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We want to get into the study of

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Ezekiel tonight and right off the top, I

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would like to confess to you that of

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all of the Bible and the passages in

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the Bible, I understand this the least.

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I do not pretend to have a full

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and complete understanding of Ezekiel chapters 40 through

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48.

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In fact, I have greater difficulty with these

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passages than I do any other section of

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the Bible.

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And because I do lack personally in an

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understanding of this section, I do find it

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extremely difficult to minister from this particular section

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of the scriptures.

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I can't wait till I get back and

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get into the book of Daniel.

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And when we return, we'll take your next

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assignment will be Daniel, the first six chapters.

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And I can hardly wait to get into

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Daniel because that I understand.

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Now, Ezekiel up to this point, I have,

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I feel a pretty good grasp and understanding

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of it.

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But beginning tonight with chapter 40 and going

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through the end, I get lost.

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I don't understand it completely.

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And to help an understanding because he is

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describing the new temple that is to be

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built now from the description of this temple,

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it will be a temple that will be

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built during the kingdom age.

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After the return of Jesus Christ, this will

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not be the temple that would be rebuilt

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during, uh, the, in the very near future

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under the, uh, decree that is made by

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the antichrist.

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But this is yet future.

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Now we've passed out diagrams for you by

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which we have sought to more or less

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draw a diagram for you of this new

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temple that it is to be built.

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Notice that basically it is square and the

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outer walls of this temple are 500 cubits

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long and 500 cubits broad.

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Now this is the, the building itself.

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Outside of this, there is the wall that

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is 5,000 or 500 reads.

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Now to help you understand, we get into

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cubits, reads, and we're into types of measurements

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that are not familiar with us.

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According to the definition, the cubit here is

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a cubit plus a span, the cubit that

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he measured with, which would be the cubit

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is the length from your elbow to your

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fingertips.

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And the span of course, is, uh, from

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your thumb to your fingertip.

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So the length from your elbow to your

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fingertip, about 18 inches plus the span gives

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you about 24 inches.

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So you're dealing with cubits of 24 inches.

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Now, as you look at this diagram again,

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you notice this outer, uh, wall of the

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building would then be about a thousand feet,

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500 cubits, which would make it about a

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thousand feet, which means that that is a

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fairly good size building, uh, comprising a hundred

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thousand square feet within, uh, the perimeters of

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the building.

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Uh, so then you notice this inner court,

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that inner court is a hundred cubits square,

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which would mean about 200 feet square.

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size of this building.

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It is quite large indeed and inner court

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The, this building from wall to wall is

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about 180 feet.

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same distance back and you have the inner

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court here, which is about a 200 foot

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square.

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Uh, so that helps you then to get

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the overall, uh, idea of the overall size

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of the building.

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It is a quite, uh, quite a large

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building, the new temple that will be built

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plus the wall that goes around it at

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5,000 or 500 reads a read is

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five of these cubits, which would be 10

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feet in length.

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So the wall around the whole thing would

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be almost a mile square.

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Now at the present time in Jerusalem, there

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is no area where this could be built,

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especially on the temple Mount, the temple Mount

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that was vastly enlarged by King Herod is

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nowhere near a mile square.

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In fact, the whole old city of Jerusalem

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is just about a mile square.

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So when Jesus returns and prior to the

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return of Jesus Christ, there are to be

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many cataclysmic events.

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The book of revelation, for instance, describes a

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tremendous earthquake that is going to Joel Jerusalem

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so that a 10th part of the city

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will be destroyed.

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This plus the other cataclysmic events that are

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described in the book of revelation, uh, the

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present situation of Jerusalem with the earthquake.

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a great cataclysmic event in that the Mount

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of olives will be splitting in the middle

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and a new Valley will be formed.

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And no doubt with the new Valley that

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is formed and this great shaking of the

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earth, a new mountain will be shoved up

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and this mountain will be called Mount Zion

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and it will be very high in the

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side of all of the earth.

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According to the prophecies that are in Isaiah

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and in Jeremiah, so that the new temple

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will be built then upon this new Mount

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Zion.

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area that is devoted for the temple, but

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you see the diagram here of the buildings

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themselves.

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And thus, as you go through Ezekiel, beginning

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with chapter 40, as Ezekiel is taken by

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the spirit and is shown this new temple

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of God, it's in the 20th year of

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our captivity, which would have been the year

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five 72 BC in the beginning of the

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year, which would have been April the 10th

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day of the month in the 14th year

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after the city was smitten in the self,

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same day the hand of the Lord was

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upon me and brought me feather in the

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visions of God.

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He brought me into the land of Israel.

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He set me up on a very high

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mountain by which was the frame of the

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city on the South.

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So there is a very new high mountain

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that rises up, uh, there in Israel, uh,

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in the area of Jerusalem.

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was a man whose appearance was like the

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appearance of brass with a line of flax

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in his hand and with a majoring read,

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he stood in the gate and the man

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said unto me, son of man, behold with

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your eyes and here with your ears and

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set your heart upon all that I will

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show you for to the intent that I

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might show them unto the, you have been

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brought here.

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So he meets the man who introduces himself

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and says, now, you know, pay careful attention

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to all these things I'm showing you because

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for this purpose, you've been brought here and

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then declare all that you see to the

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house of Israel.

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So in these passages we are dealing in

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the kingdom age and with the house of

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Israel, we are not dealing with the church

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and really this temple that is to be

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built and it's worship is not related to

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the church, but it is related to Israel

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in the kingdom age.

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And so it is to be really like

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be related to the house of Israel.

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Now, behold, there was a wall on the

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outside of the house roundabout in the man's

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hand, a majoring read of six cubits long.

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10 feet, uh, by the cubit and a

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hand breadth about 12 feet.

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He measured the breadth of the building one

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read in the height one read.

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Then he came to the gate, which looked

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toward the east.

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Now you notice on the bottom of your

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diagram, we've drawn here the gate towards the

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east.

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There are seven steps leading up into that

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gate and the gate itself becomes a corridor

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because on either side you have these rooms,

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uh, that go along and then the area

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known as the payment sort of a porch,

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portico, uh, arch porch area, uh, that is

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in the pavement there.

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Uh, and uh, it describes the porch and

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the arches and, uh, the, uh, various, uh,

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carvings of the cherubim, uh, that are upon,

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uh, these, uh, arches and on these posts.

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go through and, uh, and, and follow this

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all with you.

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It gets very laborious and therefore I'm going

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to allow you, uh, that opportunity if you

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so desire to get the thing in your

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mind, uh, to take the diagram that we

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have prepared for you and, uh, and, and

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as best you can follow it through, read

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it out and, and, and see if you

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can more or less, uh, figure this whole

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thing out.

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Uh, you have, uh, the inner court in

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verse 27 toward the south.

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Now you'll notice that there are gates that

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come in on three sides, both into the,

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uh, outer court area here and then in

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three more gates corresponding with the outer gates

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into the inner court area.

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are seven steps upward coming into the inner

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court.

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So you are coming from a lower plane,

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rising to a higher plane, and then the

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temple house is yet on a higher level.

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So the whole thing is ascending up, but

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you have the three gates, no gate to

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the west, but there are gates to the

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east, to the north and to the south,

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but none coming from the west.

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into the outer chamber and then up through

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the steps into the inner court.

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allowed on into the inner court.

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Those that were making the sacrifices themselves, you

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would find the altar of burnt offering in

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the middle of the inner court.

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the temple house itself and, uh, the holy

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place, uh, within the temple house, uh, the

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holy place being 20, uh, by 20 or

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about a 40 foot, uh, cube area.

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Now, as you go into these measurements, you'll

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find that they are many of them in

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multiples of 12, which I'm sure has some

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significance, but just what the significance is, I

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cannot tell you for sure, uh, because I

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don't know.

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Uh, there's a lot of things that people

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can read into things.

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I would rather not read things into it,

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but just, uh, read it as it is.

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And that which I understand, tell you that

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which I don't understand, just let you know

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that I don't understand it, uh, what it's

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a significance or whatever, but I've noticed in

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going through many multiples of 12.

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So in chapter 41, he continues to describe

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the temple and the post, uh, and all

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he, and, uh, he measured in verse four,

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you get into the temple house itself and

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to the holy place, which was 20 cubits

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before the temple.

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This is the most holy place.

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The temple house itself is 20 cubits by

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40 cubits, uh, which would be about 40

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by 80 feet, which is a fairly good

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size, uh, room in itself.

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the cherubims that are carved, uh, upon the,

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uh, various, uh, and the palm trees and

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all, uh, on the, uh, doors of the

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inner house and upon the walls and, um,

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all of these carvings of, of the cherubim

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and palms and the temple and the sanctuary

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had two doors, verse 23, and the doors

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had two leaves of peace turning leaves.

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In other words, the double doors, much like

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we have coming in here and the doors,

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uh, opened, uh, as these doors do.

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Then he brought me into the utter court

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verse or chapter 42 to the north.

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And he brought me into the chamber that

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was against the separate place.

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And, uh, as I say, I'm going to

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leave you, uh, with this, uh, you may

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take this, uh, diagram home and, uh, the

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separate place is that area you'll notice that

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surrounds the temple house itself.

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Uh, and, uh, he begins to describe for

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him here, this separate place that was about

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the temple house, uh, verse 13 there where

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the priest that approached the Lord shall eat

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the most Holy things.

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So you see this little chamber for the

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priest and there are four of them, uh,

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off of this separate place where the priest

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eat, uh, before the Lord, uh, of the

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portion of the sacrifices that are brought and

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they shall, uh, lay the most Holy things,

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the meal offerings, the sin offerings, the trespass

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offerings for the places Holy.

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And when the priests enter therein, then shall

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they not go out of the Holy place

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into the utter court, but they shall lay

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their garments wherein they minister for they are

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Holy.

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They shall put on other garments and shall

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approach those things which are for the people.

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So there are special robes for the priest

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when they're in this place and they're not

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to be, uh, worn outside.

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Now in chapter 43, he brought him then

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to the gate that looks towards the East.

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This is at the bottom of your diagram.

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And behold, the glory of the God of

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Israel came from the way of the East

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and his voice was like the voice or

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like the noise of many waters and the

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earth shined with his glory.

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Here you have the return of the glory

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of God to Israel.

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Now earlier Ezekiel saw in a vision the

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glory of God leaving the temple and gradually

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as it left the temple, it settled at

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the gate towards the East and then it

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ascended and God's glory was removed from Israel.

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Here we find the glory of God returning

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to Israel.

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And again, even as the glory of God

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departed by the gate to the East, so

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the glory of God returns by the gate

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to the East and his voice was like

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the noise of many waters in revelation chapter

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one, as John is describing Jesus Christ in

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his glory, he does declare that his voice

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was like the noise of many waters.

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I would assume that this reference here in

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Ezekiel is a reference to the return of

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Jesus Christ in glory.

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Then shall they see the son of man

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coming with clouds and great glory and he

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shall set his foot in that day on

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the Mount of Olives and it shall split

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in the middle and a new valley will

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be formed from East to West when the

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Mount of Olives is split in the middle.

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Now according to other passages of scripture, when

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Christ returns, you remember when he ascended, he

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went with his disciples to the Mount of

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Olives and when they had gone as far

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as Bethany, which is just over the top

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of the Mount of Olives, Jesus ascended up

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into heaven and the disciples were standing there

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gazing up into heaven as they watched the

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cloud catch him out of their sight and

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two men stood by them in shining apparel

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and said, ye men of Galilee, why stand

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ye here gazing into heaven for this same

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Jesus shall come again in like manner as

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you have seen him go into heaven.

