{"id":725,"date":"2007-09-11T07:18:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T07:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/ezekiel_chapter_30.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:32","slug":"ezekiel_chapter_30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/ezekiel_chapter_30.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel &#8211; Chapter 40 &#8211; 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ezekiel 40-42 &#8211; <em>Three<\/em> entire chapters of measurements and descriptions of a temple.  Cubits, cubits, cubits!  It&#8217;s hard for me to follow, yet in Ezekiel 40:4 God tell Ezekiel to &#8220;set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.&#8221;  Perhaps the detailed description is because Ezekiel took that charge seriously and wanted to bring back an accurate description of what he had seen.<br \/>\nI have to admit, I only skimmed these chapters.   I always wonder if I&#8217;m missing the point of passages like this.  I suspect it had more meaning to Israel than it does for us today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezekiel 40-42 &#8211; Three entire chapters of measurements and descriptions of a temple. Cubits, cubits, cubits! 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