Ezekial and the Glory - Part 1

hello everybody I'm Gloria Copeland and welcome to the believers voice of victory Billy brings back she's got some good things to us about Jesus he's coming he's coming glory to God maybe she'll tell us when we'll be we'll just see thank you very much Gloria you know he will come on God's calendar yes God has a calendar he keeps and it's not the Gregorian calendar it's not the Mayan calendar it's not the old Roman calendar it is the God calendar and it's in Leviticus chapter 23 and we're in the highest holy days right now of that calendar we're in we're in the epitome of it there are at the beginning of the sacred calendar there are four fulfilled feasts already fulfilled modes dates on God's calendar Passover right on down to Pentecost now we're coming to what is the new year the new sacred year on God's calendar and this new year on God's calendar that actually a civil year begins on God's calendar it's the seventh month of the sacred calendar but it's the first month of the civil calendar and we had the beginning of it on Rosh Hashanah that was the you know God he the evening and the morning were the first day and it's still like that for the Jews and for this calendar the evening and the morning make up the day so one week ago on Rosh Hashanah in the evening of the September 13 and in the morning of September 14 is the first day of this civil year and we begin now the highest holy days of the whole calendar they're all within just a few days of each other in the same month there was a partial eclipse on that day now we are approaching one week later we're going to see the final blood moon eclipse of the tetrad that's going to be on Sukkot the 28th twenty-eight of sukkot now so is that in my in my vernacular is that cyber channels tabernacles September 28 yes okay so that's a Blood Moon and we'll be talking to you when you can see it where you can see it but right now we're on the 21st of the month of September in our calendar it's the eighth day of this new year for Israel new year for God and tomorrow on the 22nd of September Arab means evening we'll have the evening of Yom Kippur and 23rd will be the day of Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement and then we're going to go down to the 27th of September and the 28th we begin our second week on the 28th and that's going to be the Blood Moon this is called Sukkot in Hebrew and it to us it is Tabernacles so the Feast of Tabernacles which has not been fulfilled will be fulfilled and the Jubilee will come when Jesus comes the Messiah comes and sets up his kingdom on the earth so what we're into right now is that High Holy Days and we're gonna look particularly at prophecy without the Old Testament prophets you really cannot look at our times and we're going to look at one of the prophets which particularly speaks about that coming time that coming Kingdom on my earth that coming glory on the earth we're going to be looking at the Book of Ezekiel and where we're going to be looking now we're looking at the calendar God sent this calendar and he gave it to the Jews to keep you cannot understand Bible prophecy you cannot look at what's going to happen here Gloria know what's going to happen unless you recognize Israel and that it is God's time clock I was watching in in finland helsinki finland and i saw this guy with a jeans jacket on and he had a great big clock on the back that genes check it kind of like a homemade clock and he had the hands up there almost 12 and he had across the top of it Israel God's time clock and it is if you want another times if you're interested in when Jesus is coming if you want to know if that soon you're gonna have to look at what the prophets say and this prophet we're gonna look at in these two weeks as Ezekiel get your Bible so you open it through the Book of Ezekiel we're going to be looking at Ezekiel maybe like you never looked at the Book of Ezekiel before and that book is one of the Old Testament prophets particularly one that talks about this time that Tabernacles of foretells the Feast of Tabernacles foretells we should get ready be ready we should be ready they ready this prophet that we're gonna study he talks about an alliance between so Russia and Iran for instance there are their allies now and it never happened that was 26 hundred years ago twenty-five hundred vision allies not before the 70s so what Ezekiel prophesied is coming to pass so we're gonna look at that prophet Ezekiel in fact we're gonna look at prophets and prophecy itself what what what a wonderful thing it is you know glorious sometimes I think God could have been any way he wanted it to be he could have been unapproachable but no he lets us work with him in prayer he could have everyday could just be a surprise what's gonna happen but no he wrote it down in the book and he said that's the litmus test way ahead of time the end he told from the beginning and he said that's what makes me God that I can tell you the end from the beginning those who claim to tell you nobody else can make that claim only he can so now we're gonna see when we get to the middle part of Ezekiel we're gonna see prophetic words about nations that are in the news right now but first we're going to look at prophecy and its place go to Romans chapter 3 and verse 1 and of course you know Paul is writing what the Holy Ghost gives him to write what advantage then hath the Jew or what profit is there in circumcision much in every way chiefly because unto them were committed the Oracles of God this book is the Oracles of God this book two thirds of it is prophecy much of it has already come to pass but we're going to be looking at some that's come to pass in the Book of Ezekiel and some that is coming going to come to pass the Oracles of God God gave Oracle's he gave words down through man down through people and that and those we call the Oracles of God that's the chief thing this book right here is the Oracles of God and all of it came through Jewish scribes Jewish hands maybe Luke you know what he wrote but everything else came through someone who was born a Jew I'm glad I'm a word person I'm a word person and we appreciate the Oracles of God as we do now the link in the Jewish oral law which is the Talmud you know when Moses was up there receiving the Torah from God and five books were written down he also got an oral he was taught things orally he was three times up that mountain and he was taught things orally in all those days which he gave orally to Joshua then Joshua gives them orally to the next one for instance the Jews are told don't eat blood well how do you not eat blood you're gonna slaughter animals you know there'll be a little blood in the meat so he was given a process when he was in heaven by which to kill the animal bleed it out and you don't get any blood in the meat and it's very intricate how you do it it's called ritual slaughtering well I'm glad they didn't put that in the Bible and I have to read through that when I'm going to read through the Bible in a year but it was told by Moses he told it to Joshua they told it to the ones who did the ritual slaughtering so there are things that are in the oral law and this is what it says about officee the link between the creator and his creatures by means of prophecy is one of the foundations of the creation of the world in other words Moses was told that one of the foundations in the creation of the world was that God the Creator is going to communicate with the people hallelujah and it is a foundational truth that he communicates with us now he communicated with through prophets and twice as many prophets arose among the Jews as there were Israelites who left Egypt that was an amazing 2 million left Egypt so that means they had four million prophets now just think about it when they left Egypt they had these prophets who who daily you know they went to and they prophesied what they should do and you went to them for direction because you didn't have your own little copy of the Bible at the house and you didn't have the Holy Ghost living on the inside of you only the Prophet the priest and the king so the prophets would prophesied now this is also from the oral law only such prophecy that was needed for later generations was written down of these millions of Jews the prophesies of only 48 men and seven women have been recorded in excuse me in the scriptures of these 55 people in many cases it's just a sentence or two what they prophesied but praise the Lord we have we have it now in the end the Bible the the Hebrew Bible is called the Tanakh T stands for Torah that's the first five books and the stems for the Nevi'im the prophets eventually they were written down and kok stands for coach Veeam the writings like for instance david put together all the psalms some of them are from Moses and David put them together and in two of the book now the prophets God tells us in the New Testament in second Timothy 3:16 all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness now here's something really interesting the last prophets in the Old Testament are Haggai Zechariah and Malachi and they knew that there were going to be no for the prophecies until Elijah would come who would who would say that the Messiah has come remember the end of Malachi says how elijah will come so then there's prop there's a wide space thereof no prophecies so the men of the great assembly the Sanhedrin then they canonized the Bible and they put the prophets all together in there and and and made the Canon Canon of the scriptures Peter in the New Testament reveals how prophetic scripture came and he calls New Testament believers to take heed to the Old Testament prophets because when Peters walking on the earth there is no Bible except what we call the Tanakh the Torah the Nevi'im the coach theme the writings we call it the Old Testament that's the only Bible they've got so Peter tells those followers if you want to know where gee when Jesus comes you check the Old Testament prophets so Peter in a second Peter 1:19 through 21 he describes that he had been up on the Mount of Transfiguration and they heard a voice from heaven declare that this is the son of God and to listen to him but Peter said we have something more sure than that we saw a vision we heard a voice but we got something more sure we've got the word written down verse 19 we have a more sure word of prophecy where until you do well that you take heed as unto a light that shines in a dark place until the day dawns and the day star arises in your hearts knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation for the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit so he tells us that in the second Peter is actually a prophetic versus the whole thing is prophetic about Jesus coming and he says when you want to understand these things you've got this word the Old Testament prophets and if you'll pay attention to what they say it will be like a light shining in a dark place it's pretty dark right now in this world but if we want to know what happens with