06-13-2021

Romans 11, the Olive Tree, and the Church’s Future Removal

All right. Sorry about that. I think we need to pray again. I need to get out of the technology worldly mode and back into the heavenly mode I was in while Kenner was playing Lord, thank you so much for the technology that you've given us to share this with our friends who can't be here around the country.

And thank you for that group of folks. And even some of our long distance members bless them today, as well as our guys that are right here. And the Lord bless us with your word, may your spirit move among us and teach us and encourage us.

Show us what you want to show us today in Jesus name. Amen. All right. Well, we are verse by verse through the book of Romans chapter 11. And there's a couple of verses in there that were a springboard that sent us out to this study that we've been doing.

And, um, it talks about in chapter 11, where there could, we were warned that there could well be a time when God takes the Gentile church, which it predominantly has been for most of the last 2000 years and sort of plucks it out of the, out of the olive tree.

And then puts Israel back into the olive tree. Now that's interesting. And I think we actually see this happening in the book of revelation. And that's what I want to share with you. Um, you know, while we go through this study, it's really fascinating.

I think it was a warning that the Holy spirit gave Paul is as you read it in chapter 11, it just looks like a warning and you actually wonder why is that warning there, it doesn't seem to fit with everything else that's being said all that much, because it's like a going out into the future all of a sudden.

And then it comes back into what he's talking about. And you go, why is that there? And the more I've studied it, the more I think it's, there is a very clear warning to the church that as, and this is not dealing with individual eternal security, this is just dealing with the church at large, which we know includes wheat and tears.

Jesus told us that church, the visible church, um, she can be cut off as the great witness of God in the world, just like Israel was in the old Testament times, Israel, the nation was the great witness of the truth in the world.

She was cut off and replaced with the church. Paul tells us the church can be cut off and re re replaced Israel back in that spot. And that's exactly what we're going to see in the book of revelation.

And that's why I think all of a sudden, right here in the middle of Romans 11, you know, we, we were pretty justified and going off out and looking at this stuff because it's two couple of little three or four little verses there.

They're so obscure. I never gave it any thought my whole life for 40 years, uh, as a Christian, uh, 30 years in the ministry, I thought, well, didn't seem important to me. And then all of a sudden now it does, it seems very important.

So that's kind of what took us out on this study. Now this, I want to thank Brian Christopher out there. Thank you, brother Brian. He is kind of taking the chart that we, the grab that I told you was not accurate and he's making it accurate.

And, uh, Brian, I added a little bit to it since you sent it to me, but you'll notice down in this little, you can't see that thing, but from here, these little areas, the words are different than that chart we put up there that we just pulled.

This now has the words from our study on it. It makes it more accurate. And thank you to Brian for putting those on there. So we kind of see, um, this is a good place to review just on this one slide, because we talked about the fact that there were seven seals and the seventh one includes seven trumpets and the fifth and the sixth and the seventh trumpet include three woes, right?

And the seventh, well, uh, whoa, is going to include seven vials. Uh, and actually the seventh trumpet includes these seven vials, the worst part of the tribulation period. And so you kind of see this depicted on the chart.

I didn't put all of it. I kind of went out, you can see way at the far, right. It says seventh. That's where the seventh trumpet is, but it includes a lot of things happening. It doesn't just happen in a moment.

Um, there are some things that happen immediately before the sounding of it and during the sounding of it. And then the sounding of it, of course, it's, it is a real trumpet, but it's also allegorical in the sense that there are things that go on beyond that had to do with the seventh trumpet that lasts for days and days and days.

So it's not just the blowing of a trumpet and it's over, it goes for days and days. And you can see how I couldn't even put it all up there because this seventh trumpet just goes all the way on out halfway to that, through that window.

That's a lot of things that happen with the seventh trumpet. Okay. But now what we've covered already is the first seal, which is the white horse, which pictures a person who mimics Jesus Christ, the riding on the white horse is a fake news, so to speak.

He's not really Jesus, but the world will think that he is the Messiah. Even the Jewish nation will believe it, but the elect will not believe it. Those who are born again, won't buy into it because they have wisdom.

Other people don't have, you can already see it today. You can see so much blindness, even in the United States of America, where we've had so much light. We've got a whole generation from 15 years old up to about 30 years old, that unless they are born again, they do not see how things are real.