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And so the coming of Jesus Christ as

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he went in glory up into heaven, he'll

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come again setting his foot on the Mount

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of Olives.

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A great cataclysmic event takes place as the

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Mount of Olives splits, no doubt creating what

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we will get to later.

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This new stream that will issue from the

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Southern part here of the, I mean from

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the Eastern part here down on the bottom

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part of your page, the new stream that

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will issue from the temple of God, which

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will flow down to the Dead Sea and

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we'll get to that after a while.

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But a part of this, this is all

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a part of this great geological structural change

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that will take place when the Mount of

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Olives splits and when the city is shaken

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and the preparation for the return of Jesus

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Christ, the establishing of his kingdom and the

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earth shine with the glory as Christ returns

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there in verse two.

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Now, as he returns that surrounded, of course,

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with the angelic beings, the cherubim, Bible speaks

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about his coming with the angels.

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It also speaks about his coming with the

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church, coming with clouds and great glory.

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Clouds symbolically are numbers of people, throngs of

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people.

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Paul said, when Christ who is our life

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shall appear, then shall we also appear with

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him in glory.

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Then shall they see the Son of Man

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coming with the angels to judge the earth.

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Then so, uh, the saints that came with

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him, revelation 19.

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So Christ coming with a heavenly multitude to

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establish God's kingdom upon the earth and the

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glory of the Lord came into the house

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by the way of the gate, whose prospect

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is toward the east.

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So the spirit took me up and brought

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me into the inner court and behold, the

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glory of the Lord filled the house and

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I heard him speaking unto me out of

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the house and the man stood by me

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and he said unto me, son of man,

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place the place of my throne and the

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place of the souls of my feet, where

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I will dwell in the midst of the

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children of Israel forever.

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And my holy name shall the house of

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Israel no more defiled, neither they nor their

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Kings by their Hortum, nor by the carcasses

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of their Kings in the high places in

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their setting of their threshold on by my

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thresholds and their post by my post and

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walls and so forth.

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My holy name, uh, they will not defile

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anymore by their abominations, which they've committed.

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Now let them put away their Hortum and

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the carcasses of their Kings far from me.

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And I will dwell in the midst of

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them forever.

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And so the declaration of God's coming, uh,

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the coming of the kingdom, uh, to dwell

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in the midst of the people.

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So Ezekiel is commanded to show these things

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to the house of Israel, that they may

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be ashamed of their iniquities and let them

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measure the pattern and all.

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Now he, in verse 13 gives you the

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measure of the altar and we have the

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altar there in the center of the whole

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building complex.

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And this altar is a fairly good size

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altar.

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Uh, it has four horns on the corners

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of the altars and, uh, they offer the

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sacrifices in verse 19 through the end of

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the chapter.

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The priest make the offerings, uh, of the

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sacrifices and all, uh, the, the various offerings,

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sin offering, burn offering, and, uh, the, um,

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uh, peace offerings.

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Now here's where one of the problems arises.

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And that is why would sin offerings be

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made in the kingdom age?

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For we know that the old Testament sacrifices

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all pointed to that one sacrifice of Jesus

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Christ, whereby our sins would be purged once

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and for all.

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And in Hebrews, we are told that Christ

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has suffered once and for all, that he

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is the sin offering of which all of

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the old Testament offerings were just a shadow.

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The substance is of Christ.

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Why then will they be offering sacrifices again

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in the new temple during the kingdom age?

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And many suggestions have been offered for the

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reason for these sacrifices.

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Some of them saying, well, this is all

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symbolic.

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They really aren't offered.

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I cannot accept that.

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Many people spiritualize them.

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I cannot accept that.

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I think that it speaks very plainly that

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there will be these offerings offered during the

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kingdom age.

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Now, as we look at the old Testament

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sacrifices that were made, we realized number one,

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that they did not actually put away sins.

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The Lord said, and when they make the

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sacrifice, it shall be for a Kofar, which

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Hebrew word is covering.

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And so the sins will be covered.

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It doesn't say they would be put away.

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They would be covered.

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Now in Hebrews, we read that it is

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impossible that the blood of bulls or goats

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could put away sin, but all they could

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do was to speak of the better sacrifice,

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which was to come.

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That is of Jesus.

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So the old Testament sacrifices did not put

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away sin, but they testified of that sacrifice

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that would come by which sins would be

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put away once and for all.

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I believe that the only explanation that can

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be given for sacrifices here in the temple,

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in the kingdom age, is that these sacrifices

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are memorial sacrifices looking back at what Christ

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has done.

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Even as the old Testament sacrifices looked forward,

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did not put away sin, but gave anticipation

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for the sacrifice that would be offered.

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Even now, these are offered in memorial as

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we look back at that sacrifice of Jesus

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Christ.

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Now you remember that Jesus took bread and

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broke it and gave to his disciples and

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said, take, eat.

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This is my body broken for you.

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He took also the cup after supper and

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he said, take drink.

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This is the blood in the new covenant

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that is shed for the remission of sins.

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For as often as you eat this bread

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and drink this cup, you do show the

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Lord's death until he comes.

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This do he said in remembrance of me.

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And even as we have our communion services

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and we break the bread and we drink

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the cup in remembrance of what Jesus did

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in his death for our sins.

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So when sacrifice is offered sacrifices are reinstituted

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in the kingdom age.

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They will not be for the purpose of

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putting away sin, but they will be memorial

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offerings by which we will be reminded of

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that sacrifice by which the sins were put

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away.

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And we'll be looking back to the cross

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and the sacrifice that was made there by

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Jesus Christ, the sin offering being made here

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in the kingdom age and that is to

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me reading it the way it says, but

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in seeking to understand it, that is the

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only understanding that I personally can come to

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the reason for there being a sin offering

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sacrifice in those days.

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Now, as we get to chapter 44, we

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come to a prophecy that is so often

537
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,520
misinterpreted.

538
00:28:21,270 --> 00:28:24,150
And I must confess to you that I

539
00:28:24,150 --> 00:28:36,040
have often misinterpreted this prophecy and as

540
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,160
I read it more carefully and have read

541
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:39,760
it more carefully this time, and this is

542
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:41,120
one of the problems I have with this

543
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,080
last portion of Ezekiel, that every time I

544
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,440
read it, I seem to see something else

545
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,260
that I didn't quite understand before.

546
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,260
And my whole views have to change again,

547
00:28:53,660 --> 00:28:55,640
but he brought me back to the way

548
00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:00,100
of the gate of the outward sanctuary, which

549
00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:02,120
looks towards the East and it was shut.

550
00:29:03,580 --> 00:29:06,960
Now you go over to Jerusalem today and

551
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,440
the East gate of the wall of Jerusalem

552
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:10,300
is shut.

553
00:29:10,420 --> 00:29:12,200
It has been walled shut.

554
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,420
There are big stones and the gate is

555
00:29:15,420 --> 00:29:15,780
shut.

556
00:29:17,180 --> 00:29:22,940
And they will often point to this gate

557
00:29:22,940 --> 00:29:26,280
and declare to you that this gate being

558
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:30,220
shut is actually the fulfillment of Ezekiel 44

559
00:29:30,220 --> 00:29:38,830
and that this gate is shut and it's

560
00:29:38,830 --> 00:29:40,770
going to be shut until the Prince comes

561
00:29:40,770 --> 00:29:42,790
to enter through the gate.

562
00:29:42,790 --> 00:29:47,190
But if you'll read the whole thing carefully,

563
00:29:48,130 --> 00:29:51,970
you'll come to, first of all, the realization

564
00:29:51,970 --> 00:29:54,710
that the Prince here is not Jesus Christ.

565
00:29:58,340 --> 00:30:00,820
For as we move along a little further,

566
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,900
the Prince has sons who he gives his

567
00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:07,060
inheritance to.

568
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,620
The Prince is mentioned some thirteen times here

569
00:30:13,620 --> 00:30:18,700
and he will be a Prince, but not

570
00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:21,360
as we so often have thought of as

571
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:22,280
Jesus Christ.

572
00:30:23,140 --> 00:30:27,220
The gate that is here shut is open

573
00:30:27,220 --> 00:30:28,140
for the Prince.

574
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,660
He uses it as an entry and as

575
00:30:31,660 --> 00:30:33,980
an exit, that is the gate towards the

576
00:30:33,980 --> 00:30:37,200
East, and it's only for his entrance into

577
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:37,660
the court.

578
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:39,900
Those others who come in come from the

579
00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:41,540
gates to the North and the South.

580
00:30:44,090 --> 00:30:46,230
But it is not the gate that is

581
00:30:46,230 --> 00:30:50,710
called today the Golden Gate on the East

582
00:30:50,710 --> 00:30:54,350
wall of the ancient wall of Jerusalem.

583
00:30:56,150 --> 00:31:00,530
Now the reason why that gate is closed

584
00:31:00,530 --> 00:31:07,530
and walled up is someone misinterpreted this prophecy

585
00:31:07,530 --> 00:31:13,840
a long time ago of the Prince or

586
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,240
the Messiah coming in through the East gate

587
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,500
and they thought that they would hinder his

588
00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:21,980
coming by sealing up that gate towards the

589
00:31:21,980 --> 00:31:22,420
East.

590
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,560
But as I read this more carefully, I

591
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,320
find that this is the gate to the

592
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:29,800
sanctuary.

593
00:31:30,260 --> 00:31:33,900
It will be in this new temple and

594
00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:36,700
it is the gate into the sanctuary itself

595
00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:39,720
and thus cannot be that gate towards the

596
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,100
East that you find blocked over there.

597
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,280
And I suggest that you read this again

598
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,620
more carefully.

599
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:53,100
Now I found this a great disappointment because

600
00:31:53,100 --> 00:31:54,900
I love to point out that gate to

601
00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:56,780
the people and read to them this prophecy

602
00:31:56,780 --> 00:32:00,020
out of Ezekiel and show to them how

603
00:32:00,020 --> 00:32:02,740
look it's sealed, it's shut, and it's going

604
00:32:02,740 --> 00:32:04,960
to remain that way until you know the

605
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:06,360
Messiah, the Prince enters in.

606
00:32:08,220 --> 00:32:10,280
But the Prince here is not referred to

607
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,900
as the Messiah nor is he referred to

608
00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:13,740
as David.

609
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:17,960
Now in other places we do have the

610
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,100
Prince David and the reference there and the

611
00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:23,200
Prince definitely there is Jesus Christ.

612
00:32:24,140 --> 00:32:26,480
But this Prince is never referred to as

613
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,760
David here in 44th chapter onward and it

614
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,300
speaks much about the Prince and as I

615
00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:34,680
say it speaks of his sons to whom

616
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,640
he gives an inheritance and his servants.

617
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,640
And that pretty much precludes Jesus Christ as

618
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:42,340
the Prince.

619
00:32:43,860 --> 00:32:45,500
But as we read it, he brought me

620
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:47,320
back to the way of the gate of

621
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,100
the outward sanctuary and it looks towards the

622
00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:51,200
East and it was shut.

623
00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:53,940
Then said the Lord unto me, this gate

624
00:32:53,940 --> 00:32:54,640
shall be shut.