Iran if we want to know what happens with Egypt Iraq Babylon what prophet tells us Ezekiel and so we're going to be looking therefore for a light shining in a dark place bless the Lord now to understand prophecy you have to give Israel a place in your thinking because Israel is the prophetic Israel has the prophetic anointing upon them remember we started with this first what advantage then hath the Jew or what profit is there a circumcision much in every way chiefly because unto them were committed the Oracles of God they got the prophesies that we're gonna go by right now Psalm 105 the whole Psalm 105 is about God's dealing with Israel and in Psalm 105 14 that'll be on page three of your notes glue-on on Psalm 105 14 it is written he suffered no man to do them wrong yay he reproved Kings for their sakes saying touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm now what it's talking about there is when he first when Israel was just a young little nation actually it was just Abraham Abraham and Sarah and remember Sarah came over to avi Malik we say Abimelech and and and Abraham said tell him me or my sister or else they're gonna kill me or something so she's over there and avi melech Abimelech he can make her in his harem if he wanted but God warns him touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm it also happened with Rebecca in Genesis 26 11 so it's only that in the matriarch some patriarchs it's just Abraham and Sarah but the nation was in Sarah's womb and she's gonna be the mother Abraham is the father she's going to be the mother of the nation of Israel and that is the nation that has prophecy on it when Jesus disciples asked him when are you coming when are you going to set up your kingdom on the earth he said watch the fig tree the fig tree is Israel because that's the prophetic nation it was a prophetic nation then is the prophetic nation now my daughter Brenda because you know we're talking about blood moons we're talking about the calendar she said mother I grew up in Sunday school I never once heard in Sunday school that there was a connection between Passover and Easter and there's a great connection Easter is a fulfillment I pass over so if you want to be in the know you cannot ignore Israel and you cannot ignore God's calendar God has chosen that his holy written word be more than one half prophecy some say two thirds most has been fulfilled God's litmus test for being God is telling the end from the beginning he said I mean this is I'm not gonna turn to it but it's Isaiah 41 you can read that chapter and he says who are you over here that are bringing forth these false notions you see if you can tell us the end if you can tell us the end then we'll know your God but you can't do it I'm the only one that can tell you the end from the beginning so the litmus test for being God is prophecy He is God just think of it glows those things that have we've already seen much of this prophecy come to pass so we know that He is God the Messiah did come God's design by his design the Jews Israel and his fulfilled prophecies concerning that prophetic nation are the witnesses that he is God we're going to be looking more that he he is the one who who scattered them and then he promised I'm going to regather them and that nation that nation of Israel is the witness that God is God you cannot ignore Israel you are foolish to be anti-semitic I'm going to read you here from Isaiah another prophet and Isaiah prophesied around the same time as a little earlier but a little longer than Ezekiel I'm gonna look at a chart of these prophets but Isaiah 43 1 through 12 but now us saith the Lord that created the Oh Jacob he's talking about the Jews when he talks about the physical nation of Israel he calls him Jacob doesn't call them Abraham Abraham of his sons he doesn't call them Isaac Isaac had another son he calls them Jacob when he's talking about the physical people the Jews all twelve sons of Jacob became the Jewish nation so Isaiah 43 1 but now thus saith Jehovah that created the Oh Jacob and he that formed the Oh Israel fear not for I have redeemed thee I have called me by thy name thou art mine then he says when you walk through the water when you walk through the flood I'll be with you Isaiah 43 5 fear not I am with thee I will bring thy seed from the east and gather thee from the west I will say to the north give up and to the south keep not back bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth everyone that is called by my name for I have created him Israel the Jews Jacob for my glory I have formed him yet I have made him bring forth the blind people that have eyes and the death that have ears there are people in this earth they got eyes but they don't see they got ears but they don't hear who are they they're the nation's gonna be looking at this group of people let all the nations be gathered together and that the people be assembled who among them can declare this and show us former things let them bring for their witnesses that they may be justified or let them hear and say this is the truth now to Jacob he says to Jews to Israel you are my witnesses saith Jehovah you are my and my servant whom I have chosen that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he before me there was no God formed neither shall there be any after me I even I am Jehovah and beside me there is no Savior I have declared and saved I have shown when there was no strange God among you you are my witnesses saith the Lord God gonna read to you now once Queen Victoria said to Disraeli who was her Jewish prime minister give me succinctly proof that there is God he said the Jew they are the proof that there is God he said in Isaiah 44 7 and who as I shall call and declare it and send an order for me since I appointed the ancient people the ancient people are the Jews and the things that are coming and shall come let them show unto thee Israel is manifesting God unto us fear you not neither be afraid have not I told you from that time and have declared it you are my witnesses is there a god beside me there is no God I say not there is no god but God and his witness to the whole world right now they don't see it they fight about it they don't want to let Israel have Jerusalem there the witness to them that he's got god that's good really that's exciting is it we're speaking about things to come since man nearly Britain is with us and she knows some things from the Bible that are gonna happen yes and it'll be there might it's not a might happen it's going to happen because it's written up that way in the it is written it is written thank God for the written word of God and we're gonna like it the church is gonna like oh man it comes right oh it's just good news if you're not born again you better move on and get born again because Jesus is coming you know chip my son is the came out of the sports world and our family's very avid about sports oh I know you know and he and Shelly we're watching a game that they'd missed because they were on a preaching deal so they had recorded it you know and it was a game where our team won at the last second and they're just watching that game and they're so relaxed and they said chip looked over at Shelly and said do you realize if we didn't know how this came out we would be nervous right now so you know we get so involved in it we would die don't do that look you know we know how it comes out we're not nervous and one of the reason we're not nervous is prophet Ezekiel God we're gonna study him all through this week and you be sure to get your Bibles out and we know what's gonna happen with the countries of the Middle East not like we were walking in the dark no we are inland light and that's exactly what Peter said he said these Old Testament prophets are a light shining in a dark place and you give heed to them so it's it's if you want to know what's happening you can't skip the Old Testament so we're admonished to give he we're admonished to give heed to them you're right glow you're admonished to and Jesus said - just watch the fig tree and the fig tree of course is the prophetic nation a glory I just finished doing a book called how you can pray in the end of days and my call to help the prayers and the first part of it is biographical and it has in there when we went up to Kenneth Hagins we'd hardly ever have any television shows that we don't talk about this because it was the beginning for us in 1967 when we went to 1029 or Theater God changed our lives and I one week I was telling people that speaking in tongues was of the devil and the next week I was speaking in them so everything changed there and brother Hagin became our mentor he became a father in the faith to us and in 1970 I went to work for brother Hagin 1967 received the baptism the Holy Spirit started you know coming into contact with his teachings but it was 1970 I went to work for him and really got sitting at his feet doing it was my job God told him you put all your lessons into print and it was my job to help him do that Oh a great job so what I would do I was the editor of publications and we had a monthly magazine called the Word of Faith and then we had monthly lessons at that time two lessons we sent out every month and then we made books and I was the editor of all of those and I was a wife and a mother you were busy I was busy and I think about how to I do it because we went to all the ballgames Shelley was always in concerts we went to everything and I know is the grace of God you enjoyed every minute of it and God Grace's you whatever period of life you're in whatever you have to do and so the way I worked it out you know practicality of it I would come home from work the kids were out practicing some sport or band or whatever Kent was working and when I got home from work a little before all of them they're going to converge on me and when they converge they're hungry so I would always do it this way I would get brother Hagins teachings from Rhema they were on cassette and I had a shelf over my sink and I would put that little tape recorder I bet you had one that was about that size you know as a cassette recorder and you know you punched play I put the clothes to the left in the washing machine and then I'm peeling potatoes every night I'm peeling potatoes Shelley says she can still see my hands pill and potatoes and I would punch play and listen to what he taught at Rhema to see if I can get something for publication and this day I remember putting that up there and brother Hagin said to the REM students today I'm going to teach you on marriage divorce and remarriage mm-hmm do you know why what Paul said on the subject in first Corinthians does not match what Jesus said in the Gospels did brother Hagin say that yes I thought what you mean to tell me Paul didn't agree with Jesus of course he ask it as a question nobody none of the Rhema students knew it I didn't know it you thought for sure Paul and Jesus would agree and then brother Hagin said no it's because they were writing to two different groups of peoples