Ezekiel - Chapters 40-48 - The New Temple

This vision from the Lord came to Ezekiel in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city of Jerusalem which would be around 572 BC. He had already seen a vision of the glory of the Lord leaving the temple, because of the sin of the Israelites who desecrated the temple with idols, and now he receives a vision that the glory of the Lord is coming back to the new temple. Ezekiel "took a tour" of the place, and then he witnessed the glory of the Lord in chapter 43. He then sees the altar, and then there is a reference to a "prince" who come and 46:17 says, "It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths - at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel."  That is what Jesus, the son of God, the prince, did when He died on the cross for us. He provided the offering in our place. In chapter 47 there is a River from the temple that no one could cross, which ties in with Genesis two where there was a river flowing from Eden to water the garden, and in Revelation 22 where a river of life flows and waters the trees. The book ends with the boundaries and the divisions of the land, and it ends, "And the name of the city from that time on will be: 'The Lord is There!'"