Ezekiel 46:9-15 – Being disciplined and organized.

The fifth regulation given from Ezekiel 46:9-15 concerns matter regarding worship. Verses 9-10 has to do with ensuring orderliness when large crowd come together for annual festivals and celebration. To avoid chaotic movement, the people that came together were expected to move only in one straight direction. They do not exit from the gate they came through to the outer court. They must exit from the one opposite from the gate they entered by.

Verse 11 stipulates the amount of grain and oil along with every animal the people has to offered with the sacrifice. Verse 12 prescribes what is to be done when the prince makes a voluntary offering. The gate facing the east that would be usually shut would be opened to enable him to observe the offering.

Apart from the weekly, monthly, and annual sacrifices, there was the daily sacrifices. Verses 13-15 specify what to do for the daily sacrifice. Previously, this was done morning and night. The prescription in these verses said that the daily sacrifice would only be offered morning by morning.

One thing about our God is sure, He is meticulous, logical, and orderly. Just as He had systematically created the world, worship and celebration must not be offered chaotically. Everything God does, there is orderliness. We see orderliness when He began the work of creation. Today we can see His orderliness in how nature continue to work. Whether in the order of day and night or in seasons or in the planetary movement we see orderliness. Let’s emulate Him and be known as people that are disciplined and organized.