625
00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:56,740
It is not to be open and no

626
00:32:56,740 --> 00:32:59,120
man shall enter in by it because the

627
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:00,960
Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in

628
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:01,340
by it.

629
00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:02,780
Therefore it shall be shut.

630
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,940
The glory of the Lord entered in by

631
00:33:04,940 --> 00:33:07,880
the East gate and for that reason it

632
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:08,700
was to be shut.

633
00:33:09,060 --> 00:33:11,320
But it is for the Prince, the Prince

634
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,120
he shall sit in it to eat bread

635
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:14,080
before the Lord.

636
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,280
He shall enter by the way of the

637
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,060
porch of the gate and he shall go

638
00:33:18,060 --> 00:33:19,640
out by the way of the same.

639
00:33:20,300 --> 00:33:21,580
And then he brought me to the way

640
00:33:21,580 --> 00:33:23,180
of the North gate before the house and

641
00:33:23,180 --> 00:33:24,780
I looked and behold, the glory of the

642
00:33:24,780 --> 00:33:27,080
Lord filled the house of the Lord and

643
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,320
I fell on my face.

644
00:33:28,540 --> 00:33:30,200
So coming around to this gate to the

645
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,220
North as Ezekiel looked in, even as the

646
00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:35,420
glory of the Lord filled the temple of

647
00:33:35,420 --> 00:33:38,860
Solomon, so the glory of the Lord filled

648
00:33:38,860 --> 00:33:42,460
the temple area and Ezekiel falls upon his

649
00:33:42,460 --> 00:33:42,980
face.

650
00:33:43,340 --> 00:33:45,140
The Lord said unto me, son of man,

651
00:33:45,220 --> 00:33:47,980
mark well and behold with your eyes and

652
00:33:47,980 --> 00:33:49,580
hear with your ears all that I say

653
00:33:49,580 --> 00:33:52,500
concerning all of the ordinances of the house

654
00:33:52,500 --> 00:33:54,080
of the Lord and all of the laws

655
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,200
thereof and mark well the entering in of

656
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,580
the house with every going forth of the

657
00:33:58,580 --> 00:33:58,940
sanctuary.

658
00:33:59,060 --> 00:34:01,440
So he's told now by the Lord to

659
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,640
make a careful account of this market.

660
00:34:04,820 --> 00:34:08,620
Well, thou shalt say to the rebellious, even

661
00:34:08,620 --> 00:34:09,980
to the house of Israel, thus saith the

662
00:34:09,980 --> 00:34:11,840
Lord God, all ye house of Israel, let

663
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,060
it suffice you of all your abominations in

664
00:34:15,060 --> 00:34:18,000
that you have brought into my sanctuary strangers

665
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,100
who were uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in

666
00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:21,520
flesh.

667
00:34:22,020 --> 00:34:24,940
Paul, the apostle speaks about circumcision of the

668
00:34:24,940 --> 00:34:25,219
heart.

669
00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:29,400
Uh, and many times people who go through

670
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,900
a ritual that has a symbolism soon begin

671
00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:35,179
to trust in the ritual, but there is

672
00:34:35,179 --> 00:34:39,420
no reality and thus it is a meaningless

673
00:34:39,420 --> 00:34:40,159
ritual.

674
00:34:40,860 --> 00:34:47,159
The ritual of circumcision was actually to speak

675
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:50,480
of a people who were not living after

676
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,860
the flesh, but living after the spirit, the

677
00:34:53,860 --> 00:34:55,000
cutting off of the flesh.

678
00:34:55,460 --> 00:34:57,080
And so it was the denial of the

679
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:58,840
flesh life to live the life of the

680
00:34:58,840 --> 00:34:59,220
spirit.

681
00:35:00,460 --> 00:35:03,140
But the right itself did not guarantee that

682
00:35:03,140 --> 00:35:05,120
many people had gone through the right of

683
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,860
circumcision were still living after the flesh.

684
00:35:07,860 --> 00:35:11,720
And so the whole ritual was totally, uh,

685
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,700
negated by the fact that they were living

686
00:35:14,700 --> 00:35:15,680
after the flesh.

687
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:20,900
Now the ritual of baptism is to signify

688
00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:24,120
that your old man was crucified and you're

689
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,220
living the new life after Jesus Christ.

690
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,740
The old man after the flesh is dead.

691
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,360
He's buried in the waters of baptism, and

692
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,120
now you have a whole new life in

693
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:34,700
the spirit.

694
00:35:35,020 --> 00:35:38,120
But the ritual is totally meaningless.

695
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:42,240
If after the baptism, you are still living

696
00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:44,560
after the flesh, the old life of the

697
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,480
flesh and after the nature of the old

698
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:46,860
man.

699
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,240
And I don't care how many ways or

700
00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:51,440
times you've been baptized.

701
00:35:51,820 --> 00:35:54,620
It's totally, it's only a ritual and it

702
00:35:54,620 --> 00:35:57,260
becomes a meaningless ritual unless there is the

703
00:35:57,260 --> 00:36:01,300
reality that has been carried through in your

704
00:36:01,300 --> 00:36:01,740
life.

705
00:36:02,140 --> 00:36:04,320
And so the important thing is not if

706
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,380
you've experienced the ritual, but have you experienced

707
00:36:08,380 --> 00:36:13,180
the reality of which the ritual is a

708
00:36:13,180 --> 00:36:13,760
symbol.

709
00:36:14,900 --> 00:36:19,780
And so he speaks here of the uncircumcision

710
00:36:19,780 --> 00:36:20,720
of the heart.

711
00:36:21,060 --> 00:36:23,160
And Paul picks that up in the book

712
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,240
of Romans showing to the Jews that the

713
00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:30,020
right of circumcision was totally negated by the

714
00:36:30,020 --> 00:36:32,440
fact that they were still living after the

715
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,080
flesh for God wants the circumcision of the

716
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:36,620
heart, not of the flesh.

717
00:36:36,780 --> 00:36:38,640
And it's the circumcision of the heart that

718
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:39,040
counts.

719
00:36:39,220 --> 00:36:41,240
That is what has gone on within your

720
00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:43,740
heart is what really matters to God, not

721
00:36:43,740 --> 00:36:46,060
what you've done in outward rituals.

722
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,160
And this is where people today who are

723
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:55,160
trusting in rituals are in great danger because

724
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,280
it could be just a meaningless thing that

725
00:36:58,280 --> 00:36:59,260
you have gone through.

726
00:37:01,340 --> 00:37:05,640
And the church has many rituals that become

727
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:10,640
totally meaningless unless there is the corresponding reality

728
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,640
in your life.

729
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,540
The ritual means nothing apart from the reality

730
00:37:17,540 --> 00:37:20,020
that has happened in your life.

731
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,620
So you say, well, I take communion.

732
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,160
So I've been baptized.

733
00:37:24,740 --> 00:37:27,260
So those are marvelous rituals.

734
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,760
They are very meaningful rituals if the truth

735
00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:37,260
has been actualized in your own experience.

736
00:37:37,980 --> 00:37:39,820
But there are many people that are just

737
00:37:39,820 --> 00:37:42,520
trusting in the fact that they have taken

738
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:43,120
the communion.

739
00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:46,280
So my sins are washed or I've been

740
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:46,740
baptized.

741
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,820
So, you know, I'm a new creature, but

742
00:37:49,820 --> 00:37:53,600
there's got to be a corresponding reality in

743
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:54,180
our lives.

744
00:37:55,580 --> 00:37:58,380
And so God is speaking against these that

745
00:37:58,380 --> 00:38:03,730
have come in before him, uncircumcised in their

746
00:38:03,730 --> 00:38:07,110
hearts and in their flesh.

747
00:38:09,810 --> 00:38:12,370
And so in this future temple, there will

748
00:38:12,370 --> 00:38:16,170
be nothing allowed in that defiles or that

749
00:38:16,170 --> 00:38:17,210
is defiled.

750
00:38:20,740 --> 00:38:23,460
Now there's an interesting thing to me as

751
00:38:23,460 --> 00:38:25,200
we get down to verse 17.

752
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,640
It shall come to pass that that is

753
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,040
when the priest enter in at the gates

754
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,940
of the inner court, they shall be clothed

755
00:38:34,940 --> 00:38:38,500
with linen garments and no wool shall come

756
00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:42,960
upon them while they minister in the gates

757
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,540
of the inner court and within.

758
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,020
So once they come into that inner court,

759
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,220
the area where the priest came to minister

760
00:38:50,220 --> 00:38:51,920
to the Lord, the offering of the sacrifice

761
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,400
and so forth, there was to be only

762
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,200
linen garments worn no wool.

763
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,600
They shall have on linen bonnets on their

764
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,460
heads, linen breeches on their loins.

765
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:11,080
They shall not gird themselves with anything that

766
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:12,760
causes sweat.

767
00:39:13,740 --> 00:39:16,740
Now that to me is extremely interesting.

768
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:22,880
God really doesn't want you to sweat when

769
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:23,860
you're serving him.

770
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:38,340
But perspiration is quite often a sign of

771
00:39:38,340 --> 00:39:40,120
the lack of inspiration.

772
00:39:43,630 --> 00:39:46,990
And when you don't have inspiration, you're quite

773
00:39:46,990 --> 00:39:49,470
often you need perspiration to get through.

774
00:39:52,060 --> 00:39:55,700
Now Jesus said, my yoke is easy.

775
00:39:55,780 --> 00:39:56,900
My burden is light.

776
00:39:58,060 --> 00:40:01,620
One thing God never wants is that man

777
00:40:01,620 --> 00:40:06,440
complaining of his service or what he has

778
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:07,240
given to God.

779
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,400
That is why the new Testament teaches us

780
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:15,080
that you are to determine in your own

781
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,780
heart what you're to give.

782
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:24,480
No one should be pressuring you, pushing you,

783
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:30,400
exciting you to give, but every man should

784
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,300
determine in his own heart that which he

785
00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:33,480
is going to give to the Lord.

786
00:40:33,940 --> 00:40:37,020
And then he should give to God with

787
00:40:37,020 --> 00:40:40,640
a joyful heart or with a hilarious spirit

788
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,340
for God loves a hilarious giver.

789
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,200
God wants you to be hilarious over everything

790
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:48,200
you've given to him.

791
00:40:48,500 --> 00:40:51,960
He never wants you to be begrudging or

792
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,940
griping about what you've given.

793
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,300
God doesn't want any service that requires sweat.

794
00:41:06,820 --> 00:41:09,160
God doesn't want any complaining over what has

795
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:10,380
been given to him.

796
00:41:11,540 --> 00:41:14,640
Therefore, if you cannot give to God hilariously,

797
00:41:14,820 --> 00:41:16,620
you would be better off not giving at

798
00:41:16,620 --> 00:41:17,060
all.

799
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:25,420
Especially if you find yourself complaining or griping

800
00:41:25,420 --> 00:41:27,560
about what you have given to God.

801
00:41:30,870 --> 00:41:34,410
What an insult to God that I would

802
00:41:34,410 --> 00:41:37,490
go around complaining or griping about what I

803
00:41:37,490 --> 00:41:37,910
gave.

804
00:41:39,910 --> 00:41:42,430
That is why we are extremely careful here

805
00:41:42,430 --> 00:41:50,610
never to try to excite people to give

806
00:41:50,610 --> 00:41:55,290
to God or even to encourage people to

807
00:41:55,290 --> 00:41:56,030
give to God.

