“And the Lord said to me, “Son of man, take careful notice. Use your eyes and ears, and listen to everything I tell you about the regulations concerning the Lord’s Temple. Take careful note of the procedures for using the Temple’s entrances and exits.
You have brought uncircumcised foreigners into My sanctuary—people who have no heart for God. In this way, you defiled My Temple even as you offered me My food, the fat and blood of sacrifices. In addition to all your other detestable sins, you have broken My covenant. Instead of safeguarding My sacred rituals, you have hired foreigners to take charge of My sanctuary.
A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock. The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.
These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
So this is what the Sovereign Lord says: No foreigners, including those who live among the people of Israel, will enter My sanctuary if they have not been circumcised and have not surrendered themselves to the Lord.
Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.”
{Ezekiel 44:5, 7; John 10:12-13; Matthew 15:8; Ezekiel 44:9; Deuteronomy 10:16}