Ezekiel Part 47

Let's pray and then we'll get into our text Lord Jesus as we open up your word.

We ask you Holy Spirit to help us to rightly understand what is revealed there so that we may properly believe Confess and do

all according to your Holy Word.

We ask in Jesus name.

Amen.

If we were to look at a map of Israel in the northern

part of Israel, there's a large notable body of water.

And what's it called?

Man.

See the Galilee see a galley there's a river that flows from the Sea of Galilee through down through Israel.

What is the name of that River?

Where does it where's the terminus of that River?

The Dead Sea.

Well, what a terrible name for a sea.

Okay.

Why do they call it the Dead Sea?

It's salty like some of my jokes, right?

It's saltier than a YouTube comment section so the water from the Sea of Galilee flows down the Jordan River

picks up all of the salts and the chemicals and whatever and it dumps

into the Dead Sea and the Dead Sea dumps into nowhere and So the Dead Sea is dead.

Hang on a second.

It's not you.

It's got to be me.

No, I solved it.

So so the Dead Sea is dead and by dead I mean dead nothing living in the Dead Sea

and last week when we were looking at some of the details and you'll note I did not walk you through the

architectural minutiae of The of this temple that's being this vision of this temple.

It is not a temple that will be erected in our lifetimes or in the lifetime of the Jewish people.

Of any human prior to the return of Christ, that's not the point there is an aspect to this section of

Ezekiel where God is calling the children of Israel who are still under the Mosaic Covenant to

Renew the covenant and get back to keeping their part of the bargain.

Always and again when we talk about the different covenants, we have to keep them sorted properly.

So the Mosaic Covenant which comes four hundred and thirty years after the Abrahamic Covenant.

Cannot annul the promises made in the Abrahamic Covenant.

That's the point that Paul makes in Galatians Chapters three and four and so we have to keep that in mind.

So when we talk about the Mosaic Covenant a good way to think about covenants is that their contracts?

These are contractual obligations.

And so it is a land lease contract.

Some of you own your homes some of you rent your homes those of you who rent your homes you have a rental

agreement.

And.

There are certain things you are required to do and Certain things you are not allowed to do as

part of the rental agreement.

And so I They might have something in there.

You're not allowed to burn candles because they don't want the property to burn down or something like that, you know.

And they have all of these different things, but most importantly If you don't pay your rent

What is in your rental contract as As recourse for your the people who

own the apartment building.

Well, no one here lives in California, you know you get evicted, you know.

So if you if you start running afoul of the of the terms and conditions of your rental

contract.

Then you can you will be evicted.

I would remind you all that the Mosaic Covenant being what it is a land lease agreement God has promised you guys can

live in this land.

But here are the stipulations and the stipulations come back to the Ten Commandments.

They're keeping of them and they're required to do particular things and they're they're forbidden from doing other

things.

How did the children of Israel as a whole do in keeping their end of the bargain?

They never kept it ever.

Just in black and so a good way to think about prophets including

Ezekiel is they're kind of like the prosecuting attorneys of the Mosaic Covenant and

but they always have stipulations that they'll throw in there that we'll talk about if there is

Repentance if you return if you do the thing then then there's promises of mercy forgiveness

reconciliation with the God whom they have offended and then ultimately you'll note that

all of the prophesied and promised Punishments they all came true

including the very last ones where they were scraped out of Israel and dispersed among the nations for good.

That's exactly what happened when we consider what took place.

You know in 70 AD with the destruction of the temple and then in 130 AD with the

Jews being finally expelled from the land.

I mean that the Jews were a constant problem to the Romans is the best way I can put it is that

They legitimately hated being under the Sandal or the boot of the Roman

Empire and they would not submit as God Commands them to as a result of it.

God said enough is enough is enough is enough.

And the thing is is that the the state of Israel at the time of Christ was in full -blown idolatry as

well.

It was a sneakier form of it, you know.

It's pretty obvious that somebody's engaging in idolatry if they you know they they create a

narrative about you know, the goddess Shiva and and you know and her destructive powers and stuff like

this and then they erect a Statue that an image to look and represent Shiva and then

they bow down and they worship Shiva and they pray to Shiva and they expect Shiva to do good they

offer offerings to Shiva and things like this.

You know, I always you weirds me out when you know in Middle Eastern countries.

There's certain deities that the things you're supposed to offer them are booze and cigarettes.

Crazy, you know just nonsense.