808
00:41:58,210 --> 00:42:01,670
In fact, you notice that you were at

809
00:42:01,670 --> 00:42:03,770
the third service, I think it was this

810
00:42:03,770 --> 00:42:06,930
morning, when Mark was making the announcements after

811
00:42:06,930 --> 00:42:08,610
he said the ushers will now come to

812
00:42:08,610 --> 00:42:10,130
receive the offering.

813
00:42:10,430 --> 00:42:13,050
I've told the young men, now look, we

814
00:42:13,050 --> 00:42:15,050
don't take offerings from people.

815
00:42:18,530 --> 00:42:20,190
We receive offerings.

816
00:42:20,970 --> 00:42:23,070
We'll be glad to receive what you want

817
00:42:23,070 --> 00:42:24,710
to give to God, but we're not going

818
00:42:24,710 --> 00:42:25,990
to take anything from you.

819
00:42:26,750 --> 00:42:28,990
We don't want to take anything from you.

820
00:42:29,510 --> 00:42:31,270
If you want to give to God, we'll

821
00:42:31,270 --> 00:42:32,090
receive it.

822
00:42:33,510 --> 00:42:36,590
But it's completely up to you what God

823
00:42:36,590 --> 00:42:38,050
has laid upon your heart.

824
00:42:38,370 --> 00:42:41,510
There'll never be any pressures for pledges or

825
00:42:41,510 --> 00:42:44,790
anything else, because that is something between you

826
00:42:44,790 --> 00:42:46,830
and God, and when you give it to

827
00:42:46,830 --> 00:42:50,830
God, you should be giving it hilariously, happily,

828
00:42:51,050 --> 00:42:53,310
joyfully unto the Lord, and that the Lord

829
00:42:53,310 --> 00:42:55,210
accepts and will bless you for it.

830
00:42:55,410 --> 00:42:57,210
But he doesn't want you going out of

831
00:42:57,210 --> 00:43:00,730
here saying, oh, you know, I don't know

832
00:43:00,730 --> 00:43:01,610
what I'm going to do.

833
00:43:01,790 --> 00:43:03,130
I've given so much to God.

834
00:43:03,290 --> 00:43:08,350
Oh, God just can't stand that, and he

835
00:43:08,350 --> 00:43:11,510
doesn't want that kind of giving, nor does

836
00:43:11,510 --> 00:43:15,550
he want pressured service, where I'm under a

837
00:43:15,550 --> 00:43:18,890
pressure, I'm sweating, you know, as I'm serving

838
00:43:18,890 --> 00:43:19,370
God.

839
00:43:20,130 --> 00:43:23,830
And so, it's very significant to me that

840
00:43:23,830 --> 00:43:25,610
they are to wear only linen.

841
00:43:26,110 --> 00:43:28,310
They are not to wear anything that would

842
00:43:28,310 --> 00:43:29,130
cause sweat.

843
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:33,760
Now, when they go out to the people,

844
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,920
then they change their garments, and the garments

845
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:39,880
that they ministered in, they lay them there

846
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:41,400
in the holy chambers.

847
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,040
Now, neither are they to shave their heads,

848
00:43:47,060 --> 00:43:50,320
nor allow their locks to grow long.

849
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,580
They shall only pull their heads.

850
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,600
Neither shall any priest drink wine when he

851
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,720
enters into the inner court.

852
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,640
Again, God does not want service under any

853
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,740
false stimulant.

854
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:13,100
We remember when the tabernacle was first erected

855
00:44:13,100 --> 00:44:16,020
there in the wilderness, and the fire of

856
00:44:16,020 --> 00:44:19,080
God came and kindled the coals on the

857
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,600
altar, and the sacrifice was consumed.

858
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,700
An exciting moment because here was spontaneous combustion.

859
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,440
They had set the sacrifice upon the altar.

860
00:44:29,940 --> 00:44:32,160
They were ready to institute the whole thing.

861
00:44:32,300 --> 00:44:35,780
When fire came from God, and the altar

862
00:44:35,780 --> 00:44:39,720
was kindled, an exciting moment because the glory

863
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:42,100
of God ascended upon the tabernacle.

864
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,580
And all of the people fell on their

865
00:44:44,580 --> 00:44:46,420
faces when they saw this, and it was

866
00:44:46,420 --> 00:44:48,140
a glorious, exciting moment.

867
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,980
God manifested His presence in the midst of

868
00:44:50,980 --> 00:44:51,380
the people.

869
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:56,240
And the two sons of Aaron grabbed their

870
00:44:56,240 --> 00:45:01,620
little censers, and they put incense in them,

871
00:45:01,700 --> 00:45:03,660
and they went to offer incense before the

872
00:45:03,660 --> 00:45:07,680
Lord, but they lit their censers with fire

873
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,220
that God called strange fire.

874
00:45:12,490 --> 00:45:15,130
And the fire came out from the altar,

875
00:45:16,690 --> 00:45:22,430
and the two sons of Aaron were killed,

876
00:45:22,570 --> 00:45:24,350
were consumed by the fire that came from

877
00:45:24,350 --> 00:45:24,790
the altar.

878
00:45:25,970 --> 00:45:28,630
And then the Lord, in instructing Moses, said,

879
00:45:28,710 --> 00:45:30,870
Tell Aaron and his sons that they are

880
00:45:30,870 --> 00:45:33,910
not to drink wine when they come, or

881
00:45:33,910 --> 00:45:36,190
before they come, to offer before the Lord

882
00:45:36,190 --> 00:45:38,890
the sacrifice, or when they come before the

883
00:45:38,890 --> 00:45:41,470
Lord to serve, not to be drinking wine.

884
00:45:42,330 --> 00:45:46,550
Because God does not want service out of

885
00:45:46,550 --> 00:45:48,530
any kind of a false stimulus.

886
00:45:48,770 --> 00:45:50,450
God wants your mind to be totally clear.

887
00:45:50,690 --> 00:45:51,590
I know what I'm doing.

888
00:45:51,690 --> 00:45:56,690
I'm not being, you know, falsely stimulated as

889
00:45:56,690 --> 00:45:57,730
I am serving God.

890
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,660
I know that God has forgiven me, but

891
00:46:05,660 --> 00:46:11,240
I am guilty of having stimulated people to

892
00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:13,320
serve God with false stimulants.

893
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:19,300
I used to offer to the children bicycles

894
00:46:19,300 --> 00:46:21,080
if they would bring so many to Sunday

895
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:21,420
school.

896
00:46:24,890 --> 00:46:29,010
The one who brings the most will get

897
00:46:29,010 --> 00:46:30,150
a free trip to Disneyland.

898
00:46:31,990 --> 00:46:34,390
And I used to offer all kinds of

899
00:46:34,390 --> 00:46:37,870
incentives to get the kids, you know, to

900
00:46:37,870 --> 00:46:40,250
hustle their friends into Sunday school.

901
00:46:42,350 --> 00:46:45,410
And these incentives that I was offering to

902
00:46:45,410 --> 00:46:47,910
the children were actually false stimulants.

903
00:46:49,130 --> 00:46:54,090
And I was guilty of offering these kind

904
00:46:54,090 --> 00:46:57,670
of false incentives for serving God.

905
00:47:00,170 --> 00:47:02,150
The only incentive that God wants you to

906
00:47:02,150 --> 00:47:03,950
serve Him with is the incentive of a

907
00:47:03,950 --> 00:47:04,630
heart of love.

908
00:47:05,370 --> 00:47:08,250
Paul said, For the love of Christ constrains

909
00:47:08,250 --> 00:47:08,590
me.

910
00:47:09,670 --> 00:47:12,470
And the only real service that God will

911
00:47:12,470 --> 00:47:15,630
accept from you is that service that comes

912
00:47:15,630 --> 00:47:17,250
from a heart of love.

913
00:47:19,740 --> 00:47:22,100
That's the only stimulant any of us should

914
00:47:22,100 --> 00:47:22,980
ever need.

915
00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:27,100
We sing the chorus, I will serve you

916
00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:27,940
because I love you.

917
00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:29,320
And that's what it's all about.

918
00:47:29,500 --> 00:47:32,160
That's the stimulant for serving God.

919
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:34,860
God doesn't want you to serve Him under

920
00:47:34,860 --> 00:47:36,300
any other stimulant.

921
00:47:36,940 --> 00:47:39,180
He doesn't want you to serve Him in

922
00:47:39,180 --> 00:47:42,900
order that you might please the pastor or

923
00:47:42,900 --> 00:47:48,520
please the committee chairman or please the board

924
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:49,100
or whatever.

925
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,660
He wants you to serve Him only because

926
00:47:51,660 --> 00:47:52,540
you love Him.

927
00:47:56,230 --> 00:47:58,550
And that is why we have steered so

928
00:47:58,550 --> 00:48:02,270
totally away from any kind of contest or

929
00:48:02,270 --> 00:48:07,630
anything else that would create a false stimulant

930
00:48:07,630 --> 00:48:09,370
for people to serve God.

931
00:48:10,650 --> 00:48:13,090
That's why we never ask people to serve

932
00:48:13,090 --> 00:48:13,490
God.

933
00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:17,360
So many times people come up and they

934
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:18,740
say, We've been coming to Calvary for a

935
00:48:18,740 --> 00:48:21,060
long time and we used to be involved

936
00:48:21,060 --> 00:48:22,960
in church and we love teaching Sunday school.

937
00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:25,340
How do you get to, how do you

938
00:48:25,340 --> 00:48:26,820
become a Sunday school teacher here?

939
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:29,740
And we said, well, you just found out

940
00:48:29,740 --> 00:48:32,120
you have to ask.

941
00:48:32,860 --> 00:48:34,780
No one's going to come asking you putting

942
00:48:34,780 --> 00:48:36,020
a Sunday school book in your hand and

943
00:48:36,020 --> 00:48:38,660
saying, would you please, you know, teach our

944
00:48:38,660 --> 00:48:41,380
second graders in the third service?

945
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,820
You know, if you want to serve the

946
00:48:44,820 --> 00:48:47,300
Lord, there are plenty of opportunities for you

947
00:48:47,300 --> 00:48:49,660
to serve Him, but no one's going to

948
00:48:49,660 --> 00:48:51,360
be pressuring you or pushing you to do

949
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:51,520
it.

950
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,720
God's got to do that work in your

951
00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:55,540
heart and you're going to serve Him out

952
00:48:55,540 --> 00:48:56,480
of your love for Him.

953
00:48:56,820 --> 00:48:58,700
And that way we don't have to be

954
00:48:58,700 --> 00:49:02,900
kicking everybody week by week to keep them

955
00:49:02,900 --> 00:49:03,280
going.

956
00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:07,120
You know, we don't have to be pushing.

957
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:12,400
I went back to Lubbock, Texas and pastored

958
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,920
or not pastored, I ministered for a week

959
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,400
or so in a Southern Baptist church in

960
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:17,840
Lubbock.

961
00:49:18,940 --> 00:49:22,080
And the pastor back there said something I

962
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:23,640
thought was extremely interesting.

963
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,620
He said, we decided to let every program

964
00:49:27,620 --> 00:49:31,540
in the church die a natural death.

965
00:49:35,020 --> 00:49:37,500
He said, we decided to take off the

966
00:49:37,500 --> 00:49:41,440
artificial systems and let everything die that couldn't

967
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:42,640
survive on its own.

968
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:47,020
We weren't going to, you know, keep things

969
00:49:47,020 --> 00:49:51,420
going with artificial support systems.