Jesus was talking to Jews living under the Old Covenant and he was giving them the Old Covenant law of divorce Paul in first Corinthians 7 is writing to the church the new creation the body of Christ who has only one law and that's the law of love and he was interpreting different situations in the light of the law of love and so you know how that is in these days I've seen women that had to leave because they were abusive the husband's beating them to death or the children you know so love would demand that you took the children out of that situation so you you interpret everything in the light of the law of love so I'm listening to brother Hagin talk about this and he says now he read 2nd Timothy 2:15 study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth and on that tape he said to the Rhema students the Bible is the word of truth but it has to be divided it has to be rightly divided if it can be rightly divided it can be wrongly divided and he said error all error and of course he's talking about people who preach error it is coming from a wrong division of the Word of God so at that time to be in Rhema you had to be a minute thinking of going into the ministry now you can go if your Bible student but then you had to be going into the ministry so he said to them it is required of you that you study to be approved unto God as a minister you have a stewardship that you're gonna answer for and you study so that you rightly divide the word of truth you don't wrongly divide it now he said in order to rightly divide the word of truth he gave he gave some rules that I've written down here on page 3 gloves he said read the scripture in context you don't just lift out a verse and build a doctrine on you could lift out a verse and you could make the Bible say almost anything you wanted to say brother Hagin said some people only know enough Bible to support their meanness and he talked about one time going out into the mountains where these mountain people were and this man just terribly abused his wife and he said well doesn't it say that the woman has to submit you know so she got to submit to his beatings no the scripture has to be in context walking love you know you don't take it out of context so rule number one read the scripture in its context rule to be sure it harmonizes with all God's Word on that subject on the matter be sure that this scripture you're reading here it's got to harmonize with a whole reveal Word of God from Genesis to Revelation rule number three these are rules of Bible interpretation and rightly dividing the word rule number three know who is speaking who's doing this speaking if it's some evil wicked King in the Old Testament or you don't have to obey that you know no to whom a scripture is speaking it can be spoken to an individual like Jesus said to Judas certain things well you don't have to obey that know who is doing the speaking I really like to use for this one job you remember Joe be had those three so-called comforters and much of the book of Job is what they said and at the end of the book of Job you find out from God that they were saying the wrong things and Jobe had to pray for them to be forgiven so you cannot build a doctrine on what jobs comforters said but I've heard three sermons in my lifetime on what job's comforter said three two minutes and three too many one of them was kind of a good idea but get it from somebody else saying it don't get it from one of job's cuppers if you're going to preach it now others were horrid I remember sitting there during one of those sermons I was listening to that guy and I thought I wanted to scream want to say the guy got in trouble for saying it don't preach it to me that I have to live under it job had to give forgiveness for him for saying that so to do rightly divide the word who's doing the talking oh you know and to whom is the scripture speaking can be speaking to an individual it can be speaking to a group now brother Hagin here is talking about Jesus speaking to the Jews living under the Old Covenant the law the Mosaic law he's talking about the Mosaic law so but Paul he's talking about the Jesus law that he left I'm giving you a new law love one another as I have loved you John chapter 13 so brother Hagin this and you need to know there are a scripture can be speaking to an individual it can be speaking to a group right and there are three groups of peoples to whom are about whom a scripture can be speaking they are the Jews the nation's and the church brother Hagin read to us that day and I'll read it to you right now first Corinthians 10:31 and 32 whether therefore writing to the writing to the church all the Bible is for the church but not all the Bible's about the church the part of the Bible that's about the church is the New Testament letters and in one of those letters which is to us in 1st Corinthians 10:31 Jesus said Paul wrote holy ghost said whether therefore you eat or drink or whatever you do do all to the glory of God give none or no one offense neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God three groups of people the Jews it says here in 1st Corinthians 10 the Gentiles you you'll if you have a newer translation it's going to say Greeks that's because the whole Gentile world had been Hellenized it had been Greek alized so sometimes in the New Testament rather than saying the Gentiles are the nation's it says the Greeks so there are three groups the Jews the Gentiles that's a good way to say it the nations nor the Church of God as he was expounding on this scripture Kenneth E Hagin I'm there in the kitchen I forgotten all about the potatoes I'm not even peeling them anymore I'm just listen to what he says I've never heard anything like this in my life and as I'm listening to him I hear a voice to me it sounded audible I don't know if you'd have been there if you'd heard it or not but here's how it sounded I remember the inflection of the voice if you will remember that verse of scripture it will keep your endtime doctrine straight please God that verse three groups of people Jews nations church I didn't even know I needed an end time doctrine I just needed to get the word of faith out get the clothes clean get the food on the table but throughout my whole life now he has caused me to be particularly involved as a witness of the end times what's happening in the last of days and so for me to understand that I've got to rightly divide the word because that's the only place that gives us the true picture of what's happening in the end days so I have to know how to look in a scripture and to see is this talking to the Jews is this talking to the church is this talking and error so many people are in error about the rapture you know why they look at scriptures that have to do with Israel and the Jews and they try to apply it to the church if you're going to know about the rapture of the church you're gonna have to go into the New Testament letters that's right you're gonna have to go into Thessalonians and other places so because they don't ready to buy the word then they've got things all mixed up for the last days and for the end times praise the Lord so we need to know who these three groups of people are here's your next full set of notes bless the Lord in the order of their appearance that they are given in the Bible they are they are given to us in the order of first the nations and then Israel we know that God created the earth and we know that man fell we know that in Genesis chapter 6 1 through 4 it had become so evil that God had to judge the earth and the flood judgment love brought that flood if it had gone on much longer with evil Noah's sons I can tell you right now they would have fallen they there's only one man left on earth with knowledge of God Wow Noah that's cutting it to that I'm adding it to the bone and so love brought the flood Genesis 1 through 4 love Gloria without judgment people are get so upset about judgment judgment takes out the evil but bliss the Lord thank God for it now it's up to us to be on the rise just be on the right side where you don't have to know that judgment and you can take the judgment Jesus God for you bless the Lord so when they got off that boat let's turn to Genesis chapter 10 and this explains to us where the nations come from the first group that's introduced in the Bible are the nations the seventy nations Genesis chapter 10 now these are the generations of the sons of Noah Shem ham and japhet and unto them were sons born after the flood we're putting up for you a table of Nations a chart of these nations which gives us 70 nations it begins with the sons of Yaphet and we have Gomer and Magog and Madai and madea's the Medes Yavin the the Greeks to Bowl me Shak Terrace we're going to read some more about these but it gives all the sons of y'all fete and then it said verse 5 by these were the isles of the gentiles nations as the hebrew word the hebrew word is going and it means the nation's by these were the isles of the gentiles divided in their lands every one after his tongue after their families in their nations so the first time we ever hear the word nations the first time we ever hear of Gentiles are when those three sons of Noah got off that boat and so then from the chart of Nations that we showed you we have all the nations given to us there are 70 nations the Jews sacrificed 70 Bulls for the nations had the feast of tabernacle and so we have the lines given to us of japhet and ham and shem and all the nations that came from them are given to us and we're going to find out that the nations rebel against God and against God's will Genesis chapter 9 and verse 1 tells us what God's will was and God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth that's the divine plan now the nations rebelled they didn't obey God what did they do Genesis chapter 11 the whole earth was of one language in one speech and it and it came to pass as they journeyed from the east they found a plain in in our Xin ours the same as Babylon and they dwelt there they just stayed there they didn't do what God said they didn't go throughout all the earth why did they not go out throughout all the earth there was a rebellion against the will of God and it was led by a man named Nimrod we're gonna see him over in Genesis chapter 10 verse 8 and cush begat Nimrod and he began to be a mighty one in the earth he was a mighty hunter before jehovah wherefore it is said even as nimrod the mighty hunter before jehovah and the beginning of his kingdom was babel and Erik and Akkad and calneh and the Sun land of Shinar out of the land went forth Asher and builded Nineveh I'm taking this from the notes of the arts girls in the stone addition of a foolish before Nimrod there were neither Wars nor reigning monarchs he subjugated the Babylonians until they crowned him verse 10 after which he went to Assyria and built great cities the Torah calls him a mighty hunter which brushy and other Combinator's commentators interpret figuratively Nimrod ensnared men with his words and incited them to rebel against God