Weekly Guide：2024-2025 Week 63

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Weekly Guide：2024-2025 Week 63

March 16, 2025

Week 63 Day 1: Mountains of Israel ⇧ ⇩

Question

What did the Lord say about the Mountains of Israel?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

The prophet set his face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it, because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax.
The prophet prophesy against the Mountains of Israel, because the enemies ravaged and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander.
Mountains of Israel will produce branches and fruit for people of Israel. The Lord concerned for Israel and will look on with favor, it will be plowed and sown.

Meditation: My Story

Community - The Mount Seir was punished because of their ancient hostility they delivered Israel over to the sword when they faced their punishment. How does God look at those who hold grudges against others? What warning does the punishment for Seir remind me of?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 63 Day 2: Bones came Alive ⇧ ⇩

Question

What became of Israel?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

The Lord said, because Israel had shed blood in the land and because they had defiled it with their idols, I dispersed them among the nations and poured out my wrath on them.
The Lord said, it is not for your sake, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name.
The Lord said, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you and I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
The Lord said, I will make their people as numerous as sheep.
The Spirit of the Lord brought Ezekiel out in the middle of a valley full of bones, led him back and forth among them, and commanded Ezekiel to prophesy to these bones. Breath entered the bones, they came to life, stood up, and became a vast army.
These bones are people of Israel. The Lord is going to open their graves and bring them up and back to the land of Israel.
The Lord said, I am going to take the stick of Joseph - which is in Ephraim’s hand - and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah’s stick.
The Lord will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel.
David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees.

Meditation: My Story

Identity - God gave promise to Israel to restore them. To the foreigners, this must have been a big joke. God gave Ezekiel the vision of the bones to up lift his faith. Am I losing faith? How does Ezekiel’s vision encourage me?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 63 Day 3: Turn Against Gog ⇧ ⇩

Question

What happened to Gog?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

The Lord told Ezekiel, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him.
When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused in my zeal and fiery wrath, declares the Sovereign Lord.
Prophesy against Gog, the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal.
Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up for seven years.
I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east of the Sea.
Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: Assemble and on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
The Lord will display His glory among the nations that the people of Israel will know that the Lord is their God.
The Lord said, I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob and will compassion on all the people of Israel, they will be brought back from the nations.

Meditation: My Story

Identity - When prophesy against Gog, the Lord emphasized that His holy name was profaned and yet His glory would be made known. In the sinful and wretched world today, do I see the Lord’s name being profaned? What should my reaction to such profanity be?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 63 Day 4: Surveying for Temple ⇧ ⇩

Question

What did the prophet’s vision mean?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

In the fourteenth year after the fall of the city, the Lord was on Ezekiel and in visions of God, He took Ezekiel to the land of Israel and set him on a very high mountain, on whose south side were some buildings that looked like a city.
A wall completely surrounding the temple area. A man with measuring rod went to the east gate. He climbed the steps and measured the threshold of the gate.
He measured the length and width of the north gate, leading into the outer court.
Then he led me to the south side and I saw the south gate. He measured its jambs and its portico, and they had the same measurements as the others.
Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements as the others.
Then he brought me to the north gate and measured it. It had the same measurements as the others, as did its alcoves, its projecting walls and its portico.
A room with a doorway was by the portico in each of the inner gateways, where the burnt offerings were washed.
Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two rooms, which were rooms for singers.
He brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the jambs of the portico.

Meditation: My Story

Identity - The Israel had waited for God’s promise for more than ten years. They must have been deeply moved when the prophet saw the vision of surveying for the temple. Am I waiting for God’s promise to be realized? Do I know His will?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 63 Day 5: Measuring the Temple ⇧ ⇩

Question

What was the order in measuring the temple’s dimensions?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Measuring the temple’s dimensions.
Measuring the side rooms’ dimensions around the temple.
Measuring the priests’ rooms’ dimensions.
Measuring the area’s dimensions around the temple.

Meditation: My Story

Identity - What were the purposes to separate the holy area from the common? How should I separate myself from the common? How may I, from my heart, do everything for the will of the Lord and not for the will of others?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 63 Day 6: Viewing the Temple ⇧ ⇮

Question

How did the glory of God return to the temple?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

At the gate facing eat, the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with His glory.
Let the Israelites put away their prostitution, and the Lord will live among them forever.
Describe the temple to the people of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their sins and let them consider the temple’s perfection.
Measure the altar in long cubits. Instruct the regulations after completion of the altar.
The outer gate of the sanctuary, the one facing east, is to remain shut because the Lord has entered through it. The prince is to enter by way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way.
By way of the north gate to the front of the temple, the glory of the Lord was seen filling the temple of the Lord.
The priests were denounced for their detestable practices.
No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh is to enter the sanctuary, not even the foreigners who live among the Israelites.
The Levitical priests, who are descendants of Zadok are to come near to minister before the Lord; they are to stand before the Lord to offer sacrifices of fat and blood.
Establish decrees with the priests that the Lord will be their inheritance.

Meditation: My Story

Integrity - The Lord lives in the holy temple and it shall not be defiled by detestable practices. Today, it is our body the temple of the Lord and shall not be defiled by detestable practices. How may I stay alert and not defile my body?