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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. We're in Ezekiel chapter 40 tonight. We're here at Rob and Vicky and Brandon Weedrich's home here in Bremerton, and, we shout out to Kathy who broke her toe. Poor Kathy. And, Vince, we want Vince to get better. And Alan Cora, my dad, and Karen, and others who are sick. And so let's pray. Father, we come before you, and we lift up those who need your hand of healing upon their lives. Lord, we ask that you touch them and heal them and be with Vince and lead and guide his steps in the next hours, days, weeks, and help help him recover and surrender his heart and life unto you, we ask, Lord. And thank you for giving Rob and Vicky wisdom and how to help him from here in Bremerton. And lift up my dad and pray that you would help the antibiotics and all that stuff to stave off the pneumonia and the colitis and appendicitis and whatever else he's getting. Pray that his body would get strong and he'd be able to recover and get out of there. And we lift up Al and Cora as they wrestle with physical things all the time, just help Al and them to get stronger and better. And we lift up Karen as she's struggling with losing her father. We pray that he would reconcile with her and make contact with her and and be with those that have Sophia. If she has whooping cough and all that other sort of stuff, be with them. And we just commit this this bible study into your hands and pray that you'd our teacher, that you'd open the scriptures to understanding that you inhabit the praise of your people, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. I will Amen. This next song I'm gonna clap in there. There is a clap in there. There is. And I want everybody to echo echo on this song. Praise the Lord. It's a fun song we sing in it around. There we go, girls. That was fun. Alright. Thanks, Rob. Alright. We're in Ezekiel chapter 40. Ezekiel chapter 40. And a little shout out to Kathy. Sean says tape your toe. Tape your toe, Kath. Tape two together. Tape two together. And if you want, I'll adjust it when I get home. Yeah. Alright. Pray for Kathy. She she broke her toe, but that's alright. She's got nine other ones. Alright. Okay. So Ezekiel chapter 40. From 40 to 48, we're going to be talking about what's known as the millennium. Have you ever heard the word millennium? Yep. Is the word millennium in the bible? Is the word rapture in the bible? No. Is the word trinity in the bible? No. Is it a truth in the bible? Truth. So where do we find the truth of the millennium in the Bible? Revelation. Revelation where? 20. 20? How many times in Revelation 20? Verses one through seven. Wanna turn there? Yeah. Does it really matter? So why wouldn't we just not teach prophecy, and why wouldn't we be those of a preterist view? So in our eschatology, our study of last days things, being students of prophecy, We're in the prophetic book of Ezekiel, and Ezekiel is being taken into a time machine. Right? A portal as my grandson, Isaiah said yesterday. And kinda like, beam me up, Scottie, and you're up there. Bye. And he like, I apparently, president Trump and others want to do some sort of time travel. I don't understand about time travel. And Ezekiel, along with John the revelator in Revelation chapter 11, he's also seeing some things in the future. An angel comes and talks to him. So an angel comes and talks to Ezekiel. Ezekiel's in confinement. He's been taken from Jerusalem into Babylon, but the Lord is gonna speak to him twelve years after chapter 39. There's a gap there. Twelve years later the Lord speaks to Ezekiel and takes him up into a time time capsule thingy and shows them up ahead the millennial period of time or the kingdom age if you will. And so if you're looking at Isaiah and Ezekiel and Zechariah and all the Old Testament prophets, they're speaking future of a time where the Messiah, the Christ, Jesus, the king of kings and lord of lord, that he's gonna rule and reign on earth. Now they don't know it's Jesus. Right? In the first coming of Christ, they didn't know that Jesus is the Messiah. They didn't study Daniel nine twenty five through 27 that Messiah would be cut off. Right? And we talked about Palm Sunday yesterday and Jesus riding into Jerusalem on the very day that was prophesied that he'd ride in. And so after that happens we see that Jesus is crucified, buried, raised from the dead. He's on the planet for forty days. He's speaking to the 120 and saying wait for the promise of the father. Ten days later at Pentecost, the holy spirit's poured out upon the church, and they go from a 120 to 5,000, 3,000, and begin to expand and grow. And we have what's called the church age. Church age. Church age. Right? And the church age continues till when? Till the rapture. Till the last till the rapture. Till Romans eleven twenty five, blindness in part is happening unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. So the church is made up of Jew and Gentile. Right? Barbarian, Scythian, bond, free, male, female, whosoever will let him come. So in this dispensation, the church starts out completely Jewish. And then we see in Philip in chapter eight in the book of Acts, the Samaritans were half breeds. And then we see the house of Cornelius in chapter 10, Gentiles, but we see Paul in chapter nine, Saul of Tarsus all the way to Damascus. So by and large, the church is made up of dominant dominant is that of Gentiles. Blindness in part has happened unto Israel, so a few of the Jews, but basically the nation of Israel being blind. So Paul differentiates, the Bible differentiates between the church and the nation of Israel. Has the church replaced Israel? No. No. But that is a very prominent view by many bible students. I wouldn't even call them students because you can't be that ignorant and be a student, but they try to pass that off. And there's another word that's used called preterist. Preterism. Preterism, the Latin part of it, preter, means past, and then the ism is obviously an ism. But basically their their contention is that all of this that we read about of the kingdom age happened before 70. It's all happened in the past. So when one of these churches around here, I heard of one of them going and trying to teach the book of Revelation, they teach it allegorically. They teach it spiritually. They don't teach it literally. So we're in Revelation chapter 20 and we're going to read the first seven verses. And we're going to notice that six times the Bible describes a thousand year period of time. In the Latin, the Latin word milli means a thousand and animus means year. So a thousand years. So the word millennium is not in the Bible, but the thousand years is out there just like when people say the word rapture is not there. We say, well, that's a Latin version. If you want to read the Latin Vulgate, could get rapture. But if you're going to read it in the in the English, it'll be caught up. If you read it in the Greek, it's harpazo. So I've had to actually sit and listen to very, very ignorant people tell me the rapture isn't even mentioned in the bible. So too also very ignorant people saying that the church has taken place of Israel and that all of it happened in the past. That's extreme ignorance. I got other words I could use, but people go crazy on Facebook saying I'm a hater, you know. So I'm I'm having a very difficult time at this stage of my life in ministry dealing with the idiocy, the doctrines of demons, the fables, the psychology, all of it for twenty five years. And very seldom can you even have fellowship with somebody that's a bible student, a student of the bible. Hard to find one. Hard to find somebody that loves prophecy. So chapter 20 verse one, and I saw an angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent. So the serpent that was there in the garden. Right, Thomas? Right. Right? What a snake in the grass. Who is the devil and Satan. Look at all those names, those titles. So he's the dragon, He's the devil. He's the adversary. Angel of light. He's Lucifer. Right? He's a fallen angel. Prince of the power of the air. So Satan and and bound him a thousand years. So you're gonna have an angel grab hold of another angel who's a fallen angel who is an exalted cherub angel in Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28, and gonna put him into the abyss for a millennium. Gonna be in there is he there yet? No. Not there yet. And cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should deceive. What's his what's his biggest the biggest tool Satan has? Be not deceived. Yeah. Yeah. Right? Right. His biggest thing Jesus said in John eight that he's a liar and he's a murderer from the beginning. Father of And that's right. Now thank you, Thomas. Deceive the nations. Who's he deceiving the nations? The the kingdoms of the world. So he's not gonna deceive them no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled. So why aren't we being deceived? Because the blood of Jesus Christ. Because we don't watch the mainstream news. Because we are students of the bible. Right? Amen. And real reason is because you know the truth. Right. As soon as you know the truth, he can't deceive you anymore. And so how long? Thousand years. Till the thousand years. So there's your millennium, should be fulfilled. And and after that, he must be loosed a little season. So what's gonna be happening during that thousand years? Because in chapter 19, what happened? Chapter 19 was the return of Jesus Christ. Right? What happened in chapter six through up to 19? What was that period of time? The period. What happened before that? Age. Church age. And the church age ends with the rapture. And then there could be a gap of time between the start of the tribulation periods which starts with what? Signing of the covenant. Signing of the covenant. Daniel nine twenty five through 27. So in place of Jesus Christ and the unholy trinity, eschatology