In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me to the city.
The Lord gave His clearest promise of deliverance in the midnight of captivity, when they needed it most. A ruined Jerusalem, desolate and forsaken, was set before the prophet on a high mountain so he could see not merely what was lost, but what God would restore: a city that is a temple, where God dwells with men and men dwell with God.
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The distribution here is cast in a new method entirely: old things pass away, all things become new in gospel times. God does not follow in grace the same order He uses in providence; Dan, who fell to idolatry and got only a city before, now receives his portion first and foremost, signifying that in Christ the last shall be first.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 40:1-4
The tenth day of the month carries weight: if it is Tishri, it is the Day of Atonement, when the prophet sees the Gospel church receiving the atonement by Christ's sacrifice; if Nisan, it is when the passover lamb was separated, foreshadowing Christ's being sacrificed for us. The vision comes fourteen years after Jerusalem's walls were demolished and its people scattered.
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