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Him. These chapters eight, nine, ten and eleven hold together as a
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block, and splitting these into two. Last time, Ezekiel was taken up
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in a vision. Remember, he's
in exile, and he was taken up
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in a vision to go on a
tour of the temple. But this is
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not one of your friendly tourist kind
of tours. This was a tour of
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sin, of abomination. He was
going to see the place where God had
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set his name, place where people
were desecrating, a place that God's own
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people is, his rulers, his
priests, of people who had been called
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to serve him and instead set up
Abominations, idols, worshiping false gods,
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even turning their backs to the Lord
to worship the sun and other creatures.
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The judgment for these things was pictured
in the visions that he received, and
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that vision continues now in chapters ten
and ten and eleven. And here we
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return. Are Not we returned,
but the scripture returns to us that picture
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of the Lord seated and ruling on
his throne that we read at the beginning
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of his ekiel. So let's Care
God's word now and his ekiel Ten and
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eleven. Then I looked and behold
on the expanse that was over the heads
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of the Cherub beam. There was
above them something like a Sapphire in appearance,
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like a throne, and he said
to the man clothed in linen,
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go in among the whirling wheels underneath
the Chairubim, fill your hands with burning
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coals from between the Cherubim and scatter
them over the city. And he went
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in. Before my eyes now,
the Cherubeam were standing on the south side
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of the house when the man went
in and a cloud filled the inner court
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and the glory of the Lord went
up from the Cherubim Cherub to the threshold
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of the House and the house was
filled with the cloud and the court was
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filled with the brightness of the glory
of the Lord and the sound of the
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wings of the Cherubeam, where has
heard as far as the outer court like
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the Voice of God Almighty when he
speaks. And when he commanded the man
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clothed and when he commanded the man
clothed in linen take fire from between the
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whirling wheels, from between the Cherubeam, he went in and stood beside a
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wheel and a Cherub stretched out his
hand from between the Cherubeam to the fire
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that was between the Cherubeam and took
some of it and put it into the
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hands of the man clothed and went
in linen, who took it and went
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out. The cherubeam appeared to have
the form of a human hand under their
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wings. And I looked and behold
there were four wheels beside the Cherub beam,
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one beside each Cherub, and the
appearance of the wheels was like sparkling
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barrel. And as for the appearance
the For all the foe had the same
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likeness as if a wheel were in
a with a wheel were within a wheel.
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When they went, they went in
any of their four directions, without
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turning as they went, and whatever
direction the front wheel face, the others
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followed without turning as they went,
and their whole body, their rims and
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their spokes and their ring wings and
the wheels, were full of eyes all
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around the wheels that the four of
them had. As for the wheels,
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they were called in my here hearing
the whirling wheels, and everyone had four
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faces. The first face was like
was the face of a Cherub, and
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the second face was a human face, and the third face of a lion
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and the fourth the face of an
eagle and the chairub beam, and the
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chairbeam mounted up. These were the
living creatures that I saw by the Cabar
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Canal, and when the Cherubeam went, the wheels went beside them, and
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when their chirubeam lifted up their wings
to mount up from the earth, the
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wheels did not turn from beside them. When they stood still, these stood
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still and when they mounted up,
these mounted up, for the spirit of
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the living creatures was in them,
for the glory of the Lord went out
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from the threshold of the House and
stood over the Cherubeam and the chairbeam lifted
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up their wings and mounted up from
the earth before my eyes as they went
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out, and the wheels beside them, and they stood at the entrance of
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the East Gate of the House of
the Lord, and the glory of the
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God of Israel was over them.
These were the living creatures that I saw
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underneath the god of Israel by the
Kebar Canal, and I knew that they
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were chair of Beam. Each had
four faces and each had four wings and
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under their wings like the likeness of
human hands. And as for the likeness
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of their faces, they were the
same faces whose appearance I had seen by
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the Kebar canal. Each one of
them went straightforward. The spirit lifted me
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up and brought me to the East
Gate of the House of the Lord,
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which was which faces east. And
behold, at the entrance of the gateway
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there were twenty five men, and
I saw among them jazz and I are,
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the son of Azure, and Pelatia, the son of Ben and I
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IAH, princes of the people.
