Featured Blog: Selwin Christian
Today’s featured blog article was written by Selwin Christian back in April 2025 called Ezekiel’s Temple Sacrifices and the New Covenant. The article was written as a research paper for The Master’s Seminary.
I am thankful for Selwin and his continued to desire to study and grow in God’s Word. I pray that his work is an encouragement to study more seriously Ezekiel 40-48 and recognize how it comports with New Covenant realities.
Taken from the Introduction:
One of the hotly debated topics in the eschatological conundrum is to find the exact nature of Ezekiel’s temple sacrifices in the light of the New Covenant. Scripture must be read in its normal, plain sense unless the text demands some kind of symbolism. But those with allegorical hermeneutics reject the plain and literal view of the temple and hence find it utterly impossible to consider future sacrifices to be literal in the light of Christ and His finished work. We meet with the dilemma, how to exactly interpret Ezekiel’s temple and sacrifices. Those who apply allegorical sense, approach the meaning through the lens of the New Testament and try to read the New Testament into the Old Testament. We will first analyze the New Testament Priority hermeneutics. This paper will argue that the New testament priority hermeneutics disregards the basic details of the text for the Ezekiel’s temple sacrifices and misreads the authorial intent, though the later revelation is important, as far as the New Covenant is concerned the exegetical answer is found in the Old Testament itself without contradiction.