his first conquest which laid the basis for his subsequent Empire building was Babel which became the center of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian Empire it was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world and then from there he went to Nineveh God came down they didn't go throughout all the earth why God said Nimrod maybe he wasn't supposed to be a king he was supposed to have a kingdom he was in sneering men and hunting them to go against God and then we find that God came down and judged them because Nimrod said let us verse 4 go to let us build for us a city and a tower whose top may reach into heavens we're going to build it high enough that a flood can't get us and let us make for ourselves a day let us let us make for ourselves a name lest we be scattered throughout all the earth God told him to be scattered throughout the earth but they didn't know man so God came down and he said the people is 1 verse 6 the language is 1 and this they begin to do nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do as long as they have one language and they can agree and speak the same thing God said nothing will be restrained to them so how do I stop it other as long as they didn't have one language it was confusion yeah if they don't have one language they can't speak the same thing so he confuses their language it becomes babble babble on and this is the beginning of the Babylonian system they got off that boat they're the sons of Noah God blessed them obey me and know blessing that no we increase Satan working down through Nimrod tempts them to rebel against God so what does God do about it that's the first group of people now we're gonna look at the second group tomorrow okay this isn't that awesome eventually we're going to get over to the book of you zekiel because we are told that the prophets the Old Testament prophets are a light in a dark place it's dark in the world right now but we know what's gonna happen because we got the light of the Old Testament prophets and Moses was a prophet who wrote the Torah and so we're going to be reading about that today God has a plan this book is a plan how it starts in Genesis reveals right on through the book of Revelation and from the beginning God started with Adam and you know that story and then you know how Adam fell how the earth became so wicked the Bible says God the amplified a thing says God is extraordinarily patient well you can see that in this pages of the book my goodness and you think about it Gloria got right down in Genesis chapter 6 where there was nobody on this earth righteous but one man only one man had knowledge of God so God had brought judgment to the earth love brought judgment he provided that man of safety in the ark Noah his wife his three sons and their wives they got off the boat now we know from the New Testament first Corinthians 10:32 there are three groups of peoples to whom scriptures are written and about whom the scriptures are written the first the Jews and then the nation's and then the church that's what it says in that's the order in 1st Corinthians 10 now the Old Testament there's only two groups the Jews and the nations in the New Testament according to the second chapter of Ephesians out of those two the Jews in the nations the Jews the Gentiles he made one new man any Jew and Gentile can believe in his heart that God raised Jesus from the dead accept him as Lord then he becomes a new creation and the new creation man is a species that never existed before there's also a new creation body the body of Christ called the church but in the Old Testament we only see two and the first one introduced to us is the nation's they got off the boat Shem ham and japhet the three sons of Noah God told them scattered throughout the earth they didn't do it a man Satan entered a man named Nimrod Nimrod built himself up a kingdom said you don't have to listen to God just listen to me mother told me I had a little sister three-and-a-half years younger than me and our three years younger and mother said she heard me out there one day saying to Pat you don't have to obey mother just listen to me just do what I say well that was not right that's what the devil did you don't have to listen to God you don't have to go spreading out all all the earth you just listen to Nimrod and you get yourself a kingdom and you go down there to the plains of Shinar which is Babylon and build yourself a tower be somebody real hi we'll make a name for ourselves and and if there is another flood would be so high we won't be get caught in it so a god heard them and he said since they all speak the same language think of the power of words nothing will be restrained from them so he went down and he confused them and this is the way the arts girls translates verse nine he confused their language they were already confused they were already confused you're right you're right glow good Touche and he said that this is what it says in verse nine as the Jews translated in the art scrolls that is why it was called Babel because it was there that Hashem scattered them over the face of the whole earth he had told them to do it they didn't do it so now he scatters them now there they're goners unless there's a plan but thank God he had a plan and he didn't have to think it up he wasn't shocked by what they did he knew what they do before him so here is his plan Genesis chapter 12 now Jehovah had said unto Abram get thee out of thy country I don't have it down on there Glo I'm just well maybe I did get thee out of thy country yes I did and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee get out of here yes and I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing and I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be whole West future of the earth was wrapped up in Abraham doing this simple thing God told him to do get out of town and what did they call him the father of faith yes faith here's God he did it God's Word and acts on it that's the way our life is - yes just do what he says and you'll you'll have you'll be delivered you'll get out from under the curse that's where the blessing lines ya in and obeying God and he said now I'm going to separate you from all the nations of the earth let's pretend that here we have wouldn't you say these are blackberries mm-hmm well let's pretend down here that that's a blackberry and these are all the 70 nations and they're filled so God separates out from them not kind of messed up here but I'll use a more firmer one raspberry and God separates from all those nations a nation unto himself it's a nation it's his separated nation the Jews are God's portion among the nations the church we're from every nation tongue but from the nations he's separated a nation unto himself he's separated one nation and that nations his he's going to use it what's he gonna do with this nation this nation has a call on it this nation is to reveal to all those nations God these right here they have no knowledge of God but he's going to reveal himself to these nations because one man the father these nations followed him got out of that country and went to a promised land you obey me and I'm going to give you a land that's your land so God's call upon Israel is to reveal them they will reveal God to the nation's he has a plan a and for plan a we're gonna go to Deuteronomy chapter 28 he places them we could read more about this in Deuteronomy 20 32 we're not going to turn there but he places them in the center of the earth and he places them we have an ancient map here to show you of kind of like a three leaf clover and the top leaf one of this is Jerusalem's at the center of this map and then we have the leaf at the top left which is Europe the leaf at the top right which is Asia and the leaf at the bottom which is Africa so right in the center of that is Jerusalem he places Israel on a land bridge that goes between these three continents it's the easy way to go it's the wheel Morris the way of the sea so the best way to travel between those continents down to Africa for caravans trade caravans or even for armies is to go right through where God placed the Jews and he placed the Jews there so they would be seen and he placed upon Israel in that central location blessings let's read those blessings from Deuteronomy chapter 28 and it shall come to pass if you hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah your God to observe and do His commandments which I command thee this day Jehovah your God will set you on high above all what notions all these nations yeah you're gonna be high over all those those 70 nations and all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you shall hearken unto the voice of the Lord your God yeah blessed shall you be in the city blessed shall you be in the field blessed shall be the fruit of your body that's your children and the fruit of your ground your crops and the fruit of your cattle the increase of your kind the flux of your sheep now I want you to notice as we're reading along on these blessings every one of these can be seen it's not spiritual blessings here they came from the spirit mm-hmm but there's something that can be seen because here you are you're on this land bridge all these nations are going to pass through you and see you so they got you got to have something on you they'd see so what can they see your prosperity your health verse 5 blessed shall you be your basket in your store he's even gonna bless yours you're storing it up your bank account you see what story is dough yeah no ha ha ha ha did you think that up or do someone in my Bible I mean it's sitting here in the you know they did it in this pen yeah hey girl is that you're so sharp today that's two for you I like that bless the Lord I gotta use that word Oh hallelujah hallelujah bless did you just now just think of that no kid no it's in the margin I've I've got it alright bless the Lord well of course that's theirs oh but then the relationship to money blessed shall you be when you come in and blush shall you be when you go out the Lord shall call your enemies cause your enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before your face they shall come out against you one way and they're gonna flee from you seven ways the Lord shall commend the blessing upon the in your storehouses he's blessed in my bank account right now amen and in all that you set your hand unto he shall bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you Jehovah shall establish you and holy people unto himself Israel was the nation that's his this nation not for anybody else's used this is just for God's it's holy that's what only means separated and verse nine the Lord shall establish you and holy people unto himself as he has sworn unto you if you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God to walk in his ways now here's the part and all the people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Jehovah and they shall be afraid of you how shall they see it bless you they're gonna be martyr this is a blessing and