The Gate for the Prince
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. Eze 44:7
ye have brought... Four sins of Israel:
1. Israel brought strangers, unsaved and uncircumcised men, into the sanctuary to pollute it.
2. Israel broke God’s covenant.
3. Israel has not kept the charge of His holy things.
4. Israel has set keepers of the sanctuary for themselves and not for Jehovah.
This is probably, speaking of those priests who brought the idolatries into the temple. Notice above, that uncircumcised in heart is mentioned, even before uncircumcised in flesh. Christians who truly belong to God are circumcised in the heart. The abominations ranged from committing spiritual adultery, to not keeping God’s covenant.
God demanded holiness from His people, and a turning from the practice of allowing uncircumcised foreigners into the temple (Eze. 44:9; cf. 44:7).
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