Ezekiel 48 Study Notes
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48:30-34 The names of the city gates adhere more to Israel’s conventional genealogical traditions.
48:35 The city was square, as is the city in Revelation (specifically, it is a cube; Rv 21:16). They appear to be identical. In many ways the presence of God is the object of the final vision, and perhaps of the book of Ezekiel as a whole. It is the emphatic resolution to the tragic event of God leaving his people in Ezk 8-11 (esp. 10:18-19; see Is 60:14; Jr 23:6). It also fulfills the prophetic promises about the reality of God’s presence among his people in Zion (Is 1:26; 62:2; Zch 8:3). The name The Lord Is There reverses Ezk 10:18-19. This conclusion to chaps. 40-48 communicates the truth that the meaning of human existence is found in the knowledge and worship of God.