Okay, and so if you ever visit any little shrines when you're in the in Asia Sometimes you'll see people leave

like food offerings and money offerings and money offering offerings of booze and cigarettes and weird things like this.

It's just crazy.

That's obvious.

That's obvious idolatry.

What is the sneakier form of idolatry is the idolatry that the Pharisees came up with

where they? verbally pledged Allegiance to the God of the

Bible and then added a whole bunch of other stuff to his word.

Okay, so and so the idea then is is that it's a type of idolatry that

is.

Well, it's Christ describes teachers like this as wolves in sheep's clothing.

So they go through all the rigmarole of putting on the sheep's clothing and these wolves learn how to go.

Yeah, right, you know and so but at the end of the day.

It's everything is designed to deceive to make it look like that.

They are Following the religion of the scriptures, but they're not and so.

The idolatry that led to the captivity of Israel in Babylon or Judah in

Babylon.

That was overt idolatry the idolatry that led to God fully

executing all of the eviction clauses of the Mosaic Covenant that's then resulted in the destruction of the

temple and then the eviction of Jews from Judea until 1948

that that all.

That was all also Idolatry, but the sneakier form think of it this way.

All right y 'all familiar with that that series of

Out there called the Chosen.

Okay.

It's it's a mess.

It's it's annoyingly bad.

It is.

I consider it to be the best written and best executed Fan fiction ever written about

Jesus.

And.

Yeah, aside from Islam, but here's the thing up until very recently the people who've been

working very closely with the fellow who who's the executive producer for the Chosen

has been notable members of the Mormon Church and So, let me ask you a question.

Do Mormons believe in Jesus?

It's the Mormon Jesus, okay, I mean so, you know, it may as well be Jesus.

Okay, it's it's that it's the name Jesus.

They say they believe in Jesus the Son of God but here's the issue is Y

'all ever seen like, you know words that are made out of glass and you can pour liquid into them and yeah.

Oh, look, I have the word Jesus and I poured a liquid into it and the liquid is purple.

Right, and then you dump that liquid out and you look this is now Jesus and he's blue.

What they've done is is that they've taken the word Jesus and they've taken the real definition of who Jesus is

and they've just poured it out and then they've poured in their own concoction and say we believe in

Jesus and unfortunately the day we live in People who are Christians or attend

churches that at least proclaim Christ and say that they believe in the gospel and believe in the Trinity and things like this they

have such an aversion to doctrine and they're so biblically illiterate that they

Legitimately think that Mormons are Christians and you sit in there going do you know what Mormons believe?

Regarding who Jesus is.

Yeah, no, that's kind of an interesting thing so back when I was learning counter cold apologetics in the late 80s

in the early 90s Mormons were very were very upfront in catechizing their

people as to what they believed and now in the past 10, 15, 20ish

years the Mormon Church has pulled away from teaching the full counsel of Mormonism and will only reveal

What they really believe to those who are now temple Mormons, you know the average Mormon does not know that they

believe that that Mormonism teaches that people can become gods and That our God

was once a man who became a god by obedience to his God and that Jesus is the spirit brother of Lucifer.

They don't they're not taught these things.

I remember before right before we came up here Barb and I talked to a Mormon

missionary in Indiana and that kid knew nothing.

The Mormon missionary did not know Mormonism and I said, let me let me show you some things about what Mormonism teaches.

And I was able to open up The Book of Mormon.

I was open up Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price and said this is what you got what your church teaches.

Well, I've never been taught any of that.

What?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Every time Barb and I moved to a new town or a new house The Mormons

missionaries visit us once and the Jehovah's Witnesses visit us Once

and we never hear from them again.

That's right.

Avoid at all costs.

Okay.

Now all of this being said all of this being said.

You know, we have been dealing with the false idea that this temple in Ezekiel

Chapters 40 through 48 is somehow referring to a third temple.

That's going to be erected in Israel today now, here's where I would

point you guys to something interesting within the Lutheran confessions.

Are you familiar with the phrase Kili Azzam?

See, okay, James the board knows what Kili Azzam is.

All right, what's Kili Azzam, sir?

Yes, absolutely.

So let me see if I can find this real quick.

All right.

Right, so and this is something that we need to we need to address but we need to address it without.

The weird Nazi anti -semitism that comes with this nowadays.

So, hang on a second here, where's my book of Concord?

Rose, bro, you're getting old.

Hang on a second here.