Like they call good, evil and evil good. And they think they are right there that they're right in their own eyes and that makes them right. They call it my truth. Well, my truth is this is if I can have a truth and you can have a truth.

Truth doesn't work that way. Truth is truth, right? You think it is or not, whether it's yours or not, it's truth. And it comes from this book right here. This is the authority on truth right here. And from the Holy spirit.

So you got the water and you got the spirit outside of that. All you got humanism and what can fit between your ears. And it's beyond me that the lost world thinks that they can know everything about everything and that they're in fact, God, and what's going to happen is throughout the entire tribulation period, all seven years of it, it's going to show man exactly how small and impotent he is, that's what it's going to do.

And it's gonna, it's happened before in history, not on this scale. There's never been a worldwide tribulation ever. And that's how we know that everything in Matthew 24 has not yet happened. Despite what some theologians have said, even brilliant men, supposedly brilliant men, but they missed out on that because they, they just, I don't know, cause they believe some seminary professor that taught them that that's why, and they didn't ever studied it on their own.

I guarantee you. That's why they didn't have the interest to study it on their own because had they done, so they would see, there are many things in Matthew 24 that have not yet happened. And because that's the far part of the prophecy of Jesus Christ.

And they ask him after all, did they not ask him, what are the signs of the end of the world? So a lot of that hadn't happened. And yet there's scholars all over the place. And even a few friends of mine who've said, nah, it's all already happened, happened in 70 AD.

It's a lot of it did, didn't it? But not all of it did. So you have the first horse is a person who mimics Jesus Christ. He rises, raises his hand and he says, look, the world economy just perished because you printed too much money.

And maybe because of some nuke that went off and destroyed a lot of electrons, which is your money. And he says, but I've got the answer. So put me in power and I'll fix everything. And the whole world thinks he's the Messiah.

After all he is riding on a white horse. Isn't that horse is allegorical by the way. And he's the Bible says he goes forth to make war. And so he subdues all the nations and then eliminates the borders.

So there's a whole group of people from 15 to 30, 35, let's say 40 at this point, because time's moving on. Isn't it from 15 years old to about 40 years old, that group of individuals, even in the United States are beginning to believe that borders are evil in and out of themselves.

And you shouldn't, you shouldn't stop people from coming across the border. It should just be free. And that is prophecy being fulfilled because the antichrist will cause the whole world to buy into that and will eliminate all borders at that point.

And you'll have a one world system in one government and he'll be the head of it. That's the white horse. The second seal is the red horse. And what happens there is I believe before the man on the white horse takes control, he brings what every other despot has always done in history is he allows anarchy to hit the streets, which is horrifying and everybody hates it so that he can then take power.

So not only will he raise his hand and say, well, I can fix the economy. They'll say, look at this. There's blood in the streets. There's rioting. All these governments are failing. They're not keeping any promises that they kept you put me in power and I will stop it and he does, and it's the anarchy that happens by, which is pictured by the rider on the red horse, that is another reason the antichrist on the white horse there is able to take power.

Then you have the third seal, which is the black horse and it's famine. We don't know exactly what causes it, but we know that there's worldwide famine at that point. It could be nuclear winter. Why not?

I mean, if you look at this happens in the next 10 years, what technology is out there to make this happen? And I know it doesn't have to be technology. God can just cause it and may well happen that way.

But he, do you really think that they have accumulated the stockpiles of nuclear weapons to never be used? How many of you buy into that? Like they'll never really use them. Or do you think maybe they built them to use them?

So once they began to use them, Charlotte and I watched a pretty interesting movie last night about a couple of spies who helped let the United States know that, that, um, um, Khrushchev was about to put nuclear weapons in Cuba, and if you're my age, you know, all about that.

You lived there. We were hiding under our desks in school, literally because they were putting those nuclear missiles, a stone's throw away from Florida. And because of these two spies, we found out about it.

And then we sent Jerry powers over, I guess it wasn't him. It was another person who successfully, uh, got photographs of it and proved it and JFK was able to back him off and make him take the missiles away.

But there's going to come a day when they use these and it's going to create what we call nuclear winter and no crops will grow and there's going to be, here's the drought that comes from it right there in the third seal.