they're going to be marching down through the we amoris they're going to be coming down through that easy way to travel along that Mediterranean Shore right where they are and they're gonna see they're worshiping lots of God's there they're back in their heathen countries they're gonna come through it's God's plan they're gonna come through this nation they're gonna see you're wealthy they're gonna see your children are healthy your trees are green your fruit is big and they're gonna say and they only help worshiping one God they're gonna see this here's the line they're coming down through here yeah they get to here and they see the blessing they see all the fruit yeah I see huge fruit they could hardly get things to grow up here cuz they were under the curse that's right but they see all this they sit hmm and then not witness those people are naturally gonna think because they're they're not atheists they don't none of those pagan people are atheists they all worshipping some kind of a God even if it's a demonic one and they're gonna attribute what you've got to your God so they're gonna say these people they only work being one God his name is Jehovah and look and see what look and see the result of it that's God's plan that's God's plan witness Jehovah Schultz verse nine Jehovah shall establish you and holy people unto himself as he has sworn unto you if you keep the commandments of the Lord and walk in his ways and all the people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Jehovah hmm and they shall be afraid of you and Jehovah shall make you plenteous in goods in the fruit of your body in the fruit of your cattle in the fruit of your ground in the land which Jehovah swore unto your father's to give unto you the Lord shall open unto you his good treasure the heaven to give its reign until your land and its season and he will bless all the work of your hand you shall lend unto many nations you shall not need to borrow and the Lord shall make you the head and not the tail and he shop and you shall be above only and not beneath listen how this translates Hebrew which burstered this is going to be verse of 13 where it says you shall be above only and not beneath here is what it says in the Hebrew you shall be in constant ascent you shall never descend always increasing in other words always increasing always going up on a sense and you shall never descend if you hearken unto the commandments of the Lord your God now if you do this and you do not verse 14 go after other gods to serve them here's what you're gonna have that was plan a God put them there Joshua took the land for a while they blessed where they were blessed in it but then they started listening to the Canaanites and the Canaanites said okay you got that God Jah God Jehovah he worked for you before but we got another God up here over the crops his name's bail or we bomb we say bail so we know that they did descend it was not God's plan that they do sin but they did now God has got a plan B their job is still to reveal God to the nation's if you don't do it in plan a me putting you there and letting the blessing show on you I'm going to plan B years Plan B and you could he gives you all the curses here we don't want playing we don't want the plan B verse 63 there's a lot of there's a lot of curses in their heart yes I don't want to be no we don't we not under that because in the New Testament tells us this was given originally to Israel it belongs to them but there's a parallel giving of it to us through the Lord Jesus Christ Abrahamic blessings Galatians now Deuteronomy 28 63 it shall come to pass that as this is if you don't obey God that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you then you will be destroyed usually be plucked up from off the land where you went to possess it and the Lord shall scatter you among all people from one end of the earth to the other and that word scatter is where we get the word diaspora or diaspora a spore is a seed and he's just gonna take you Jews you you Israel if you don't obey Him and he's gonna scatter you throughout all the earth but then because they are people with the knowledge of God then wherever they go it's gonna grow up a knowledge of God so let's read Deuteronomy chapter 4 I don't think I put it in the notes for you Gloria but it's Deuteronomy chapter 4 and Moses said that um praise the Lord hallelujah I have to see which verses I want here Deuteronomy for 27 through 31 27 you did write in chapter 4 I've got five before they ever went into the land Moses told them here's what's going to happen you're going to be scattered because God knew they were going to fail and in verse 27 Deuteronomy for 27 the Lord shall scatter you among the nations and you shall be left few in number among the nations the words not in heathen it's going the nation's wherever the Lord shall will lead you verse 29 but from there you will seek the Lord your God and you'll find him and you're going to return and when you are in tribulation we know that that tribulation time is coming and you are going to return and verse 31 he will not forsake thee nor destroy thee nor forget the Covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them for an ask now of the Lord of the things that are passed and they're going to come home and God is going to make them a great nation all throughout the Old Testament we see there is this scattering but at the end of days God is going to bring them home and when he brings them home we're living at the time when he brings them home you see proof of that every time you go to Israel every time I go to Israel they're back and we're going to read what God said will later on get through the prophecies that God gave the dry bones prophecies we're gonna we're gonna read how God prophesied they're gonna come up out of that Holocaust and they're going to be a nation again and so yes they were witnesses of God when they were in the nation and the blessings of God that were on them but now that they have been scattered they're going to be regathered in the end of days and when they re gathered in the end of days then that means that God's coming yes I want to show you a chart that we have of these days God gave to Moses a six-day Work Week a thousand years being a day a day being a thousand years and we are at the end of the sixth day we are about to go into the millennial seventh day and so all the prophecies say that at the end of that sixth day he's going to bring them home two of the chapters that you can read that are just absolutely wonderful that tell you about him bringing them home is Jeremiah Jeremiah 30 and and 31 and God particularly I like one way he says it here hear ye this is Jeremiah chapter 30 and verse 10 hear ye the word of the Lord o ye nations and declare it in the aisles of far off and say he that scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd does his flock you think about it Gloria look at Israel over there right now they were scattered then God call them home and we've seen them come home and they are surrounded with enemies they are surrounded with enemies who daily say we are going to push you to the sea we're going to annihilate you we're going to kill you all we're going to destroy Zionism what is Zionism Zionism is you believe that God has promised the Jews to come back to Sian and there they are all surrounded but God says hear ye the word of the Lord o ye nations and before we finish with ice with Jeremiah Ezekiel we're gonna be talking about nations I'm gonna be prophesize about Egypt he prophesized about Iraq Babylon he prophesized about Russia and Iran Turkey and so listen up everybody listen up all those neighbors he that scattered Israel we'll gather him he's done it now and keep him as a shepherd does his flock don't be concerned they're not going to be wiped off the face of the earth with a nuclear blast that's right I will not glory to God he keeps them and it's a sign to the nations that's their job revealed God to the nation's that he's God and reveal the blessing to them and reveal the blessing of course hallelujah glory to God Billy's just talking to us about the end time the glory exciting that's right you know Gloria some people say we live in dark times but it says in Isaiah 60:1 that even when the worlds in gross darkness the glory can be seen and there is it says Peter says there's a light that can shine in the dark place and the light that can shine for you in the dark place is the Old Testament prophets they're the ones that God gave the word through what's going to happen so we're looking at an Old Testament prophet who really it's a long book and it's a book that it's right up to date it has prophecies about the nations that are all around Israel and of course Israel is at the center of all Bible prophecy because Jesus said if you want to know what time it is look at the time clock look at the fig tree and so we're studying Ezekiel and let's turn to the book we're just going to go a little bit into it right here at the first the book of the prophet Ezekiel ru has skill it means strength of God or strengthened by God now it came to pass in the 30th year in the 4th month and the 5th day of the month as I was among the captives by the river Chebar or key bar that the heavens were opened and I saw the visions of God we've been studying that God said to the Jews you're going to be my witness to the nations that I'm God I'm going to reveal myself through you plan a you get to live in the land and be blessed and all the traveling care fans will come down that easy road down there by the Mediterranean Sea where you join three continents together they're gonna see you're blessed are gonna see your healthy prosperous but if you don't obey me we're going to plan B and Plan B is we're gonna scatter you to the ends of the earth we don't want Plan B and then when I bring you back home they're going to see that I'm God well they didn't obey God and they got into gross idolatry and gross sin he told them not to get in idolatry and so the Babylonians Nebuchadnezzar carried them off into captivity and Ezekiel was one of the ones that went with them into captivity he is a priest and there are three prophets of the time of the Babylonian captivity we have a have a chart to show you that and you can kind of look on here and see Daniel is at the same time as Ezekiel Jeremiah these three are of the same time period Jeremiah went with the captives that went down into Egypt but Daniel and Ezekiel are with the kept bees that were carried off by Nebuchadnezzar over into Babylon present-day Iraq you might say and so he is among the captives but even among the cap is Gloria eventually their temple gets destroyed they lose their tool and they're in a terrible state they think is God through with us doesn't want anything more to do with us so what a statement it is when Ezekiel is over with the captives over in Babylon over in present-day Iraq and the heavens open up to him reason this shows God's not through with him and God gives him visions he has many visions throughout this