No, no.

Hang on.

I'm just gonna do this library Book of Concord.

There we go.

I want Tabard.

All right, so I would just do a search.

I'm gonna come up here to the title page I'm gonna do a find and I'm gonna work for the word look for the word Kili

Azzam.

Here it is.

Kili.

Huh, it's not in this it's annoying

second here that translation doesn't have it Jewish that's what I'm gonna look for.

Okay, so all right in the Augsburg Confession.

Augsburg Confession.

Article.

17 Talking about the return of Christ.

Okay, so we're doing an eschatological study here.

Okay, so here's what we believe.

It is also taught among us that our Lord Jesus Christ will return on the last day for judgment and will raise up all the dead.

All right that you know.

That's kind of like the theme of our sermon today to to give eternal life and everlasting joy to believers and the elect

but to condemn ungodly men and the devil to hell and eternal

punishment.

Rejected therefore are the Anabaptists who teach the devil and the condemned men will not suffer eternal pain and torment.

So.

We'll know we reject the idea of what's called conditionalism or The idea that people

are punished only for a certain amount of time and then they cease to exist that's called annihilation ism.

No those who suffer eternally.

For their sins suffer eternally.

There is no end to God's punishment for them.

Okay, and then watch what it says here rejected to our certain Jewish opinions now in the

in the original Translation of this it's going to talk about Kili asim.

Rejected to our certain Jewish opinions, which are even now making an appearance in which teach that before the

resurrection of the dead Saints and godly men will possess a worldly kingdom and annihilate all

the godless.

So when we talk about Millennialism, okay.

Have you ever heard of pre millennialism?

Postmillennialism, okay, and then you know what our position is technically called all millennialism.

Which is the wrong name for it, but millennialism teaches that when Jesus returns

He's not going to raise everybody from the dead so when Jesus returns He's

going to raise Christians from the dead and then those Christians are going to rule and reign with Christ.

He will set up his throne in Jerusalem and he they will rule and reign for exactly 1 ,000

years and.

And the idea then is is that with that reign that

then Israel will once again experience its its true

glory.

It's the it's the ultimate glorification of Israel.

Hmm.

In a sinful fallen creation, right?

Yes.

Well every single human being at that point born during that thousand years will be born dead and

trespasses and sins.

Okay, it's crazy.

So here's the issue and This is something that has to be dealt with here.

Is that Kili as a millennialism and those people within the visible Church who are embracing this who are

teaching that the temple?

That is being described here in Ezekiel is pointing to a third temple that would be built in Israel.

Ultimately, they are they have they have come under the sway of a false doctrine that has its

origin not in Christianity or the scriptures, but its origin in the delusions of

modern -day Judaism and it's for the purpose of this of

finally Israel being glorified properly and.

The emphasis is in the wrong place and I would note so you think of John Hagee.

All right, you guys remember John Hagee and the four blood moons?

Okay, when when he wrote a book that sold a bazillion copies I mean

they had they had palettes of these stupid books at like Sam's Club in Costco and things like this and

people were just Buying them up in droves because there were gonna be four blood moons and it was supposed to be a harbinger of the

end.

Okay.

Well That was ten years ago.

Okay, and after the fourth blood moon we put out a t -shirt that says I survived the four blood moons.

And all I got was this lousy t -shirt.

Okay, it's it's just kind of to make the point but I've actually been in Hagee's Church

so one time when I was speaking at a higher things conference down in Texas it happened to be in the same

town where Hagee's Church is and when I Was there somebody said hey,

would you want to see John Hagee's Church?

I said sure.

I said there's nobody there.

You just you just you know, we'll walk you.

We'll give you a little tour of the place.

I said you can do that.

Oh, yeah, we've done it before.

Okay.

Okay, so got into the main sanctuary the place is ginormous.

It looks like a UFO has landed, you know.

And it's got this ginormous stage and notably nowhere on the

outside in on his campus or Inside inside the building or the sanctuary the

big UFO.

Is there a single cross?

There is no there are no crosses.

Anywhere to be seen and What is to be seen are banners

for the different 12 tribes of Israel.

There's a banner for Asher a banner for Judah a banner for Manasseh a bat a banner for

you know.

And I'm thinking is this a synagogue?

You know and there was a menorah.

A notable menorah in this thing.

I'm thinking what is going on here?

And I realized at that point that that Hagee by following

Kiliasm, which has its origin not in Christianity.