And he said to me, son of
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man, these are the wicked who
does devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel
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in this city, who say the
time is not near to build houses.
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This city is the cauldron and we
are the meet. Therefore, prophesy against
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them. Prophesy, Oh, son
of man, and the spirit of the
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Lord fell upon me and he said
to me, say, thus says the
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Lord. So you think, O
House of Israel, for I know the
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things that come into your mind.
You have multiplied your slain in this city
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and if filled its streets with the
slain. Therefore, thus says the Lord,
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God your slain, whom you have
laid in the midst of it.
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They are the meat in this city, is the cauldron, but you shall
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be brought out of the midst of
it. You have feared the sword,
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and I will bring the sword upon
you. Bring the sword upon you,
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declares the Lord God, and I
will bring you out of the midst of
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it and give you into the hands
of foreigners and execute judgments upon you.
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You shall fall by the sword.
I will judge you at the border of
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Israel and you shall know that I
am the Lord. This city shall not
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be your cauldron, nor shall you
be the meet meet in the midst of
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it. I will judge you at
the border of Israel and you shall know
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that I am the Lord, for
you do not walked in my statutes nor
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obeyed my rules, but have acted
according to the rules of the nations that
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are around you. And it came
to pass, while I was prophesying,
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that Pelatia, the son of men
and I had died. Then I fell
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down on my face and I cried
it out with a loud voice and said,
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Ah, Lord God, will you
make a full end of the remnant
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of Israel, and the word of
the Lord came to me. Son Of
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man, your brothers, even your
brothers, your kinsmen, the whole house
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of Israel, all of them,
are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
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have said, go far from the
Lord to us, this land is
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given for a possession. Therefore say
thus, as the Lord God, though
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I removed them far off among the
nations and though I scattered them among the
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countries, yet I have been a
sanctuary to them for a while in the
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countries where they have gone. Therefore
say thus, says the Lord God.
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I will gather you from the peoples
and assemble you out of the countries where
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you have been scattered, and I
will give you the land of Israel.
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And when they come there, they
will remove from it all the detestable things
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and all its abominations, and I
will give them one heart and a new
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spirit. I will put it within
them. I will remove the heart of
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stone from their flesh and give them
a heart of flesh that they may walk
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in my statutes and keep my rules
and obey them, and they shall be
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my people and I will be their
God. But as for those whose heart
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goes, God goes after their detestable
things and their abominations, I will bring
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their deeds upon their own heads,
declares the Lord God. Then the Cherubeam
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lifted up their wings, with the
wheels beside them in the glory of the
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God of Israel was over them and
the glory of the Lord went up from
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the midst of the city and stood
on the mountain that is on the east
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side of the city, and the
spirit lifted men me up and brought me,
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in the vision by the spirit of
God, into Chaldea, to the
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exiles. Then the vision would that
I had seen went up from me and
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I told the exiles all the things
that the Lord had shown me. May
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God bless the reading of his word. So here, as God has a
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revealed it to Israel, he gives
we have the completion of this vision.
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Remember, Israel is equal as part
of those people that have already left Jerusalem.
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Then exile is already begun. But
there are people that are still there,
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people still in the city, people
still in the temple, and is
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Egul is taken up in a vision
to go in to see the things that
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are there. He gets to say, in a way, what's going on
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behind the scenes in according to according
to God's will. One commentator Ian do
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good. He compares it to the
wizard of Oz but in a backwards way.
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He says that in the wizard of
Oz a, Dorothy and her friends
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at the end of the movie that
have been to the book. Book they
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revealed what is actually going behind the
scenes, and it's a disappointing thing.
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We find out that nothing is going
beyond beyond the scenes, the great wizard
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of Oz is nothing more than a
man. It's the opposite kind of thing.
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Here, a vision is given.