970
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,560
He said, we've been doing that for too

971
00:49:54,560 --> 00:50:00,380
many years and they just allowed all of

972
00:50:00,380 --> 00:50:03,840
the programs in the church to die that

973
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,300
just didn't carry with their own momentum.

974
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:10,420
I thought that was extremely wise.

975
00:50:11,220 --> 00:50:14,400
Pretty much we do the same thing here.

976
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:18,620
We do not have any artificial life support

977
00:50:18,620 --> 00:50:21,020
systems by which we're keeping any programs alive.

978
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,820
And we're very blunt and plain about it.

979
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:26,380
If God wants a thing to go, it'll

980
00:50:26,380 --> 00:50:26,680
go.

981
00:50:28,100 --> 00:50:29,620
He's able to make it go.

982
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:32,720
And we're not going to try and push

983
00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:34,500
it when God's trying to kill it.

984
00:50:38,540 --> 00:50:40,980
Let it die a natural death with dignity

985
00:50:40,980 --> 00:50:46,520
and don't keep the thing going with these

986
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:47,600
artificial supports.

987
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,300
So, uh, the priest were not to drink

988
00:50:52,300 --> 00:50:54,060
any wine when they entered into the inner

989
00:50:54,060 --> 00:51:02,330
court and their wives, they were, uh, not

990
00:51:02,330 --> 00:51:04,070
to take a wife who was a widow

991
00:51:04,070 --> 00:51:08,770
nor her who had been divorced, but they

992
00:51:08,770 --> 00:51:13,190
shall take maidens or virgins from the house

993
00:51:13,190 --> 00:51:17,270
of Israel or a widow whose husband was

994
00:51:17,270 --> 00:51:17,830
a priest.

995
00:51:19,310 --> 00:51:23,190
And they shall teach my people the difference

996
00:51:23,190 --> 00:51:26,290
between the holy and the profane.

997
00:51:26,610 --> 00:51:28,270
This is something that we were talking about

998
00:51:28,270 --> 00:51:29,990
this morning, how important it is for us

999
00:51:29,990 --> 00:51:32,990
to discern between what is holy and what

1000
00:51:32,990 --> 00:51:33,710
is profane.

1001
00:51:33,810 --> 00:51:35,790
And that's the ministry of the priest.

1002
00:51:35,870 --> 00:51:38,410
They were causing the people to discern these

1003
00:51:38,410 --> 00:51:42,330
things in any controversies, they would stand in

1004
00:51:42,330 --> 00:51:43,830
judgment and judge.

1005
00:51:43,930 --> 00:51:47,190
According to my judgments, they shall keep my

1006
00:51:47,190 --> 00:51:50,010
laws and statutes and all my assemblies and

1007
00:51:50,010 --> 00:51:53,350
they shall howl my Sabbaths.

1008
00:51:54,890 --> 00:51:56,510
And it goes on to give the laws

1009
00:51:56,510 --> 00:52:00,250
and all respecting the priest there in the

1010
00:52:00,250 --> 00:52:04,590
kingdom age, they shall not receive any inheritance

1011
00:52:04,590 --> 00:52:05,770
for Lord is their inheritance.

1012
00:52:05,870 --> 00:52:08,310
Much as the priest were at the time

1013
00:52:08,310 --> 00:52:11,350
of Joshua, when they came into the land.

1014
00:52:12,170 --> 00:52:19,630
Now in chapter 45, he describes here the

1015
00:52:19,630 --> 00:52:22,510
length and all of the city of the

1016
00:52:22,510 --> 00:52:23,410
land itself.

1017
00:52:25,170 --> 00:52:29,250
And it is described here as being in

1018
00:52:29,250 --> 00:52:37,780
length, 25,000 reads and in breadth, 10

1019
00:52:37,780 --> 00:52:39,140
,000 reads.

1020
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:50,800
And then the sanctuary 500 in length, 500

1021
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:56,020
in breadth, square roundabout and 50 cubits around

1022
00:52:56,020 --> 00:52:57,080
that for the suburbs.

1023
00:52:57,620 --> 00:53:00,140
And if this measured also measure the length,

1024
00:53:00,620 --> 00:53:03,400
25,000, the breadth 10,000, it shall

1025
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,080
be the sanctuary and the most holy place.

1026
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:08,560
The holy portion of the land shall be

1027
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:09,580
for the priest and the minister.

1028
00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:11,500
So this is the area that God has

1029
00:53:11,500 --> 00:53:14,540
set aside for those priests and those ministers

1030
00:53:14,540 --> 00:53:18,460
in, uh, the land, the holy place for

1031
00:53:18,460 --> 00:53:19,380
the sanctuary.

1032
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,200
And you shall appoint the possession of the

1033
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,320
city 5,000 broad five and 25,000

1034
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,100
long over against the oblation of the holy

1035
00:53:27,100 --> 00:53:27,520
portion.

1036
00:53:27,620 --> 00:53:29,100
It shall be for the whole house of

1037
00:53:29,100 --> 00:53:29,480
Israel.

1038
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:34,440
Now the portions for the prince verse seven,

1039
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,060
one side of the other side of the

1040
00:53:37,060 --> 00:53:39,080
oblation of the holy portion, the possession of

1041
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:40,880
the city before the oblation to the holy

1042
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,440
portion and before the possession of the city

1043
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,940
from the West side, Westward from the East

1044
00:53:45,940 --> 00:53:47,560
side Eastward the length.

1045
00:53:47,940 --> 00:53:49,980
So be over against one of the portions

1046
00:53:49,980 --> 00:53:50,440
in the West.

1047
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:51,800
And you see why I haven't gone through

1048
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:52,600
the whole thing.

1049
00:53:53,260 --> 00:53:55,060
I get lost in this to tell you

1050
00:53:55,060 --> 00:53:55,560
the truth.

1051
00:53:56,540 --> 00:53:58,020
And, and so there's a lot of this

1052
00:53:58,020 --> 00:53:59,960
that I just file and say, all right,

1053
00:54:00,020 --> 00:54:03,140
Lord, one day, you know, when I see

1054
00:54:03,140 --> 00:54:05,940
it, maybe I'll understand it, but I just

1055
00:54:05,940 --> 00:54:08,300
don't get it now.

1056
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,380
And, um, that's just the way it is.

1057
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,300
Now the Lord, the Lord commands the princes

1058
00:54:21,300 --> 00:54:24,680
in verse nine to remove violence and spoil

1059
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,160
and execute judgment and justice.

1060
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:31,040
Take away your exactions from my people.

1061
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:32,200
Sayeth the Lord God.

1062
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,400
In other words, quit taxing the people.

1063
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,400
That's an interesting thing.

1064
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:43,360
And you shall have just balances, a just

1065
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:47,460
EFA and a bath and a bath and

1066
00:54:47,460 --> 00:54:49,000
a bath shall be of one major.

1067
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:52,600
Now many times those, those merchants in those

1068
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:56,080
days had weights to sell with and weights

1069
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:56,720
to buy.

1070
00:54:59,700 --> 00:55:02,160
And you can see what could happen with

1071
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:06,260
that one set of weights to buy from

1072
00:55:06,260 --> 00:55:08,440
you and another set of weights to sell

1073
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:09,100
to you.

1074
00:55:10,220 --> 00:55:12,800
And, uh, so these measurements are the equal,

1075
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,120
those that you buy with and those that

1076
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,320
you sell with one.

1077
00:55:18,940 --> 00:55:22,380
And he goes ahead and tells the, uh,

1078
00:55:22,460 --> 00:55:25,060
measurements and, and the size of the measurements

1079
00:55:25,060 --> 00:55:25,720
and so forth.

1080
00:55:25,820 --> 00:55:27,340
It will be in those days, things that

1081
00:55:27,340 --> 00:55:29,260
we cannot really relate to.

1082
00:55:29,420 --> 00:55:35,900
Now the cleansing of the sanctuary is spoken

1083
00:55:35,900 --> 00:55:40,960
of in verse 18 with the Bullock without

1084
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:45,400
blemish and how that the priesthood to take

1085
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:46,800
the blood of it and put it upon

1086
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,200
the post of the house and upon the

1087
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,200
four corners and upon the post of the

1088
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:53,240
gates in the inner court.

1089
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,980
And now so do this the seventh day

1090
00:55:56,980 --> 00:55:58,980
of the month for everyone that Ereth and

1091
00:55:58,980 --> 00:55:59,900
for him that is simple.

1092
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:04,400
So you reconcile the house and the feast

1093
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:06,700
of the Passover is to be reinstituted.

1094
00:56:06,900 --> 00:56:09,080
And that should be extremely interesting.

1095
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:12,360
Uh, when again, they have the feast of

1096
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:16,000
the Passover as they had celebrated in so

1097
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:19,840
many times in their history, fantastic, glorious events

1098
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:21,720
in the celebration of the peace of the

1099
00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:22,320
Passover.

1100
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:26,840
Now it describes in chapter 46, how the

1101
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:32,060
prince worships in this new sanctuary.

1102
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:34,420
Thus saith the Lord God, the gate of

1103
00:56:34,420 --> 00:56:36,360
the inner court that looks towards the east

1104
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:39,740
shall be shut the six working days, but

1105
00:56:39,740 --> 00:56:42,440
on the Sabbath it will be opened in

1106
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:43,480
the day of the new moon.

1107
00:56:43,620 --> 00:56:44,260
It will be open.

1108
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:47,040
So this gate on the inner court that

1109
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,000
you see here in your diagram, six days

1110
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:51,100
of the week will be closed.

1111
00:56:51,220 --> 00:56:52,700
It will be open only on the Sabbath

1112
00:56:52,700 --> 00:56:55,760
day and the prince shall enter by the

1113
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:57,520
way of the porch of that gate without

1114
00:56:57,520 --> 00:56:59,560
and shall stand by the post of the

1115
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:02,060
gate and the priest shall prepare his burnt

1116
00:57:02,060 --> 00:57:04,480
offering and his peace offerings and he shall

1117
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,280
worship at the threshold of the gate and

1118
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,300
he shall go forth, but the gate shall

1119
00:57:09,300 --> 00:57:11,140
not be shut until the evening.

1120
00:57:12,020 --> 00:57:14,140
Likewise, the people of the land shall worship

1121
00:57:14,140 --> 00:57:15,800
at the door of this gate before the

1122
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:17,660
Lord in the Sabbath and in the new

1123
00:57:17,660 --> 00:57:20,120
moons and the burnt offerings of the prince

1124
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:21,540
shall offer unto the Lord.

1125
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:23,080
So the fact that he is offering burnt

1126
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,740
offerings under the Lord, which are consecration offerings

1127
00:57:25,740 --> 00:57:28,640
and all sort of precludes him being Jesus

1128
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:32,990
Christ, the meal offerings, and it describes the

1129
00:57:32,990 --> 00:57:34,570
various offerings that he will offer.

1130
00:57:34,670 --> 00:57:36,430
And when the prince shall enter, he shall

1131
00:57:36,430 --> 00:57:37,690
go in by the way of the porch

1132
00:57:37,690 --> 00:57:39,470
of that gate and he shall go forth

1133
00:57:39,470 --> 00:57:40,430
by the way thereof.

