Latest / Faith by annm2705 / 870. Bible Study: Ezekiel 46 and 47 (Milennium Sacrifices, River From the Temple, Division of Land)
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- 0:00Let's continue with chapter 46. So I'm reading from the new
- 0:06Living Translation, verse one. This is what the sovereign.
- 0:10Lord says the East. Gateway of the Inner Courtyard
- 0:13will be closed during the six. Work days each week, but it will
- 0:19be. Open on Sabbath days and the
- 0:22days of New Moon celebrations. The Prince will enter the room
- 0:27of the gateway from the outside. Then he will stand.
- 0:32By the gate post while the priest offers.
- 0:35His burnt offering and peace offering.
- 0:38He will bow down in worship inside the gateway passage and
- 0:42then go back. Out the way, he.
- 0:44Came the gateway will not be closed until evening.
- 0:49The common people will bow down and worship the Lord in the
- 0:55front are in front of this gateway on Sabbath days and the
- 1:00days of new moon celebrations. Each Sabbath day.
- 1:05The Prince will present to the Lord a burnt offering of. 6.
- 1:10Lambs and 1 ram, all with no defects.
- 1:15He will present a grain offering of a basket of.
- 1:17Choice flour to go with. The ram and whatever amount of
- 1:20flour he chooses to go with each lamb and he is to offer one
- 1:24gallon. Of olive oil for each basket of
- 1:27flour at. The New Moon celebrations he
- 1:31will bring one young bull, 6 lambs and 1 ram, all with no
- 1:38defects. When the young bull with the
- 1:42young bull, he must bring a basket.
- 1:44Of choice. Flour.
- 1:45For a grain offering with the ram he must bring another basket
- 1:51of flour, and with each lamb he is to bring whatever amount of
- 1:56flour he chooses to give with. Each basket of flour.
- 2:00He must offer one gallon of olive oil.
- 2:04The Prince must enter. The gateway through.
- 2:07The entry room and he must leave the same way so this is the
- 2:12second time and that this has been brought up so this is
- 2:16really important. Apparently an instruction from
- 2:20God. The Prince has to come in and go
- 2:22out the same way. Verse 9 but when the but when
- 2:26the people come in through the north gateway.
- 2:29To worship the Lord. During the religious festivals,
- 2:32they must. Leave by the South.
- 2:33Gateway So now there's a different instruction for the
- 2:36people. The people come in through the
- 2:38north and they go out the South. But the Prince comes in and out
- 2:41the same way. And those who entered.
- 2:44Through the South gate. Must leave by the north gateway.
- 2:49They must never. Leave by the.
- 2:50Same gateway they came in, but must always.
- 2:53Use the opposite gateway. That's interesting.
- 2:56So the Prince does the same entrance and exit, but the
- 3:00people do the opposite. And I guess that's instructing
- 3:05people of the common and special purpose and I guess reinforcing
- 3:12that the common people do things differently than the holy people
- 3:16perhaps, or the Prince, somebody of an elevated position.
- 3:21I'm not sure of all the significance of that.
- 3:24The Prince will enter and. Leave with the people.
- 3:27On these occasions, so at the special feast and sacred
- 3:33festivals, the grain offering. Will be a basket of choice flour
- 3:36with. Each young bull another.
- 3:37Basket of flour. With each ram and as much flour
- 3:40as the Prince. Chooses to give.
- 3:42With each lamb, give one gallon of.
- 3:44Olive oil with each basket of flour.
- 3:47There's a lot of. Repetition here to make us
- 3:50remember these things. So when the Prince offers a
- 3:53voluntary burnt offering or peace offering to the Lord, the
- 3:58east gateway to the inner courtyard will be open for him.
- 4:03And he will. Offer his sacrifices.
- 4:06As he does on Sabbath days, then he will leave and the.
- 4:10Gateway will be shut. Behind Him, each morning you
- 4:14must sacrifice A1 year old lamb with no defects as a burnt
- 4:18offering to the Lord with the Lamb.
- 4:20A green offering must also be given to the.
