– 21:27 “Ruins, ruins, ruins, I will make it! This also will be no longer until He comes whose right it is, and I will give it to Him.”
– 34:24 “And I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken.”
– 37:24 “David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.”
Also see Isaiah 4:2, Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 11:1, Isaiah 11:10 [Romans 15:12], Isaiah 55:3, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Jeremiah 30:9, Jeremiah 33:15, Psalm 2:6, Matthew 2:2, Hebrews 7:14, Revelation 5:5, Revelation 22:16.
– 22:10-11 “In you, men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are set apart during their impurity. One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter.”
Hosea 4:14 “I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go apart with harlots, and offer sacrifices with a ritual harlot. Therefore people who do not understand will be trampled [thrown down].”
The Sex Laws of Leviticus 18 broken, which contaminated the land. Nothing new under the sun.
– Ezekiel 23 joins 16 and 18 in the “cringe about sex” category. I am not a prude, but I do wish other symbolism was used since humans take things too literally sometimes.
– 23:41 “You sat on a luxurious couch, with a table prepared before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil.”
Psalm 23:5 “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.”
Complete opposites, we are not to use our blessings for either activities against His Order or Instruction, or condone evil of any sort.
1 Corinthians 10:21 “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.” Also see Isaiah 65:11, 2 Corinthians 6:15, 2 Corinthians 6:16, 1 Corinthians 10:16, Acts 2:42.
– 23:47 “The assembly shall stone them with stones and execute them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.”
Revelation 2:20-23 “Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.
“Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.”
The death of children by the Lord’s hand is a result of not wanting more evil influence to spread, as the saying goes in verse 16:44 “Like mother, like daughter.” It is, dare I say, a mercy to the children of the disobedient in some cases.
– 24:10 “…mix in the spices…” What spices, I wonder?
– 24:15-18 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with one stroke; yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down. Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind your turban on your head, and put your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips, and do not eat man’s bread of sorrow.” So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died; and the next morning I did as I was commanded.
Poor guy! This seals the deal on the Father heart being broken, not only because of disobedience, but having to met out their punishment. As I said earlier, in this book Father Yah is pouring out His heart. This is in contrast to the anger in Jeremiah and the cautious warning in Isaiah.
– 24:24 “Thus Ezekiel is a sign to you; according to all that he has done you shall do…”
Matthew 12:39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.”
Matthew 16:4 “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” And He left them and departed.
Mark 8:12 But He sighed deeply in His spirit, and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Assuredly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.”
Luke 11:29-30 And while the crowds were thickly gathered together, He began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.”
Luke 7:19-23 And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?”
When the men had come to Him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to You, saying, ‘Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?’” And that very hour He cured many of infirmities, afflictions, and evil spirits; and to many blind He gave sight.
Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.”
The sign the people were wanting was on the level of Moses and the Exodus (Deuteronomy 18:15, Exodus 4:31, Exodus 14:31), or Samuel frightening people with the weather (1 Samuel 12:18), not just the Warrior King. To fulfill part of the prophecies about Himself, Jesus had to do miracles on a personal level. I believe the Lord still uses people to send us signs from Him. Are we paying attention?
– 26:1-14 Ezekiel prophesied the fall of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar, but, after a 13-year stalemate, Tyre became a vassal to Babylon, and later had its own kings and judges. Tyre did fall later, which reminds me of Jonah and the city of Nineveh, which fell a century later. God can make adjustments to His prophecies as He sees fit, but to the ones, in which His name resides, little leeway is given. See Amos 3:2, Romans 2:9, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 Peter 4:17, Exodus 19:6, 1 Corinthians 8:3, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10.
– 27:29-36, part of the Lamentation for Tyre, reads similar to the despair and outcry following Egypt’s undoing in 31:15-17 and Babylon Fall’s in Revelation 18:9-24. Once again, there is (and will be) nothing new under this sun.
– 28:1-19 is about an entity (prince) over Tyre (its principality) and the human (king) it operates through. Yes, this is contrary to acceptable Christendom’s opinion [which usually ignores this fact, but the princes (rebellious angels or entities) over areas are discussed in Judges 9:23, 1 Samuel 16:14, 1 Samuel 18:10, 1 Samuel 19:9, 1 Kings 22:22, Ephesians 2:2, Ephesians 6:12, John 12:31, John 14:30, John 16:11, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Job 1, Job 2]. We better hope never to see these beings; He is merciful in that He covers our eyes.