1134
00:57:40,470 --> 00:57:42,010
But when the people of the land come

1135
00:57:42,010 --> 00:57:44,630
before the Lord in the solemn feast and

1136
00:57:44,630 --> 00:57:46,170
enter, they are in her by the North

1137
00:57:46,170 --> 00:57:48,290
gate and they leave by the South of

1138
00:57:48,290 --> 00:57:49,790
where they enter by the South gate.

1139
00:57:50,250 --> 00:57:53,730
They leave by the North and it goes

1140
00:57:53,730 --> 00:57:56,030
ahead and tells of the offerings and how

1141
00:57:56,030 --> 00:57:58,530
the offerings are to be boiled and so

1142
00:57:58,530 --> 00:58:00,570
forth in offering them unto the Lord.

1143
00:58:00,910 --> 00:58:04,130
Now in chapter 47 we find this river

1144
00:58:04,130 --> 00:58:09,610
that comes forth from this East gate afterward.

1145
00:58:10,590 --> 00:58:12,530
He brought me again into the door of

1146
00:58:12,530 --> 00:58:14,490
the house and behold the waters issued out

1147
00:58:14,490 --> 00:58:17,030
from under the threshold of the house Eastward

1148
00:58:17,030 --> 00:58:20,110
for the forefront of the house stood toward

1149
00:58:20,110 --> 00:58:22,350
the East and the waters came down from

1150
00:58:22,350 --> 00:58:24,890
under the right side of the house at

1151
00:58:24,890 --> 00:58:26,730
the South side of the altar.

1152
00:58:28,310 --> 00:58:31,770
Now here from the house of God, this

1153
00:58:31,770 --> 00:58:36,370
temple house, a spring of water bubbles out

1154
00:58:36,370 --> 00:58:40,530
and begins to flow toward the East.

1155
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,960
This is also described in or spoken of

1156
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:52,900
in Zechariah and it certainly has its counterpart

1157
00:58:52,900 --> 00:58:56,800
in Revelation chapter 22, that stream in heaven

1158
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,500
of which many of the aspects of this

1159
00:58:59,500 --> 00:59:01,420
are similar to the one there.

1160
00:59:05,030 --> 00:59:07,730
Now it comes out from the throne there

1161
00:59:07,730 --> 00:59:12,590
of the temple from the South part of

1162
00:59:12,590 --> 00:59:22,290
the East side and he took him out

1163
00:59:22,290 --> 00:59:24,110
the North gate because the East gate was

1164
00:59:24,110 --> 00:59:27,990
only for the prince and he measured a

1165
00:59:27,990 --> 00:59:34,110
thousand cubits and he brought me through the

1166
00:59:34,110 --> 00:59:36,730
water and it was ankle deep.

1167
00:59:37,690 --> 00:59:42,050
So he measured another thousand and he brought

1168
00:59:42,050 --> 00:59:43,850
me through the water and the water was

1169
00:59:43,850 --> 00:59:47,310
up to my knees and again he measured

1170
00:59:47,310 --> 00:59:50,850
a thousand cubits and he brought me through

1171
00:59:50,850 --> 00:59:52,790
the waters and they were to my loins

1172
00:59:52,790 --> 00:59:56,550
and after he measured another thousand it was

1173
00:59:56,550 --> 00:59:58,670
a river that I could not pass over

1174
00:59:58,670 --> 01:00:01,110
for the waters were so high they were

1175
01:00:01,110 --> 01:00:03,490
waters to swim in, a river that you

1176
01:00:03,490 --> 01:00:05,250
could not just walk across.

1177
01:00:05,950 --> 01:00:08,410
So here is an interesting thing, this river

1178
01:00:08,410 --> 01:00:12,490
that begins here at the temple and begins

1179
01:00:12,490 --> 01:00:19,330
to flow eastward from the temple towards the

1180
01:00:19,330 --> 01:00:26,370
Jordan Valley, it increases as it goes.

1181
01:00:27,290 --> 01:00:30,870
So at a thousand cubit or two thousand

1182
01:00:30,870 --> 01:00:35,330
feet away approximately, it's only ankle deep.

1183
01:00:36,030 --> 01:00:39,070
By the time you get almost two thirds

1184
01:00:39,070 --> 01:00:40,770
of a mile away, three quarters of a

1185
01:00:40,770 --> 01:00:43,510
mile away, it's knee deep.

1186
01:00:44,370 --> 01:00:47,670
You go another three quarters of a mile,

1187
01:00:47,830 --> 01:00:50,650
two thousand feet and it's waist deep.

1188
01:00:51,210 --> 01:00:52,970
Go another thousand feet and it's over your

1189
01:00:52,970 --> 01:00:53,290
head.

1190
01:00:54,390 --> 01:00:59,270
And so this great river coming forth from

1191
01:00:59,270 --> 01:01:03,070
the area of Jerusalem, originating there at the

1192
01:01:03,070 --> 01:01:06,070
temple but yet picking up from other sources,

1193
01:01:07,010 --> 01:01:11,030
begins to flow probably through the valley that

1194
01:01:11,030 --> 01:01:13,990
is created when the Mount of Olives splits

1195
01:01:13,990 --> 01:01:18,090
in the middle and flows on down to

1196
01:01:18,090 --> 01:01:19,490
the Jordan plain.

1197
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:26,120
And he said to me, son of man,

1198
01:01:27,820 --> 01:01:29,300
did you see that?

1199
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:32,280
And then he brought me and caused me

1200
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:33,960
to return to the bank of the river.

1201
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:37,080
Now when I had returned, behold the bank

1202
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:40,320
of the river, there were very many trees

1203
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:42,460
on either side.

1204
01:01:43,580 --> 01:01:46,460
And he said unto me, these waters issue

1205
01:01:46,460 --> 01:01:48,240
out toward the east country.

1206
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,540
They go down to the desert and they

1207
01:01:50,540 --> 01:01:53,680
go into the sea, which being brought forth

1208
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:55,940
into the sea, the water shall be healed.

1209
01:01:56,520 --> 01:01:59,000
And it shall come to pass that everything

1210
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,820
that lives, which moves whether so ever the

1211
01:02:01,820 --> 01:02:03,720
river shall come shall live.

1212
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:06,160
And there shall be a very great multitude

1213
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:09,120
of fish because these waters shall come thither

1214
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:12,060
for they shall be healed and everything shall

1215
01:02:12,060 --> 01:02:13,760
live whether the water comes.

1216
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:15,580
And it shall come to pass that the

1217
01:02:15,580 --> 01:02:19,100
fishers shall stand upon it from En Gedi

1218
01:02:19,100 --> 01:02:23,260
even to En Iglam and they shall be

1219
01:02:23,260 --> 01:02:25,600
a place to spread forth the nets.

1220
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:27,840
Their fish shall be according to their kinds,

1221
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:31,040
all of the kinds of the fish, even

1222
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:32,960
as you find in the Mediterranean just a

1223
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:34,280
great variety of fish.

1224
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:37,240
So the interesting thing about this new river

1225
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:40,880
that will flow into the Dead Sea originating

1226
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:44,160
there at the temple in Jerusalem will bring

1227
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:46,420
a healing to the waters of the Dead

1228
01:02:46,420 --> 01:02:49,540
Sea so that the Dead Sea will no

1229
01:02:49,540 --> 01:02:52,900
longer be a Dead Sea, but the waters

1230
01:02:52,900 --> 01:02:57,380
will support all kinds of fish and it'll

1231
01:02:57,380 --> 01:02:59,560
be a great fishing spa.

1232
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:01,520
So you might want to go down there

1233
01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:05,880
and open up a worm stand or something

1234
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,620
and you can go down there and be

1235
01:03:08,620 --> 01:03:10,920
a successful man in the kingdom age.

1236
01:03:12,500 --> 01:03:14,460
Because they'll be fishing all the way from

1237
01:03:14,460 --> 01:03:16,900
En Gedi on down to En Iglam.

1238
01:03:18,100 --> 01:03:20,940
Now there are certain portions of the miry

1239
01:03:20,940 --> 01:03:23,440
areas and the marshes of the Dead Sea

1240
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:27,560
that will remain salty, but for the main

1241
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:30,900
body of the Dead Sea the waters will

1242
01:03:30,900 --> 01:03:31,600
be healed.

1243
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:38,000
And on these trees there flocks of fish

1244
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:38,100
that will come down to the Dead Sea

1245
01:03:38,100 --> 01:03:40,120
and their fruit shall be for the meat

1246
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:41,040
of the people.

1247
01:03:41,900 --> 01:03:45,480
Their leaf will not fade, neither will the

1248
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:48,340
fruit thereof run out or be consumed.

1249
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:51,620
It shall bring forth new fruit according to

1250
01:03:51,620 --> 01:03:54,900
his months because their waters they issued out

1251
01:03:54,900 --> 01:03:57,060
of the sanctuary and the fruit thereof will

1252
01:03:57,060 --> 01:03:59,200
be for meat and the leaf thereof for

1253
01:03:59,200 --> 01:03:59,540
medicine.

1254
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:02,040
So these will be very interesting trees that

1255
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:03,900
each month will have a different kind of

1256
01:04:03,900 --> 01:04:04,280
a fruit.

1257
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:08,200
They'll bear fruit year round which will be

1258
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:15,760
a very life-sustaining type of a food.

1259
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:17,620
It'll be a very helpful fruit.

1260
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:19,860
Sustain your life.

1261
01:04:19,940 --> 01:04:20,700
Good protein.

1262
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:21,660
It'll be for meat.

1263
01:04:22,740 --> 01:04:25,460
But the leaves will be used for healing

1264
01:04:25,460 --> 01:04:30,200
for their medicinal value.

1265
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:33,180
So these trees.

1266
01:04:33,300 --> 01:04:35,920
Now in Revelation you get the river that

1267
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:37,700
flows from the throne of God there.

1268
01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:39,760
And again you find the trees on either

1269
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:42,340
side bringing forth the fruit.

1270
01:04:42,900 --> 01:04:45,100
And so they're, you know, of course God

1271
01:04:45,100 --> 01:04:45,440
is able.

1272
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:46,360
You say, well I don't know of any

1273
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:46,800
tree like that.

1274
01:04:46,820 --> 01:04:47,560
Of course you don't.

1275
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:49,820
God hasn't developed it yet.

1276
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:52,360
But he will develop it there in the

1277
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:52,820
kingdom ages.

1278
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:54,640
And what's so hard for God?

1279
01:04:55,060 --> 01:04:58,640
To create an interesting fruit tree that has

1280
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:03,860
very nutritious fruit and bears all year round.

1281
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:06,300
And you'll want some of those in your

1282
01:05:06,300 --> 01:05:06,680
garden.

1283
01:05:07,460 --> 01:05:12,880
And the leaves will be good for medicinal

1284
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:13,560
purposes.

1285
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:19,180
And the same things are described as along

1286
01:05:19,180 --> 01:05:21,720
this river in heaven that is pure as

1287
01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:23,820
crystal flowing from the throne of God in

1288
01:05:23,820 --> 01:05:24,000
heaven.

1289
01:05:24,300 --> 01:05:26,720
So read this along with Revelation 22 and

1290
01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:28,920
you'll find the correlations that are there.

1291
01:05:29,620 --> 01:05:33,740
Now even as the tabernacle in the wilderness

1292
01:05:33,740 --> 01:05:35,620
was built as a model in heaven.

1293
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:38,840
So this probably again is a model of

1294
01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:39,540
the heavenly things.

