Bible Question:
Ezekiel final chapters. Presuming they are not allegorical. 1) 43:7-12 The Lord is chiding Israel. " ...the place of my throne... The house of Israel will not again defile My holy name... By setting their threshold and their door post beside My doorpost... This is the law of house: it's entire area on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy". I at first believed this is referring to some occasion during the first temple period when there would have been a King's palace in close proximity to the Temple. But I have been told there never was. Even after the time of Ezekiel during the second temple period, the only object ever constructed close by was a Roman fortress. Is this true? 2) 44:5 Talking about the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok. It seems they are being singled out for past exemplary actions and being given higher responsibilities than the remainder of the Levitical priests (Kohens) who had 44:10 "went far from Me when Israel went astray". Am I reading this correctly, that there is a sub group of Levites called Zadokites. Are they distinguishable today from the main group? |
Bible Answer: Hi, John... Welcome to the forum! Up until the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans, it was possible to track back a Jew's ancestry in meticulous records kept there. Those records were destroyed in 70 AD. Consequently, being able to verify the patrilineal descent from Aaron becomes problematic. A general rule of Biblical interpretation is to understand what the Word actually meant to the people to whom a particular book was written. The Word never means something it did not originally mean. In Him, Doc |