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
