Genesis 6:1-7:10; Job 8:1-22; Matthew 5:1-20
They shall enter My sanctuary, and they shall come near My table to minister to Me. Ezekiel 44:16 NKJV
This is a millenial passage. In it, two groups of priests are identified. The first group were “ministers of the house”. Because of previous compromise, they were limited to ministering to the people of God. The other group, the sons of Zadok, had maintained their integrity. God said of them, “They shall come near…to minister to Me”. The first group’s ministry was for the people of God. The sons of Zadok had a greater privilege, that of drawing near and worshipping the Person of God. Our work for God’s people is valuable; our worship of God is a higher calling. —Gary McBride
Come, let us sing the matchless worth,
And sweetly sound the glories forth;
Which in the Saviour shine. —S. Medley