Ezekiel 42:4

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces toward the north.

Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

For many are called, but few chosen.”

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.

For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house;

Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in Yahweh’s house, and they prepared them.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate.

He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side, and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent.

He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court

Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north. Then he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building toward the north.

Then he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.

Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width, shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, as a possession for themselves, for twenty rooms.

Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked toward the north. Behold, there was a place on the back part westward.

Then he brought me out into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?” He said to them,

Yahweh said to him, “Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break out against them.”

All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

even those who were counted of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.

Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;

They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”

Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.

He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in the folds of your robe.

But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Then he brought me into the outer court. Behold, there were rooms and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms were on the pavement.

He led me toward the south; and behold, there was a gate toward the south. He measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements.

A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there.

Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They faced toward the south. One at the side of the east gate faced toward the north.

The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported, and not penetrate the wall of the house.

The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.

Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

The doors of the side rooms were toward an open area that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around.

In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms.

The way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north; according to their length so was their width: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.