It has its origin in in pharisaical Judaism.

That since it's this this doctrine has its its origin in Jewish opinions and thoughts that

That he just took it to its logical conclusion.

And so the emphasis in his church is not about glorifying Christ, but Israel.

Yeah.

That's not there.

That's not the emphasis or their focus.

Yeah.

Yeah so the the modern -day Orthodox Judaism and you got to understand this that

People who are just genetic descendants of Abraham.

They're not all Orthodox Jews.

There are some there are some branches of Judaism that that reject the

Orthodox and Recognize with their roots that that's that's the religion of the Pharisees.

And so after the temple is destroyed after the Jews are kicked out of Israel.

In fact when Rome kicked the Jews out of Israel altogether, they changed the name of the place.

It was no longer called Judea or called Israel.

They officially changed the name to Syria Palestinia, that was

the name that the Roman Empire came up and that it was called Palestine from then on out.

So.

But the the religion that is today is legitimately The same

religion as the Pharisees and you're going to note if you if since we've seen this in the scripture There is an inherent

racism within pharisaical Judaism.

There legitimately is like that.

They are the superior People because they are the direct descendants of Abraham.

And as a result of it there is a legitimate looking down on anybody who is not Jewish.

So I do find that fascinating.

Because the the thing that ended up exterminating them during the Holocaust is also the sin that they're guilty of themselves

which is.

You just sit there and you go stay out of the way when God's gonna judge because you know He judges hard is the best way I

can put it.

But coming all of them back to this.

So rejected are certain Jewish opinions which even now are making appearance and which teach that before the resurrection

dead Saints and godly men Will possess a worldly kingdom and annihilate all the godless.

No, they will not.

Okay, that would mean they'd have to annihilate every child upon its conception.

You know this and themselves, right?

Exactly. It's like.

Yeah, it's like it's a denial of original sin.

It's and it's a complete misunderstanding of that.

But all that being said This is an eschatological text and I want you to see how Ezekiel at least

as far as we're gonna take it is Is gonna end out.

So if you remember last week we showed I showed a depiction of the temple complex.

You know, it's this perfect square it's got and there's a notable cross right in the center of this thing

around the altar and It says then then he the angel who's giving him the tour of

this temple complex he brought me back to the door of the temple and Behold

water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east.

Now if this were happening at your house You'd realize that one of your toilets was overflowing and it's time to call a plumber.

Okay, but this isn't this isn't some kind of an accident.

This is this is this is imagery that we have to kind of embrace as to what's going on here.

Okay, so water it comes from below the threshold of the temple toward the east from the temple then the temple faced

east.

The water was flowing down below the south end of the threshold of the temple

south of the altar and then he brought me out by way of the North Gate and led me around on the

Outside to the outer gate that faces toward the east and behold the water was trickling out

on the south side.

So we're at a trickle at the moment going on eastward with a measuring line in his hand.

The man measured a thousand cubits and then led me through the water and it was ankle deep.

Again, he measured a thousand and led me through the water and it was knee deep, which means it was full of

frogs.

Sorry, what you people?

All right, so you're gonna know the water is getting.

Deeper right.

Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water and it was knee deep beginning measure thousand and the water

was waist deep.

And again, he measured a thousand and it was a river that I could not pass through for the water had

risen.

It was deep enough to swim in and a river that could not be passed through.

And he said to me son of man Have you seen this.

And then he led me back to the bank of the river.

As I went back I saw on the bank of the river very many trees on the one

side and on the other where those trees come from.

You're gonna know this kind of has a feel to it of.

What?

The creation of Eden, okay, so.

This imagery cannot be even studied apart from kind of going back to Genesis

chapter 2.

Listen to how this describes Eden, okay.

When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up for the for the

Yahweh Elohim had not caused it to rain on the land.

There was no man to work the ground.

A mist was going up from the land that was watering the whole face of the ground and then the Yahweh Elohim

formed the man of the dust of the ground breathed it into his nostrils the breath of life the man became a living Creature.

And Yahweh Elohim planted a garden in Eden in the east and there he put the man whom he had formed

out of the Ground and Yahweh Elohim made to spring up every tree.

That is pleasant to the sight.

So no.

Just springing up you need a tree.

There it is right there, right and good for food the tree of life was in the midst of the garden the tree of knowledge of good and

evil.

And watch this a river flowed out of ribbon out of Eden a river a

Float from where?

