sprinkle blood thereon. And thou shalt give to the Priests, the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto Me, to minister unto Me, saith the Lord God, a young bullock for a sin-offering. And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about; thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin-offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary. And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sinoffering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock. And when thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. And thou shalt offer them before the Lord.... Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish ... ... and when these days are expired, it shall be that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt-offerings upon the altar, and your peace-offerings ; AND I WILL ACCEPT YOU, SAITH THE LORD GOD." But further, let us note the language of the forty-fifth chapter. Here again we have the particular sacrifices which are to be offered brought before us, and "THE

PRINCE" is spoken of as having an important office to fulfil in connexion with the offerings. If we refer to the fifteenth verse, we read thus-"One lamb out of the flock, one out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel, for a meat-offering, and for a burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord God. All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the Prince in Israel. And it shall be the Prince's part to give burnt-offerings, and meat-offerings, and drink-offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the Sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: He shall prepare the sin-offering, and the meat-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offering, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel." But we need not quote further, though there remains much wherewith to strengthen our position, and give force.to our assertion, THAT GOD HAS TOLD US PLAINLY, THAT THERE SHALL

BE SACRIFICES ACTUALLY OFFERED UPON THE ALTAR OF THE LORD IN THAT TEMPLE WHICH IS TO BE THE GLORY OF THE MILLENNIAL JERUSALEM-SACRIFICES COMMEMORATIVE OF THE SEVERAL POINTS AND BEAR

INGS OF THE FINISHED WORK OF THE LORD JESUS

1 Probably the Prince" is David, as we have seen in commenting on the thirty-seventh chapter, where we read-"My servant David shall be their prince for ever."

CHRIST. If EZEKIEL's language in this case be figurative, I know not where in the whole Word of God we can find any as to which we have a right to say that it is literal.

But we must refer to the books of other Prophets before we close the subject of this Temple and its services, and see if they give any information which will throw light upon it.

ISAIAH speaks plainly of the Millennial TEMPLE in the second chapter, as an exalted place into which "all nations shall flow," and from which the law and the word of the Lord shall go forth. In the sixty-sixth chapter also we find God speaking of the Priests and Levites whom He will appoint in the day of Israel's restoration, when the tribes shall be brought out of all nations as "an offering unto the Lord."

JEREMIAH tells us in the thirteenth chapter,-"Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the fashion thereof. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving. . . . . In the latter days ye shall consider it." Again in the thirty-third chapter," Neither shall the Priests, the Levites, want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings, and to kindle meat-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually."

MICAH speaks of it in the fourth chapter of his prophecy almost in the same words as those which were used by Isaiah,-"In the last day it shall come to pass that the mountain of the House of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains and many nations shall come and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the House of the God of Jacob, and He will teach us of His ways."

In HAGGAI, the second chapter, God declares,-"Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall come; and I will fill this House with glory, saith the Lord of Hosts..... The glory of this latter House shall be greater than the former, saith the Lord of Hosts; and in this place I will give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts." Surely this was only, as it were, typically fulfilled by the first coming of the Lord. A more perfect accomplishment is demanded by the prophet's language.

ZECHARIAH also speaks very plainly, in the last chapter of his prophecy, where he declares the judgment against all the families of the earth, which "go not up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, at Jerusalem, and to keep the Feast of

Tabernacles," and where also he says, "In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses Holiness unto the Lord; and the pots in the Lord's House shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be Holiness unto the Lord of Hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the House of the Lord of Hosts."

Such is the testimony which it has pleased God to afford respecting the Millennial Temple and the Services thereof. We find that EZEKIEL does not stand, by any means, without support. To him, indeed, was committed the accurate description; but other prophets were to add corroborative testimony, more or less powerful. And now may we not ask with confidence, "WHO ART THOU THAT REPLIEST AGAINST GOD?" Nay, let not poor erring man REPLY, but wait, depending with a simple confidence upon what the Lord has said, till he behold more clearly than EZEKIEL in the vision, the vast glory of the King of kings, and rejoice with all His people in the complete display of those transcendent wonders of His love and power, which will be certainly revealed before the eyes of all whose hearts shall be prepared to render hallowed praise, and join the angels in their blissful adoration.