LIFE-STUDY OF EZEKIEL
Read and pray: “Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you girded yourself and walked where you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish.” (John 21:18)
This indicates that the further we go inward, the narrower the way becomes. As we will see, the entrance to the interior of the temple is even narrower, measuring six cubits.
According to 41:2, there are five cubits on the sides of the doors. There are two pillars measuring five cubits, indicating responsibility in testimony.
The length of the outer temple is forty cubits, and the width is twenty cubits, making a total of eight hundred square cubits. The number eight hundred indicates one hundred times resurrection.
The numbers forty and twenty are multiples that can be factored by five. Twenty is four times five, and forty is eight times five. Five is composed of four (the creature) plus one (the one God) and typifies man receiving the grace of God to bear responsibility.
The number eight typifies resurrection. Therefore, being composed of eight times five, forty typifies the sum of man as God’s creature and God in resurrection to produce something that has a perfect and complete form.
The Entrances
The entrance to the inner temple is six cubits wide (41:3). As we have seen, this shows that the more inward we advance, the narrower the entrance becomes.
If we are outside the portico, we have no restriction. When we come into the interior of the portico, we have some restriction. This restriction is not very narrow, which is why it is still fourteen cubits. However, when we pass from the portico to the outer temple, the entrance is reduced to ten cubits.
Finally, when we go on and reach the inner temple, the entrance is reduced to six cubits. From our spiritual experience, we know that the closer we are to the Lord, the more we are restricted by Him.
If we are loose and careless, this is a sign that we are far from the Lord’s presence. The closer we are to the Lord, the more we are restricted.
The Inner Temple
From the outer temple we proceed to the inner temple. Ezekiel 41:3 says, “Then he went inside and measured each pillar of the entrance, two cubits, and the entrance was six cubits high, and the width of the entrance was seven cubits.” Once again, two cubits, the measure of the pillar of the door, indicates testimony.
Verse 4 tells us that the inner temple is twenty cubits square. The Holy of Holies in the tabernacle was a square (Exo. 26), and the Holy of Holies in the temple, which was built in the good land, was also a square (2 Chron. 3:8).
The wall of the temple (Ezek. 41:5) measures six cubits, typifying the humanity of the Lord Jesus. The humanity of the Lord Jesus is the strength that keeps the dwelling place of God standing. In the tabernacle, the boards of acacia wood that stood upright typified the humanity of the Lord Jesus (Exo. 26:15).
Now we need to see that the wall of the temple in Ezekiel also typifies the humanity of Jesus. As a proper human being, the Lord Jesus is the wall that supports and sustains.
Twenty is composed of four times five. Twenty cubits square, the area of the inner temple, equals four hundred cubits, that is, one hundred times four. Five times four (twenty cubits) becoming one hundred times four typifies God in the creature, with the creature as God’s dwelling place.
When we, the creatures, receive the grace of God, we are mingled into one and become perfectly square, becoming a unit of one hundred times four, God has His dwelling place among us.
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