The next one is the pale horse and his name is death. Think about that. His name is death in Hades death in hell. That's his name. One fourth of every person on the world is killed by the sword and by famine and by beasts like lions and alligators and things like that.

So fourth of the people, now you think about it when nuclear winter happens and in entire infrastructure is destroyed. Wild animals can take back over because man's no longer in control and they'll just creep back in.

You know, we've already got, we got alligators in my head, Texas. We didn't, we could swim in the lakes my whole life growing up. Now you can't. There's signs that say beware of alligators. Those didn't used to be there.

They're already starting to creep in to where you thought you were safe. But anyway, that'll be part of it. A fourth of every human being, 8 billion people, maybe more by then. Uh, not much more. Cause then could be like seven years from now.

I don't know. I can't predict the time. It could be 200 years from now too. Couldn't it? Or could it? Well, why don't we wait and determine that when we're done with the study? If we really think it could still be 200 years, but at any rate, a fourth of every human being will be killed.

And, uh, so that's about 2 billion people, right? I do the math, right? Imagine that when that seal falls, 2 billion people on the earth die. And, uh, some of it's by the sword. So the wars that the white horse are bringing about are killing millions of people.

Uh, the nuclear winter that destroys who knows how many people that kills and then the famine kills. And so by now death and hell are just have their mouth wide open and people are just falling in. The fifth seal is persecution.

That is exactly the point where they begin to be able to kill Jews and Christians. And why do you think that? I think if you just use some common sense by the time you get to that fifth seal and, and I, I am of the belief and we have not gone in and tried to put the times on this yet, uh, we will.

So that Brian Christopher can make the top part of that accurate, but I'm convinced that that, that, um, a lot of those first, first six seals happen in the first three and a half years of the seven year period.

Um, but by the time you get to that fifth one, Um, think about it. The first writer of the first horse horse will have had time to take over the political situation of the entire world. He'll be running the world system.

And he will then put out a proclamation proclamation, you know, basically like in Rome, if you don't worship me, then you'll be killed well, a Christian and Jew won't do it even lost. Jews will not worship a man today.

Would they, they won't do it. So they'll be wide open to be killed by the time that fifth seal happens. The sixth seal then is quite frightening because it's a major earthquake that happens now we've had some terrible earthquakes throughout history, but this one is bigger than any earthquake that's ever happened.

And at the same time, the sun will turn black and the moon red. And I think that's probably, I don't know, this is me talking here, but I'm just conjecturing that that's probably from the dust that rises up into the atmosphere, the stratosphere because of these major earthquake, um, but you also have, um, uh, you know, so like, if you look at the sun through dust, it looks and if you look, uh, I mean, it, it covers it.

So the writer could say that it looks black because you just can't see the sun because of the dust. And if you look at the moon through dust, even when it's on the horizon, it looks red, so that could be what causes that.

And so then that brings us to the seventh seal, which has the seven trumpets and that's kind of where we left off. Okay. So that's a, that's a lot. A lot of things have happened there. Now, um, and revelation, it says chapter seven, verse two, I saw another angel ascending from the East, having the seal of the living God.

And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea saying hurt, not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

All right. Now this is chapter seven of book revelation, starting with verse two. Now let's go back and look at our chart. If you notice right here, you have chapter six and right here you have chapter eight.

Chapter seven is right here. And, um, so you have the ceiling of some of God's sermons. Now this is not every, this is not where every Christian is sealed and protected yet, but this is where 144 ,000 Jewish evangelists who are virgins who have lived for God their whole life are chosen to be evangelist to the whole world.

And they're sealed so that no man can kill them. Isn't that interesting? God protects them with a special seal saying hurt, not the earth until these servants are sealed in their foreheads. Now that's interesting because Satan's people will also have a chip in their forehead that allows them to go into hospitals and, and, and, uh, supermarkets and, uh, to college and, you know, to get into travel, like an airplane, you have to have that in your forehead or your right hand, and they'll have that, but these individuals will have a seal from God in their forehead that keeps them from killed.

Could that be a chip where, when they go through this thing that tells them to kill who to kill and who not to kill, it says, no, this one's okay. I don't know. Could it be it's in their forehead? Why couldn't it be a chip that fakes out the government makes them think, oh, they're Satan's people.

So we won't kill them, but it won't be the mark of the beast. It'll be something God put on them to protect them. I don't know how it works, but it could be technology or it could just be symbolic of God's protection.

