Reference

Ezekiel 43:18

And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
16

And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.

17

And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.

18

And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

19

And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord God, a young bullock for a sin offering.

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And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.

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While the verse describes concrete actions, the "ordinances of the altar" could be interpreted as symbolic of spiritual worship or a renewed covenant, rather than a literal physical altar in a future temple.

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The verse describes ordinances for an altar and states "thus saith the Lord God," which indicates a divine message, but it does not describe *how* that message was communicated to Ezekiel (e.g., vision, audible voice, etc.).