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minister to Me,’ says the Lord GOD. ‘You
shall take some of its blood and put it on the
four horns of the altar, on the four corners of
the ledge, and on the rim around it; thus you 44:5–9 Mark well who may enter. Since the
shall cleanse it and make atonement for it. Lord’s glory fills the temple, it is sanctified (v.
21 Then you shall also take the bull of the sin 4), and God is particular about what kind of
offering, and burn it in the appointed place of people worship there. Sins of the past, as in
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the temple, outside the sanctuary. On the chapters 8–11, must not be repeated, and if
second day you shall offer a kid of the goats they are,those sins will exclude their perpetra-
without blemish for a sin offering; and they tors from the temple. Only the circumcised in
shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with heart may enter (Deut. 30:6; Jer. 4:4; Rom.
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the bull. When you have finished cleansing 2:25–29), whether of Israel or another nation
it, you shall offer a young bull without blem- (vv.7,9).Many peoples other than Jews will go
into the kingdom in unresurrected bodies,
ish, and a ram from the flock without blemish.
24 When you offer them before the LORD, the because they have believed in Jesus Christ
and are ready for His coming.They will escape
priests shall throw salt on them, and they will His deadly judgment and populate and repro-
offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD. duce in the 1,000-year kingdom. Such circum-
25 Every day for seven days you shall prepare a cision pertains to a heart which is sincere
goat for a sin offering; they shall also prepare about removing sin and being devoted to the
a young bull and a ram from the flock, both Lord (Jer. 29:13). In the Millennium, a Jew with
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without blemish. Seven days they shall make an uncircumcised heart will be considered a
atonement for the altar and purify it, and so foreigner (v. 9).“Uncircumcised in flesh” refers
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consecrate it. When these days are over it to sinners, and “foreigner” identifies rejecters
shall be, on the eighth day and thereafter, that of the true God.
the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and
your peace offerings on the altar; and I will ac- 9
cept you,’ says the Lord GOD.” keep charge of My sanctuary for you.” Thus
Then He brought me back to the outer says the Lord GOD: “No foreigner, uncircum-
44 gate of the sanctuary which faces toward cised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall
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the east, but it was shut. And the LORD said to enter My sanctuary, including any foreigner
me, “This gate shall be shut; it shall not be who is among the children of Israel.
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opened, and no man shall enter by it, because “And the Levites who went far from Me,
the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; there- when Israel went astray, who strayed away
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fore it shall be shut. As for the prince, because he from Me after their idols, they shall bear their
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is the prince, he may sit in it to eat bread before iniquity. Yet they shall be ministers in My
the LORD; he shall enter by way of the vestibule sanctuary, as gatekeepers of the house and
of the gateway, and go out the same way.” ministers of the house; they shall slay the burnt
4 Also He brought me by way of the north offering and the sacrifice for the people, and
gate to the front of the temple; so I looked, and they shall stand before them to minister to
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behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house them. Because they ministered to them before
of the LORD; and I fell on my face. And the their idols and caused the house of Israel to
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LORD said to me, “Son of man, mark well, see fall into iniquity, therefore I have raised My
with your eyes and hear with your ears, all hand in an oath against them,” says the Lord
that I say to you concerning all the ordinances GOD, “that they shall bear their iniquity. And
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of the house of the LORD and all its laws. Mark they shall not come near Me to minister to Me
well who may enter the house and all who go as priest, nor come near any of My holy things,
out from the sanctuary. nor into the Most Holy Place; but they shall
6 “Now say to the rebellious, to the house of bear their shame and their abominations
Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “O house of which they have committed. Nevertheless I
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Israel, let Us have no more of all your will make them keep charge of the temple, for
abominations. When you brought in for- all its work, and for all that has to be done in it.
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eigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncir- 15 “But the priests, the Levites, the sons of
cumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when
defile it—My house—and when you offered the children of Israel went astray from Me,
My food, the fat and the blood, then they they shall come near Me to minister to Me; and
broke My covenant because of all your they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat
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abominations. And you have not kept charge and the blood,” says the Lord GOD. “They
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of My holy things, but you have set others to shall enter My sanctuary, and they shall come
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