book verse 2 and in the fifth day of the month which was in the fifth year of king yahuwah khun's a captivity the word of the lord came expressly unto you Haskell or Ezekiel the priest the son of Busey in the land of the chaldeans by the river Chebar and the hand of the Lord was there upon him the hand of the Lord is the holy spirit there's only two times in this book that his name is mentioned because most of the time God calls him been Adam or son of men and so the print that the heavens are open to him and the first vision that he sees and I looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north as you study judgment in the Old Testament you'll see that whirlwind often has to do with judgment a whirlwind came out of the north a great cloud and a fire infolding upon itself and a brightness was about it and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber out of the midst of the fire also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures high out Eve's name was higher it means life these are the high oat in Hebrew living creatures we see them again in the book of Revelation the living creatures around about the throne and this was their appearance they had the likeness of a man every one had four faces and every one had four wings and their feet were straight feet and the sole of their feet was like the soul of a calf's foot and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass and they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides and they four had their faces and their wings their wings were joined together one to another verse nine they turned not when they went everyone went straight forward so here we are with these living creatures and verses all together gather all together and they're there they're actually with their wings and their faces forming like a box each one looking out hmm a different way now this box is for a reason and their wings are there their faces they can go any way verse 15 now as I beheld the living creatures behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures with his four faces the appearance of the wheels and their work was like the color of a burl they had one likeness and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel so we always hear that over spiritual Ezekiel saw the wheel way up in the middle of the air so this this box like creation is a chariot it's a chariot and it's the Hebrew word Merkava Merkabah is the word for chariot issues throughout the Bible the chariots of God and this is a merkava it's a chariot of God the Jews have tanks you know army tanks and they call them mere cava now verse 26 and above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne as the appearance of a sapphire stone and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above it upon it and I saw as the color of amber as the appearance of fire roundabout within it from the appearance of his loins even upward and from the appearance of his loins even downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire and it had brightness about it so in this box like chariot formed by these living creatures with their wings together their faces outward the wheels can go anywhere the spirit wants them to go it's a throne of God it's the it's the chariot of God and it has a purpose and this purpose I never knew until I got that the book that we're offering this time you the Book of Ezekiel is translated by the Jews and this chariot is sent here for a a certain reason and it has sent here to escort the glory to escort the glory out of the temple hmm and so that chariot is going to escort it and it's going to leave the Shekinah is going to leave the temple hmm now the glory Ezekiel has to do with the nation's what's going to happen to them the wars that are coming but it goes right on up to the temple in the Millennial time which will be filled with the glory Ezekiel is a book about the glory Ezekiel was called to witness the glory leaving the temple and then when it will return so the glory the presence of God that can be seen is very very important to all the whole plan of God this earth under a curse is going to be filled with the glory of the Lord and the knowledge of the glory of the Lord but there is a certain manifestation of the glory called we say Shekinah mm-hmm but in the Hebrew Sina and it it manifested in the Bible like a cloud like a fire and if you will turn in your Bible to Roman's 9 I put it here for your glory I printed it out the rescue that's so good to me and I hope you have your Bibles there you know because we're studying the Book of Ezekiel and we're gonna study now a little bit about the glory so Paul writing in the book of Romans speaks of the juice and he calls them his brethren according to the flesh and he says this starting with verse 3 my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption it's here yeah yeah yeah the adoption each one of these is a separate thing from the Jews remember he's going to reveal to the nations himself through the Jews so he revealed through them the adoption the glory comes revealed through them the covenants more than one the giving of the law the word the Torah the service of God the ministry to God the promises whose are the fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all whom as concerning the flesh Christ the Messiah The Anointed One came who is over all God blessed forever so these are what came down through us to us through God revealing himself through the Jews and numbers the second thing he mentions is the glory mm-hmm and he's talking here about the Shekinah glory the Shekinah so years ago many years ago God gave me a revelation of the glory and it came sometimes I would even see visions and I did I saw Adam a dumb in the garden and I saw that every other creature had covering fish had scales yeah animals had fur but Adam was was covered with something else and so in Psalm chapter eight verse three an angel says this to God when I considered thy heavens the work of thy fingers he's been watching creation we know this is an angel because Hebrews tells us it is one angel said in a certain place and then quotes this so an angel who watched in creation said this Psalm 8:3 when I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers the moon and the stars which you have ordained what is man I've got a question here he starts out bragging on God for creation and he says I do have a question the Angels had never seen such a thing what is man been Adam that you are mindful of him and the son of man that you visit him angels always had to call on God but here's one that God goes down to the garden visits him for you have made him a little lower than the Angels really that word in the Hebrews Elohim and Elohim is the plural of L aim at the end of a word is plural so Elohim is God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost you made him just a little lower than the Godhead and they had always known God the Father God the Son God the Holy Ghost and then the Archangels and then angels but here God puts someone between the Archangels and the Godhead and it's man you made him just a little lower than Elohim and you crowned him God crowned the men all creation was watching God said to me I didn't do this in a corner all creation was watching me when I walked out I stepped out to thee to the center of the universe and I said let us make man in our image and let them have dominion and then God Himself he didn't ask Gabriel to do it he didn't ask Michael to do it God Himself walks over to the man and crowns him the crown isn't made with a diamonds it isn't made with gold God's paved streets with gold it's made with glory you crowned him with glory glory is the presence of God manifested so you can see it every time glory is mentioned in the Bible in the Old Testament you can see it comes like a cloud comes like a fire comes like a smoke but you always can see it you crowned him with glory and honor now when I was seeing all this and God was showing me this about men and showing me about the glory I saw I had a vision one morning when I was getting ready to go to the Sunday School class and teach it and I saw God I didn't see his face but like here glory and and man fell I saw a man fall he failed from the highest heights to the lowest depths because Satan tempted him and the Lord said to me before I saw the fall do you wrote no Romans 3:23 I wheeled around I was fixing my face I was glad it was one I knew yes and I quote it to him for all have sinned and come short of the glory and that's when I saw my man fall he was crowned with the glory but he fell from the glory and I saw him with the lowest depths there I saw him with Satan I saw Satan say what are you gonna do now what are you gonna do now because God had said he's gonna have dominion over the works of God's hands and Satan thinks he's won mm-hmm he's divided man from the glory I'm God yeah and from God and I just about fainted physically I got weak and the Lord like a like a ticker-tape a scripture came into me and the voice of the Lord said to me but the captain of your salvation is bringing many sons to glory and that lifted me up but I saw that God and man were were divided Satan thought it could not be fixed he thought man could never work with God praise the Lord you and I know he sent the Lord of glory to be the captain of our salvation for me but for a long long time the Lord said to me I saw I saw my son there in that vision Terry was a bull rider at that time and I saw him there with a silver buckle around his little narrow waist and God said what if you couldn't hug Terry for if you hugged her you would destroy him you would burn him up and I thought oh I probably forget like King Midas you know in the golden touch I probably forget and hug him he said that was my position with man if I had class then the natural tendency of a man with a fallen child is to rescue that child but if I had done so my glory would have destroyed him it would have eaten him up it would have burned him alive at all mankind with him therefore Satan would have won because he could have keep my word from coming to pass that I'm going to give man dominion over the works of my hands and so he then is separated from mankind and all for long years he does not come into contact with a man for man's preservation until now what did our scripture tell us in in Romans what if an age is there to be in a Jew and he said the glory hmm so he's going to bring the glory back he's going to bring it he's there is there's gonna come a reentry of the glory and he's gonna do it through his separated people the Jews who are called the call for them is to reveal God to the nation's so re-entry of the glory they've been separated for years got him in re-entry of the glory Moses Moses is that on the side of the mountain in the wilderness tending his father in lost sheep and he noticed something he notices a bush that's burning but it's not consumed and he goes over to that bush and he hears the Lord say take his shoes off this is holy ground you see not only was man have been