Sharper Iron From Kfuo Radio

Rev. Matt Wietfeldt, Director of Admissions and the Christ Academy program at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, IN, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Ezekiel 40:1-27. Ezekiel’s book comes to a grand climax and conclusion with the vision he receives of the new temple. In the first part of Ezekiel’s ministry, the LORD condemned His people’s idolatry, prompting Him to leave His temple. Yet after the temple was destroyed, the LORD brought Ezekiel into the second part of his ministry, in which he comforted the people of God with the promise of restoration and rescue. Those promises are brought to fulfillment in Ezekiel’s vision of a new temple, in which the LORD will dwell with His people forever. This vision is not intended as a blueprint for a structure to be built; rather, through this vision the LORD intends to prepare the hearts of His people to receive Christ as Savior when He comes. Ezekiel’s vision of the outer courts of the temple reminds us that through faith in Christ, both Jew and Gent