The screen between God's plan and what
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is happening in the world is lifted
and Ezekiel gets to see what's going on
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in the heavenly places, what God
is doing behind the scenes. And he's
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not just a man behind the curtain. He is the Almighty Lord God,
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ruling sovereign over everything. He rules
powerfully and he and that rule is expressed
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in these creatures and these wheels.
To remind you of some of the things
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that we considered at the beginning of
is Ekiel and that are repeated here,
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we have essentially what is a chariot
pictured here, a chariot when which the
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wheels which spin around, these whirling
wheels are tied to these creatures, these
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Cherubeam, that's plural for Cherub,
and as they're tied together, God is
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ruling and and moving upon this host
of Heaven. His war chariot is made
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up of these creatures who go to
war for him, who execute it is
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his will. And here is Echiel
sees the chariot of the Lord. A
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chariot of the Lord is not as
not only described by these up in terms
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of these awesome creatures on which the
Lord is seated, but it's also described
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as a as a chariot that can
go anywhere in any direction. Unlike even
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any human vehicle, which is limited
in some way to how far I can
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go, how fast it can go, what directions it can go, God's
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chariot can move any way at once. Up, down, left, right,
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back, forth, north, south, east, West. They simply
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go where God directs. We see, as God comes in judgment, that
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he's not bound in any way.
The idols of the world are the idols
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of our imagination. They're always bound
to this or that thing. Well,
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the God of the trees and the
God of the stones and the God of
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the rivers, not the God who
is truly gone. Not only is he
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god who is able to move anywhere
he likes, be anywhere he likes and
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indeed is everywhere at once, he
also sees everything at the same time,
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and this is pictured in those eyes
that are all covering on these wheels and
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in the many faces of the Cherub. He sees everything, and that's been
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part of the problem in Israel,
is that people think he doesn't see.
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I can do what I want because
God doesn't see. I can worship these
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false things in secret, because God
doesn't see. I can kill this man,
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I can take his vineyard, I
can do what I want because God
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doesn't see. But God does see. He always, always sees, and
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as he sees and as he pictures
all that has happened, Um Zekiel sees
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that God is not going to remain
still any longer. He is going to
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move forward in judgment. And what
is going to happen is what he is
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going to cast out of Israel,
as he's already begun to do. The
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people and Jerusalem itself, the temple
itself, the place where he has put
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his name, the place where he
is said to dwell, would be ruined,
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destroyed. You remember when the First
Temple was built. When the temple
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was first built, Solmnon prayed and
he said, Lord, you are not
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bound in anything made by human hands, and yet you have placed your name
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here, and the Glory Cloud of
the Lord descended down on the Temple and
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dwelled there. Like Moses, who
went up into the cloud of God's glory
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on Mount Sinai the priests would go
into the cloud of God's glory in the
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most holy place. There's a place
which was filled with his mystery and his
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awesomeness and His Majesty. Was the
place which Jonah cried out to is he
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was sinking down into the depths.
Oh Lord, that I'd see her temple
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again. I'll pay my vows,
I'll go to the temple, I'll be
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there. There is exactly what Solomon
he said, when Peure people are are
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lost and your people have gone astray, may they may they look to the
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temple and repent, pray and repent, and may you show favor on them.
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What is happening in this moment?
The Lord is leaving the temple.
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We read in is Echiel ten.
First, the spirit that is in the
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the inner court, or that is
in that holy place, begins to move
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out of the temple. It moves
out to the threshold of the House.
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We read in Verse Four. He
moves out to the freshhold of the House.
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And then, and as that happens, we read in verse five that
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the sound of the wings of the
Cherubeam were heard as far as the outer
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court. He's commanded. Then the
judgment begins. He commands the man in
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linen who had previously, remember in
the last section, he had gone through
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the city and put names on the
put names down of those who were repentant
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on those who were not. Now
the same one is called to take fire
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from the whirling wheels, these wheels
of judgment, this great fiery chariot,
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and he is going to cast it
on the city. How was Sodom and
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go Moura smoked, smitten, destroyed? This is how, in the judgment
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and the wrath of the Lord,
he reigned his fire down on these awful
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places, places that were known for
their sexual immorality, places that were known
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for seeking after false gods, spaces
that were known for total disregard of Hospitality
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and justice and every which way.
