Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 43:27
And when these days are expired, it shall be, [that] upon the eighth day, and [so] forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.
After this inauguration the regular service shall be resumed, and be acceptable unto God (compare Mal 1:11).
The Epistle to the Hebrews Heb. 810 helps us to recognize in this vision the symbol of the purification of the Church of God by the cleansing blood of Christ, Victim and priest.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
When these days are expired; when you have on every day of these seven offered the sacrifices as appointed, and for the ends mentioned.
Upon the eighth day, which begins a new week and it is probable the first of these seven days for sacrifice might be the sabbath, and end on our Friday; however, the first week is spent in solemn consecration of altar and priests; all weeks after are to have, day by day, the usual appointed sacrifices.
Burnt-offerings; which were sacrifices expiatory, and for atonement of sin.
Upon the altar of burnt-offering, the great brazen altar described in this chapter, Eze 43:13-17.
Peace-offerings; sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving unto God for his goodness.
I will accept you; be well-pleased with your persons, pardon your sins, smell a savour of rest in your thanksgiving, and own you with signal tokens of my favour and kindness; I will show my good-will and delight in you.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
27. I will accept you(Eze 20:40; Eze 20:41;Rom 12:1; 1Pe 2:5).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And when these days are expired,…. The seven days of consecration, and all these rites and sacrifices observed:
it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward; that is, on the first day of the week, or Lord’s day, the Christian sabbath, the next day after the seventh, and so upon every return of it; in which Christian ministrations are exercised, the word preached, ordinances administered, and works of righteousness and charity done; see
Joh 20:19.
The priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; or “thank offerings” c; preach Christ and him crucified to the people, and offer up the sacrifices of prayer and praise unto God for them:
and I will accept you, saith the Lord God; through Christ the Mediator, in whom he is well pleased; who is the altar on which such sacrifices are accepted, and become well pleasing to God, Isa 56:7.
c “eucharistica vestraz”, Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Piscator.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
REFLECTIONS
READER, let not an eye be taken off this glorious vision the Prophet saw; but let us look stedfastly and steadily on Him, who came from the way of the east in the glory of God. Hear the well known voice of Jesus, as the voice of many waters. Behold, the earth shining with his glory: and then contemplate under all, the glorious person of the Lord Jesus, teaching and explaining all things, in the great events contained in this Chapter concerning himself.
Was this house a type of the Gospel Church? Do all his people whom he hath made kings and priests to God and the Father, belong to this house? Ask then your own heart, yea, let every Reader ask himself, what entrance hath been admitted to him into this holy house? Have you got boldness to enter into it by the only way in which any can enter, even by the blood of Jesus. By whom did you enter, and who was the porter that opened to your view Jesus and his glory; Jesus, and all his sufficiency; and prompted you to believe in him? What are the sanctifying impressions wrought upon your soul by this allowed entrance? Here you see your own vileness, and Jesus’s glory? Are you well pleased for his righteousness sake, and do you repose in it? Are you renouncing all other holiness, and fully determined to be found in Christ’s only? These enquiries, when truly answered, are sweet, and precious evidences of being entered in; and that He, whom Ezekiel saw in vision, you have seen also by faith, and are rejoicing now in hope of the glory of God! Precious Lord Jesus! do as thou hast said. Dwell now forever in the midst of thy people, and suffer them no longer to be defiled in their abominations, but be thou their God, and make them thy people; and cause them through thy grace, to separate themselves, and come out from among all the polluted around, that they may touch not the unclean things, but be truly, and in heart, made the sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty! Amen.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 43:27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, [that] upon the eighth day, and [so] forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.
Ver. 27. It shall be upon the eighth day. ] The services of mortified men shall be accepted, on the eighth day especially, the Christian Sabbath, in the holy assemblies.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
your . . . you: i.e. nationally, not individually. See note on “ordinance”, &c., Eze 43:18.
I will accept you, Reference to Pentateuch (Lev 22:27. Deu 33:11). App-92.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
that upon: Lev 9:1
make: Rom 15:16, Phi 2:17, Heb 13:15
peace offerings: or, thank offerings
I will accept: Eze 20:40, Eze 20:41, Job 42:8, Hos 8:13, Rom 12:1, Eph 1:6, Col 1:20, Col 1:21, 1Pe 2:5
Reciprocal: Exo 29:36 – every day Lev 16:6 – for himself Deu 33:10 – whole Deu 33:11 – accept Eze 45:17 – peace offerings Mal 3:4 – the offering
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 43:27. The initial service of 7 days was not to be the end of their religious activities. After that and so forward the offerings were to be offered on the altar under the supervision of the priests.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
After the completion of this consecration ceremony, from the eighth day onward, the priests were to offer burnt and peace offerings on this altar. The Lord promised to accept the worship of His people if they followed this procedure.
"Although all the offerings of Leviticus are not detailed here, it is considered by some that they are implied, and they may well be. Prospectively they all pointed to Christ, so this would be in keeping with that truth in the retrospective sense." [Note: Feinberg, p. 256.]
Most premillennialists believe that the millennial sacrifices will be memorials of Christ’s sacrifice and will have nothing to do with removing sin. [Note: E.g., Ibid., p. 254; Walvoord, The Millennial . . ., pp. 312-14; and Clive A. Thomson, "The Necessity of Blood Sacrifices in Ezekiel’s Temple," Bibliotheca Sacra 123:491 (July 1966):237-48.] However, some premillennialists argue that since Christ will be personally present on earth during the Millennium, these sacrifices may really purge sins, the sins of believers. [Note: E.g., Charles C. Ryrie, Dispensationalism Today, p. 127; Jerry M. Hullinger, "The Problem of Animal Sacrifices in Ezekiel 40-48," Bibliotheca Sacra 152:607 (July-September 1995):279-89; idem, "The Divine Presence, Uncleanness, and Ezekiel’s Millennial Sacrifices," Bibliotheca Sacra 163:652 (October-December 2006): 405-22; idem, "The Function of the Millennial Sacrifices in Ezekiel’s Temple, Part 1," Bibliotheca Sacra 167:665 (January-March 2010):40-57; idem, "The Function of the Millennial Sacrifices in Ezekiel’s Temple, Part 2," Bibliotheca Sacra 167:666 (April-June 2010):166-79; and T. Allis, Prophecy and the Church, pp. 247-48.] The argument rests on the meaning of "atone." Now Christians confess our sins and receive forgiveness (1Jn 1:9), but now Christ is not present on earth. When He is personally present and in closer contact with His people, it may take more than just confession to secure adequate cleansing. This may be a correct explanation for the presence of sacrifices in the Millennium, but it seems impossible to be dogmatic about that now. A third view is that the sacrifices are not literal, but that Ezekiel was describing worship in the future in terms and forms that he and his original hearers knew. [Note: E.g., Ironside, p. 305; and Keil, 2:417.]