Eden to water the garden and there divided and became four rivers.

So one river coming out of Eden and after it leaves Eden, it's gonna break up into four different

different waters.

Now the ancient church loved to allegorize this you're talking about the river of life being Christ.

You know, you know and and that the river that broke into four tributaries then they they

ascribed to the four Gospels.

You know kind of a and you know a type and shadow picture of that and so it gives the names of the rivers the

Pishon.

It.

It is the one that flowed around the whole of the line of Havilah where there is gold.

And the gold of that land is good.

But Delium and onyx stone are there.

The name of the second river is Gihon.

It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush.

And the name of the third river is the Tigris which flows East of Assyria and the fourth is the Euphrates.

So.

There's there's something of this kind of imagery showing up here by the way.

Israel today.

Is it a lush garden II kind of place.

You guys are laughing at me.

It's it's hot.

It's dry.

I.

Mean.

It's kind of like Arizona.

Right.

It's you know parts of Arizona.

Yeah, I mean.

It's semi -comfortable, but it's it's a hot mostly dry place.

So this picture then of this river.

Coming from the temple and it's the waters flowing from under the threshold of the door and now

it's ankle deep now.

It's waist deep now.

It's a river and now all of a sudden there's trees.

You know on one bank of the river.

Does this sound like anything that's gonna happen in our lifetime?

No, this is pointing to something different right?

Yes,

of course.

Yeah Yeah.

Yeah, it comes from Christ's side.

That's right.

Yep water flowed from his side.

Okay, and then you'll note throughout the scriptures water is is

Notable when it comes to new creation or washing away of sins.

So there, you know in Genesis 1 you have the spirit of Yahweh Merica fetting hovering over the face of the

deep in the to home over the waters and and then you have same picture with the flood and

then you have the rescue through the waters of the Red Sea and then Baptism and all this kind of stuff.

So there's this there's this creative thing that goes along with water and it's happening here in this

text.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's absolutely correct and I would note that even if it's the imagery of when we come into the promised land we

cross the River Jordan.

Right.

Yeah, right baptism.

So there there's some wonderful hymns.

I got to find them because I don't even think they're part of our hymnal our current hymnal, but I think in the old LW

you can find them what these funeral hymns that talk about crossing the River Jordan.

It's it's it's haunting imagery and you can say they go where do these Christians learn how to write stuff like that.

Their pastors preach the word, you know, but you get the idea.

So again, so we measured it was a river.

I could not pass through it.

The water had risen.

It was deep enough to swim in a river.

I could that that could not be passed through.

He said to me son of man Have you seen this.

And then he led me back to the bank of the river.

As I went back I saw on the bank of the river very many trees on the one side on the other and then he said to

me this Water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Araba and enters the sea.

That's the Dead Sea and When the water flows into the sea the water will become

fresh.

So much for if you've ever been to Israel and you've gone to the Dead Sea.

They have resorts there where people go into the water and because it's so salty they float really high, you

know off the water.

Okay, that that that'd be nice.

You know a place where I don't displace as much water as I do now.

Okay, wherever the river goes every living creature that swarms will live

and there will be very many fish for this water.

Goes there and that and that the waters of the sea may become fresh.

So everything will live where the river goes.

Does this sound like something that can be built today?

No.

Okay.

Fishermen will stand beside the sea.

Let Ethan know okay from the end.

Getty to end.

Galim it will be a place for the spreading of nets.

It's fish will be a very many kinds like the fish of the Great Sea.

But it's swamp and marshes will not become fresh.

They are to be left for salt and on the banks on both sides of the river there there.

They will grow all kinds of trees for food.

Their leaves will not wither.

Nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month.

Because the water for them flows from the sanctuary their fruit will be for food and

their leaves for healing.

That's right, what's what tree is being described as bearing its fruit every month.

The tree of life.

Okay, so let me see if I can.

Revelation 22.

So let's take a look at our revelation 22.

Text.

Revelation 22.

The angel showed me the river of the water of life

brightest crystal.

Flowing from the throne of God and of the lamb.

Through the middle of the street of the city also on either side of the river the tree of life.

With its 12 kinds of fruit yielding its fruit each month.

The two go together.

Right, this is a picture of the new earth.

This is the temp and so the throne of God is the actual temple.

Itself sort that one out, right?

Okay.

The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

No longer will there be anything a curse.

But the throne of God and of the lamb will be in it and his servants will worship him.