– 29:9 “And the land of Egypt shall become desolate and waste…”
– 30:12 “…I will make the land waste…”
Genesis 15:16 “But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity [continuous perversity deserving of punishment] of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
Leviticus 26:34 “Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.”
Jeremiah 25:11 “And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.”
2 Chronicles 36:21 “…to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.”
From time to time, Our King of Kings does a complete reset over an area humans have polluted, physically and spiritually, whether believer or not, for the sake of His holiness. He is always prepare the Earth for His purposes.
– 30:15 “I will pour My fury on Sin, the strength of Egypt; I will cut off the multitude of No.” These are locations, not the actual words in Hebrew. I still giggle whenever I read/hear this passage.
– 32:27 “…But their iniquities will be on their bones…”
Job 20:11 “His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.”
Psalm 109:18 “As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, so let it enter his body like water, and like oil into his bones.”
The belief then (and somewhat today) was that your activities in life became a part of you; the more you do either for people’s benefit or your own gain at the expense of others will be your clothing, mark, stain (reputation, influence) on your bodies (lives), including your children and those of your household. That is why those in the tents (families) of Korah, Dathan, Abiram, Achan, and the schemers against Daniel had to die. Thankfully, the Father was leading Israel away from that mentality (Deuteronomy 24:16, Numbers 26:11, 2 Kings 14:6, 2 Chronicles 25:4, Jeremiah 31:30, 18:20).
– 32:29 “They shall lie with the uncircumcised…” Uncircumcised meaning those not under the covenant of Yah and Israel; the unsaved. Later, Paul renders the word a mere descriptor, pointing to the new covenant (not by men’s hands) under Christ’s precious and holy blood being more important.
– 33:1-10 Watchman chosen by Yah = prophet with salvation/protection at sake; no opportunity to quit like Jeremiah had tried to do. See Isaiah 62:6, Jeremiah 6:17, 3:17.
– 33:15 “…if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.”
Luke 19:8 Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold.”
Exodus 22:1 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.”
Leviticus 6:5 “…or all that about which he has sworn falsely. He shall restore its full value, add one-fifth more to it, and give it to whomever it belongs, on the day of his trespass offering.”
Numbers 5:8 “But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the Lord, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.”
Also see Leviticus 5:16, Numbers 5:7, 2 Samuel 12:6, Proverbs 6:31.
– 33:17 and 20 “The way of the Lord is not fair [equitable].” Once again, Israel wanted favor without fulfilling the covenant. Grace is for lapses of judgment or circumstance beyond one’s control, not guiltless, repetitive, profane behavior. Fortunately, we now have the Two (the Word in Flesh and His Spirit) to convict and help us.
1 John 2:1 “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.”
John 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”
– 33:31 “So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain.”
Isaiah 29:13, Matthew 15:8 and Mark 7:6 Therefore the Lord said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men…”
Psalm 119:36 “Incline my heart to Your testimonies, and not to covetousness [profit].” Also see Luke 12:15, Hebrews 13:5, 1 Kings 8:58, Psalm 78:36, Psalm 78:37, Psalm 119:112, Jeremiah 12:2, John 17:19, 1 John 3:18, James 1:22, James 2:14, Matthew 7:24, Luke 6:46’ Romans 2:13.
– 34:1-10 – The bad shepherds (leaders) and their punishment.
Jeremiah 10:21 “For the shepherds have become dull-hearted and have not sought the Lord. Therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.” Sometimes, the flocks symbolize the people these rulers actually cared about, for example family, servants, or allies.
Also see Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 23:2, Jeremiah 50:6, Jeremiah 51:23.
– 34:5 “So they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.”
Matthew 9:36 and Mark 6:34 “But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.”
Numbers 27:17 “…who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”
Also see 1 Kings 22:17, 2 Chronicles 18:16, Isaiah 53:6, Zechariah 10:2, Jeremiah 50:17, Psalm 119:176.
– 34:11-31 – Yah, through His Son, the Good Shepherd, coming to fetch His sheep.
Matthew 10:6 “But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Matthew 15:24 “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
John 10:16 “And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.”
Isaiah 56:8 The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “Yet I will gather to him
others besides those who are gathered to him.”
Isaiah 60:3 “The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.” Proof Salvation Is for Gentiles, Too
– 34:14 “I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.”
Psalm 23:2 “He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters.”
Psalm 37:3 “Trust in the Lord, and do good. Dwell in the land and feed on His faithfulness.”
John 10:9 “I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.”
