Ezequiel 44:11

11 Aun así podrán servir como guardias del templo y porteros, podrán matar los animales para las ofrendas quemadas y estar presentes para ayudar al pueblo.

Ezequiel 44:11 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 44:11

Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary
Though degraded from their office as priests and ministers of the word, yet being restored from their sins and errors, shall have a place in the house of God, and do their work there in a less honourable and a more servile way; as in former times, when ministers had sinned foully, and were degraded from their office, upon repentance they were not restored to that, but only admitted to lay communion; see ( 2 Kings 23:9 ) : having charge at the gates of the house;
like those sort of Levites who were porters and doorkeepers in the temple, or like our sextons or pew openers now: and ministering to the house;
employed as the Gibeonites were in hewing wood and bringing water for the use of the sanctuary, or in repairing of it; learning and exercising the business of smiths, masons, and carpenters: they shall slay the burnt offering, and the sacrifice for the people;
not bring it to the altar, and offer it there; only slay it, and skin it for the priests; which is not to be understood literally, there being no such sacrifice in Gospel times; but to denote the menial service and inferior post that such shall be employed in; if they have no trade, they shall learn one, in order to get a livelihood for themselves, and be serviceable to the interest of religion in a lower way; but ministers of the word they shall not be: and they shall stand before them to minister unto them;
either before the priests, whose servants they shall be, or before the people; signifying that those that sin publicly shall be rebuked before all.

Ezequiel 44:11 In-Context

9 »”Por lo tanto, esto dice el Señor
Soberano: ningún extranjero, ni siquiera los que vivan entre los israelitas, entrará en mi santuario si no se ha circuncidado y entregado al Señor
.

10 Además, los hombres de la tribu de Leví que me abandonaron cuando Israel se alejó de mí para rendir culto a ídolos
tendrán que sufrir las consecuencias de su infidelidad.

11 Aun así podrán servir como guardias del templo y porteros, podrán matar los animales para las ofrendas quemadas y estar presentes para ayudar al pueblo.

12 Sin embargo, incitaron a mi pueblo a rendir culto a ídolos e hicieron que los israelitas cayeran en un pecado muy grave. Por eso hice un juramento solemne de que tendrán que sufrir las consecuencias por sus pecados, dice el Señor
Soberano.

13 No se les permite acercarse a mí para ministrar como sacerdotes. Tampoco se les permite tocar ninguno de mis objetos santos ni las ofrendas santas, pues deberán cargar con la vergüenza de todos los pecados detestables que cometieron.