destroyed but earth was it was in a curse so God then has to care carefully reenter the glory so he cleans a little of the earth off right there by that Bush cleans it all so he doesn't destroy it and he tells Moses take his shoes off and Moses comes up here and we have a re-entry of the glory God tells Moses you go back I've got a plan and his plan was Gloria he wanted to be close to men again he wanted to be close to him so through Moses going back to his people who are who are in Egypt through Moses he's going to call home Moses he's going to call that whole nation of Israel out to a mountain and he's going to have re-entry of the glory hallelujah and so we're going to he brings him let's let's go to Exodus chapter 24 bless the Lord and you know about all the ten plagues and all of those things we're just gonna read this and tomorrow we're gonna take up right here you bring your Bible tomorrow so he takes them out to the mountain and he has this elaborate plan for the Israelites they can't come too close to that mountain even if an animal comes through is gonna die because the glory will kill you if you're not janja Glick said the glory of the Lord is destructive of evil as it is creative of good and so Moses went up into the mount and a cloud covered them out and the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai and the cloud covered it six days and the seventh day he went into Moses he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud and the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the Mount in the eyes of the children of Israel why does the New Testament say what advantage did the Jews have it was through them that God brought back the glory we're going to read about that study on that tomorrow bring your Bible and we'll look at how the Book of Ezekiel that's awesome it's all tied into the glory Billy we're excited about this yes we are bless the Lord and we're studying The Book of Ezekiel the Prophet who gives us so much insight into these days in which we live you've got one thing about the Book of Ezekiel that many people don't know is it's very tied into the glory Ezekiel is the witness of the glory leaving the temple and of it coming back its return so we know that man was crowned with the glory he fell from the glory the glory of God is the presence of God manifest Adam and Eve couldn't stand the glory of God they hid themselves from the presence they've been walking with them every day but after they sinned they can't walk they can't do it so God then is separated from man he doesn't have any close contact with man for many many years and then there is a reentry of the glory into the earth New Testament tells us what advantage is there to being a Jew and God says that through them he revealed the glory and so re-entry started with Moses seeing that burning bush hmm and then God calls them out to a mountain Mount Sinai and he gives them oh don't get too close because if you get too close the glory could destroy you so they have to stand back a certain place and then Moses who's the only one that could possibly do it Hiep he can go up into the presence of God because he's been prepared for it and he goes up into the mountain and now God hasn't been close with his people for centuries his presence his glory hasn't been there and in chapter 25 it says and the Lord spoke unto Moses saying speak unto the children of Israel that they bring me an offering now oh now he's had a closest with some people but not like this and the first time he meets with them he says give me an offering so what what is he gonna do with the offering this is from Exodus twenty-four eight let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them that I may sit among them I want to get close to them then verse twenty-two there I will meet with them and I will commune with them from above the mercy seat from between the two cherubim which are up on the ark of the covenant ark of the testimony and I will give commandment of the children of Israel he says Moses I want to get close to them again well you're gonna have to go about this thing very carefully oh you have to obey what rules I'll tell you how to do it take up an offering that they give willingly with their heart build me a tabernacle and there there's going to be an ark of the testimony of the Covenant and over it are going to be two cherubs and so cherubim is plural there the wings are gonna meet likeness of it and then below it that's the mercy seat and there I'm gonna meet with you so Moses did it and in Exodus chapter 40 verse 33 God gives him an Trickett you got to obey this you've got to do it just this way I and Moses saw the pattern in heaven and so he builds it just the way God told him to build it the tabernacle because this 4033 says so Moses finished the work in verse 34 then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle God moved in there building him a place to sit so here we're going to have what's called the Shekinah the Shekinah it's the manifest presence of God and he comes over that holy over that Ark of the Covenant the mercy seat and there he can be seen like a pillar of cloud or like a fire when the work was finished when the work was finished the glory moved in glory moved in then a cloud covered the ten of the congregation and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter into the content of the congregation because the cloud abode thereon and the glory of the Lord filled praise God now they move on they move on into the promised land and there the Lord has told them there's a certain place where I want to put my name huh McComb David finds that place and Solomon builds there a dwelling place for the Shekinah for the glory he's gonna do it according to the pattern this time David was shows saw the pattern and in second chronicles chapter 5 verse 1 thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of Jehovah was finished it was the time of the Feast of Tabernacles we're exactly in that time right now hmm it was like we are in Sukkot or actually we will begin to be in it on these days yeah Monday next Monday and it's during this time this seven week Feast of the Tabernacles that Mo's that Solomon finished and he gathers up all of Israel all of them millions of them and they're on that Temple Mount they're gonna dedicate the temple ii chronicles 5:11 and it came to be passed came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place for all of the priests were present that were present were sanctified they did not then wait my course they had courses there's over 4,000 of them they normally serve a while and then go home to their families but now they're all there 4,500 or so also the Levites the singers all of them Asaph Haman yeah Ethan with their sons and their brethren arrayed in white linen having cymbals and psalteries and harps stood at the east end of the altar and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets he came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music and raise the Lord that's hallelujah hallelujah saying for he is good for his mercy endureth forever when they reached this pitch of unity with the instruments and the sound hallelujah ki Tov King Leo lung hast Oh then the house was filled with a cloud even house of the Lord so that the priest could not stand the minister by reason of the cloud for the glory of the Lord race had filled Oh in the house of God there over that temple on that temple mount mount maria delle the rock is there now shouldn't be will Sunday leave but there on that mount was the temple Solomon's Temple Oh covered in gold one of the wonders of the world shone bless the Lord and Moses built Moses build a tabernacle and the glory came in Solomon built a temple and the glory came in the presence of God rested in these abodes the Shekinah the Shekinah the Book of Ezekiel is about many things prophecies coming to pass all around us a war that's coming but it is as much about the glory of the Lord as it is about anything else the chariot of God comes from heaven to earth and we talked about that yesterday with the living creatures the chariot of God comes from heaven to earth to accompany the glory as it departs from the temple the glory of the Lord has been there but Israel has sinned they had entered into gross sin terrible sin Gloria if I told you some of the sins and they're written there in the Word of God they so disrespected God Gloria there was a time that the elders of Israel went into that that house of God turned their backs on God look toward the Sun and past wind toward God hmm it was terrible ah and because they entered into this this gross sin then God is going to take the glory out and he sends the mere Cova he sends the chariot of God to escort it out if the glory had not been escorted out of the temple Nebuchadnezzar could never have taken it he could never have burned it but when the glory departs it's just a building without him yeah without the glory but when the glory departs the building is just an empty shell and then Israel is left vulnerable and the glory had not departed like they couldn't heart it down conquered like they would not have been conquered there there it was eventually burned and destroyed the first temple it could not have happened so we see back in Ezekiel we're going to turn to Ezekiel the first chapter and we're not going to read again but you be sure to do it and you read about how this chariot was formed with these four living creatures and how their faces and how their wings formed a like of a box and then in the midst of it was one upon a throne and there was a wheel within a wheel was outside of the of the chariot and this this chariot went every way the Spirit wanted it to go and it is here for the express purpose of escorting the glory out from the goal merci merci merci I never knew this until I read that the Book of Ezekiel that arts girls does I didn't really realise this normally just reading through I think a Christian without some enlightenment about the glory would catch it but look at Ezekiel chapter 3 and verse 12 the glory departs and I'm quoting arts cronies in ten agonizing stages the Talmud describes it exactly the shekinah slowly withdrew from the holy city and the holy temple leaving them naked to the onslaught of Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian hordes so really feels no defense so reading here in chapter 3 and verse 12 of ezekiel then the spirit took me up and this is going to be in king james and i heard behind me a voice of a great rushing saying blessed be the glory of jehovah from his place it actually means exiting his place you could read it like that mm-hmm then the spirit took me up and I heard behind me a voice of great rushing saying blessed be the glory of the Lord as he departs from his place the glorious departing God's word translation translates it like this then the spirit lifted me and behind me I heard a loud thundering voice say blessed is jehovah's glory which left this place it's leaving hmm now let's go over to chapter 10 and we see here in the Bible some of