- 4:22Lord about 3/4 of flour, with a third.
- 4:26Of a gallon of olive oil to moisten the choice.
- 4:29Flour This will be a. Permanent law for you, the lamb,
- 4:34the grain offering and the olive oil must be given.
- 4:38As a daily sacrifice. Every morning without fail.
- 4:43This is what the. Sovereign Lord.
- 4:44Says if the Prince gives a gift. Of land to one of his sons.
- 4:50So here we also see that. Well, I guess as an inheritance
- 4:55it will belong to him and his descendants forever.
- 5:00So this is what the sovereign Lord says.
- 5:01So if the Prince says somebody with that position gives a gift
- 5:05of land to one of his sons, as an inheritance, it will belong
- 5:10to him and his descendants forever.
- 5:13That's permanent. But if the Prince gives a gift
- 5:17of land from his inheritance to one of his servants, the servant
- 5:22may keep it only until. The year of Jubilee.
- 5:26Which comes every 50th year. So that's like.
- 5:31There are like a shabuim, which is what there are 7.
- 5:41It's like periods of time that Israel always counted and you
- 5:46find this in I mean this. Is very clear here.
- 5:50The Jubilee. Year is the 50th year, but there
- 5:52are. 7777 so seven weeks, and each week has seven days, so
- 5:59that's 49 days and then the first day of the next year is
- 6:06the. Jubilee year.
- 6:07It's the 50th year, but also the first.
- 6:10Year of the next. Set so.
- 6:15Everything's done in these increments of seven, just like 7
- 6:18days of creation, 7 days of the week, and there's always a rest
- 6:21at the end. And I think this is ultimately
- 6:24showing us what God has planned for all of us.
- 6:27When Peter. Says that a day with the Lord.
- 6:30Is like 1000 years and 1000 years like a day.
- 6:35The. Timeline for mankind, I believe,
- 6:40and many. Others teach this is that there
- 6:44are 6. 1000 years. That are for us people.
- 6:51And then from 6000 to 7000, that's that thousand years that
- 6:56Christ reigns. And then he turns everything
- 6:58over to the Father at the end of that.
- 7:00And that's going to be in eternity.
- 7:02And I think that's when the new heavens and the new earth come
- 7:05down. But during this up until year
- 7:097000, we're going to be here on the earth and when the year 6000
- 7:15somewhere, when it starts on either before or after, I don't
- 7:19know when, if it's going to be exactly on the date.
- 7:23If it is exactly on the date, all of our calendars are messed
- 7:26up. And that's why we have different
- 7:28calendars. Like for the Gregorian calendar
- 7:31we're in 2026, which. I guess it's.
- 7:38Supposed to be, you know, does it start when Jesus died on the
- 7:42cross? That we believe that it's 2.
- 7:451026 years following Jesus's death on the cross or I don't
- 7:54know when it start, when it switches over from.
- 7:56BC to AD. In the time frame then you have
- 8:00the. Jewish.
- 8:01Years which I was remembering that for a while, but now I've
- 8:06been like looking more at the Essenes calendar.
- 8:11If you go to dsscalendar.org you will find the ancient calendar
- 8:16that was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls that a.
- 8:19Sect of Jewish believers. In the Messiah Kept and they
- 8:25documented and Doctor Ken Johnson put together this
- 8:29interactive calendar that you can look at, but it shows.
- 8:33The Dead Sea scroll date is ADAR. 105950 So we are in the
- 8:40last. Like we have the last 50 years
- 8:44ahead of us. Till we.
- 8:46Get to the year. 6059, Fifty. So we have there's. 50 more
- 8:50years and then it'll be 6000. Well.
- 8:54That could. Perhaps be when Christ reigns?
- 8:57We're not really sure the. Pharisee date is 50. 786 so
- 9:04that's about a few 100 years. Off.
- 9:07From 5950 and the. Question is did.
- 9:12The enemy enemy spiritually inspire some people to change
- 9:17the calendars to confuse people of when this date was on for the
- 9:23arrival of Jesus and we'll just have to wait and see because I.