– As I go through this book, it becomes apparent to me that, yes, Father Yah did influence David to write the Psalms.
– 34:17 “And as for you, O My flock,” thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, I shall judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and goats.”
– 34:20 Therefore thus says the Lord God to them: “Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat and the lean sheep.”
Matthew 25:32 “All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.”
Matthew 25:33 “And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.”
Matthew 13:49 “So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come forth, separate the wicked from among the just…”
– 35:6 “…therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.”
Genesis 9:5 “Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it [Exodus 21:28–29], and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.”
1 Kings 2:5 “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed. And he shed the blood of war in peacetime, and put the blood of war on his belt that was around his waist, and on his sandals that were on his feet.”
Also see Genesis 4:10, Genesis 9:6, Genesis 42:22, Numbers 35:33, Deuteronomy 19:10, Deuteronomy 21:1-9, Deuteronomy 27:24, Judges 9:56, 1 Samuel 19:5, 2 Samuel 4:11, 1 Kings 2:32, 2 Kings 9:7, Psalm 79:10, Proverbs 28:17, Lamentations 4:14, Matthew 23:35, Matthew 27:4, Matthew 27:24, Matthew 27:25, Revelation 6:10.
– Ezekiel 36 – Yah promises to restore Israel yet again, saving them for His reputation in the nations, setting the stage for the future salvation of the Gentiles.
– 37:9 Also He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”’”
Revelation 11:11 “Now after the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Song of Solomon 4:16 “Awake, O north wind, and come, O south! Blow upon my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat its pleasant fruits.”
– 37:10 “So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.”
Jude 1:14-15 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
1 Thessalonians 3:13 “…so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.”
Joel 2:11 The Lord gives voice before His army, for His camp is very great; for strong is the One who executes His word. For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; who can endure it?
Isaiah 13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, Like that of many people! A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! The Lord of hosts musters the army for battle.
– 37:12 “My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.”
– 37:13 “Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.”
John 11:24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
John 5:28–29 “Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.”
Matthew 25:46 “And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Matthew 27:52–53 “…and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.”
Luke 14:14 “…and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Daniel 12:2 “And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
Isaiah 26:19 “Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.”
Hosea 13:14 “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your destruction! Pity is hidden from My eyes.”
Psalm 49:15 “But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, for He shall receive me. Selah.”
Acts 24:15 “…and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.”
Acts 23:6 “It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”
– 37:19 “…say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”’”
– 37:22 “…and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again.”
Matthew 19:6b and Mark 10:9 “Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Genesis 48:5 “And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.”
Genesis 48:19 But [Israel, Joseph’s father] refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. [Manasseh] also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother [Ephraim] shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”
Genesis 49:10 “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.”
Psalm 60:7 and Psalm 108:8 “Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.”
1 Chronicles 5:2 “…yet Judah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came a ruler, although the birthright was Joseph’s…”
This also reminds me of Jacob’s breeding program [Genesis 30:37-43] that he said came to him in a dream from the Lord [Genesis 31:10-13].
– Ezekiel 38 and 39 – The Gog of Magog chapters. I think Gog is the anti-Christ.
– 38:16 “You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.”
Revelation 20:9 “And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.”
Daniel 11:40 “At the time of the end the king of the South shall attack him; and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter the countries, overwhelm them, and pass through.”
– 38:22 “And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.”
– 13:13 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury; and there shall be a flooding rain in My anger, and great hailstones in fury to consume it.”
Zechariah 13:8 “And it shall come to pass in all the land,” says the Lord, “that two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, but one-third shall be left in it…”
Revelation 8:7 “The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.”
Revelation 14:10 “[The beast] himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.”
Matthew 24:7 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.”
Luke 21:11 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.”
Mark 13:8 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows [birth pangs].”
Psalm 148:8 “Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word…”
Joshua 10:11 And it happened, as they fled before Israel and were on the descent of Beth Horon, that the Lord cast down large hailstones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword.
Also see Genesis 19:24, Exodus 9:24, 2 Samuel 22:10, Psalm 11:6, Psalm 18:12, Psalm 21:9, Psalm 50:3, Psalm 97:3, Psalm 140:10, Isaiah 28:2, Isaiah 28:17, Isaiah 29:6, Joel 2:30, Nahum 1:3, Micah 1:4, Revelation 8:5, Revelation 11:19, Revelation 16:21.
In short, the Lord will remove His Order from the earth and allow it to fall apart until His Son’s enemies are a footstool under His feet (Psalm 110:1, Zechariah 14:4, Matthew 22:44, 1 Corinthians 15:25, Hebrews 1:13).