Now that was happening on his very own
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temple. Imagine your own house,
being so upset with it that you would
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just destroy it down to the ground, the place where you live, the
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place where you meet people, the
place where you invite people into your home
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and where there is family in love, but not anymore. We're things have
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gotten so bad that you are leaving
and now destroying the whole thing. And
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that's just a human example. This
is happening with the Temple of the away
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and this is to the ruin of
all of those who had, in the
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temple, been using the temple as
kind of a good luck charm. But
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what can God do? As long
as we're here, we're fine, we're
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protected, we got the temple,
we're good, we've got Jerusalem, we're
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good. And that seems to be
what they're saying here in this at least.
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It sounds odd to me this this
metaphor of the cauldron in the meat.
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Whatever how it's a little bit difficult
to understand what's going on there.
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But whatever is going on there,
it's very clear that the leaders in Jerusalem
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think of this as a positive thing. Were the meat in the cauldron and
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that's good. Now there's one possible
reason. I think that helps make sense
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of that. Perhaps what they're saying
and what they're thinking is that the good
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meat is kept in pot and the
bad meat is cast out, and that
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sort of the image that they're using
there. And so they're saying we're okay,
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we're the good meat. Right,
we're in the cauldron, so we
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know we're good. We're by the
temple. We know we're good and we're
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safe. We're not like the exiles
that were cast out of this place,
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the exiles that are in Chaldea,
the exiles that are unprotected, unloved,
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one cared for. We're by the
temple, were gold. Now let's go
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worship our false images in the temple. Right. This tends to this seems
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to be their perspective, and God
hears them saying this, as he tells
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Ezekiel, he says, go look, see what they're doing. And that's
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what they're doing there at the threshold
of the House. And it is there
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that the Lord then moves from the
threshold of the house out onto the chariot
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and the chariot mounts up and they
begin to move. We read in Verse
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Eighteen. Then the glory of the
Lord Wind from the threshold of the House
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and stood over the Cherubeam the Lord
is sitting down into his chariot. Essentially,
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he's moving out of the house and
he's sitting down on his chariot of
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judgment and of righteousness. And then
in verse nineteen, the Cherubeam lift up
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their wings and mounted up from the
earth before my eyes as they went out,
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and the wheels beside them, and
they stood at the entrance of the
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East Gate of the House of the
Lord, and the glory of the Lord,
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of God, of the glory of
the God of Israel, was over
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them. So he moves from with
him how in the House to the threshold
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of the house, and now he's
at the East Gate. You See,
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he's he's on his way out,
he's leaving, and then we read about
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those who were there at the threshold
of the House. And then, finally,
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as we come into the end of
Verse Eleven, tracking the Movement of
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this the Cherubeam, we read in
Verse Twenty Two. Then the Cherubeam lifted
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up their wings, with the wheels
beside them, and the glory of the
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Lord of Israel, God of Israel, was over them, and the glory
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of the Lord went up from the
midst of the city. So now he's
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moving out of the city and stood
on the mountain that is on the east
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side of the city, the Mount
of Olives s where he went. And
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so what we see as the presence
of God leaving his people. It's at
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this moment, or right before the
Lord moves finally out of the city to
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the Mount of Olives, when Pelatia, in verse thirteen dies. He dies
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in Ezekiel cries out desperation. All, Lord God, will you make a
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full end of the remnant of Israel. You see the perspective he's thinking of
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there, that people are already in
exile. Here are the only people,
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they are left, and now God
is leaving. And when the one of
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them has just died and he's just
told and that all of these others are
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going to die with going back to
the meat and culture in image, he
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said, no, you won't be
in the meat, you won't be the
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meat and the cauldron, but I
will cast you out and I will deal
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with you at the border of Israel. Remember that. He emphasizes that this
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possession that you think you have,
this safe place you think you're in,
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it's not that way. You will
die and you will die out from away
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from your possession, out away from
the city, at the border of Israel.
