Talked yesterday about David buffet table of the word of God, and Ezekiel is only reflecting on these points once more. Ezekiel time period is still under the old covenant of God. Christ had not come in the flesh yet, but would be. This Old Testament covenant is it necessary today as far as religious practice of Old Testament. Is it important to build on the law of the Old Testament to establish faith. The law declares our sin, without knowledge of the law one can not know what sin against God is. Yet is the law established today in the since of faith in the religious aspect of the sacrifices. There is no more sacrifice because Christ was the final sacrifice of our faith. Yet in Ezekiel time revival meant that reestablishing of the Old Covenant and the Sacrificial laws. The Old Covenant in the sense of righteousness because of faith never ceased, but something must be established first between Old and New Testament. Without faith there is no righteousness. Believing in God as far as faith as been important and believing His Word. That part of the covenant never changed from Old to New Testament. The covenant that changed was the Sacrificial law that is spoken of in this chapter, dealing with the purging of sin from Israel and the daily sacrifice for a week to cleanse the temple and the people.

As Christians we must remember that Jesus became our atonement for our sin, the old religious law destroyed in the since of ritualism was no longer necessary to making the sacrifices in modern times or after the crucifixion of Jesus. Yet meantime in the book of Ezekiel the Old religious law would be reestablished to purge the temple and the people of sin. The prophets spoke of a time coming when God would write His laws on the believers heart, yet this was not something new either. For God established the law in the hearts of the people from the time of Moses. The idea of a law that governed the people was known concept by the time of Moses. Yet there was a time of unwritten law, but law that God established with man through and by His Spirit. Abraham lived during this time, though there was a High Priest he paid tithe too and yet Abraham was consider a priest of God. God talked to Abraham and established the covenant of circumcision a reminder of faith. Faith of Abraham being because he did what God told him to because he believed God by going to the Promise Land. The law of sacrifice begin with Cain and Abel. Cain giving sacrifice to God that did not please God.

God’s law of sacrifice had to be established. If God sent His Son in to the world as a sacrifice for us doing away with the Old Covenant of the sacrificial law, then the establishment of faith never changed, but the sacrificial law did. If Israel today re establishes the sacrificial law to purge the temple and the people is this sin against God today. One has to remember that denying of God’s promised redeemer, promised from Old Testament is part of faith. If the Old law of sacrifice was reestablished in the vision of Ezekiel then it was something necessary when Israel was restored, despite under the law of the heathens.

Teaching of the foundation of God begins with faith, not the covenants or ordinance of the Moses law. Why then if the law would change was it reestablished before Christ. It is a reestablishment of the holiness of faith and value of the sacrifice as a reminder the cost to one’s relationship because of sin. Sin separates us from sin, repentance draws us nearer to God. The law of God begins at the heart and not the sacrifices of man. Yet the sacrifices were reminders of faith. God was reestablishing the reminders to help purge the sin from the people. Christ crucifixion purge us by making us guilty of sin and the separation from God because of sin, repentance and the burial of sin through the cross, gave us hope of victory through Christ Jesus. Without the promises of Christ coming the sacrificial laws would have to remain. Jesus died for being the Messiah. He died paying the price of our sin. God would under the new covenant establish His laws by the Holy Spirit in the heart of each believer. The first law being faith. And second law still turning from sin to serve a Living God and His Word.

Reestablishment would remind the people of faith, and hope. Ezekiel day being much harder then it is today, for they were under that Old Covenant. That same covenant David was built upon. The same covenant that was established time of Moses. What did Abraham sacrifice. He sacrifice his family, giving up his family to follow God. He sacrificed his first born for a women, and almost killed the promised seed for his God, who stopped him and gave him a ram for sacrifice instead. Part of faith is obeying God when He speaks to you to do something. Part of faith is trusting God under covenant of Christ.

Dear Heavenly Father thatnk you hope that comes through Christ and for the New Covenant of faith. In Jesus precious name, Amen.