– 39:17 “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, ‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field: “Assemble yourselves and come; gather together from all sides to My sacrificial meal which I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrificial meal on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.”’”
See Revelation 19:17, Habakkuk 1:8, Matthew 24:28, Luke 17:37, Job 39:30.
– 39:23 “…I hid My face from them…”
– 39:24 “…hidden My face from them.”
Deuteronomy 31:17 “Then My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’”
Also see Deuteronomy 31:18, Deuteronomy 32:20, Psalm 27:9, Job 13:24, Isaiah 8:17, Isaiah 54:8.
Numbers 6:25-26 “The Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”
Face or countenance (same word in Hebrew with different vowel markings) symbolizes favor.
Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? [Psalm 22:1]”
Some believe Yah turned away from Yeshua on the cross because the Father cannot abide looking upon evil (Habakkuk 1:13), although the adversary was at the throne of Yah twice in Job, so go figure. I say, for a moment, the Father hid His face (favor for His Son) to deal with His righteous anger—His holiness wanting justice and purity—at what He had to do on that cross. Our Father was in pain in that moment, despite knowing the outcome and necessity.
A Whisper, Screamed 
Three-Month Bible Reading Notes – Part 7 – Ezekiel, Section 4
– Ezekiel 40-48 speaks of the sacrifice of animals. Some believe the New Temple during Christ’s millennial Earthly Kingdom will reintroduce sacrifices.
– I see the number 6 mentioned for measurements quite a bit here.
– 40:3 So He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze. He was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.
Daniel 10:6 His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
Revelation 1:15 His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters.
– 40:47 “And he measured the court, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, foursquare.← Is this where that denomination/church system gets its name? 100*100=10000, 4 zeros, a reset?
– 41:1 Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.
Revelation 11:1 Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there.”
Revelation 21:15 The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.
Zechariah 2:1 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
– 41:19 “…the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all the way around the temple.” This reminds me of 3 of Yahshua’s titles: Son of Man, Tree of Life, and Lion of Judah.
– Listening to this gave me the image of Jesus, busy measuring, showing Ezekiel the Millennial Temple during His Kingship.
– “I fell on my face,” is said many times in Ezekiel. Was he trained to do that? Did the images overwhelm him so much, he went prostrate?
– 42:14 “When the priests enter them, they shall not go out of the holy chamber into the outer court; but there they shall leave their garments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they may approach that which is for the people.”
– 44:19 “When they go out to the outer court, to the outer court to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and put on other garments; and in their holy garments they shall not sanctify the people.”
Leviticus 16:23 “Then Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of meeting, shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.”
Leviticus 16:24 “And [the high priest] shall wash his body with water in a holy place, put on his garments, come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.
Exodus 30:20 “When they go into the tabernacle of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the LORD, they shall wash with water, lest they die.”
Leviticus 16:4 He shall put the holy linen tunic and the linen trousers [underwear] on his body; he shall be girded with a linen sash, and with the linen turban he shall be attired. These are holy garments. Therefore he shall wash his body in water, and put them on.
36:25 “I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.”
John 13:8-10 “Never shall You wash my feet!” Peter told Him.
Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.”
Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”
Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.”
Acts 22:16 “And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.”
Hebrews 10:22 “…let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.”
As part of our meditation upon the Word, do we cleanse our hearts and minds, or ask the Holy Spirit to help cleanse us?
– 43:3 “It was like the appearance of the vision which I saw—like the vision which I saw when I [He] came to destroy the city. The visions were like the vision which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face.”
– 43:10-12 “Son of man, describe the temple [house] to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple [house] and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and perform them. This is the law of the temple [house]: The whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.”
Moses recorded the law of the temple/tabernacle on Mt. Sinai. Solomon, with his father David creating the plans, built the first temple under Father Yah’s protection (1 Chronicles 28:11-20). Decades after the Diaspora, the temple was rebuilt slowly, sparking His ire (Haggai 1, Zechariah 4). The replacement did not follow Ezekiel’s design, nor was it of the same splendor of the first one.
I see a pattern here, leading towards the body of believers, Jew and Gentile, being the new temple, but we have to care about His Structure’s holiness and maintenance (us). This started with the Chief Cornerstone, the Rock of His Testimony, Christ Himself. Also, I see this symbolizing the life of the average believer, how we rise in Him, fall, and the Lord does His work to restore us, repeatedly. Ezekiel’s temple is the ideal situation, while the rebuilt one with items added later is the reality. Amen to His continuing revelation from within His Written Word.