wise, we're we're awaiting the rapture of the church. That's the next event that should take place. Right? But if it if it doesn't take place, there's plenty of prophecies yet to be fulfilled. But one that we're not gonna be a part of is the tribulation period because we as the church are not subject under god's wrath. We are not. We're not appointed to wrath. Right? According to first Thessalonians chapter five verse nine, we're not appointed to wrath. God's gonna pour out his wrath during the seventieth seven of Daniel, is a time of Jacob's trouble. God's going to take the nation of Israel. He's gonna give them the seventieth seven. The sixty nine seven period was fulfilled with the Palm Sunday when Jesus rode into Jerusalem. And so that was the fulfillment of those four hundred and eighty three years, hundred and seventy three, eight hundred and eighty days that went from Nehemiah chapter two verse one, the the command to go and restore and rebuild Jerusalem and to the coming of the Messiah of the prince. And and so the commandment went forth on March fourteenth four forty five BC. On April six thirty two AD, Jesus wrote in. And in Luke 19, he said to the the Jews who rejected him as their messiah because he's cut off, if he'd have known. If he'd have just known the prophecy. If he'd have just been a student of prophecy to recognize me. I came unto my own. My own received me not. Right? Another shall come in his own name as Aikum my father's name he received me not. Another shall come in his own name him you will receive. So the nation of Israel is gonna be deceived. At the midpoint of the tribulation period, what happens? Matthew twenty four fifteen. The abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet. Daniel said that this guy would go in to the temple, declare himself to be god, demand to be worshiped as god, and and that's the midpoint of the tribulation period. The eyes of the Jews are open, but the whole world is thrust into a Luciferian worshipping of the dragon. And the second person of the unholy trinity is the Antichrist, and the third person of the unholy trinity is the false prophet. And so that's the midpoint. Twelve hundred and sixty days in, twelve hundred and sixty days thereafter be the second coming of Christ. In Revelation chapter 19 Jesus comes. In second Thessalonians two Jesus comes with the sword of his mouth, the brightness of his coming. In Revelation 19 we come with him with the armies of heaven and we are the bride of Christ, and we're on white horses, clean and white, and our garments have been washed in the blood of the lamb. And Jesus subdues all of his enemies, at Armageddon, and then he makes his, victory ascent from Basra across Armageddon, the Valley Of Megiddo, Valley Of Jezreel, up into the city, up the Mount Of Olives, and splits in two the triumphal entry of Jesus. And and he takes and allows an angel to grab hold of the devil and put him in the abyss. The antichrist and the false prophet are already dead, and they're already in the lake of fire. And and then we have a possibly a seventy five day interval there. Blessed is he that comes at thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day according to Daniel 12. And and there's some some maneuvering. Maybe the earth is replenished because the curse and all of the events of the tribulation period has caused the earth to be a wasteland. So in order to bring about the one thousand year rule and reign of Jesus, the nation of Israel is preserved. They come into the land. The Gentiles that survived the tribulation period who believe are favorable, Matthew 25, they too go into the millennium. You and I are gonna rule and reign with the Lord Jesus as kings and priests. The government is going to be branched in two different branches. The one branch to the left is going to be the gentile branch that you and I are going be a part of ruling and reigning. The right hand branch from king Jesus to David the prince to the 12 apostles, each of them having a throne, is over the nation of Israel. And the nation of Israel, there's no longer the times of the Gentiles. It's gonna be the time of Israel that can be dominant over the whole planet, over all the Gentile nations that are gonna repopulate the planet for that thousand years. Those that come into the millennium are gonna have human bodies, and they're gonna be able to propagate and have children and all. You and I are gonna be in our new glorified bodies and no need of of that sort of thing. And and so that's the that's the picture there. And then all these prophecies in Isaiah two and Isaiah nine and Isaiah 11 and all the description of the kingdom age from Ezekiel 40 to 48 is a description of the Ezekiel's Temple, we call it. So the first temple, Solomon's Temple, the Solomon's Temple was destroyed in May, and then seventy years later we have what's called Zerubbabel's Temple where Nehemiah goes and rebuilds the walls and Ezra the priest comes and helps with the with the temple. And then Joshua and Zerubbabel, they're also helping to rebuild the temple in the second temple period, and it continues not quite finished and all. And then in the time of Christ and the time of Herod the great, they continue with massive fifty some years of building. Herod was a prolific great builder, great architect and builder. And so the second temple period be the time where Jesus came into the temple. And then that temple's destroyed when? Seventy AD. Not one stone remained upon another. Now that's where the Preterists say all of the Old Testament prophet prophecies were fulfilled by then. Now got a couple early church fathers. One is Justin Martyr and the other Irenaeus, and they survived after that period of time. And and they they believed as they're studying the Bible that it was yet future, that it would be a thousand year period on into the future and so along with a lot of other commentators. So I saw thrones and they that sat upon them and judgment was given unto them and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus who had not worshipped the beast. So do you see those who were given thrones and dominion? You know, that's we're gonna rule and reign with Jesus. And for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God and had not worshipped the beast neither his image neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ how long? Thousand years. And who are that group of people? Who is that group distinct? Four types of saints. This is the third group of saints. The tribulation saints. Right. And what happened what happened to them? They get your heads. And how did they receive salvation? Through their own bloodshed. By faith. By faith. Their faith by rejecting, as Rob says, allowing their blood to be shed, allowing their head to be cut off. They refused the mark of the beast. So Heads are gonna if they come with an economic system, the globalists who are ruled by the devil, right? The prince of the power of the air. If they come forth with an economic system described in Revelation thirteen sixteen through 18, everybody having to receive a mark on their right hand of their forehead on you can't buy or sell without it, what are you going to do? Don't do it. Don't do it. Now if you do that is there any hope of salvation after you do that? No. No redemption. So these guys receive eternal life by giving up their temporal life by saying I'm not doing it. The early church 6,000,000 Christians in the first two centuries refused the Romans command to pinch incense once a year and say Caesar is Lord. They refused it. They would obey the government but when it come to that no way. And 6,000,000 Christians were martyred in the first two centuries by refusing that. So all throughout history Christians have refused the worshiping of idols, worshiping of men and such. And so they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. So these tribulation saints remember when we talked about first Corinthians 15 Jesus being the first fruits of the resurrection? Do you remember what that word first fruits means? The feast of first fruits. Right? It means a military sequential order. So he's the first fruits. Who's the next wave in that military campaign to be resurrected, to overcome death? Those that are in Christ. The dead in Christ arise first. A distinction there. And then after the tribulation period you're going to have the Old Testament saints and the tribulation saints full complete the first resurrection. And then you'll see the second one here. But the rest of the dead live not again until the thousand years are finished. This is the first resurrection. And so they the first resurrection's intact. Blessed is he who has part in the first resurrection on such that the second death has no power but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him how long? A thousand years. Verse seven, and when the thousand years are ended Satan shall be loosed out of his prison. So Jesus is going to rule and reign from Jerusalem just as the prophets foretold for a thousand years. Now after the thousand years what happens? What's the next age? Eternal state. The eternal state. Revelation twenty one and twenty two on into eternity. Isn't it exciting? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm excited. Alright. So now we're gonna go back to well, let's see here. Yeah. We'll go back to Ezekiel. Ezekiel chapter 40. And before we launch out, I wanna give some verses that we can I'll give some small verses, not big chapters. Okay? Because I could give you Psalm seventy two one through 20, which describes the kingdom age, but I won't. I'll give you Isaiah nine six and seven. Who wants that? I can do it. Okay. Who wants Isaiah eleven one through nine? That's a great one. One through nine. I'll take that. Yeah. And how about Isaiah twenty four twenty two and twenty three? I'll do it. Okay. And rather than Isaiah forty nine one through 26 or Isaiah sixty five seventeen through 25, I'll give you Jeremiah twenty three five and six. I'm saying those because you can write them down, you know, and go to them later. How about Micah four one through four? Micah four one through four? I'll do that. Okay. And then how about how about in the New Testament? How about Matthew twenty five thirty one and thirty two? Twenty five thirty one and thirty two. You're you already got a bunch. Right, Rob? Yeah. I got you. Okay. So Thomas Poole gets Matthew twenty five thirty one and thirty two. And and here's here's an obscure address. 