1295
01:05:39,620 --> 01:05:41,220
And this river is more or less a

1296
01:05:41,220 --> 01:05:43,500
model of that river flowing from the throne

1297
01:05:43,500 --> 01:05:46,340
of God in heaven described in Revelation 22.

1298
01:05:48,020 --> 01:05:50,440
Now the Lord gives them the borders of

1299
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:52,980
the land from Damascus on the north and

1300
01:05:52,980 --> 01:05:56,140
down to the south and to the east

1301
01:05:56,140 --> 01:05:56,900
and so forth.

1302
01:05:56,980 --> 01:06:01,460
And then the tribes are divided into the

1303
01:06:01,460 --> 01:06:01,900
land.

1304
01:06:02,440 --> 01:06:05,240
And the northern most part of the land

1305
01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:06,800
is given to the tribe of Dan.

1306
01:06:07,500 --> 01:06:09,720
South of him would be Asher and then

1307
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:16,440
Naphtali, then Manasseh, then Ephraim, and then Reuben,

1308
01:06:16,740 --> 01:06:18,120
and then Judah.

1309
01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:22,220
And then in the area of Judah of

1310
01:06:22,220 --> 01:06:25,880
course you have this area for the priest

1311
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:29,100
and the temple and this new holy city

1312
01:06:29,100 --> 01:06:32,880
that will be created during that period.

1313
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:37,400
And then this portion is set aside perpetually

1314
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:40,160
for the Lord and for the priest not

1315
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:40,880
to be sold.

1316
01:06:41,620 --> 01:06:46,640
And then the residue of this acreage in

1317
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:48,380
there will be for the prince.

1318
01:06:49,140 --> 01:06:52,100
And then south from there you have the

1319
01:06:52,100 --> 01:06:55,300
tribe of Benjamin, further south Simeon, and then

1320
01:06:55,300 --> 01:06:59,020
Ishkar, Zebulun, and Gad as you're moving down

1321
01:06:59,020 --> 01:07:00,360
into the area of the Sinai.

1322
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:03,260
So that whole area of course will be

1323
01:07:03,260 --> 01:07:06,140
green and lush and tillable.

1324
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:08,860
Then is when the prophecy will be fulfilled.

1325
01:07:09,020 --> 01:07:10,740
The desert will blossom as a rose.

1326
01:07:11,580 --> 01:07:14,680
There will be springs in the deserts and

1327
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:16,580
streams and dry places and all.

1328
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:22,120
And the land restored and the world restored

1329
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:24,660
really by the power of the Lord.

1330
01:07:27,380 --> 01:07:32,960
Now the city is going to have twelve

1331
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:33,620
gates.

1332
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:37,300
And the gates will be named after the

1333
01:07:37,300 --> 01:07:41,160
tribes of the children of Israel.

1334
01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:45,820
So the three gates on the north will

1335
01:07:45,820 --> 01:07:48,160
be for Reuben, Judah, and Levi.

1336
01:07:48,660 --> 01:07:51,320
On the east the gates will be named

1337
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:54,140
for Joseph, Benjamin, and Dan.

1338
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:56,860
On the south the gates will be named

1339
01:07:56,860 --> 01:07:59,140
Simeon, Ishkar, and Zebulun.

1340
01:07:59,740 --> 01:08:05,360
And on the west Gad, Asher, and Naphtali.

1341
01:08:06,620 --> 01:08:10,520
And it was round about eighteen thousand majors.

1342
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:14,100
And the name of the city from that

1343
01:08:14,100 --> 01:08:19,340
day shall be Jehovah Shammah.

1344
01:08:20,300 --> 01:08:22,979
The Lord is there.

1345
01:08:23,140 --> 01:08:24,060
The city of the Lord.

1346
01:08:25,460 --> 01:08:27,960
And thus it gets that beautiful name Jehovah

1347
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:28,540
Shammah.

1348
01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:31,620
The Lord is there.

1349
01:08:32,740 --> 01:08:37,880
So as I've shared with you, I'm glad

1350
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:42,529
we're through with this portion of Ezekiel.

1351
01:08:43,649 --> 01:08:47,390
I do not again pretend to have a

1352
01:08:47,390 --> 01:08:50,510
thorough, full understanding of these things.

1353
01:08:53,180 --> 01:08:56,260
In this area I know in part and

1354
01:08:56,260 --> 01:08:58,000
I prophesy in part.

1355
01:08:59,180 --> 01:09:01,700
But when that which is perfect is come

1356
01:09:01,700 --> 01:09:03,460
then that which is in part will be

1357
01:09:03,460 --> 01:09:04,279
done away with.

1358
01:09:05,100 --> 01:09:07,439
But until the Lord brings us a more

1359
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:09,979
complete understanding, and I don't see why He

1360
01:09:09,979 --> 01:09:12,819
needs to at this time.

1361
01:09:14,540 --> 01:09:16,540
Why should He give me a clear understanding

1362
01:09:16,540 --> 01:09:17,260
of this now?

1363
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:21,140
When it's really for Israel, not for me

1364
01:09:21,140 --> 01:09:21,479
anyhow.

1365
01:09:22,819 --> 01:09:24,520
And the time isn't yet.

1366
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:27,319
It is yet a future time in the

1367
01:09:27,319 --> 01:09:27,819
kingdom age.

1368
01:09:28,020 --> 01:09:30,359
It isn't necessary that I understand this part

1369
01:09:30,359 --> 01:09:31,240
of it fully right now.

1370
01:09:31,420 --> 01:09:32,880
I'm sure that one day I will.

1371
01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:34,600
When I see the whole thing, I walk

1372
01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:36,120
through the city and I walk through the

1373
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:36,760
gates and all.

1374
01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:37,880
And I look over the whole thing and

1375
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:38,660
I say, wow, yeah.

1376
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:39,979
Well, I go back to Ezekiel now.

1377
01:09:40,279 --> 01:09:42,359
Man, it wasn't bad what the guy did,

1378
01:09:42,420 --> 01:09:42,660
you know.

1379
01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:44,920
It's pretty good for a description of it.

1380
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:47,040
And I'll understand it more fully then.

1381
01:09:47,220 --> 01:09:49,840
Though right now I'm still sort of foggy

1382
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:50,800
on the whole thing.

1383
01:09:53,440 --> 01:09:58,040
But when we get into Daniel, then we'll

1384
01:09:58,040 --> 01:09:58,400
cook.

1385
01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:03,080
Because Daniel speaks of the things that we

1386
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:05,680
are seeing coming to pass now in the

1387
01:10:05,680 --> 01:10:06,640
world around us.

1388
01:10:07,380 --> 01:10:09,260
And God has given to us a better

1389
01:10:09,260 --> 01:10:11,340
understanding, because these are the things that relate

1390
01:10:11,340 --> 01:10:13,680
to us and to our times when we

1391
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:14,380
get into Daniel.

1392
01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:17,360
Up until through chapter 39, they related to

1393
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:18,080
us in our times.

1394
01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:19,340
Can see those clearly.

1395
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:21,660
But then as we get into the future,

1396
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:23,180
it isn't time yet that we should know

1397
01:10:23,180 --> 01:10:23,660
these things.

1398
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:25,180
And thus God hasn't revealed.

1399
01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:29,280
And that's why you hear people who are

1400
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:38,920
seeking to argue against the pre

1401
01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:40,760
-tribulation rapture theory.

1402
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:44,980
They say it is not a theory that

1403
01:10:44,980 --> 01:10:49,480
was a part of the historic church doctrine.

1404
01:10:50,260 --> 01:10:53,720
It's something that has come along more recently.

1405
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:57,380
And because it was not taught in historic

1406
01:10:57,380 --> 01:11:02,820
church doctrine, they sort of reject it as

1407
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:05,400
having any true authority.

1408
01:11:09,140 --> 01:11:11,600
But to me that is not a substantial

1409
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:12,900
argument at all.

1410
01:11:16,270 --> 01:11:19,150
For there are, first of all, things that

1411
01:11:19,150 --> 01:11:22,110
have been taught in historic church doctrine that

1412
01:11:22,110 --> 01:11:23,850
I disagree with entirely.

1413
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:29,360
Origin taught baptismal regeneration.

1414
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:33,240
Origin taught the baptism of infants.

1415
01:11:34,020 --> 01:11:40,140
I don't think the Bible teaches either, but

1416
01:11:40,140 --> 01:11:41,740
it was a part and is a part

1417
01:11:41,740 --> 01:11:43,300
of historic church doctrine.

1418
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:47,900
Therefore there is historic church doctrine, which isn't

1419
01:11:47,900 --> 01:11:48,320
biblical.

1420
01:11:54,100 --> 01:12:03,660
Secondly, why should God reveal the things of

1421
01:12:03,660 --> 01:12:05,580
the rapture of the church to Martin Luther

1422
01:12:05,580 --> 01:12:07,220
when it wasn't going to happen in his

1423
01:12:07,220 --> 01:12:07,640
time?

1424
01:12:09,980 --> 01:12:12,720
Even as we don't understand fully these things

1425
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:14,780
in Ezekiel because they're not for our time.

1426
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:19,480
And it isn't necessary that God make them

1427
01:12:19,480 --> 01:12:23,780
clear to us because there are things for

1428
01:12:23,780 --> 01:12:26,980
a yet future time for a different people.

1429
01:12:28,620 --> 01:12:32,800
So because the rapture is for our time,

1430
01:12:33,440 --> 01:12:35,640
even as God told Daniel when he was

1431
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:37,900
seeking understanding of the prophecies that he was

1432
01:12:37,900 --> 01:12:40,660
writing, the Lord said, seal them up there

1433
01:12:40,660 --> 01:12:42,540
for the time of the end.

1434
01:12:45,790 --> 01:12:48,910
For at that time knowledge will be increased.

1435
01:12:50,210 --> 01:12:52,770
In Psalm, when it was writing concerning the

1436
01:12:52,770 --> 01:12:56,350
future, he said, and the regathering of Israel

1437
01:12:56,350 --> 01:12:58,730
and all, he said, these things are written

1438
01:12:58,730 --> 01:12:59,970
for a generation to come.

1439
01:13:00,030 --> 01:13:02,090
I'm not writing you these things for those

1440
01:13:02,090 --> 01:13:02,690
that are living now.

1441
01:13:02,830 --> 01:13:04,650
These are written for a generation to come.

1442
01:13:06,590 --> 01:13:08,610
So God has written things that are especially

1443
01:13:08,610 --> 01:13:09,090
for us.

1444
01:13:09,210 --> 01:13:10,530
And, and now that we are living in

1445
01:13:10,530 --> 01:13:12,790
that day, there is a clear understanding.

1446
01:13:14,210 --> 01:13:16,470
And though the rapture of the church might

1447
01:13:16,470 --> 01:13:18,850
not be a part of historic church doctrine,

1448
01:13:19,130 --> 01:13:21,550
it was sure a part of Paul's theology.

1449
01:13:21,990 --> 01:13:23,610
And when does church history begin?

1450
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:29,240
Paul surely taught it, but that it was

1451
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:31,120
lost during the history of the church.

1452
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:36,300
It must also be confessed that many other

1453
01:13:36,300 --> 01:13:40,500
beautiful and glorious truths were lost during the

1454
01:13:40,500 --> 01:13:41,460
history of the church.

1455
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:47,600
And really the church went through the dark

1456
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:52,620
ages and was actually a part of the

1457
01:13:52,620 --> 01:13:54,440
cause of the dark ages.

