Isa 2:3, 60:3, 6-7, Eze 43:2, 4-5, 44:4 | JFB | STEP | 3. If the curse foretold against Israel has been literally fulfilled, so shall the promised blessing be literal. We Gentiles must not, while giving them the curse, deny them their peculiar blessing by spiritualizing it. The Holy Ghost shall be poured out for a general conversion then ( ; , ; ). from Jerusalem-- ( ) an earnest of the future relations of Jerusalem to Christendom ( , ).

‏ Isaiah 2:3

3. If the curse foretold against Israel has been literally fulfilled, so shall the promised blessing be literal. We Gentiles must not, while giving them the curse, deny them their peculiar blessing by spiritualizing it. The Holy Ghost shall be poured out for a general conversion then (Jr 50:5; Zec 8:21, 23; Joe 2:28).

from Jerusalem--(Lu 24:47) an earnest of the future relations of Jerusalem to Christendom (Ro 11:12, 15).

‏ Isaiah 60:3

3. (Is 2:3; 11:10; 43:6; 49:22; 66:12).

kings--(Is 49:7, 23; 52:15).

thy rising--rather, "thy sun-rising," that is, "to the brightness that riseth upon thee."

‏ Isaiah 60:6-7

6. camels--laden with merchandise; the camel is "the ship of the desert" (compare Is 30:6).

cover thee--so many of them shall there be.

dromedaries--They have one hunch on the back, whereas the camel has two: distinguished for swiftness (Jr 2:23).

Midian--east of the Elanitic branch of the Red Sea, and stretching northward along Mount Seir. Associated with the Ishmaelites in traffic (Ge 37:25, 28).

Ephah--part of Midian, east of the Dead Sea. It abounded in camels (Jud 6:5).

Sheba--in Arabia-Felix, famed for frankincense and gold (Psa 72:15; Jr 6:20), which they traded in (Is 45:14; Job 6:19; Eze 27:22).

7. Kedar--(Is 21:16; So 1:5), in the south of Arabia-Deserta, or north of Arabia-Petræa; they traded in flocks (Eze 27:21).

Nebaioth--son of Ishmael, as was Kedar. Father of the Nabatheans in Arabia-Petræa.

minister--by coming up as an acceptable sacrifice.

come up with acceptance--that is, acceptably. The rams offering themselves voluntarily (Psa 68:30; Ro 12:1; 1Pe 2:5), without waiting for any other priest, answer to believers strong in faith and lamb-like meekness; and in the white fleece-like robe of sanctity [Vitringa].

house of my glory--the temple (Eze 41:1-26; Hag 2:7, 9; Mal 3:1).

‏ Ezekiel 43:2

CHAPTER 43 Eze 43:1-27. Jehovah's Return to the Temple.

Everything was now ready for His reception. As the Shekinah glory was the peculiar distinction of the old temple, so it was to be in the new in a degree as much more transcendent as the proportions of the new exceeded those of the old. The fact that the Shekinah glory was not in the second temple proves that it cannot be that temple which is meant in the prophecy.

2. the way of the east--the way whereby the glory had departed (Eze 11:22, 23), and rested on Mount Olivet (compare Zec 14:4).

his voice ... like ... many waters--So English Version rightly, as in Eze 1:24, "voice of the Almighty"; Re 1:15; 14:2, prove this. Not as Fairbairn translates, "its noise."

earth his glory--(Re 18:1).

‏ Ezekiel 43:4-5

‏ Ezekiel 44:4

4-6. Directions as to the priests. Their acts of desecration are attributed to "the house of Israel" (Eze 44:6, 7), as the sins of the priesthood and of the people acted and reacted on one another; "like people, like priest" (Jr 5:31; Ho 4:9).