2531And32. Okay. First Corinthians fifteen twenty four through 28. Okay. Good. Okay. Stephen. Alright. So we're we're launching into the millennium, a thousand year old reign. There's gonna be a temple that's gonna be built after the pattern that God's gonna show Ezekiel. It's different than Solomon's temple. It's different than the second temple period. Obviously, it's not even close to the antichrist temple. Right? We're not going there. And and so it's it's it's Ezekiel's temple or the temple for the millennium. Alright. So Isaiah nine six and seven. Unto us a child is born and to us a son has given. The name shall be called wonderful counselor, the mighty god, the everlasting father, the prince of peace, of the increase of his government and peace shall there be no end upon the throne of David upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth forever and ever the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. Okay. So if this was all fulfilled by seventy AD and you're a Preterus, it's all in the past, How do you interpret that verse? Jesus has never been on the throne to rule and reign like that. That whole description of him ruling and reigning hasn't happened. So what they do is they say the church takes the place of Israel. Those promises for the nation of Israel and for the whole world. Right? Nope. They're done and gone. Didn't happen. Not gonna happen. Nothing to look forward to. It's it's over. Right? Ain't that crazy? Look at the world you're living in. Don't people need hope? Don't you wanna look beyond this world Yes. To the rapture and the millennium, the kingdom age, and Jesus rule and reign? I don't wanna try and go to it with Paula White or, you know, whoever else is trying to lead me in their golden age. For excuse me. I want king Jesus there. Amen. So I don't know how they can just say it already happened. When did it happen? He got cut off the first coming. What do you guys got him in a in a cave somewhere like he said? Matthew 24, hey. He's over here in this cave. He's over here. We've got him. Isaiah. Now the picture of the planet, the earth, the curse from the garden when Adam and Eve sinned, you're gonna see in Isaiah 11 a reverse into that curse. You're gonna see animal life and and plant life and and and the peace that only the prince of peace can bring. So Isaiah eleven one through nine. And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of jest and a branch shall grow out of his roots. And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears. But with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with iniquity for the meek of the earth. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness, the girdle of his reins. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed. Their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the and the weakened child shall put his hand on the cockatrice cock cockatrice. Cockatrice. Cockatrice then. Thank you. Looks like a snake den. Oh, okay. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. So we saw in Isaiah nine, the king. Right? We see that he's ruling from his holy mountain, chapter 11 there, from his holy mountain. And we see the the curse reversed with the animal life, the plant life, the the children, you know, no more drive by shootings and stuff like that, and blowing stuff up, wars. He's the prince of peace. And No terrorists. And he's, yeah, and he's and he's ruling and reigning from from Jerusalem, we'll see, from Mount Zion, and that hasn't happened yet. We're we're waiting for that to take place. And then did we do Isaiah twenty four twenty two through 23? I got that. Okay. And they shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in a pit and shall be shut up in the prisons and after many days shall they be visited. Then the moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed. When the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, in his Jerusalem and before his ancients gloriously. Has he reigned there yet? No. He's reigned in our hearts. His kingdom's not of this world, but he he's coming back to set up his literal kingdom upon this planet. Right? Alright. So who's next? Jeremiah. Jeremiah? Is it? Twenty three five and six. I love your new Bible, Brady. Funny. Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will raise to David a branch of righteousness. A king shall reign and prosper and execute judgment of righteousness righteousness in the earth. In his days, Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. Now this is his name by which he will be called. And so who's this king gonna be? He's gonna be the root and the offspring of David. He's the Davidic covenant. God made a covenant with David. David said, Lord, I wanna build you a house. And and Nathan, the prophet said, that's a really good idea, David, a good gesture because you've got a palace and you wanna build god a palace. You wanna build god a house because they had just a tent, a meeting. And the prophet came back and told David, David, sorry. Your hands are too bloody as a man of war. But guess what? God's gonna make you a house or a dynasty. And so this dynasty, the Davidic dynasty, god was letting David know that the messiah would come forth through his loins. So we know we've got the right king, the right messiah because he's the root, he's the source of David and the offspring of David in that he was born in the house of when we look at Matthew chapter one and Luke three, we see his lineage in both ways going back to to the house of David through the legal line through Joseph and the literal line through Mary and her through her father. Alright. So we've got the right guy. And who's next? Micah four one through four? But in the last days, it shall come to pass that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and people shall flow onto it. And many nations shall come and say, come and let us go up to the mountain of Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For the law shall go forth of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many people and rebuke strong nations afar off, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken it. There's so many things there, so pregnant with information in that the curses can be reversed, the planet's gonna be conducive to growth and productivity and all. As far as the ignorance, I use the word ignorance. People aren't gonna be ignorant anymore. People are going to flow to Jerusalem to learn directly from king Jesus teaching the word. You know? And ain't that great? And knowledge of him and the passage that you read is gonna be such that it's like knowledge as the water covers the sea. So there isn't gonna be any more of this famine in the land for the word of god. People are gonna get to know him through his word. That's that's exciting to me that we still get to keep learning and studying his word and getting to know him and and flow. The Gentile nations are gonna flow toward him year by year having to go to the temple. If they don't, we're gonna see some patches where they don't get any rain. God's gonna pull back the rain. So these Gentile nations are gonna have to go toward to Jerusalem for the feast and and participate and and show their allegiance, show their worship of God. Alright. So Matthew twenty five thirty one and thirty two. I got it. Praise the Lord. I got my magnifying glass. 25, 31, and 32. I got my magnifying glass. So Oh, brother. Amen. That will help. When the son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him, then then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory of his glory, and be for him shall be gathered all nations. He shall separate them the one from another as the shepherd divided the heap from the goat. So when Jesus returns in his glory with us in that seventy five day interval, he's going to judge the Gentile nations. All the Jews that come into the millennium are saved. That remnant that makes it out of the tribulation period that he rescues at Basra, they're all saved. And then Two thirds perish, but in this case, he's going to separate the sheep from the goats to determine the believers that are able to go into the millennium. Alright. First Corinthians fifteen twenty four through 28. Fifteen twenty four through 28. Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom of God, even the father, when he shall have put down all rule Amen. Alright. So in the millennium, in Isaiah 65 verse 20, these gentiles that are repopulating the planet, they have till it looks like from Isaiah 65 verse 20 that they have till they're 100 years old to receive Christ or not. It says there shall be no more in it an infant of days nor an old man that has not filled his days for the child shall die a 100 years old but the sinner being a 100 years old shall be accursed. So you'll see that they still have free will and it's it's exhibited at the end of the millennium when the devil is loosed to tempt the Gentiles who are repopulating the planet. They're obeying because he's rule and reigning with the rod of righteousness, but internally their heart is unchanged. They need the foreskin of the heart, the cutting away of the heart. And God exposes their free will in that they don't love him for who he is. They don't want to know him. And so they side with the devil again to rebel against God. And so that's a very interesting thing. But those that do receive Christ, you know, they're gonna they're not gonna die. They're gonna live the thousand year duration there and get their new bodies just like us. Alright. So little head trip there. Chapter 40 verse one. So in the five and twentieth year of our captivity in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was upon me and brought me there. So this is twelve years after chapter 39 and April 1373 May is if he's using the he could use a civil calendar, he could use a religious calendar. If he's using a religious calendar, some of them are saying it's actually on the tenth day of the month, Nisan, which would be the Passover. We don't know that. But in any event, verse two, in the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel and set me upon a very high mountain on which was a structure like a city on the South. So just as in chapter 11 John the revelator was was taken up and seeing things. So to hear Ezekiel's being taken up and he's watching the spiritual realm. He's seeing the future. He's looking way up in the future. The Lord shown him up in the future what's going to happen. And he brought him up in a very high mountain to see see these things. And just just amazing what that would be like. And and so he saw a structure like a city on the south. And so this is Mount Zion. This this is gonna take some restructuring to make the Temple Mount area big enough to be able to handle the size of the of the temple which is going to be a mile square. The Temple Precinct area is going to be a mile square and that the mountain area is going to be 10 miles square. So that's that's larger than what's presently there able to handle but that's that's where the Lord is is bringing them. And Isaiah two verse two it's the top of the mountain. Malachi four verse one we just we just read that the top of the mountain or we read Micah But who wants Isaiah two verse two and who wants Malachi four verse one? Isaiah. Okay. Isaiah two verse two. And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow into it. Very good. Thank you. In Malachi four one and Zechariah fourteen ten. I can do four one. Okay. Fourteen ten. Should I read it now? Yes, please. Okay. For behold, the day cometh and shall burn as an oven. And all of the proud, yay, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble. And the day and the day that cometh shall burn burn them up, saith the lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. I didn't think that was the one. Malachi four one? Maybe I wrote it wrong. Okay. Zechariah fourteen ten? Fourteen ten. All the lands shall be turned as a plain from Gevo to to Ramone, South Of Jerusalem, and as we lifted up and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate under the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the Tower Of Hamil unto the king's winepress. And so this is future looking at the millenniums, looking at Zion, Mount Zion, the mount of the Lord. And he brought me there and behold there was a man, this is an angel, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, bronze is the metal of judgment, and with a line of flax in his hand and a measuring reed. So sometimes you guys that do construction, can use a a like a string, like a rope. I remember when the guys were doing stairways, they went from the upper floor and they took a little weight and they dropped it down in a plumb line. Plumb below. Plumb line. And they plumbed it just right. Yeah. And then and then also a reed, a measuring yardstick, whatever, but in this case they're calling it a measuring reed. And we'll look at the dimensions of that in a minute. They stood in the gate and and the man said unto me, son of man, behold with thine eyes so watch this three three emphasis on your eyes, your ears, and your heart. Wouldn't it be great if when we approach the bible that we approach the bible with our eyes, our ears, and our heart. The man said unto me, son of man, behold, so watch this with your eyes, not just physical eyes, but spiritual eyes. Right? Because a natural man understands not the things of God neither can he know them. He could see things, you know, in the natural. And we're not saying that it's not physical, but you can see the physical and you see the spiritual behind the physical, the pattern that the Lord's putting there. What's it represent? And so the man said unto me, son of man, behold with thine eyes and hear with thine ears and set thine heart upon all that I shall show thee. For what purpose? The intent for the intent that I might show them unto thee art thou brought here, declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel. So we learn so that we can disciple others. As Chuck used to say, the best way to learn was to teach because we have to study as pastors, as students, we have to study 10 times more than we give out. You know how long my sermons are right? So you've got to study far more than you give out, you know? And you're always studying. You're always trying to remind yourself of what you thought you knew, and you're going over and over and over and over and over, constantly going over the scriptures in order to be able to teach. You don't just show up one day and do what some of these guys call extemporaneous preaching. They show up and they say, god, give me a message, and the guy opens his mouth. And and typically when you have a pastor that's not gifted as a teacher, it means he's not a student. Now he might he might have some gifting in the area of evangelism. So you'll find out that after the first or second or third week that you attend the church, he's already gone through his whole reservoir of information that he knows about God. So he's gonna keep bringing you the gospel. Every week, he's gonna bring you the gospel because that's all he's got. That's all he studied. That's all he knows. He can't bring any prophecy. He can't teach on any essential doctrines in the bible except what what we would call soteriology, which is the the study of salvation, what this justification means, you know, going through, which is a very powerful study. But for the most part, you'll see that these characters, because they don't know the word of god, they bring in psychology, and they bring in feelings, and they bring in stories. They bring in fishing and golfing and hunting and just all sorts of fairy tales. And the people love it so. They love to be tickled. They love to be placated. They love to be lied to even. Love to be lied to. Don't tell me the truth. I don't want to hear the truth. Don't tell me those things. That's doom and gloom. Don't make me uncomfortable. And so the prophet, he's got to he's got to give them the full counsel of God. That's what that's what Ezekiel three and Ezekiel 33 talked about, that you're a watchman and you're responsible for the information God's given you, to give it out to others. You're you're not to be at the Dead Sea with a flow in and no flow out. I I love that the Lord began to show me where I could serve him. And many of you have gifts of evangelism, you have gifts of teaching the bible. All of us are teachers of the bible. All of us, what we learn, we teach, we share with other people whether it be our grandkids or kids, co workers, people around us. That which we learn it isn't it isn't given to us to just bury in the ground in Matthew 25. Right? You reinvest in the lives of others. So the intent, the lord's the lord's revealing to Ezekiel. Now Ezekiel, I'm not gonna send an angel to go teach all these people. I'm gonna send a human being. I'm gonna send you. And I want you to write this down because others on up ahead are gonna read about all this. And you being a prophet, I'm a speak forth my word, and I want you to to write it down, and I want you to give them the full counsel of God, not just little sermonettes for Christianettes, and declare all that thou seeth to the house of Israel. So I would say it this way, not by not not in boasting at all, but just with fear and trembling knowing that I'm gonna stand before God one day and then I'm gonna give an account of what I was entrusted with. And we're told to not be many teachers because God's gonna judge us more severely. So I don't want people's blood on my hands. That's why Paul's saying to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20, take heed over this flock which he's purchased with his own blood. You know? Wolves are gonna come in from within without, so be very, very careful. That's why I take heresy, heretical, lying, doctrines of demons very serious. So on my watch, my sphere of responsibility, if anybody tries to bring in anything that's heretical, I'm gonna challenge it with the word of God. I'm gonna challenge it. I'm gonna allow the word of God to abase it. And I'm not gonna stop until the word of God is clear about what's true and what's not true. Not not gonna not gonna just try to find a middle ground in in those situations. Things that we don't know that we're not real clear about? Okay, fine. A gray area maybe. I know when the rapture's going to happen but maybe you don't and so I wait till you know, know, something like that, you know. I can't be dogmatic about it. So declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel, so the full council. Teaching, that's so important, we first receive. And in order to teach we have to first receive. You can't give out what you don't have. You got to first receive before you can give. And now he's going to talk about the vision of the temple, the outer court verses five through 27. And and behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits. What's a cubit? What unit of measure is a cubit? Well, I don't know either. It depends if you're looking at a Babylonian cubit. It would be from your elbow, you know, to your pinky. So be 18 inches. 