In yesterday’s reading there was mention of the holiness of the millennial temple. There in the millennial temple, the house of Israel will never again defile His holy name. In today’s reading there is a contrast between the way the people were defiling the temple then and what the millennial temple will be.  

Ezek 43:7-9
He said: "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile my holy name-- neither they nor their kings-- by their prostitution and the lifeless idols of their kings at their high places. When they placed their threshold next to my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them, they defiled my holy name by their detestable practices. So I destroyed them in my anger. Now let them put away from me their prostitution and the lifeless idols of their kings, and I will live among them forever.

How have we as Believers in Jesus defiled His holy name by placing our threshold (our limits) next to His? Our doorposts (our laws) beside His? Have we defiled His holy name by joining secularism with God’s ordained holy festivals? (Christmas???) Have we sacrificed His commands on the altars of paganism? 

Concerning the priests, Ezekiel has these instructions.
Ezek 44:23-24
They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean. "'In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees for all my appointed feasts, and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.
The priests then and the spiritual leaders today are to teach the people the difference between the holy and the common and between the clean and the unclean.  Spiritual leaders are charged with the responsibility of telling people what sin is.  They are also charged with keeping the laws and decrees for God's appointed feasts and Sabbaths.  The Sabbath day is not just the regular weekly Sabbath.  The holy days (feasts and festivals) are also Sabbaths.

Ezekiel 47 mentions the Millennial Temple's river and also fruit trees.  These trees are for food and their leaves for healing.  These trees will be used to maintain a state of health for Believers who enter into the millennial kingdom.

Ezek 48:35b
"And the name of the city from that time on will be: THE LORD IS THERE."
This verse does not just mean that this is the name of the city.  It means that the presence of the glory of God will again dwell in the temple.  Indeed, THE LORD IS THERE."

There are commands for the millennial kingdom concerning the observance of God’s holy festivals, specifically Passover and the Feast (Feast of Tabernacles). If these are observances that God has ordained for believers, shouldn’t we as Believers in Jesus be remembering them now?

Feast of Tabernacles begins on September 18 this year. We will have a remembrance at our house beginning with a fellowship meal at 6:00 pm and teaching about Feast of Tabernacles will follow. Email us at philandpatti@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.