Ezekiel 46:21

21 He proceeded to take me to the outside courtyard and around to each of its four corners. In each corner I observed another court.

Ezekiel 46:21 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 46:21

Then he brought me forth into the utter court
From the holy chambers of the priests, and from viewing the place where they boiled the sacrifices, and baked the meat offering: and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court;
in each of the four corners of the outward court there was another court; signifying that there will be courts or churches in the several parts of the world in the latter day.

Ezekiel 46:21 In-Context

19 Then the man brought me through the north gate into the holy chambers assigned to the priests and showed me a back room to the west.
20 He said, "This is the kitchen where the priests will cook the guilt offering and sin offering and bake the grain offering so that they won't have to do it in the outside courtyard and endanger the unprepared people out there with The Holy."
21 He proceeded to take me to the outside courtyard and around to each of its four corners. In each corner I observed another court.
22 In each of the four corners of the outside courtyard were smaller courts sixty by forty-five feet, each the same size.
23 On the inside walls of the courts was a stone shelf, and beneath the shelves, hearths for cooking.
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