21 inches for a Babylonian one, eighteen inches for a Hebrew or an Egyptian one. So a cubit would be your your here. That's a cubit. So you take that cubit, and then they take a rod or a reed, and then they do six cubits, and then they can take the reed, the the wood, like a like a a ruler or a yardstick. How many of you still have a yardstick? Anybody? And I've got one. They're pretty handy. If I can can smack Kathy's face. Yeah. Just kidding. Kidding. Come on. Alright. So 21 or 18 inches measuring read of six cubits long by the cubit and a hand breadth. So he measured the breadth of the building one reed and the height one reed. So, Steve, how big is that one reed? 10 and a half feet? Nine feet. Nine feet. So if I'm if I'm working with If it's 18 inches. Yeah. If I'm working with 18 inches as a cubit and it's 18 inches per cubit, then it's nine feet? Okay. Nine feet. We'll go with that. Then came he unto the gate, which looks toward the east. So you're gonna have East Gate, North Gate, South Gate, South Gate Mall, stuff like that. Then came he unto the gate which looks toward the east and went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate which was one reed broad and the other threshold of the gate which was one reed broad. And and notice and notice to worship the lord you're going up the steps, seven steps you're gonna go up. The demons bring us down, worship lifts us up. And every little chamber was one reed long. So they had these little chambers. We're gonna see over here in verse 17, there's 30 chambers. Some of these on the corners had little kitchens to handle some of the meat that was being cooked, that was being prepared for the offerings. So why this was a question we had in school of ministry. Why do you need sin offerings in the millennium if Jesus has already died for the sins of the world? As a reminder. As a reminder. It's a memorial. A memorial looking back because a whole lot of people in the millennium aren't gonna be clueless about the cross. Right? Yes. And so when we partake of communion, we do it as a memorial. This do in remembrance of me. Right? Mhmm. It's a memorial service. We also, because he hasn't returned for us yet, we do show his death till he come. When we're in the millennium we're going to have the priests there, the sons of Zadok, who are instrumental in helping with King Solomon, King David transferring the kingdom over to king Solomon and prayed over him, anointed him with oil and all. And they were faithful, these sons of Zadok. And and that's the the priest that the Lord's gonna use in the in the millennium was these sons of Zadok. And and they're gonna have duties of of taking the various animals and with the various sacrifices over in verse 39, two tables on the one side, one which to slay the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering. And there's gonna be no veil, no ark, no table of showbread, no golden candlestick, but there is going to be these tables and these kitchens and the means of preparing these animals, the sacrifices. And then after the sacrifices the rest of the meat can be eaten by the priests and maybe you and I are gonna get with them. Right? So then came into the gate which looks toward the east, the east gate which went up on the steps and measured the threshold of the gate which was one reed broad and the other threshold of the gate which was one reed broad. So if you want to, you could go online, you could look at Ezekiel's temple, type in Ezekiel's temple, and you get a picture of Ezekiel's temple. Vicky took several pictures today and is gonna post them on the Facebook feed, but that's one way to get a picture. I watched a video today, a three d representation of animation, whatever, of the Ezekiel's temple, which is kinda cool, you know, and pretty amazing. And so I I can't project that for you here. I had a video, but Rob lost it. And boy, I tell you, I wish I could find it, you know. But we still couldn't. The TV room in there wouldn't be big enough. But so in every little chamber was one reed long, one reed broad and between the little chambers were five cubits and the threshold of the gate of the porch of the gate which was one reed. He measured also the porch of the gate within one reed then measured he, the porch of the gate eight cubits and its post two cubits and the porch of the gate, was inside. And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side and three on that side. They three were one of the measures and the posts had one measure on the side and on that side. If you've ever gone with me through the Old Testament, all of the lineage, all the names, every jot, every tittle I read. If the Holy Spirit thought enough to put it in the Bible, we're gonna read it. We're not gonna just well you know this is just description of the temple and move on. So you may not get anything out of this. I don't know. But you might. I don't know. The Holy Spirit, the word of God is powerful. Right? Amen. So in the little chambers of the eastward were three on one side and three on that side and three were one measure and the post had one measure and and on this side and on that side. And another thing you need to know when I'm going through all those names, all the in those lineage, I'm just making it up as I go. It doesn't even matter if I can pronounce it right. You guys know know if I'm pronouncing it right or not. And he measured the breadth of the entrance of the gate 10 cubits and the length of the gate 13 cubits. The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side and the space was one cubit on that side and the little chambers were six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side. He measured then then the gate from the roof, one little chamber of the roof, another. The breadth was five and twenty cubits door against the door. So what's five and twenty cubits? How tall? Like a 40 foot tall door? 40 foot tall door? That's pretty amazing. We could have just went right over that. He made also posts of three score cubits. How many is that? A post? Three score. What's the score? 20? Four score and seven years ago, our fathers. Right? What was that? Abraham Lincoln's Yeah. Thing. Alright. So score is 20. So three score, 60 cubits even unto cubits, that'd be 90. Right? 90. 90. 90 feet, Steve? Thank you, man. Keep me keep me honest. So he made all so he doesn't like unjust weights and balance. So he made all supposed to three score cubits even under the post of the court round about the gate. And from the face of the gate of the entrance under the face of the porch of the inner gate were 50 cubits. How much is that, Steve? 50 cubits would be 75 feet. Okay. Wow. And there were narrow windows to little chambers and so a lot of windows, windows to bring in light. Don't you like to have windows? And to their posts within the gate roundabout and likewise to the archers and the windows. So huge arches. If you look at the pictures Vicky has or the ones I looked at on YouTube, it's very pretty. It's very beautiful, the architectural design and all. And inside and upon the post were palm trees. Palm trees. Why palm trees? Because of Palm Sunday. We just had Palm Sunday. Yeah. Down in verse 26, palm trees. Verse 31, palm trees. Verse 34, palm trees. Verse 37, palm trees. What's your favorite tree? You're supposed to lift up your palms to the Lord. There you go. Turn to Psalm 92. Psalm 92. Psalm 92. My favorite tree, I have to say, is palm trees. And during the millennium, it sure be nice if I got to be in a tropical area with lots of palm trees. I like the pine trees here. I love the trees here. I love the oxygen and the fresh air and the good air with the rain and the trees and all the the fauna here and everything. When I look at a palm tree, I think of the beach. I think of an oasis. I think of like when I was watching Judah Ben Hur yesterday and there was a certain area where the palm trees are growing. Palms. Date palms. Right? And the date palms are indicative of water, a water source, you know, and so an oasis. An oasis in the desert. Any of you guys like palm trees? I like dates. You like dates? Yeah. So Psalm 92 verse 12. The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. Oh, there we are baby. He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. So you're gonna flourish like a palm tree. When those storms and the winds and all that come against a palm tree, they usually remain standing. Right? Now they got a big ball root system. Right? But they don't have a lot of surface area for the wind to catch to, you know, knock them all the way down. The leaves on the top and that part can be grabbed hold of and maybe broke off and bent and all that. But a tree is going to be known by what it can withstand. When we had our house, we had a lot of alders and the alders are indicative of wetland, a wet area, and they tell me that the alders are actually like a weed. And so when the wind would pick up really hard, any of the trees, all the power outages around here are due to the trees not being able to have a deep enough root system because the water what? The water is right on the surface. So why do you need to have deep root system going way down deep to get water when the water is on the surface, you know? So we want to be like a tree that's planted by the rivers. Its root goes down and grabs hold of the rock. When you look at trees near, you know, desert areas and you see the wind that blows against them, they actually begin to bend like the wind. You've seen that? And the junipers and things like that. But anyway, the righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. So the cedar in Lebanon would be fragrant and tall and big and all. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord So you're gonna be this house is gonna be built there and you're gonna be planted in the house of the Lord. You're gonna flourish in the courts of our God. You're gonna flourish in Ezekiel's temple, the righteous. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age and they shall be fat and flourishing. Amen? Amen. You recognize with that? Fat and flourishing. To show that the Lord is upright. He is my rock and there is no unrighteousness in him. Alright, I'm gonna go up and get some of those cookies fat and flourishing. It's good to be fat and flourishing. I love it. And that's what he's saying about these palm trees for you and I. Now when I looked at that three d picture of Ezekiel's temple there were palm trees everywhere. There's palm trees throughout it just just stenciled, you know, stenciled in the the metal and everything. And of course we want real palm trees. And so then he brought me, verse 17, into the outer court and lo there were chambers and a pavement made for the courts round about. 30 chambers were upon the pavement, 30 rooms and the pavement by the side now some of these rooms are going to be for the priests to stay there while they're they're working and the pavement by the side of the gates equivalent to the length of the gates was the lower pavement. Then he measured the breadth of the forefront of the lower gate of the forefront of the inner court out under the outer side a 100 cubits eastward and northward. So that'd a 175 feet outer. And the gate of the outer court so now we're coming to the outer court. We're at we had the well, we still five through 27 the outer court. And the gate of the outer court that looked toward the north he measured its length and the breadth of it and its little chambers were three on this side and three on that side and the posts and the arches were afar and the measure of the first gate its length was 50 cubits and its breadth five and twenty cubits. And their windows and their arches and their palm trees, there again palm trees, were afar and they're palm trees, that's one I missed, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east and they went up into it by seven steps. So you're gonna go up into the place of worship seven steps going up and the archers of it were before them. And the gate of the inner court was opposite the gate toward the north and toward the east and measured from that gate to gate a 100 cubits. After that he brought me to toward the South and behold the gate toward the South and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures. And there were windows in it and its arches round about like those windows. The length was 50 cubits and the breadth five and twenty cubits and there were seven steps to go up. This emphasis, seven steps to go up. When we worship, we go up. When we backslide, we go down. Right? When I've tried to I've tried to understand this myself, whole walk with the Lord, and I've tried to teach this to people as best I can. What kind of physiological chemistry is produced when I get my eyes off myself and begin to worship the Lord? Because we went through a period of time where everybody was talking about bad chemistry, bad genes, bad I got alcoholism because it's a disease and I got it because my parents had it and I inherited it and all that kind of stuff. And then our emotional swing back and forth and all that was due to chemical imbalances. Right? So I used to ask the question, well, what kind of chemicals are produced when we worship the Lord? What's what happened? What's the dynamic of my body if they strap me up to something and they measured serotonin levels but they also measured what happens once I start to worship the Lord. Get my eyes off myself. Where art thou cast down on my soul, where art thou disquieted within me. And as I begin to hope in God, worships and elevations lifting us above the circumstances. It's joy which is the fruit of the spirit which is different than circumstances. Your circumstances can be adverse, your body can be riddled, could be you could be just so forlorn and all, but as we begin to worship the Lord a whole spiritual dynamic takes place and that's why for me it's always been exciting to go into the house of the lord. It's always been exciting to meet with god's people and to corporately worship the lord and something comes over me, something comes over the room, something takes place, the dynamic when two or more are gathered in his name, and there's people there that recognize that we are and were made for his pleasure. It's like we detoxify. Yeah. I think you're right. We detoxify. And then the word of God washes and cleanses us, and and our circumstances may not change. We still may be unemployed. But peace like a river. Yeah. That's that's the Christian life. That's the life that he offers us. And I just get so grieved when people stand outside the camp and they don't enter in. And why? Why won't you enter in? You have access. The veil of the temple's renting too. Let's go to the house of the lord together. You know? And that's when we had the Roxy. We used to do concerts that were worship concerts where we just have worship time and invite the community to just come and, you know, worship the Lord with us and invite people and and bring people in who were gifted in that way. And when that room would fill up and had really good acoustics and it would tighten up, it would just be so amazing. When we went to Israel, pastor Chuck would bring us in some of these churches, big high ceiling cathedral type places. And we'd be there with three, four hundred of us, and those buildings were built for acoustics before analog sound, you know, before the audio, you know, amplified sound. And so somebody and same with the outdoor amphitheaters. What do they call them? Amphitheaters? Yeah. So a guy could speak at the and the the sound would project out so everybody could hear. That's why Jesus thrust the boat off of the shore there at the Sea Of Galilee so that when he's speaking, he's taking advantage of the acoustics. Right? At so in any event, we we saw where when we went with pastor Chuck, he'd start singing Hallelujah, and they would make a rhyme. Right? Hallelujah. And, boy, it would just get so filled the place. You know? And just beautiful corporate worship. And so Alright. So the seven steps. Seven steps going up, up, up, up. Idolatry takes us down, down, down. Worshipping of demons takes us down. Children of Israel want to be cured of that all those years of idolatry and now they're in the millennium they're believers and they certainly don't want to go back down. They're not going to go back down either. And so after that he brought me toward the South and behold a gate toward the South and he measured the posts and the arches according to the measure verse 24 and there were windows in it and arches round about like those windows the length was 50 cubits and the breadth five and twenty cubits and seven steps to go up to it and its arches there before them and it had palm trees one on this side and another on that side upon its post and there was a gate in the inner inner court toward the south and he measured from the gate to gate toward the south a 100 cubits and he brought me to the inner court, so now we're on the inside, by the South Gate and he measured the South Gate according to these measures. Who wants to read Isaiah fifty six seven? Debbie's gonna read it. She's fast with her bible, and I like it. Even then will I bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar for my house shall be called the house of prayer for all people. Amen. Amen. Praise the lord. We're gonna enter in then. And remember, all these Gentile nations, everybody's gonna be swarming. Everybody year by year is gonna be heading toward Mount Zion to go worship, to worship the lord, and to worship king Jesus who's there physically there. Now when he's there and we're doing the the sacrifice of the animals and all and John the Baptist says behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of world, The other thing we need to remind ourself is those are memorial services, but isn't he gonna still be wearing the scars? Yeah. There you go. If we saw him in Revelation five still bearing the scars, and when you go and you see him, oh, man. David is prince. Right. And so and he brought me to the intercourse by the South Gate and the measure of the South Gate according to these measures and its little chambers and its posts and its arches according to these measures and there were windows in it and the arches roundabout and it was 50 cubits long and five and twenty cubits broad and the arches roundabout were five and twenty cubits long and five cubits broad and its arches were toward the outer court and palm trees were upon its posts and the ascent to it had eight steps. Eight is the number of new beginning. The resurrection, day of new beginning. And he brought me into the inner court toward the east and measured the gate according to these measures and its little chambers and its posts and its arches were according to the measure and there were windows in it and its arches round about and it's 50 cubits long and fifty and twenty cubits broad and its arches were toward the outer court and the palm trees were upon its posts on this side and on that side and the ascent to it had eight steps and he brought me to the North Gate and measured it according to these measures, its little chambers, its posts, its arches and the windows to its roundabout, the length was 50 cubits and the breadth five and twenty cubits and its posts were toward the court outer court and palm trees were upon its posts on this side and on that side and the ascent to it had eight steps. And then now he comes to the table. So he's dealt with the outer court, the inner court, now the table. And the chambers and their entrance were by the posts of the gates where they washed the burnt offering. So there's animals. There's pens, going to be pens here for animals nearby. And in the porch of the gate were two tables this side and two tables on that side on which to slay the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering. And we looked at Isaiah 6five 20, the 100 year old sinner, and on the outside as one goes up to the entrance of the north gate were two tables and on the outer side which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables. So who wants Isaiah fifty six seven? I'll take it. K? Isaiah sixty six twenty through 23. Jeremiah thirty three eighteen. Jeremiah thirty three eighteen. Okay. Zechariah fourteen sixteen through 21. 