Either way, they won't be harmed. And yet they're about to go through the worst tribulation the world's ever seen and not be harmed. Think about it. Who are they? They are now, and I want you to start thinking about this.

They are now the new mouthpiece of God to the world. The church is shortly going to no longer be the witness to the world. She still is as of that moment, but not for long as we see the time progress throughout these seven years.

And God is already preparing who the next mouthpiece is going to be when the church is not that. And, and it's interesting that the apostle Paul said in Romans 11, I'm going to break the Gentile limbs off of the tree and I'm going to plant Jewish limbs back in it.

And that's happening right here. All 144 ,000 of these are Jews and they're being plugged back into the tree. They are a branch that's grafted back in, but they're a natural branch. Whereas the Gentiles were from a wild tree and they're being plucked off shortly after this.

So it's entering to me. It kind of looks like God grafts some Jews in before he starts plucking the Gentile off few days or months or years. We'll see, but it all happens within the seven year period.

And I heard the number of them that were sealed. It was 144 ,000 from the tribes of Israel. So they're all Jewish people, evangelists, God's children. Now this is the first, the first hint in the book of revelation.

Although the old Testament prophets have told us many, and I think you sent me an email and wanted to know those verses, but I didn't get around to it, but I'm going to have them up here and I will email them to you, but they, the first hint in the book of revelation of how God is going to hide his children through the tribulation, he's not removing them from it.

Like the false. Um, concept of the pre-tribulation rapture theory, uh, says that they will know he doesn't take them from it. He protects them through it. And this is the first group that he protects.

And they happen to be Jewish believers and evangelists. You drop down to verse 14 in that chapter. And I said unto him, sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, these are they, which came out of great tribulation.

Now I don't, I'm not teaching verse by verse through the book of revelation here. Right? So we're taking some high points to get a big, major idea of the thing, the big ideas that are happening. But in the context, by the time you get down to verse 14, the context that you find yourself in is you have the apostle John, who's given a vision of heaven.

And he looks in heaven and he sees some people with white robes on. And he said, who are these people now, the propagators of the false doctrine of the pre-tribulation rapture. And some people think, well, you shouldn't talk that way about it.

Well, why not? It's false doctrine. Why shouldn't I? And I don't take joy in the fact that they miss it. One of them that missed it was my mentor, Dr. Erwin Freeman, who I think is one of the greatest Christians who live.

Maybe he's, you know, out of all the Christians in 2000 years, he might be one of the greatest pastors that ever lived. And he probably would have changed his mind if he lived longer, but he died fairly young.

But so it doesn't mean I don't love these folks and they're not, I don't believe they're the kind of false prophet. Most of them that Jude talks about that Satan sent to take freedom away from the church and they end up in hell.

They're not that kind. They're the kind like I am. I've taught stuff that's false before accidentally. And fortunately God would send someone and say, Hey, why don't you compare that with this scripture?

That's wrong. And I, and then I would apologize and say, well, I won't teach that that way again, please forgive me. And so there are a lot of good men who have taught this pre-tribulation rapture incorrectly, who, if they get an opportunity, like I myself have had to apologize, I've taught it that way most of my life.

I taught that and believed it. And I've had to apologize to as many of the people I could find that I taught it to, which, you know, you can't find them all, but you try or you do it publicly and hope they hear it and say, I was wrong and I won't teach that again.

It's false. So I'm not picking on these individuals. I'm praying that God will open their eyes and they'll just take a look at scripture and just get a biblical viewpoint of the chronology rather than taking it from what their seminary professors taught them, because that's what they're doing, because that's what I did.

So I assume that's what they're doing. So let me make that straight, but I'm not going to pull a punch and say that it's not false teaching because it is. And it's probably the biggest lie Satan propagated in many, many, many thousands of years, and it's going to cause many millions of people to die, Christians and Jews to be killed because they think they don't need to prepare.

Cause they're just going to be plucked out of here. What a fantastic lie. If you're Satan and you'd love the blood of the saints. So, so part of this lie is they, if you read their books, they'll say, when you get to revelation chapter three, where John is transported into heaven to see this vision, that that is actually the rapture, which it does, if you read the chapter, it's not the rapture.