- 9:30I love how everybody. Always says well no one knows
- 9:32the day. Or the hour.
- 9:33Well. Yeah, we're not talking.
- 9:35About a specific day. We aren't talking about.
- 9:38A specific hour. But doesn't say that you won't
- 9:42know the year and. So do we have?
- 9:4550 more years before everything changes and Jesus is reigning
- 9:50here on earth. I kind of think we might.
- 9:54I don't know when Jesus is going to come and.
- 9:56Gather his people. Which could happen prior to
- 10:00that, but. There is this prophecy about
- 10:03Egypt that I just discovered. In the Book of Ezekiel, that has
- 10:07never happened before, and it says that Egypt is going to
- 10:11remain desolate. For. 40 years and that hasn't
- 10:15happened yet. So if that's to come and if we
- 10:19have 50 more years till we get. To the year 6. 1000 in the next
- 10:2310 years or sooner, Egypt. Something could happen to Egypt,
- 10:28and it'll remain. Desolate for 40 years.
- 10:32And then there's also references about a major.
- 10:36War that occurs. And that in Israel.
- 10:39I mean, this is an Ezekiel. Also that we read.
- 10:42That they will be, I think it, I thought it was like 7 years that
- 10:48they would be using, burning the weapons and using it for fuel.
- 10:53And I think it was seven years and then there was also like
- 10:57seven months where they were going out.
- 10:59To search for people. Who had been killed during this
- 11:02war? So all those things have not
- 11:05happened yet. But if we take the 40 years,
- 11:08that's Egypt's desolate. And then there's this other
- 11:11seven-year. Period where the.
- 11:13Weapons of war are being used for fuel.
- 11:17Those that seven-year period could be within.
- 11:22The 40 year period or it could be outside of it.
- 11:26If it is outside of that 40 year period, that would be that would
- 11:29be 40. Seven years, then we would have
- 11:32three more years that are unaccounted for.
- 11:35And it just all of this stuff really kind of puts things into
- 11:39perspective. We don't know if there's a
- 11:41transition between. The wrath of God.
- 11:45And then the reign of Christ. And, you know, when does the
- 11:49Millennium start? Anyway, I'm getting into a lot
- 11:51of different theories right now, but it's all really interesting
- 11:54because I think it does affect us about.
- 11:59What is? What is?
- 12:01Coming in the future and. This book of Ezekiel shows us a
- 12:05lot. Of that and this all got started
- 12:08when I started. Talking about the Jubilee.
- 12:09Year and we happen to be in a Jubilee year right now and this
- 12:15is a jubilee. Year, so we have.
- 12:17This next period where you know. Probably all of these.
- 12:23Prophetic things that have been spoken of in the Bible will
- 12:26actually happen, but we don't really know the sequence of
- 12:29events a lot of. People who study.
- 12:31Prophecy are trying to, you know, would like to understand
- 12:34it. We just know that.
- 12:36What God says will. Happen and the most important
- 12:40thing is that our personal relationship.
- 12:43With God is good. That we have repented of our
- 12:46sin. We have turned to God and ask
- 12:48God. Ask Jesus.
- 12:49For the Holy Spirit. We believe in.
- 12:52Jesus. Jesus is his.
- 12:53Sacrifice on the cross made it. Possible for us to.
- 12:57Be in the Kingdom of God and to have the inheritance.
- 13:00So if we believe. That then we can ask.
- 13:04Jesus for the Holy Spirit. He will give us the Holy Spirit.
- 13:07And then we have nothing to worry about.
- 13:09Because God will take care of it.
- 13:11We just trust God. And everything, every day, ask
- 13:13for guidance and stay close to God every day.
- 13:17It says that faith comes from hearing the message, the message
- 13:22about and the message about God and about Jesus, about the
- 13:25Kingdom. So I need to memorize that verse
- 13:29because it is faith. Grows by.
- 13:32Hearing the word of God which is found in the Bible.
- 13:36So our faith will grow. That's why I stay.
