Day 179 – April 22, 2024: Ezekiel 46-48 and Psalms 67-70

Ezekiel ends with more of a whimper than a bang. But the Psalms do provide us with some verses that we can look at and recognize that they are used in a variety of different places that are families. Look at Psalm 67:1 and it should sound familiar because it is very similar to the priestly blessing or benediction which we find in Numbers 6:24-26. Here we see God blessing the people of Israel through Moses in the same way that the Psalmist recounts that God has blessed the people of Israel continuously.

We also see in 69:9 the verse that the Gospel writers use to describe what happens when Jesus enters Jerusalem and clears out the temple. Zeal for the house of his father shall consume him. Jesus’ zeal drives him to kick the people out of the temple. Ezekiel is all about the rebuilding of the temple which makes sense that we would have a Scripture which descrives the zeal we should have for the house of the Lord, which in turn is really zeal for the Lord in general.