It's John literally being transported into heaven to get this vision. That's what it is. It is not the rapture, but they'll say, well, after that, you never see the church mentioned after chapter three and revelations, therefore it's the rapture.

Truth is the church has mentioned many times and here's one of them. And so that's a lie. That's lifting up a false teaching. It's ridiculous. Actually, when you take a look at it for yourself, it's just ridiculous.

And it's sad that we have leaders and people in the pew who will hang on to this false thing emotionally, as if it's their own theory, they didn't make it up. They read it in the book. Why do they own it?

Why is it so emotional? But I can remember when I used to believe it. If someone told me it wasn't true, I'd get angry at him and get red-faced about it and argue with them. I remember how that felt.

So I know how it feels when you first hear these things and you've never seen it before. But look, let's see if the church here, they are in heaven. And John was transported up there in chapter three to see these things.

So he can write the book of revelation for us. And he says, well, who are these? Who are these people in the white robes that I see over here? And verse 14 says, and I said to him, sir, you should know who they are.

Right. It's funny how often angels will say that to teachers, you should have figured this out already, but you didn't. And, and he said to me, these are, they, which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the land, does that sound like a Christian to you or a Jew now it could be a Jewish believer, but the same people that propagate this lie say that all of revelation is Jewish in nature.

And that Daniel talks about it. It's the missing week. And it's all about the Jews. Gentiles are already gone. It's not true. There's Jews and Gentiles saved all through the book of revelation through this time period, hundreds of thousands of Gentiles come to know the Lord.

And all of Israel will be saved at the very end. So it's Jew and Gentile. It's not just Jews. That's a lie. Okay. It's a false teaching. It's not true. And here we see John seeing Christian believers in the lamb of God who had been slain for their faith way after chapter three, that's chapter seven.

So the church is in the Bible in the book of revelation past chapter three, I'll show you a whole bunch of examples as we go through here, but I want you to see this, let's go back to Ezekiel chapter nine.

And we talked about some of this, uh, already in previous sermons. He cried also in my ears with a loud voice saying, cause them that have charged over the city to draw near. And even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

That sounds ominous. Doesn't it? And behold, six men came from the way of the high gate, which lieth toward the North. Now this part I haven't covered yet. As a matter of fact, this is, this is new information in this study, but.

So you have, um, six men that came from the way of the high gate, which lieth toward the North and every man, a slaughter weapon in his hand. And one man among them was clothed with linen with a writer's ink horn by his side.

So can you picture, you have six warriors and the seventh man looks like a scribe. He's got an ink horn in some paper and a pen to write with. And they went in and they stood beside the brazen altar. Now this is one of the most amazing passages scripture and whole Bible.

And I'll never forget the first time I read it when I was brand new Christian, I said, Whoa, but you got to read lots of verses of scripture to get through. This section is very long and it's very wordy and you got to read it two or three times to get it the first time.

But basically what is being pictured here and just like so many other places, you have a near prophecy fulfillment and a far and the far has not happened yet. The near has happened. So part of this has been fulfilled already, but part is yet to be fulfilled, which is talking about in our future.

And that's the part that I think we need to look for now to gain some light. But basically what is about to happen is God is writing Ichabod on his temple. Now remember to the Jew in the old Testament, the temple had different sections to it, but it had the thing is thing called the Holy of Holies, which no man could go in there, but once a year, and that was the high priest.

And he had to go in with the blood of the lamb and sprinkle it or he would be destroyed. Who else knows what else would be destroyed. And inside there, what he saw above this altar, and you had the cherubim, which types of angelic beings that protect the holiness of God, where sin cannot come beyond them.

And he walks in and sees a glorious light dwelling between those. That is a representative of God, the father. It is not all of God because no man had seen him at any time except Jesus. And if you did, you would destroy everything.

If he came into time and space, it would destroy everything. So we call it the Shekinah glory. And it's a representation of the father. It's not God. He can't be in time and space. He is outside of time and space, but it's his representative on earth.

And that was what the Shekinah glory was this glorious light that miraculously mysteriously glowed above that altar all through the wilderness tabernacle days. And then when they built the temple, it was in there too.

And so now we see this in the temple. What's interesting about this passage because of the sin and idolatry and adultery of God's people, that light, that Shekinah glory rises up in Ezekiel is allowed to see it by way of a vision.

