Ezekiel 42 Commentary
There is a thin line between the holy and the unholy, so we are told. But that is out there. In scripture, such things don’t exist. The wall separating the holy and the unholy is 3 meters thick, about 10.2 feet! Verse 20b.
This chapter is about the two other buildings within the Temple complex. The Temple complex is actually a city within a 3-meter thick solid wall, measuring 1,000 meters in total length and standing at 3 meters in height. The LORD has shown Ezekiel objects that his audience easily understood. You can see how the architectural drawing of the complex neatly compares with the Babylonian architecture of the time!
This vision represented the hopes and aspirations of the believing remnant. They longed for a place of worship. By this vision, the LORD confirms that the New Jerusalem would have an imposing structure to house the name of the LORD. This structure and the complex around it would be secure from enemy invasions. And we shouldn’t miss the point. The enemy is actually unholiness. Verse 20b.
Ezekiel makes the point that Israel’s enemy wasn’t Babylon of his day or Gog of Ezekiel’s immediate and distant future. The real enemy was unholiness! The LORD commanded all men to be holy because He, the LORD is holy. He calls men and women to be ‘separate’. The walls and the emphasis on their thickness demonstrate the need for separation.
The vision also instructed the remnant on the need to remain separate in a world that was definitely defined by paganism and for paganism – much like our world today.
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