14 through 16 through 21. Malachi three three and four. I'll do it. Okay. Now what we're looking at here is where all the people, the Gentiles, everybody are gonna be coming up year by year to worship. And the sacrificial system, the feasts are gonna be a part of it, and king Jesus is gonna be there. Isaiah fifty six seven. Isaiah fifty six seven. Even them will I bring to my holy mount So Church Incorporated today, Church Incorporated in the time of Christ, he threw over the money changers, didn't he? He threw over the tables. They were making a lot of money off the people, off of Judaism and Jesus whooped them and he turned over the tables and he said my father's house to be a house of prayer. Right? Amen. Alright. So he's gonna get it there. Isaiah sixty six twenty through 23. They shall bring all their brethren for an offering under the Lord out of all nations upon horses and in chariots and in litters and upon mules and upon swift beasts. So my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel under the house of the Lord. And I will also take to them for priests, excuse me, also take of them priests and for Levites, saith the Lord. For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make shall remain before me, say it the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And that shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. And if they don't, what's the next one? And they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me. For their worm shall not die neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be a boring unto all flesh. Alrighty. Alright. So Jeremiah thirty three eighteen. 33 or 30 Jeremiah thirty three eighteen. Oh, thirty three eighteen. Okay. I got it. Right. Neither shall the priest the Levites want a man before the to offer burnt offerings and do kindle meat offerings and do sacrifice continually. That means there's a lot of barbecue meat going on. After you worship the Lord with his portion, he gets the first portion, then we all get to break it out, man. Not no vegans. Zechariah fourteen six through 21. Is that you? Six through 21. And it shall come to pass in that day that the light shall not be clear nor dark, but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord. Not day nor night, but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light. And it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, half of them towards the former sea and half of them towards the hinder sea in summer and in winter shall it be. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth. In that day shall there be one Lord and his name one. All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmanan, South Of Jerusalem, and it shall be lifted up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin's Gate unto the place of the first gate and the corner gate and from the Tower Of Hanziel unto the king's winepress, and men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction, but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. And this shall be the pledge where wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. And it shall come to pass in the day that a great turmoil from the Lord shall be among them, and they shall lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor. And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the heathen around about shall be gathered together, gold and silver and apparel in great abundance. And so shall the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and the ass, and of the beast that shall be in these tents as this plague. And it shall come to pass that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year, worship the king, the Lord of hosts, and keep the feast of tabernacle. And it shall be that whoso will come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. And if the family of Egypt go not up and come not that have no rain, there shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of the tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt Egypt and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, holiness unto the Lord and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Ye every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts. And all they they that sacrifice shall come and take of them and seateth there therein and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts. So Amen. So they're all gonna be coming up toward Mount Zion. Right? These people. Now it's a feast of tabernacles. What's that feast? Well, tabernacling with the Lord. Camping. Camping. Camping. They're gonna be camping. So just as they had little tents, you know, then they'd go and they'd tell and rehearse and tell their children about what God did coming out of Egypt. You look at your children, your family on a camping trip, they're all gonna go on a on a trek, on a journey to Mount Zion. If they don't go, they're not gonna get any rain, you know, where they're from. You know? So their crops, everything but but the festivity of it, the blessing kinda like when Jesus is 12 years old and he's lost, you know, his his family's partaking of the Passover. And where where is he? Where is he? He's going. Well, he's there at the temple. But the whole huge families would go to these feasts. And and so the feast of tabernacles is one of them that they're going to keep during the millennium. And so you can you can picture whole kindreds of people going and camping in campground and going into the temple of the lord and all. They're not all gonna fit in those 30 rooms, you know. And the hotels, I know they'll keep the light on, but probably probably Jesus is the light. Jesus will keep the light on. Yeah. Looks k. So Malachi three, three, and four. Kinda like doing family camp. Yeah. There you go. How fun family camp is. Every year. At Island Lake. Miracle Ranch. 333334. He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver, and he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the Lord will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness, And the offerings of Judah and and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the Lord as in days gone by as in former years. Alright. Praise the Lord. Thank you. Alright. So now turn to Hebrews chapter 10. So we're looking at these offerings, burnt offering, all speaking of Christ, sin offering, trespass offering, and we already talked earlier that the purpose of this in the millennium is not efficacious to make these offerings for sin, but as like we partake of communion as a reminder, as a memorial, and a consecration also that we're consecrating ourselves to the lord, you know, to worship the lord. So in chapter 10, it says, for the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never, with those sacrifices as they offered year by year, continually make those who come to it perfect. So in the old testament dispensation, the the mosaic law, children of Israel, they were going through the sacrificial system and it was pointing future to one day when they finally would be made perfect. So they're covering sin. The word kaphar or great day of atonement is to cover. So year by year, they're discovering the sin, covered sin, adding up debt, adding up debt, adding up debt, adding up debt. What's the debt of America? 38,000,000,000,000 now. So you got trillions and trillions and trillions of debt. How are you going to pay that debt? How are ever gonna pay? You're not gonna be able to pay the debt. Impossible. But it's a picture showing future. So the salvation was imputed to the old testament patriarchs by grace through faith the same way as us, not by keeping the law. So they were looking future that Jesus one day would go to the cross, that he would die, that he would be buried, that he would raise himself from the dead. And that was imputed to them for righteousness just as we look backwards to the cross that he was crucified, he was buried, he did raise himself from the dead, he's ascended to the right hand of the father and he's coming again. Verse two. For then would they not have ceased to be offered. For then would they not be ceased to be offered? Question. Because the worshippers once purged should have had no more consciousness of sins. So if the blood of bulls and the bullocks and all that would, you know, take away their sin there'd be no purpose year by year by year by year to keep doing it. Their sins would have been purged. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of the sins every year. So every year on the great day of Yom Kippur everybody thinks about the sins they committed during the year. And then the priest goes into the holy of holies and sprinkles the, you know, the judgment seat and of one of the goats. Then the other goat's a scapegoat, and he speaks. He's confesses the sins of the whole nation onto the goat, and then they send it out into the wilderness, a picture or an illustration of forgiveness separating the sin from the sinner. For it is for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and a goat should take away sins. And so that's why John the Baptist said, behold the lamb of God and takes away the sins of world. Notice verse 10. By which we by which will we are sanctified, which means made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. So Jesus year by year by year by year didn't. We don't have a mass, a Catholic mass of going through the motions of of of offering Jesus up, transubstantiation with the bread and the cup and all that. No. It's symbolic, and we're looking back to the cross. In the millennium, they're gonna be looking back also to the cross as a as a memorial. And you're gonna be trying telling people that are populate the planet the Gentiles what sin caused and what it did and why Jesus came as the babe of Bethlehem and lived a perfect life and went to the cross of Calvary and how, he was nailed to the tree became a curse. Verse 40, and out of the outside as one goes up out of the entrance of the north gate, were two tables and on the other side which is at the porch of the gate were two tables. Four tables were on the on this side and four tables on that side by the side of the gate, eight tables upon which they slew the sac their sacrifices. And the four tables were of the hewn stone of the burnt offering of a cubit and a half long and a cubit and a half broad and one cubit high and one also they laid the instruments which were which they slew and burnt offering and the sacrifice sacrificed. And within were hooks, a hand broad fastened roundabout and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. So they had the flesh hooks and the cut and the tables and preparing them. And then now the the singers, so you got the sacrifice, now you got the singers. First Peter who wants to read first Peter two nine? Okay Debbie's going to read that for us and it says and outside the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court which was at the side of the North Gate and their prospect was toward the South one at the side of the East Gate having the prop prospect toward the North. Okay. So Okay. But ye heard she had chosen generational royal priesthood, a holy nation, to your people that you should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. So we're kings and priests. We're showing forth his praises like these priests here. And he said unto me, this chamber whose prospect is toward the south is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house. And so some of some of those rooms are for the priests that are gonna stay there, and a lot of times they'll do a commission. They might do like remember Zechariah? He had a certain period of time that he had to be on call, you know, be there serving in the temple and then they'd have time time off and the other ones would rotate in by course if you will. And he said unto me, this chamber whose prospect is toward the south is for the priests and the keepers of the charge of the house and the chambers whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok. Remember we talked about the sons of Zadok in first Kings chapter one verse twenty six and twenty seven. David instructed that the priests of Zadok would be the ones that would anoint Solomon to become king. And later, these priests of Zadok were used to the lord be used to the lord now because the other ones bailed. The other ones quit during the time of apostasy, but the sons of Zadok continued to minister under the Lord. And so Ezekiel forty three nineteen, Ezekiel forty four fifteen, Ezekiel forty eight eleven, an emphasis upon the sons of Zadok. And that's who you want to be. These are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi who come near to the Lord to minister unto who? Your ministry is under who? The Lord. Under the Lord. So whatsoever you do in Colossians, whatsoever you do, do it heartily as under the lord not Unto man. Men don't appreciate it. No. Your ministry is under the lord. Amen. When men don't appreciate you like they didn't appreciate Jesus, like they didn't appreciate the prophets, like they didn't appreciate the apostles, your ministry is under the Lord. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Who you serving? When you start to whine and complain, have your wife say to you, who you serving? I'm serving Jesus. Well then shut up. Quit whining. Right? We're all serving the Lord. We're serving Jesus. And and if we get caught up in who's gonna be the greatest, he comes over and starts washing feet, doesn't he? He humbles us and reminds us that the greatest among you would be the servant of all. So what a privilege to serve Jesus. And I love also the personal pronoun my when the lord says, my servant Job. Have you con to the devil. Have you considered my my servant Job? Have you considered my servant Moses? Have you considered my servant Abraham when the seven sons of Sceva when the seven sons of Sceva were trying to cast demons out, the demons came out of the guy and said, Jesus we know, Paul we know. But who are you? If you're serving the Lord, you're known even by the demons. You're well known. You may be obscure to people. They may not care, but the demons know who you are. Amen. They know who you are. Right? And and the chambers and he said unto me, this chamber whose prospect is toward the south is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house, and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi who come near to the Lord to minister unto him. So he measured the court, a 100 cubits long and a 100 cubits broad, four square, and the altar that was before the house. And he brought me to the porch of the house, so the porch of the temple, and measured each post of the porch five cubits on this side, five cubits on that side, and the breadth of the gate was three score cubits on this side and three score on that side. So when I looked at Arnold Fruchenbaum's diagram of the temple precinct area, the temple area is one mile square. A cube a cube, one mile square. And the Temple Mount is 10 miles square. So that's why the present Temple Mount needs to be enlarged. You're taking Mount Moriah and in Revelation chapter eleven one and two, what's it say? Revelation eleven one and two. Revelation eleven one and two. Now now Revelation eight verse one, one of my favorite verses that I memorized, it says that there was silence in heaven for a half hour. Space half hour. Alright. Revelation eleven one one and two. How long is For half hour. And there was given a reed like unto a measurement that to measure the temple and the altar and them that worship therein. But the court which was within the temple leave out, and measure it not for it giveth I giveth unto the Gentiles, and the holy city shall be tread underfoot 40 in two months. So the tribulation temple is divided and part of it given over to the Gentiles. The millennial temple, we're talking all belong to the Lord. Right? We're we're talking about worship no desecrating, no abomination of desolation, none of that kind of stuff, that foolishness going on. So one mile square and the temple precinct area, 10 mile square. So the length of the porch was 20 cubits and the breadth 11 cubits and the and he brought me by the steps by which they went up up up up, emphasis of up to it, And there were pillars by the post, one on this side and one on the other side. And so now who's the builder of this one? The one that built the world in six days? No. I can't tell. Yep. So it's gonna be amazing. And then after this, it it gets even better. Then we get Revelation twenty one and twenty two, the eternal state, a new heaven and a new earth, and the new heaven and the new earth, the old earth is is burned away. Right? Burned up. All that beauty burned up. A new heaven and a new earth, and it's it's like a bride coming out of heaven. So part of what we've studied is in our new glorified bodies, we might be able to be down here on Mount Zion with Jesus and all, but also be able to go up like Paul did to the third heaven, to the new heaven, the new earth, the new Jerusalem. So the the whole temple is a pattern of the heavenly. And so you're gonna have the earthly come down to earth that's gonna be built, but there's also a heavenly that we can we can go to the throne of God the father. Right? Mhmm. Up in heaven. Isn't that amazing? Places. Right? Yeah. Glorious future. Yeah. So so that's a good point that Vicky brings up is that if this was a Preterist point of view or erroneous assumption that it already happened in seventy AD, you'd have no promise to look forward to. Yeah. It's already done. So what are you gonna look forward to? You're gonna look forward to Paula White and the golden era here? You know? Give me a break. We got so much more to look forward to when the real king comes, not the antichrist, not a false false Christ. You know? The whole world's getting ready, getting ripened to worship the antichrist. And part of that is aberrant teaching. It takes people who are supposedly believers, and it doesn't give them the blessed hope. It doesn't give them the hope of of being in the millennium with Jesus there and all that. How would you you don't get to hope that because that already happened. Your pastor tells you, your priest tells you. You know? So, anyway, it's it's very sad. That's why teaching prophecy, you know, we it's called that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great god and savior, Jesus Christ. Alright. Father, we come for you and we thank you for tonight. And we do lift up our loved ones, those who are sick, that you'd heal their bodies. But more importantly, Lord, we lift up our loved ones, our friends, our coworkers, people that we've prayed for for days, weeks, months, years that they've come to know you. Yes, Lord. And Lord, we pray they'd pass not into eternity headed to hell, Lord. We pray that you'd snatch them from the fire, that you'd save them, that you'd save Vince, that you'd save our family members, those that we've been praying for for years. Lord, we pray that you would write their names on the lamb's book of life. We pray we'd see a great harvest of souls in the days and weeks and months ahead, Lord, as people are backed into a corner and they have to evaluate their eternal destiny. They have to evaluate and examine the word of God and the claims of Christ and the promises and 100% accuracy. And I pray, Lord, that we'd be able to give an answer to them of the hope that's within us, Lord, because we've studied your word, because we have your promises written in our heart, Lord. And they're yay and amen. They're coming to pass. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study

Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.

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