Ezekiel 43:13-44:31 Dear RTB’ers, Today’s first chapter has the description of the temple altar and its dimensions, along with guidelines for animal sacrifices. It’s all reminiscent of Leviticus – the original altar in the Tabernacle in the Wilderness. Then today’s second chapter focuses on the Levites and the Levitical priests. God speaks harshly to the …
Monthly Archives: June 2026
June 4 / Ezekiel 42:1-43:12
Ezekiel 42:1-43:12 Dear RTB’ers, Certainly there’s no way that we can fully understand all the verbal diagrams and measurements in Ezekiel 40-42. The online sketches are helpful, but still confusing. For us I think the bigger question is what it means for us. Today I have two responses for that. First, I asked yesterday about …
June 3 / Ezekiel 40:48-41:26
Ezekiel 40:48-41:26 Dear RTB’ers, These chapters make for difficult posts. What to say, what to add to what Ezekiel has written? In my post yesterday I referred to an STS diagram of the temple area and the summary text of the walk-through. That diagram is still relevant for today’s reading. But beyond that, use the …
June 2 / Ezekiel 40:1-47
Ezekiel 40:1-47 Dear RTB’ers, Today we have Ezekiel taken up in a “trance”, presumably to Jerusalem, some fourteen years after it had been destroyed. There the Lord gives him a vision of a restored Jerusalem and its temple area. He has a guide (Ez. 4:3) who takes him throughout the temple area, measuring dimensions as …
June 1 / Ezekiel 39
Ezekiel 39 Dear RTB’ers, First, a bit more on yesterday’s reading. Here is yesterday’s second verse: Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief …