And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
These eight tables show us what the gospel-temple will become: not one altar in the midst, but many tables for many spiritual sacrifices brought by many hands. The tables, the knives, the hooks, the washing, all this readiness speaks to us: come with clean hands and a washed heart, for you cannot draw near to God's altar in disorder.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 40:39-49
The chamber facing south belongs to the priests who keep the charge of God's house, observing all His laws and ordinances. Yet this duty belongs not to priests alone but to all true believers, who are priests unto God and must present themselves as a living sacrifice through Christ.
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Eze 40:38-47 Eze 40:38. And a cell with its door was by the pillars at the gates; there they had to wash the burnt-offering. Eze 40:39. And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that, to slay thereon the burnt-offering, the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering. Eze 40:40.
Commenting on Ezekiel 40:38-47