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ZECOL Christ out in desperation's like,
is there anything left? Is this?
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It is this the end of the
world, as we know, at
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the end of God, end of
the promises? Has God not been faithful
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to his promise to David? Has
God not been faithful to his promise to
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Abraham that all the families and nations
on the Earth would be blessed through him?
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All the glories of predicted in the
temple, all the things that have
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been hoped for, longed for?
Is it all over? And then the
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Lord comes to him and gives him
this very encouraging word and he says,
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though I have removed verse sixteen,
though I have removed them far from among
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the nations and though I scattered them
among the countries, yet I have been
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a sanctuary to them for a while
in the country is where they have gone.
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God's presence is still abiding with them, even though they're not in Jerusalem.
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That's really good news for people who
worship in Tucson, Arizona. We
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don't have to. We don't,
we are not tied to this place.
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The God's presence says he is promised
to abide with us anywhere and everywhere.
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We have sort of this movement going
on. On the one hand, those
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who have been unfaithful are being cast
out of Israel, and but God promises
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that is he goes out, he
promises to be with those who belong to
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him, and he says, I
will gather in verse seventeen you from among
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the people's in as Sumbu, will
you out of the countries where you've been
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scattered, and I will give you
the land of Israel. And this time
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it's going to be different. This
time, he says, I will remove
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from it, they will remove from
it, the people will remove from it
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all the detestable things and all the
abominations, and instead of war and bloodshed
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and all that was going on,
they will have one heart and a new
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spirit. I will put with in
them. I will remove the heart of
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stone, of from their flesh and
give them a heart of flesh that they
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may walk in my statutes and keep
my rules and obey them and I and
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they shall be my people and I
will be their God. It's not the
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end, easy hell. It's not
the end from all of this scattering,
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from all of this exile, from
all of this judgment. I will keep
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a remnant and I will draw them
back into me and when I do,
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I will establish a place and a
kingdom that is not like it was before
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and won't have all of this idolatry, because they will have new hearts.
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Instead of fighting against me, they
will they will love me and be united
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with one another. There will be
a bringing back in, and this is
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the message we we end in chapter
eleven that he tells the exiles. Can
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you imagine how encouraging that would be
to know that here you are and Caldea
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and exile away from the people,
knowing the judgment is about to come on
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Jerusalem, and hear that God is
going to draw in the people that have
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been cast out? What good news. And indeed God did do this.
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After some time in Babylon, after
different trials and all kinds of struggles and
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living there for some time, God
did raise is up a people and a
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king to bring back the land and
a new temple was built. But the
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prophecy that's fulfilled here wasn't entirely fulfilled. For one the spirit of the glory
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of God never came down on that
new temple like it did in the old
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days. Indeed, there are people, when the new temple is built,
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who were crying, saying this isn't
like it was hunt. We also know
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that by the time Jesus came,
things weren't all awesome. In fact,
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they were terrible. Jesus goes into
the temple and finds a den of robbers.
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He finds that the temple has been
made an awful place again. Then
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in Matthew, Chapter Twenty three,
after seven, woes to the scribes into
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the pharisee similar kinds of condemnations that
come down on the leaders of Israel,
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much as it did in Ezekiel.
Jesus concludes that chapter by saying this,
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Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city
that kills prophets and stones those who are
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sent to it. How often would
I have gathered your children together as a
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hen gathers her brood under her wings? And you were not willing see your
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house is left to you desolate,
for I tell you, you will not
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see me again until you say bless
it is he who comes in the name
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of the Lord. Jesus left the
temple and was going away, but his
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disciples came to point out to him
the buildings of the temple. They're pointing
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to look at this, look at
this of the different parts of the temple,
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but he answered them. You see
all these, do you not?
