Ezekiel 44:4 (ESV)
Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple, and I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple of the LORD. And I fell on my face.
Probably the most difficult challenge reading these last chapters of Ezekiel is finding practical application for our day-to-day lives. The prophet is explaining the dimensions and activities of a future Temple. If it is the heavenly temple describe in the new heaven and new earth in the book of the Revelation, how do we read about it and leave with something that is admonishing for us. Remember, all scripture is for the purpose of our growth:
2 Timothy 3:16-17 (ESV)
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
So, what is the instruction here to equip us? How should we respond to the dimensions and diagrams he writes? Well, the above verse gives us God and Ezekiel’s response. When God saw it He filled it with His glory. When Ezekiel saw God’s glory he fell down and worshiped God. That should be our response. God is building a great place for us to fall down and worship Him. That is the point of the descriptions and blue prints. I don’t know anyone whoever looked at the blue print and said, “Wow! That’s amazing.” But, that is what we are being asked to do. The above verse is from a vision of Ezekiel seeing the Temple completed. We only have the prints. But, that should swell up in our hearts and minds the element of adoration for God. That is what He wants. That is what He is designing. We can rejoice that we don’t need these plans to see His glory. Christ is His glory to us in our hearts. We will be able to see and experience this new Temple some day. But, that will be frosting on the cake. We now have Christ, the living word, and we have in descriptions, Christ the written word.
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