October 7
Ezekiel 45 & Hebrews 12
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Ezekiel 45

Chapter 45

45:1"When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, you must set aside a donation to the Lord, a holy portion of the land, 8?3 miles long and 6?3 miles wide. This entire tract of land will be holy. 2In this area there will be a square section for the sanctuary, 875 by 875 feet, with 87?2 feet of open space all around it. 3From this holy portion, you will measure off an area 8?3 miles long and 3?3 miles wide, in which the sanctuary, the most holy place, will stand. 4It will be a holy area of the land to be used by the priests who minister in the sanctuary, who draw near to serve the Lord. It will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy area for the sanctuary. 5There will be another area 8?3 miles long and 3?3 miles wide for the Levites who minister in the temple; it will be their possession for towns to live in.
6"As the property of the city, you must set aside an area 1?3 of a mile wide and 8?3 miles long, adjacent to the holy donation of land. It will be for the whole house of Israel. 7And the prince will have the area on each side of the holy donation of land and the city's property, adjacent to the holy donation and the city's property, stretching to the west on the west side and to the east on the east side. Its length will correspond to one of the tribal portions from the western boundary to the eastern boundary. 8This will be his land as a possession in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress My people but give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
9"This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far, princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of My people." This is the declaration of the Lord God. 10"You must have honest scales, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure. 11The dry measure and the liquid measure will be uniform, with the liquid measure containing 5?2 gallons and the dry measure holding half a bushel. Their measurement will be a tenth of the standard larger capacity measure. 12The shekel will weigh 20 gerahs. Your mina will equal 60 shekels.
13"This is the contribution you are to offer: Three quarts from five bushels of wheat and three quarts from five bushels of barley. 14The quota of oil in liquid measures will be one percent of every cor. The cor equals 10 liquid measures or one standard larger capacity measure, since 10 liquid measures equal one standard larger capacity measure. 15And the quota from the flock is one animal out of every 200 from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings, to make atonement for the people." This is the declaration of the Lord God. 16"All the people of the land must take part in this contribution for the prince in Israel. 17Then the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the festivals, New Moons, and Sabbaths-for all the appointed times of the house of Israel-will be the prince's responsibility. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.
18"This is what the Lord God says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young, unblemished bull and purify the sanctuary. 19The priest must take some of the blood from the sin offering and apply it to the temple doorposts, the four corners of the altar's ledge, and the doorposts of the gate to the inner court. 20You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for everyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.
21"In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to celebrate the Passover, a festival of seven days during which unleavened bread will be eaten. 22On that day the prince will provide a bull as a sin offering on behalf of himself and all the people of the land. 23During the seven days of the festival, he will provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord on each of the seven days, along with a male goat each day for a sin offering. 24He will also provide a grain offering of half a bushel per bull and half a bushel per ram, along with a gallon of oil for every half bushel. 25At the festival that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, he will provide the same things for seven days-the same sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.

Hebrews 12

Chapter 12

12:1Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us, 2keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God's throne.
3For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you won't grow weary and lose heart. 4In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:
My son, do not take the Lord's discipline lightly
or faint when you are reproved by Him,
6for the Lord disciplines the one He loves
and punishes every son He receives.
7Endure suffering as discipline: God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline? 8But if you are without discipline-which all receive-then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9Furthermore, we had natural fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn't we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live? 10For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but He does it for our benefit, so that we can share His holiness. 11No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the fruit of peace and righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12Therefore strengthen your tired hands and weakened knees, 13and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed instead.
14Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness-without it no one will see the Lord. 15Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and by it, defiling many. 16And make sure that there isn't any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for one meal. 17For you know that later, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected because he didn't find any opportunity for repentance, though he sought it with tears.
18For you have not come to what could be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, gloom, and storm, 19to the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of words. (Those who heard it begged that not another word be spoken to them, 20for they could not bear what was commanded: And if even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned! 21The appearance was so terrifying that Moses said, I am terrified and trembling.) 22Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels in festive gathering, 23to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written in heaven, to God who is the Judge of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect, 24to Jesus (mediator of a new covenant), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.
25Make sure that you do not reject the One who speaks. For if they did not escape when they rejected Him who warned them on earth, even less will we if we turn away from Him who warns us from heaven. 26His voice shook the earth at that time, but now He has promised, Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven. 27This expression, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of what can be shaken-that is, created things-so that what is not shaken might remain. 28Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us hold on to grace. By it, we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, 29for our God is a consuming fire.

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