- 13:39In the word and it's so easy. I missed a few days here
- 13:42recently and I could tell a difference.
- 13:45So it's it is. Important to like in a symbolic
- 13:49sense. They say feed on the word like.
- 13:52Jesus is the bread of. Life we need to feed.
- 13:55Ourselves through the Word of God Scripture.
- 13:58And that is our spiritual nourishment.
- 14:01OK, let's get back to. Scripture verse. 18 and the
- 14:05Prince may never take anyone's property by.
- 14:08Force if he gives property to his.
- 14:11Sons, it must be from his own land, for I do not want any of
- 14:17my people unjustly evicted from their property.
- 14:21Isn't that interesting? God's going to restore a lot of
- 14:23things. So in my vision, the man brought
- 14:27me through the entrance. Beside the gateway.
- 14:30And LED me to the sacred rooms assigned to the priest, which
- 14:33face the north. He showed me a place at the
- 14:36extreme West End of these rooms, he explained.
- 14:40This is where the priest will cook.
- 14:42The meat from the guilt offerings and sin offerings and
- 14:45bake the flour from the grain offerings into bread.
- 14:48They will do it here to avoid carrying the sacrifices.
- 14:52Through the outer courtyard. And endangering the people by
- 14:56transmitting holiness to them now.
- 14:58This is the. Second time that this is really
- 15:02stood out to me because and I talked about it in a couple
- 15:07podcasts ago where the priest had to change their clothes
- 15:11because they didn't want anyone to come in contact.
- 15:14With the holy. Garments so there is like this
- 15:17transfer of holiness. It must be the presence of the
- 15:20Lord and and God is not Obviously there's still sin.
- 15:26There will still be sin in the Millennium period that and
- 15:30people will still die. But this?
- 15:32Is like a protective. Thing this is not God wanting,
- 15:37not wanting people to become holy, this is him protecting
- 15:41people. Because they are.
- 15:42Still in a sinful state and to protect them from, you know,
- 15:49encountering. This is the way I understand it
- 15:51at least. Because if they are not.
- 15:55Prepared, they would die. From contact with holiness just
- 15:59like Mount Sinai. What God warned people about
- 16:03verse 21. Then he brought me back.
- 16:05To the outer courtyard. And led me to.
- 16:07Each of its four. Corners In each corner I saw an
- 16:10enclosure. Each of these enclosures was 70
- 16:14feet long and 52 1/2 feet wide, surrounded by.
- 16:17Walls. Along the inside of these walls.
- 16:21Was a ledge of. Stone with fireplaces under the
- 16:24ledge all the way around, the man said to me these are the
- 16:27kitchens to be used by the temple assistants to.
- 16:31Boil the sacrifices. Offered by the people.
- 16:36I'm going to go into chapter 47. In my vision, the man brought me
- 16:42back to the entrance of the temple.
- 16:44There I saw a. Stream flowing east from beneath
- 16:49the door of the temple and passing to the.
- 16:51Right of the altar. On its.
- 16:53South Side. The man brought me outside the
- 16:56wall through the north gateway and LED me around to the eastern
- 16:59entrance. There I could see the water
- 17:02flowing. Out through the South side of
- 17:05the east gateway. Measuring is he went.
- 17:09He took me along the stream for 1750 feet and then LED me
- 17:15across. The water was up to my ankles.
- 17:19He measured off another 1750 feet and LED me across again.
- 17:24This time the water was up to my knees after another 1750.
- 17:31Feet. It was up.
- 17:32To my waist. Then he measured another 1750
- 17:37feet and the river was. Too deep to.
- 17:40Walk across it was deep enough to swim in.
- 17:44But too deep to walk through. He asked me, Have you been
- 17:47watching Son of Man? Then he led me back along the
- 17:51riverbank when I returned. I was surprised by the.
- 17:55Sight of many trees growing on both.
- 17:59Sides of the river. Then he said to me this river.
- 18:03Flows east through. The desert into.
- 18:07The valley of the Dead Sea. The waters of the stream will
- 18:12make. The salty waters of the dead.
