In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
God renews His covenant with Israel through this vision, much as He once did through Moses. They must remember their former sins, how they defiled His name by setting their own thresholds and doorposts beside His, mixing their inventions with His institutions as if human commands held equal weight with divine ones. This conviction prepares them for the mercy that follows.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 43:7-12
When men open ways into God's house that He never directed, they set their threshold by His. The Gospel's entrance is Christ Himself and faith in Him; but when churches substitute carnal descent, mere morality, or human tradition for His ordinance, they oppose Him. Such substitution, whether Pharisaic tradition or papal additions, defies God and brings separation from Him.
AI summary
In their setting of their threshold - They had even gone so far as to set up their idol altars by those of Jehovah; so that their abominable idols were found in the very house of God! therefore, "he consumed them in his anger."