They will see his face and his name will be on their foreheads and night will no will be no more.

They will need no light of lamp or Sun for the Lord God will be their light

and they will reign.

Forever.

And ever into the ages and

When you see the connection, you can't unsee the connection.

So I I am NOT a prophet.

I'm not the son of a prophet.

I'm just a guy who was trained to exegete the scriptures and when I was in the

corporate world, I did a lot of competitive analysis and I would looked at trends and Looking at

the state of the church today.

It's in a miserable state a horrible state people are

Defiantly Biblically illiterate they don't want to know the scriptures and there is this

huge focus on Israel right now.

Huge focus and that's not to say that what has happened to them is wrong.

I I'm not pro -palestinian in any sense of the world.

What those people did was reprehensible and They got everything that they deserved

by having their entire region just decimated.

That's just my opinion.

This this is not this is not how human beings are supposed to treat each other all of that being said.

When Israel and they're threatening to do this any time now Rebuilds a temple in

Jerusalem.

It's not going to be a good thing it is nothing to rejoice over and when

you are invited to ladies Bible studies and by your Evangelical friends and they're gonna be so excited because they're finally

rebuilding a new temple in Jerusalem.

You need to be prepared and say that's not a good thing.

It's not a good thing at all.

Because the book of Hebrews is very clear on this everything in the temple was a type and shadow pointing to Christ

and Now that Christ has come the types and shadows have given way to the reality which is Jesus

going back to the Mosaic Covenant sacrificial system is not a good thing and

Unfortunately because so many Christians have bought into Kili Azzam, which actually has its origin

in Judaism.

They're gonna look at you and say what is wrong with you you are you some kind of Nazi?

Are you an anti -semite?

You you you you're cursing Israel and God promises to curse anybody who curses Israel.

They'll say things like this to you.

Why how do I know that because they say things like that to me already?

But the reality is is that it's not a good thing that they're going to rebuild that temple.

It's a terrible thing and The temple being and they'll say what what about Ezekiel.

Ezekiel prophesied that there would be a third temple.

Take him to this passage and then take him to Revelation 22 and say you think that that's what's going to take place when they Build

this temple in Jerusalem.

You got to be out of your mind.

Yeah, it doesn't say anybody but it builds it

when Ezekiel sees it.

It's already completed.

It's already completed.

Oh, I know.

Any temple that bill is built is going to lead to mass apostasy and deception.

So keep your wits about you.

The temple being prophesied in Ezekiel is connected to Revelation 22 and the end of the world and

the promise that we have of eternal life of seeing God face -to -face the realities of that temple are

eschatological and not regarding.

Anything in this lifetime, you know.

I.

Love to see how Israel is going to Turn the Dead Sea into a living sea with the waters that are flowing from their third

temple that this it ain't gonna happen.

You know.

They haven't got enough water in Israel to do such a thing.

They they've announced that they have a refit the red heifer down, okay, I haven't.

I don't know if they've sacrificed it.

That is step one.

They can't rebuild the temple without the red heifer and they've announced they now have one.

Of course, they they were able to breed it with the help of ranchers in Texas and Montana, so.

Yeah.

Good for us, you know, but I'm just saying that what's coming a holy guacamole.

It's it's.

You guys remember the movie Ghostbusters, you know, okay and they talked about the big Twinkie, okay.

It's kind of the big Twinkie kind of thing.

It's this.

This is gonna be off the charts huge deception and So many people calling themselves

Christians are going to think that this is a great thing and it's just not because what's

prophesied is has no earthly reality and the reality is this is that the

Pharisaical religion they have not repented of their of their false of their idolatry.

They are still under God's condemnation For their false teaching and Christ himself is the one who

condemned and panned the whole religious system of the Pharisees.

So.

All I have to say is stay tuned it's gonna be.

Fun.

Right.

All right.

I'm gonna this is where I'm gonna wrap up.

I'm gonna give myself a little bit extra time today next week.

Since next week is going to be I'll be gone for two weeks after that.

We're going to do ask a pastor next week.

Okay, we have officially finished Ezekiel.

We're gonna we're gonna I Still have questions.

I didn't answer from the last one.

So if you want to Contribute to the ask a pastor Bible study for next week Send them to

secretary of tongues being your church org and I will try to answer them in the order that they came in.

But that will be what we do next week.

So All right, Lord willing.

We'll see you all next time.

Peace.