- 18:15Sea fresh and pure isn't that interesting like this is during
- 18:20the Millennium I. Believe where God is.
- 18:22Going to restore things. There will be swarms of living
- 18:26things. Wherever the water of this river
- 18:29flows, fish will. Abound in the dead.
- 18:32Sea for its waters. Will become fresh, life will
- 18:36flourish. Wherever this water flows.
- 18:40Again, I think this is probably going to be a literal as well as
- 18:45a symbolic thing because Jesus was said that.
- 18:54The he will give. Us to drink when he talks to the
- 18:57woman by the well he says the. Water I.
- 19:00Give you will never be thirsty again and.
- 19:03The water that. Flows.
- 19:04This has something to do with the Spirit and the fountain that
- 19:08flows from a person who has the Holy Spirit and the.
- 19:12Spirit of God, that's. Present, which gives life to us
- 19:16in a literal and a spiritual sense.
- 19:20And you know, we can't go without water.
- 19:23Or we will die. And.
- 19:24So all of this. Water is very symbolic of
- 19:28something that Jesus gives and he talks about in Scripture.
- 19:31And so this is again literal and symbolic and.
- 19:35The. There's going to be.
- 19:38Like fish? That will be There's nothing
- 19:39that grows in the Dead Sea right now, but this is all going to
- 19:42change at the time. Of Christ.
- 19:45Is when I believe this happens. Fishermen will stand along the
- 19:49shores of the Dead Sea all the way from Ngedi to Nglam.
- 19:54The shores will be covered with Nets drying in the sun.
- 19:57Fish of every kind will. Fill the Dead Sea just as they
- 20:01fill. The Mediterranean, but the
- 20:04marshes and the swamps will not be purified.
- 20:07They will still be salty fruit trees of.
- 20:10All kinds will grow along the sides of the river the.
- 20:14Leaves of these trees. Will never turn brown and fall.
- 20:18There will always be. Fruit on their branches.
- 20:22There will be a new crop every month for they are.
- 20:26Watered by the river. Flowing from the temple.
- 20:29The fruit will be for food. And the leaves for healing.
- 20:35So again, this is what I believe is in the Millennium reign,
- 20:38because people healing, I mean, when you're in God's presence
- 20:42and we are in the Kingdom of God, there's not going to be any
- 20:45mourning or sorrow. There won't be a need for
- 20:49healing. This is going to be in that
- 20:51transitional period, the millennial period, and so this
- 20:55also is reflected in the Book of Revelation.
- 20:59I I'll read that. In a moment I think it's
- 21:02Revelation 22, but I have to double check to see if that's
- 21:07where it's located. Yes, it is 22, so I'll read that
- 21:11in a minute. Boundaries for the land.
- 21:13This is what the Sovereign Lord says.
- 21:14Divide the land in this. Way for the 12 tribes of.
- 21:18Israel, the descendants of. Joseph.
- 21:20Will be given 2 shares of land, remember.
- 21:22Joseph was supposed to get a double.
- 21:24Portion otherwise and then that's from back in when Isaac
- 21:31was on I'm not Isaac. Jacob was on a.
- 21:34Deathbed, I believe. OK, otherwise each.
- 21:37Tribe will receive an equal share.
- 21:40I took a solemn oath and. Swore that I would.
- 21:42Give you this land to your ancestors, and it will now come
- 21:46to you as your possession. So this little small.
- 21:49Place of Israel. That we know right now is going
- 21:52to be expanded and God is giving this information right now.
- 21:57So again, Ezekiel 47 verse 15 starts telling us what the
- 22:02boundaries will be. So people are all.
- 22:05Up at arms right now in the world thinking, you know.
- 22:08Israel is the. Occupying land.
- 22:10I mean, God did give them and he is promising this.
- 22:14This is going to happen when Jesus returns.
- 22:17And I really don't understand, like all the people who are
- 22:20against Israel's, if you want to call it occupation, occupying
- 22:26the land that God gave them you. Obviously if you're a.