It rises up from between the cherubim removes itself from that altar now. And, and moves to the, to the gate of the temple itself and sits there for a little bit and then moves out to the gates of the city and then leaves Israel.

God has left them. The presence of God is gone and then they are annihilated. This is what happens in this chapter. We don't have time to read it all this morning, but that's what happens here. So think about what that pictures could it not picture what the apostle Paul was talking about in chapter 11 of Romans when he said, you know what you Gentile church folks had better not brag too much because if he plucked, if he broke off the natural branch, he can break you off and put the natural branch back in your place, that is a picture of what happened to Israel here.

And then later what happened to Israel after 70 AD and after they crucified Christ, they were broken off, weren't they? But they shall be grafted back in, but we're going to be broken off. The church, the church as the salt and light of the world is going to be broken off.

It has nothing to do with eternal security. It's not, it's a, a totally different teaching. It's talking about the church, the visible church, which includes lost people and save people in it. As you well know, if you've been in larger churches, right.

And you can't hardly hide in this church. You won't last long. If you're a tear, uh, you just can't stand genuine preaching, but in a big church, you can hide and gain other benefits such as business partnerships.

Uh, you can sell insurance to people, you know, that go to your huge church. You can sell new cars, you can sell used cars, you can build their houses. And I'm not saying everybody that goes to them is there for that reason.

Don't don't say that I'm saying what I'm not, but I'm saying many do. And there are many tears hiding in there. Are there not, does not Jesus teach that. So it's a fact and that's the church, this kind of thing is talking about, and that's, what's going to be plucked off.

That church will be totally ineffectual. And I've learned this in my life, just in the last few years, I will promise you, we reach far more people through trade way through business evangelism. Then we do from this building.

Look at the, look, who are we reaching here besides us? I mean, my job is to equip you to go out and reach people anyway. I understand that. That's not what church is for is to bring lost people in, but look at every church in the city.

And you tell me the last time one of them changed anything. And of course, kind of Texas, when's the last time prostitutes had to be shut down or they quit selling alcohol in this town, I'll tell you, it was when gypsy Smith came here and put up a tent.

And my great grandfather told me about it. I mean, my grandfather, my grandfather, my mom's dad told me about it. It hasn't happened since him. All right. Because the church is ineffectual and impotent now, and she's about to be plucked off as the salt and the light.

And God's replacing it. First of all, with these 144 ,000 who are probably already little boys, are teenagers or college kids on the earth already being prepared for their job. So here you have the six men.

Now this is going to picture. Something's going to happen in our future. You got these six men, six of them are warriors that are sent to kill and to slay and bring destruction on a godless world. And the seventh is got a pen in his hand.

The pen is mightier than the sword, isn't it? And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherubim. Now picture the Holy of Holies, where you have this thing that became a mercy seat because they sprinkle blood on it for that.

It was a judgment seat. Now it's a mercy seat and glory of God is dwelling over it. And now the glory of God lifts up from between those cherubim and begins to move away and it's just going to be a religious thing at that point.

God won't even be there. That picture is a church that doesn't have God in it. That picture of church is all over the United States of America and all over the world today that they're pretending you got full of people.

You're being religious half of them believe in salvation by works, or at least believe in Jesus plus do a bunch of stuff anyway, even the Christian churches, so-called Christian churches. And God has gone.

The spirit of God is not in that place and you can sense it when you walk in there. Oh, you might hear a good sermon from the viewpoint of it's been, you know, well-prepared with a good outline and it comes from the Bible and that's always going to get something from it, right?

But you won't sense that that person is anointed. You won't sense that God is on them and with them and on you and with you while it's happening. And that is most churches in this country today because the Shekinah glory has left.

I remember Rocky Freeman, my mentor told me about a particular church in Texas that he saw God, right? Ichabod on that church. And I have witnessed since he said that, that that church has not gone anywhere since that day.

That's amazing. Well, that's what this, this happened to Israel. And it's a picture of what's going to happen to the church at large on the earth during these seven years, or even prior to it, I mean, some of this can happen before the seven years start or begin to start to happen.

So, um, let's keep going here. So Ezekiel chapter 10, it goes into the next chapter verse one. Then I looked and behold the, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims. There appeared over them as it were a Sapphire stone as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.