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NOVEMBER 27
Deut. 7:6; Is. 62:12). Tragically, Israel temporarily forfeited the great privilege of being the unique
people of God through unbelief.Until Israel’s future acceptance of its Messiah,God has replaced the
nation with the church.“His own special people.”This combines phraseology found in Exodus 19:5;
Isaiah 43:21;Malachi 3:17.“That you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you.”To “proclaim”
means to tell forth, to tell something not otherwise known.“Praises” are excellencies, virtues, emi-
nent qualities.

be of the same measure, so that the bath con-
November 27 tains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-
tenth of a homer; their measure shall be accord-
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ing to the homer. The shekel shall be twenty
gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels,
Ezekiel 45:1–46:24
and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
“Moreover, when you divide the land 13 “This is the offering which you shall offer:
45 by lot into inheritance, you shall set you shall give one-sixth of an ephah from a
apart a district for the LORD, a holy section of homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah
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the land; its length shall be twenty-five thou- from a homer of barley. The ordinance con-
sand cubits, and the width ten thousand. It shall cerning oil, the bath of oil, is one-tenth of a
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be holy throughout its territory all around. Of bath from a kor. A kor is a homer or ten baths,
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this there shall be a square plot for the sanctu- for ten baths are a homer. And one lamb shall
ary, five hundred by five hundred rods, with be given from a flock of two hundred, from the
fifty cubits around it for an open space. So this rich pastures of Israel. These shall be for grain
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is the district you shall measure: twenty-five offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offer-
thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide; in ings, to make atonement for them,” says the
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it shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. Lord GOD. “All the people of the land shall
4 give this offering for the prince in Israel.
It shall be a holy section of the land, belonging
to the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, 17 Then it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt
who come near to minister to the LORD; it shall offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings,
be a place for their houses and a holy place for at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths,
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the sanctuary. An area twenty-five thousand and at all the appointed seasons of the house of
cubits long and ten thousand wide shall belong Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the
to the Levites, the ministers of the temple; grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace
they shall have twenty chambers as a posses- offerings to make atonement for the house of
sion. Israel.”
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“You shall appoint as the property of the
city an area five thousand cubits wide and
twenty-five thousand long, adjacent to the dis-
trict of the holy section; it shall belong to the 45:9–12 The leaders of the land are urged to
whole house of Israel. be thoroughly honest in their commercial
7 dealings.This warning shows that there will be
“The prince shall have a section on one side
and the other of the holy district and the city’s sin in the Millennium.The believing Jews who
property; and bordering on the holy district entered the 1,000-year reign of Christ on earth
and the city’s property, extending westward and inherited the promised kingdom will be
on the west side and eastward on the east fully human and capable of such sins. There
side, the length shall be side by side with one also will be children who do not necessarily
of the tribal portions, from the west border to believe, as the final rebellion against King
Messiah and His temple proves (Rev. 20:7–9).
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the east border. The land shall be his posses-
sion in Israel; and My princes shall no more
oppress My people, but they shall give the rest
of the land to the house of Israel, according to 18 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “In the first month,
their tribes.” on the first day of the month, you shall take a
9 young bull without blemish and cleanse the
‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Enough, O princes
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of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, exe- sanctuary. The priest shall take some of the
cute justice and righteousness, and stop dispos- blood of the sin offering and put it on the door-
sessing My people,” says the Lord GOD. “You posts of the temple, on the four corners of the
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shall have honest scales, an honest ephah, and ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the
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an honest bath. The ephah and the bath shall gate of the inner court. And so you shall do on
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