- 22:30Christian, how can you? Because this is what God's Word
- 22:34says. So it just means.
- 22:36That people that. Call themselves Christians are
- 22:40not always Christians. They may think they are, but
- 22:45they haven't read the word of God and no one who's a Christian
- 22:49is going to contradict what God. Says so think about that.
- 22:53When you know, don't get on board.
- 22:55With all these people. Who are anti semites?
- 22:58Obviously in Scripture God is not happy.
- 23:00With a lot. Of the actions of the
- 23:02Israelites, and God corrects them and they're.
- 23:04Actually going to go through the wrath of.
- 23:06God, and they're going to be. Purified through the wrath.
- 23:11And so that's like the consequence of their actions.
- 23:14It's not saying that the Israelites are holy people.
- 23:17The only ones who God is making holy are.
- 23:20The Zadok priest. Who don't exist today,
- 23:23apparently, but God's going to, you know, he has chosen.
- 23:27People that he uses for special purposes.
- 23:29And no one is holy until God sanctifies them and gives them a
- 23:33process through it. So by saying that Israel, you
- 23:39know, like going against Israel, you were going against God and I
- 23:43would not want to war against God because it's not going to go
- 23:46well. So think about this and read
- 23:50Ezekiel 47 and share it with other.
- 23:52People because this. Is in the Millennium time frame.
- 23:55These are the boundaries of the land.
- 23:56The northern border will run from the Mediterranean toward
- 24:01Heathlon, then on through Libo Hamath to Zidad.
- 24:06Then it will run to Barathal and Sibrium, which are on the border
- 24:12between Damascus and Hamath, and finally to Hazar Hatakon on the
- 24:19border of Haran. So the northern border will run
- 24:23from the Mediterranean to Hazar Anan on the border between
- 24:28Hamath to the north and Damascus.
- 24:32To the South. The eastern border starts at a
- 24:36point between Haran and Damascus and runs.
- 24:39South. Along the Jordan River between
- 24:43Israel and Gilead, past the Dead Sea and as far South as Tamar.
- 24:51This will be the. Eastern border, the southern.
- 24:55Border will go West. From Tamar to the waters of the
- 25:00of Miraba. At Kadesh.
- 25:03And then follow the. Course of the Brook of.
- 25:06Egypt to the Mediterranean. This will be the.
- 25:10Southern border on the West side, the Mediterranean itself.
- 25:15Will be your border. From the southern border to the
- 25:18point where the northern border begins opposite Libo Hamath,
- 25:23divide the land within these boundaries among the tribes.
- 25:27Of Israel. Distribute the land as an
- 25:30allotment for yourselves and for the foreigners who have joined
- 25:34with you and are raising their families among you.
- 25:37So I want to pause here because there are going to be
- 25:41foreigners, non Israelite people in the land.
- 25:45So listen to this. Distribute the land as an
- 25:48allotment for yourselves and for the foreigners.
- 25:53You have or who have. Joined you and are raising their
- 25:58families among you. They will be like native born
- 26:03Israelites to you and will receive an allotment among the
- 26:07tribes. So the people.
- 26:10Who are I guess, who made it? Through God's wrath, the
- 26:15survivors. And maybe they're not Israelite,
- 26:18but they're in the land of Jerusalem and the land of Israel
- 26:23and they. They still are there.
- 26:26Then God's giving them the land. If they're residing there and
- 26:30they have families there, He's giving them the the land to
- 26:34share with the Israelites who he promised the land.
- 26:38So God is not expelling people from land and he's basically
- 26:44incorporating foreigners into his land.
- 26:49And so we. Should also have this.
- 26:51Insight from the Bible these foreigners are to be given land
- 26:56within the. Territory of the tribe with.
- 26:59Whom they now live, I, the Sovereign Lord have spoken so
- 27:04this. Is God's word.
- 27:05It's not up for well, I don't think that's right.
- 27:09I'm I don't agree with that too. Bad.
- 27:11This is what God. Says O, I'm going to pause this
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