1458
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,700
For the church was guilty, the historic church

1459
01:13:59,700 --> 01:14:08,010
was guilty of suppressing scientific knowledge and understanding

1460
01:14:08,010 --> 01:14:10,990
because they were discovering things that were contrary

1461
01:14:10,990 --> 01:14:12,790
to historic church doctrine.

1462
01:14:15,020 --> 01:14:18,340
When they began to gaze through telescopes and

1463
01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:24,120
discovered things about our universe that were contrary

1464
01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:25,920
to historic church doctrine.

1465
01:14:27,300 --> 01:14:29,780
The history of the church is not a

1466
01:14:29,780 --> 01:14:36,400
glorious, I think, you know, Stephen was talking

1467
01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:40,700
to the Sanhedrin and he rehearsed for them

1468
01:14:40,700 --> 01:14:41,660
their history.

1469
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:45,220
Now these people were always boasting in their

1470
01:14:45,220 --> 01:14:47,880
fathers were our fathers, this, our fathers, that,

1471
01:14:47,980 --> 01:14:50,760
you know, and our fathers, our ancestors, and

1472
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:52,640
they were always boasting this stuff and Stephen,

1473
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:54,580
man, he laid them low.

1474
01:14:55,820 --> 01:14:57,760
He gave them their history and then he

1475
01:14:57,760 --> 01:15:00,240
said, which of the prophets did your fathers

1476
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:01,300
not stone?

1477
01:15:05,110 --> 01:15:07,230
And he told them how horrible their fathers

1478
01:15:07,230 --> 01:15:07,430
were.

1479
01:15:07,510 --> 01:15:09,330
Your history is pretty black men.

1480
01:15:10,190 --> 01:15:11,550
It's pretty dark.

1481
01:15:13,090 --> 01:15:14,830
Well, let me say that.

1482
01:15:14,970 --> 01:15:16,590
I feel the history of the church is

1483
01:15:16,590 --> 01:15:17,690
very dark.

1484
01:15:17,790 --> 01:15:18,170
Indeed.

1485
01:15:18,510 --> 01:15:21,990
I have no defense for the history of

1486
01:15:21,990 --> 01:15:22,270
the church.

1487
01:15:22,330 --> 01:15:24,110
I'm ashamed of it.

1488
01:15:26,020 --> 01:15:27,820
So anybody comes to me and starts talking

1489
01:15:27,820 --> 01:15:29,340
about historic church doctrine.

1490
01:15:29,480 --> 01:15:33,400
I'm embarrassed over what the church has done

1491
01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:34,220
in its history.

1492
01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:40,960
Surely it hasn't been a true representative of

1493
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:42,860
Jesus Christ in the world or there would

1494
01:15:42,860 --> 01:15:44,460
be more people converted today.

1495
01:15:45,460 --> 01:15:47,700
The church has been a great stumbling block

1496
01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:55,350
and it has hindered progress and development and

1497
01:15:55,350 --> 01:15:58,530
it has suppressed men and peoples.

1498
01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:02,480
I'm ashamed of church history.

1499
01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:05,660
I don't try to defend it at all.

1500
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:13,110
I apologize for it, but I don't have

1501
01:16:13,110 --> 01:16:15,830
to make the same mistakes, nor am I

1502
01:16:15,830 --> 01:16:18,410
responsible for the mistakes that they made.

1503
01:16:20,050 --> 01:16:21,970
Now, a lot of you kids in college,

1504
01:16:22,050 --> 01:16:24,170
you have a problem because the professors start

1505
01:16:24,170 --> 01:16:26,170
bringing up things which have happened in church

1506
01:16:26,170 --> 01:16:26,550
history.

1507
01:16:26,810 --> 01:16:28,710
They start telling about the wars and how

1508
01:16:28,710 --> 01:16:30,890
the church has slaughtered so many people and

1509
01:16:30,890 --> 01:16:32,810
the horrible atrocities that have been done in

1510
01:16:32,810 --> 01:16:33,630
the name of Christ.

1511
01:16:35,610 --> 01:16:37,070
And you're defenseless.

1512
01:16:39,540 --> 01:16:43,040
And I found myself in university defenseless against

1513
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:43,860
these things.

1514
01:16:46,050 --> 01:16:47,610
And I used to start to hang my

1515
01:16:47,610 --> 01:16:52,710
head until the Lord caused me to realize,

1516
01:16:52,850 --> 01:16:53,830
Hey, that's not me.

1517
01:16:53,910 --> 01:16:56,450
And that's not my understanding of Christianity to

1518
01:16:56,450 --> 01:16:56,670
me.

1519
01:16:56,730 --> 01:16:58,770
That isn't a true representative of Christianity.

1520
01:16:58,830 --> 01:17:00,370
And I began to speak up and say,

1521
01:17:00,490 --> 01:17:06,180
wait a minute, that's not really Christian just

1522
01:17:06,180 --> 01:17:08,420
because they said they were Christians, just because

1523
01:17:08,420 --> 01:17:10,540
they went by the church doesn't mean that

1524
01:17:10,540 --> 01:17:11,720
they were truly Christians.

1525
01:17:14,590 --> 01:17:16,530
You get a bust of great nuts.

1526
01:17:17,630 --> 01:17:18,710
It's not grapes.

1527
01:17:18,850 --> 01:17:19,650
It's not nuts.

1528
01:17:19,790 --> 01:17:20,870
You don't know what it is.

1529
01:17:34,170 --> 01:17:37,430
I don't have to answer for the mistakes

1530
01:17:37,430 --> 01:17:40,210
of the church fathers.

1531
01:17:40,490 --> 01:17:42,870
I'll have to answer for my own mistakes.

1532
01:17:43,730 --> 01:17:45,930
And thus I need to be seeking the

1533
01:17:45,930 --> 01:17:47,910
guidance of the spirit that I don't make

1534
01:17:47,910 --> 01:17:48,610
mistakes.

1535
01:17:48,730 --> 01:17:52,010
You see, for I'm going to answer for

1536
01:17:52,010 --> 01:17:57,020
me, but that puts a greater responsibility upon

1537
01:17:57,020 --> 01:18:00,760
me because it is important that I seek

1538
01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:04,680
God and I seek to live after the

1539
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:07,500
biblical injunctions that I seek to walk after

1540
01:18:07,500 --> 01:18:09,320
the spirit that I seek to be led

1541
01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:11,620
by the spirit that I seek to love

1542
01:18:11,620 --> 01:18:16,280
as Christ loved and show a better example

1543
01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:20,120
of what the Lord intended his children to

1544
01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:20,920
be and to do.

1545
01:18:22,700 --> 01:18:25,800
Now, even as people have judged the church

1546
01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:29,380
by the mistakes of the past, so they

1547
01:18:29,380 --> 01:18:32,000
are continuing to judge the church, but you

1548
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:35,140
can help rectify it by living as God

1549
01:18:35,140 --> 01:18:36,620
would have you to live and be a

1550
01:18:36,620 --> 01:18:38,300
good example so that they can point to

1551
01:18:38,300 --> 01:18:39,900
you and say, well, yes, but there is

1552
01:18:39,900 --> 01:18:40,640
a real Christian.

1553
01:18:41,980 --> 01:18:43,440
You know, it's interesting when we go to

1554
01:18:43,440 --> 01:18:47,320
Israel, we'll be talking with a group of

1555
01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:48,940
the Jewish people over there and they'll start

1556
01:18:48,940 --> 01:18:50,460
saying, well, the church, this, the church, that,

1557
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:52,800
and the Christians, all the Christians are this,

1558
01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:53,420
that, and the other.

1559
01:18:53,700 --> 01:18:55,520
And we say, wait a minute, we're Christians.

1560
01:18:56,560 --> 01:18:58,100
You know, you're talking about Christians and here

1561
01:18:58,100 --> 01:18:58,380
we are.

1562
01:18:58,420 --> 01:18:59,280
We're Christians.

1563
01:18:59,360 --> 01:18:59,940
What do you mean?

1564
01:19:00,500 --> 01:19:01,760
Oh no, you're not Christians.

1565
01:19:01,880 --> 01:19:02,840
You're Calvary chapel.

1566
01:19:04,480 --> 01:19:05,280
You're different.

1567
01:19:05,920 --> 01:19:07,120
And it's interesting.

1568
01:19:07,240 --> 01:19:11,680
They recognize a difference all over.

1569
01:19:11,860 --> 01:19:14,120
They recognize that if they say you're different,

1570
01:19:14,520 --> 01:19:17,500
they'd really don't know where to put us

1571
01:19:17,500 --> 01:19:17,760
yet.

1572
01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:19,720
They really don't understand this yet.

1573
01:19:20,380 --> 01:19:23,500
We come on with so much love and

1574
01:19:23,500 --> 01:19:25,480
so much concern and interest and all for

1575
01:19:25,480 --> 01:19:25,720
them.

1576
01:19:26,460 --> 01:19:28,960
We're just an enigma to them at the

1577
01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:29,640
present time.

1578
01:19:29,740 --> 01:19:31,260
I can hardly wait till we get these

1579
01:19:31,260 --> 01:19:34,100
pastors all over there, uh, spreading love all

1580
01:19:34,100 --> 01:19:36,120
over Israel to these people.

1581
01:19:37,460 --> 01:19:44,440
And incidentally, uh, the 3rd of December we'll

1582
01:19:44,440 --> 01:19:50,320
be at the baptismal site on the river

1583
01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:54,900
Jordan that Calvary chapel purchased for Israel.

1584
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:56,840
We gave money to the ministry of tourism

1585
01:19:56,840 --> 01:19:59,980
to put up a baptismal they've asked me

1586
01:19:59,980 --> 01:20:02,000
to speak at the dedication ceremonies.

1587
01:20:02,780 --> 01:20:05,700
And so it'll be an excellent opportunity to

1588
01:20:05,700 --> 01:20:07,780
speak to these people and let them know

1589
01:20:07,780 --> 01:20:12,080
why we love them, why we're interested in

1590
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:14,800
the land, why we wanted a baptismal site

1591
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:17,080
on the Jordan river and what it's all

1592
01:20:17,080 --> 01:20:17,480
about.

1593
01:20:17,740 --> 01:20:19,700
And so pray for me on the 3rd

1594
01:20:19,700 --> 01:20:21,920
of December, uh, because God's going to give

1595
01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:25,440
us a good opportunity to share this dedication.

1596
01:20:30,210 --> 01:20:37,080
But you are the Bible that is being

1597
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:38,500
read by the world today.

1598
01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:46,340
And the opinion of Christianity is being created

1599
01:20:46,340 --> 01:20:47,460
by what you are.

1600
01:20:50,020 --> 01:20:54,100
Jesus said, let your light so shine before

1601
01:20:54,100 --> 01:20:58,500
men that when they see your good works,

1602
01:20:59,060 --> 01:21:03,740
they will glorify your father, which is in

1603
01:21:03,740 --> 01:21:04,060
heaven.

1604
01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:07,240
God help us that we will not be

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of those of which people say, well, if

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that's a Christian, I don't need any of

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that.

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But God help us to live in such

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a way as the salt of the earth

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will create a thirst in people for Jesus

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Christ.

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God bless you.

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God keep you fill you with his spirit

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and with his love.

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Watch over you that we might each of

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us grow into a greater apprehension of all

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that God is and desires to do for

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us.

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And may above all, you walk in love

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in Jesus name.