the steps of its departure very interesting chapter 10 verse 1 is equal chapter 10 verse 1 I didn't put this in there Gloria we have to go to our chapter here in the book then I looked and behold in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone as the appearance of the likeness of throne and he spake unto the man clothed with women linen and said go in between the wheels remember here is the chariot and the wheels are around it go in between the wheels under the cherub and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city and in the cities Jerusalem and he went in my sight now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house when the man went in and the cloud filled the inner court you know then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub remember it's there between the cherubim mm-hmm it went up and it stood over the threshold of the house and the house was filled with a cloud and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory it's leaving the holy of holies down and it's moving out into the court verse 18 then the glory of the Lord departed from off the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim end of verse 19 and the glory of the God of Israel was over them from above the cherubim now let's go to verse chapter 11 and verse 22 and 23 then did the cherubim lift up their wings and the wheels beside them and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above and the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city it's come up now it's come up from the Holy of Holies it's gone out into the courtyard and it's it's visible there in the city but it's it's gonna leave the city and it's going to go over the mountain which is on the east side of the city the mountain which is on the east side of the city is the Mount of Olives so it goes over to the Mount of Olives and then from the Mount of Olives it's going to go up into heaven and there it's going to be in the second temple the Shekinah was never there it left in the first temple time and it was never there in the second temple it was not there so the Shekinah we see this is sad very very sad the presence of God has the temple only then could it be captured only then could it be destroyed and it goes out to the Mount of Olives now think about this where did Jesus go up from the Mount of Olives where is he coming back to the Mount of Olives hmm now look what's going to happen Ezekiel was the witness of the glory leaving he's going to be the witness of all things that transpire in the meantime captivity nations end times wars but then he's going to be the witness God shows him in a vision of the glory coming back and so let's turn to Ezekiel chapter 43 from Ezekiel chapter 40 on it describes the Millennial temple secure 43 and Ezekiel 43 God describes during the Millennium folks yes the whole earth is going to be filled with a knowledge of the glory of the Lord and the glory of the Lord but in the Millennium that same China that same manifestation that stood over the temple of Solomon is going to come back and it's going to be in the Millennial temple Ezekiel 43 and we're going to read verse 4 and the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east so the spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court and behold the glory of the Lord filled the house mmm and the last chapter of the Book of Ezekiel after he describes the Millennium and how the lands gonna be divided among the tribes of Israel then he's talking about the Jerusalem and he said it was around about we're talking about Jerusalem of the millennium eighteen thousand measures and the name of the city from that day shall be jehova shamma in the Millennium the name of the city shall be jehova shamma jehova is there bless the Lord we also see in Zechariah he's another prophet that tell us about that time Zechariah chapter 2 verses 4 and 5 Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle that shall come there for I say at you who will be unto her a wall of fire about her and I will be the glory in the midst of her we're talking about the Millennium we're talking about the glory coming back Oh glory Corral 11 in the midst Isaiah chapter 4 verses 2 through 4 in that day shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel and it shall come to pass that he that is left in Xion he that remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy we're talking about Jews upon the earth during them during the tribulation and then they make it through and they recognize the one whom they've pierced every one of them that is written among the living in Jerusalem when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zin there is a day coming we're talking about the nation of Israel there's a day coming when all of its filth all of its sins will be forgiven and when that day comes and they shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning then jehovah will create upon every dwelling place on mount zion and upon her assemblies a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defense now the Amplified Bible says and it ends for and the Lord will create over the whole sight over every dwelling place on mountains in a cloud over her assemblies a cloud and smoke my day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for over all the glory shall be a Hoopa raised canopy so over jerusalem it shall be seen remember all the nations that make it through and are living upon the earth during that time they still go by sight and they're ordered to come to Jerusalem once a year for the Feast of Tabernacles and when they get close they're gonna see this canopy of the glory of God they're gonna see and God's Word translate the Lord will wash away the filth of Zions people he will clean but blood stains from Jerusalem with a spirit of judgment and a spirit of burning jehovah will create a cloud of smoke during the day and a glowing flame of fire during the night over the whole area of Mount Zion and over the Assembly his glory will cover everything right and you know we showed that on that's going to be seen on the cover of this syllabus his glory of that temple so here's what the Book of Ezekiel does it tells us about the chariots that came to escort the glory out of the temple all what happened in the meantime but it's not over the glory is coming back even to the Temple in Jerusalem right and he's the witness of it oh isn't that amazing glory to God father thank you thank you for giving us a glimpse yes or something great and marvelous it's going to happen in the future we worship You Lord there's no God like you we thank you for all of the blessings and protection and all the good that you've done for us in all of our lives we thank you that we've been delivered and we thank you that there's a glorious triumph in the end glory to God hallelu wins and we win because from the goalie yes amen Billy now be right back [Music] the Book of Ezekiel an ancient book of prophecies visions and signs from thousands of years ago now coming to pass 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born over again and then you get in the word and you find out what belongs to you and you begin to live free you have to you have to get in the word to see what all good things belong to you it's an amazing package hallelujah that belongs to you and we want to give you some information on that it's called the salvation package it's free it's a book two brochures learn who you are in Christ Jesus Billy and I can we are witnesses that everything changes when you put yourself in the Lord's hands so write request your free package make Jesus the Lord of your life today don't go another day without being born again and then read your Bible everyday get in a good church that preaches the word and do what the Bible says and the blessing will be manifest in your life and receive the Holy Spirit listen to him obey Him God's got a good future for you hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] today is offering day and I'm just going to briefly read you some things as I want to pray over your offering and for your finances remember this he who so sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly and he who says generously that blessings may come to someone will also reap generously here's a key but each one give as he has made up his own mind and purposed in his heart not reluctantly not sorrowfully not under compulsion for God loves he takes pleasure in and prizes above all other things is unwilling to abandon a quick to do it cheerful Giver as you pray and seek the Lord about the offering day billion are going to pray over your finances over your offering father we pray over the offering of the people we receive this for the work of the Lord in Jesus name we thank you Lord that this offering comes from glad hearts happy sewers abundant sewers for blessed and prosperous we believe that every person receives a great reward a great return even a hundredfold whatever their fold is Lord we believe it's good and it's an increase and we thank you for it and we believe for the blessing upon you partners you stand with us you bless us and we appreciate you we you've helped us preach the gospel all over the world since this television all over the world you've got harvest coming so step up and to say I take it I take it now in Jesus name I take my harvest you know really that's what we have to do or finances or cancer we have to rise up and take it so do that expect so and expect your crop hallelujah watch the broadcast if you missed any of them don't KCM dot-org are on roku channel billy has reminded us about the Blood Moon it's coming so yeah come in this weekend Gloria it's what I want you to remind you before we get back here on Monday there will be the fourth blood moon if you need to know about the blood moons we talked about them earlier recorded them you can go and find him on the archives we're in the fourth full blood moon eclipse of the tetrad that we've been on the holy days and it's going to be in some places that will be the 27th in some places the 28th in Fort Worth it's going to begin we'll be able to see it begin the partial eclipse up about 8 o 7 p.m. and it's going to be over just after midnight but if you're in Universal Time or Greenwich Mean Time it'll be the 28th it is the 4th moon of the Blood Moon tetrad and it's on the day that Sukkot Tabernacles begins Laurie hallelujah don't miss that this is Gloria and Billy reminding you that Jesus is Lord thank you for joining us today on the believers voice of victory for this week's broadcasts on DVD or mp3 on CD go to KCMG org or call or write to us today remember this week's product offered these ministry tools are designed to help you get the word working in your life so you can experience all God has for you if you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior today be sure to request your free salvation package this will help you understand who you are in Christ and how to start living your new life and victory [Music]

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