The glory of the Lord entered the temple by the gate facing east (Ezechiel 43:4)
No-one witnessed the Resurrection of Jesus, but we can wonder about what happened inside the tomb and reflect on prophecies of that moment. Ezechiel narrates that the glory of God left the Temple through its east gate (10:18-19), and then returned through the same gate (43:4).
Perhaps just as Jesus’ life flowed out though his pierced heart, so it was poured back into his body through the same wound in his side, in the darkness of the tomb that first Easter night. Then Ezechiel relates that life-giving water issued from the same eastern gate after God’s glory re-entered it (47:1-2).