– 44:1-3 Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the east, but it was shut. And the Lord said to me, “This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the Lord God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut. As for the prince, because he is the prince, he may sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by way of the vestibule [portico] of the gateway, and go out the same way.”
1 Chronicles 9:18 Until then they had been gatekeepers for the camps of the children of Levi at the King’s Gate on the east.
Is the gate symbolic of where Father enters our mind/heart and Christ is the prince? Notice, Ezekiel’s temple has no veil. Here is a great article with pictures concerning this place: The Missing Veil (Ezekiel 40-42)
– 44:21 “No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.”
Leviticus 10:9 “Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations…”
– 44:22 “They shall not take as wife a widow or a divorced woman, but take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or widows of priests.”
Leviticus 21:14 “A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot—these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.”
A slight change there, since the ancient Eastern custom of avoiding widows as wives still remained. Did the levirate vow only apply to Levites not serving as priests?
– 45:19 “The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the gate of the inner court.”
Looks like the sprinkling of blood in the Most Holy Place will be replaced by anointing blood on entryways (an altar is a connection between this realm and the heavenlies).
– 45:23 “On the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
Leviticus 23:8 “But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.’”
In Numbers 23, Balaam had Balak, the king of Moab, make seven altars with a bull and a ram on each one, three times. Each time, the Lord made Balaam bless Israel, instead of the cursing Balak had wanted.
Job 42:8 tells of the seven bulls and seven rams Job’s friends had to submit for their sin offering, while Job acted as priest on their behalf to pray for them. I get the feeling the Lord is saying with this bloodshed, washing and cutting of animal bodies, and fire, “Are you serious about serving Me?”
– 46:9 “But when the people of the land come before the Lord on the appointed feast days, whoever enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate; and whoever enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. He shall not return by way of the gate through which he came, but shall go out through the opposite gate.”
Interesting, but unsure why. The first thing that popped into my mind was 1 Samuel 23:25-28, when David and his men went around the mountain to escape Saul, but then the Lord caused the Philistines to attack Israel, thus rescuing David and his crew.
Psalm 84:7 They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.
Job 17:9 The righteous also will hold on his way, and he that has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
Maybe this represents a progression, how we start off as sinners, but come into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9) to leave as one of His lights (Isaiah 60:1, Proverbs 4:18, Matthew 5:14, John 12:36, Philippians 2:15, Ephesians 5:8).
– 47:1-2 “Then he brought me back to the door of the temple [house]; and there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east; the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar. He brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me around on the outside to the outer gateway that faces east; and there was water, running out on the right side.”
Revelation 22:1 “And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.”
Psalm 46:4 “There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.”
Zechariah 14:8 “And on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the Eastern Sea and the other half toward the Western Sea, in summer and winter alike.”
John 4:10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living [moving] water.”
John 7:38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly [heart] will flow rivers of living water.”
Isaiah 12:3 “With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation…”
Also see Exodus 17:6, Numbers 20:11, Psalm 36:8, Psalm 78:16, Psalm 105:41, Isaiah 41:17, Isaiah 41:18, Isaiah 43:19, Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 58:11, Proverbs 10:11, Proverbs 13:14, Proverbs 16:22, Proverbs 18:4, Proverbs 20:5, John 4:14, 1 Corinthians 10:4.
Water symbolizes blessing, cleansing, and Yah’s wisdom.
– 47:3-6 The bronze being measured out 4000 cubits along the river from the temple, which increased in depth at each measuring point. Some believe there was 4000 years between the first Adam and the 2nd Adam (Jesus). From what I have seen in Scripture thus far is 1000 representing a prophetic time frame; 4 is the number for boundaries: the rivers surrounding Eden, the cardinal points and four winds, for example.
– 47:7 When I returned, there, along the bank of the river, were very many trees on one side and the other.
– 47:12 “Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine.”
Revelation 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
2 Chronicles 7:14 “…if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Also see Genesis 2:9, Psalm 1:3, Psalm 92:12, Jeremiah 17:8.
– 47:10 It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea [the Mediterranean], exceedingly many.
Matthew 4:19 and Mark 1:17 Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Matthew 13:47 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some of every kind…”
John 21:6 And He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast, and now they were not able to draw it in because of the multitude of fish.
Luke 5 1So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, 2and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. 3Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.