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Truly, I say to you,
there will not be left here one stone
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upon another that will not be thrown
down. Next verse, as he sat
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down on the Mount of Olives,
the disciples came to him saying and so
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what we see here in this passage
in Matthew Chapter Twenty three is the exact
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same movement, movement of God that
we have an Ezekiel, the Lord,
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moving out from the temple, declaring
its destruction, up outside of the city
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to the Mount of Olives. And
here we have this amazing overlap at this
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moment where there are two temples,
but one temple, and I'll try to
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explain. There are two temples in
that we have the physical temple, which
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the disciples were pointing to, look
all these buildings and this sort of thing,
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and then we have Jesus, who
John Describes to us as the one
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who came and dwelt among us,
who was God with us, whom through
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whom God made his glory and His
light known in all the earth. That's
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how they're different temples, but it's
the same temple in that it's the old
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temple was pointing forward to this new
one, and Jesus, as he proclaims
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yet again the destruction of the temple, will also say in another place,
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but in three days I will cause
it to rise again. What they said.
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How will you cause this entire complex
and all these stones to be built
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up again? And by the way, what are you talking about? Destroying
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the temple? But of course no
happen. Jesus, the Temple of God,
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was hung on a cross and died
and all of the wrath and judgment
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of God for all the sinful abominations
and violence and evil that went on Israel
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and has gone on throughout all of
the world was poured out on Jesus.
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The wrath of God poured out on
him on the Cross and he was destroyed.
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He died, he was exiled,
separated from God, he was left
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alone, he became cursed, even
as the city became cursed. But by
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the Holy Spirit of God, according
to the righteousness that he had done,
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the Lord raised him up, causing
the new temple to stand and stand forever.
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And now the Lord says, the
Bible says, that he is gathering
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living stones and building up the Temple
of God, with the people of God,
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upon Jesus Christ as the cornerstone,
a temple in which the glory of
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the Lord dwells, the spirit of
God dwells and will dwell forever, forever.
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Think about it this way. Is
the spirit of God going to leave
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the resurrected son of God? No, it's impossible, not only because of
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Jesus's divinity and the spirit and the
son and the father are perfectly one forever,
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but also in Jesus's humanity. Jesus
accomplished everything that man had always failed
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to do. He kept the covenant
for us and he kept it perfectly so
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that there would be no more condemnation. And so now Jesus is the Christ,
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the anointed one, the spirit anointed
one, who would stand forever in
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the presence of God and with us, in the presence of God. Through
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him, Imperfect Union and that new
heart there was promised in Ezekiel. It's
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ours, it's yours when you put
your trust in Jesus Christ, because that
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new heart is his heart. It's
the spirit of God changing us, causing
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us to be reborn, as Jesus
describes and in John Three. And so
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what we see, and what I'm
pointing you to his here, is this
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presence of the Lord, this abiding
of the Lord, though he lives up
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and he leaves to go forth in
the world in judgment. Ultimately, he
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will fulfill the promises that he makes
to Ezekiel, the promises he made in
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the former covenants, and he brings
all of these to come to pass in
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Jesus Christ. And that's why,
when we want to be close with God,
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when we want presence with God,
when we want him to abide with
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us, we sang this earlier right, abide with me, swift to close,
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swift to its close, ebbs out, life's little day, Earth joys
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grow dim its glorious path away,
pass away, change in decay, and
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all around I see, Oh God, Thou changest not abide with me.
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I need thy presence every passing hour. What by THY grace can foil the
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TEMPTER's power? WHO, like thyself, my guide and stay, can be
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through cloud and Shun Sunshine? Lord, abide with me. And how will
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the Lord abide with us? He
does so through Jesus Christ, when we
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simply trust him and rest in him
and the grace that he has provided for
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us. If you want to know
the Lord God, this awesome God who
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rides on this almost indescribable chariot,
if it were not for the descriptions that
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God gives himself here, if you
want to not be at war with him,
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who will slay easily instantly, as
he did with this one man here
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pelatio, but instead, if you
want peace with him, in which is
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love is set upon you forever,
then trust the one he has given.
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Trust the Savior, Jesus Christ,
who is our anointed savior and who gives
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his life for ours. Let's pray
