoil and to take a prey to turn thine hand upon the [once] desolate places that are now inhabited and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations 1948 (/) End-Time Gathering at 2nd Coming, Mat 13:30,24:31, which have gotten cattle and goods that dwell in the midst of the land” 13: Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all the young lions of it Those not with the attackers shall say to you “Have thou come to take a spoil? Have you mustered your armies to take a prey to carry away silver and gold to take away cattle and goods, to take a great plunder?” 14: Because of this son of mortals prophesy and say to Gog Thus says ADONAI YHWH In that day when my people of Israel dwell trustingly shall you not know it? 15: And you shall come from your place out of the north parts you and many people with you all of them riding upon horses agrarian culture. Where is the mechanized equipment? a great company and a mighty army 16: And you shall come up against my people of Israel as a cloud to cover the land It shall be in the latter days After the 1000 yrs. When Satan is loosed. and I will bring you against MY land that the nations may know me when I shall be made holy in thee O Gog before their eyes 17: Thus says ADONAI YHWH Are you Gog he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? 18: And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel declares ADONAI YHWH that my fury shall come up in my face 19: For in my jealousy and in the fire Rev 20 of my wrath have I spoken Surely in that day After the 1000 yrs. When Satan is loosed. there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel 20: So that the fishes of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the earth and all the people that are upon the face of the earth shall shake at my presence and the mountains shall be thrown down and the steep places shall fall and every wall shall fall to the ground 21: And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains declares ADONAI YHWH every man's sword shall be against his brother 22: And I will judge against him Gog with pestilence and with blood and I will rain upon him and upon his combatants and upon the many people that are with him an overflowing rain and great hailstones fire and brimstone 23: Thus will I magnify myself, and hallow myself and I will be known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I YHWH 

CHAPTER 39

There should not have been a chapter-break here. The Most High God is in the middle of speaking, and the translators interrupt him with a chapter break. Ezekiel chapter 39 describes the Battle of Armageddon and aftermath (compare to Revelation 19:17). The chapter finishes as Jacob/Israel is gathered back to Israel [from the scattering] and enters the Millennium in right standing with YHWH ELOHIYM.

       1: Because of this thou son of mortals prophesy against Gog and say Thus says ADONAI YHWH Watch ME! I am against thee O Gog the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal 2: And I reverse you [and leave but the sixth part of thee KJV] I allure you up from recesses of the north and I bring you upon the mountains of Israel 3: And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand 4: You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel you and all your combatants and the people that are with you I will give you to the birds of prey of every sort Revelation 19:17-20 and to the animals of the field to be eaten 5: You shall fall upon the open field For I have spoken it says ADONAY YHWH 6: And I will send a fire on Magog and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles and they shall know that I YHWH 7: So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more and the nations shall know that I YHWH the Holy One in Israel 8: Behold, it is come and it is done says ADONAY YHWH this is the day whereof I have spoken Psalm 118:22-24 9: And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth and shall set on fire and burn the weapons both the shields and the bucklers the bows and the arrows and the handstaves and the spears and they shall burn them with fire seven years 10: So that they shall take no wood out of the field neither cut down any out of the forests for they shall burn the weapons with fire Contamination from a nuclear explosion (9-10)  and they shall spoil those that spoiled them and rob those that robbed them declares ADONAY YHWH 11: And it shall come to pass in that day that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea and it [the smell of decay] shall stop the noses of the passengers and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog 12: And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them all the hordes that came against Israel  that they may cleanse the land 13: Yes all the people of the land shall bury them And it shall be to them a renown The day that I shall be glorified says ADONAY YHWH 14: And they shall sever out ones of continual employment passing through the land entombing the bodies of the trespassers (the dead bodies of the ones being left upon the surfaces of the land) to cleanse it After the end of seven months shall they search 15: And the passengers, the ones passing through the land, when any see bones of humans then shall they set up a marker by it till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog 16: And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah Thus shall they cleanse the land after Armageddon 17: And you son of mortals thus says ADONAI YHWH Speak to every feathered bird and to every animal of the field Assemble yourselves and come Gather yourselves on every side to MY sacrifice Revelation 19:17 that I do sacrifice for you even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel that you may eat flesh and drink blood 18: You shall eat the flesh of the mighty Nephilim (fallen angel human hybrids) and drink the blood of the princes of the earth of rams of lambs and of goats of bullocks all of them fatlings of Bashan Remember Og of Bashan was Nephilim 19: And you shall eat fat till you be full and drink blood till you be drunken of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you 20: Thus you shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots with mighty men and with all men of war declares ADONAI YHWH 21: And I will set my glory among the nations and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them 22: So the house of Israel shall know that I YHWH ELOHIYM from that day and forward 23: And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity because they trespassed against me Because of this I hid my face from them Numbers 6:24-26 and gave them into the hand of their enemies so fell they all by the sword 24: According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them and hid my face from them 25: Because of this thus says ADONAI YHWH Now will I reverse 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 made holy in them in the sight of many nations 28: Then shall they know that I YHWH their ELOHIYM which cause them to be led into captivity among the nations but I have gathered them unto their own land and have left none of them anymore there 29: Neither will I hide my face Numbers 6:24-26 any more from them For I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel Zechariah 12:10-14 says ADONAI YHWH

Summary: Sometimes there is a back and forth, what this writer calls, “free-flow,” to Bible prophecy, which is not always given in chronological order [though sometimes it is]. Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 are examples of this and are written in reverse order. Chapter 38 describes the final rebellion that takes place at the end of the Millennial Kingdom, while chapter 39 describes the Battle of Armageddon which takes place at the Second Coming of Christ before the Millennium.

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Psalm 82 commentary

 

Psalm of [Chanting to] Asaph 1: Elohim stands in the congregation of EL He judges among [elohim Children of Elohim made in the image of Elohim :6] 2: How long will you [fail to] judge depravity and [continue to] promote the faces of wicked ones? Selah 3: Defend the poor and fatherless! Do justice to the afflicted and needy! 4: Deliver the poor and needy Take them out of the hand of the wicked ones 5: They the wicked know not Neither will they understand They walk on in darkness All the foundations of the earth are out of course 6: I have said You are elohim and children of the most High all of you 7: Surely as mortals you shall die and as one of the chiefs fallen angels? you shall fall 8: Arise Elohim judge the earth For you shall inherit all nations Jesus will inherit all nations; Jesus is Elohim; Jesus is God