4When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
5But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.” 6And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. 7So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. 8When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”
9For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken; 10and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men.” 11So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him.
– 47:11 “But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt.”
Deuteronomy 29:23 “The whole land is brimstone [sulphur], salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah [Genesis 19:24 and 25], Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.”
Psalm 107:34 “…and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.”
Isaiah 34:9 “Its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; its land shall become burning pitch.”
Isaiah 66:24 “And they shall go forth and look Upon the corpses of the men Who have transgressed against Me. For their worm does not die, And their fire is not quenched. They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”
– 47:22-23 “It shall be that you will divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children among you. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger dwells, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord God.
Deuteronomy 10:19 “Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Also see Exodus 22:21, Exodus 23:9, Leviticus 19:33, Leviticus 19:34, Deuteronomy 10:18, Deuteronomy 24:17, Deuteronomy 24:18, Deuteronomy 23:7, Deuteronomy 27:19, Jeremiah 7:6, Malachi 3:5.
Acts 11:18 When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.”
Also see Proof Salvation Is for Gentiles, Too, Acts 13:47, Acts 14:27, Acts 15:9, Acts 20:21, Romans 1:16, Romans 3:22, Romans 3:29, Romans 10:12, Ephesians 2:12, Ephesians 3:6, Colossians 3:11, Galatians 3:8, Galatians 3:28, Galatians 3:29, Galatians 5:6, Galatians 6:15, 1 Corinthians 7:19, 1 Corinthians 12:13.
– 48:11 “It shall be for the priests of the sons of Zadok, who are sanctified, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.”
– 40:46 “The chamber which faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; these are the sons of Zadok, from the sons of Levi, who come near the Lord to minister to Him.”
– 43:19 “You shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who approach Me to minister to Me,” says the Lord God.
– 44:15 “But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord God.
Why Zadok’s decedents? Not sure, but…
1 Chronicles 24:3-4 Then David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to the schedule of their service. There were more leaders found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar, and thus they were divided. Among the sons of Eleazar were sixteen heads of their fathers’ houses, and eight heads of their fathers’ houses among the sons of Ithamar.
1 Kings 2:35 “The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.”
– 48:14 “And they shall not sell or exchange any of it; they may not alienate this best part of the land, for it is holy to the Lord.”
– 44:30 “The best of all firstfruits of any kind, and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices, shall be the priest’s; also you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.”
Numbers 18:13 “Whatever first ripe fruit is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.”
Leviticus 25:32 “Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.”
Leviticus 27:28 “Nevertheless no devoted offering that a man may devote to the Lord of all that he has, both man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted offering is most holy to the Lord.”
A slight rule change that Israel should have figured out years ago, but they had failed to care for the Levites who remained true to the Word.
– 48:17 “And the city shall have open land: on the north 250 cubits, on the south 250, on the east 250, and on the west 250.”
– 48:18 “The remainder of the length alongside the holy portion shall be 10,000 cubits to the east, and 10,000 to the west, and it shall be alongside the holy portion. Its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.”
A park in the middle of a city, how novel? Only the Lord know how His supernatural Will will operate to feed people from that small plot of land.
– 48:19 “The workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.”
1 Kings 4:7 And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each one made provision for one month of the year.
No more enslaved people or forced labor (Joshua 9:27, 1 Kings 4:6, 1 Kings 5:13, 1 Kings 12:4, 2 Chronicles 8:8). Thank You, Father, King of All! Also see Luke 10:7, Matthew 10:10, 1 Corinthians 9:14, 1 Timothy 5:18 (and 1 Corinthians 9:9) [Leviticus 19:13, Deuteronomy 24:14, Deuteronomy 24:15, Deuteronomy 25:4].
– 48:21-22 – Yahshua’s future plot of land? Chillin’ with the Levites?
– 48:30-34 – the gates of the 12 tribes reminds me of the 12 gates of New Jerusalem in Revelation 21:12 and Revelation 21:21.
– 48:35 “All the way around shall be 18000 cubits; and the name of the city from that day shall be: THE LORD IS THERE [YHWH Shammah].”
See Jeremiah 3:17, Jeremiah 33:16, Revelation 21:3, Revelation 22:3, Isaiah 7:14 (Isaiah 8:8, Matthew 1:23), Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 12:6, Isaiah 14:32, Isaiah 24:23, Isaiah 51:11, Psalm 46:5, Psalm 99:2, Psalm 125:1, Genesis 22:14, Exodus 17:15, Judges 6:24, Zechariah 14:21.
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