EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN. PROPHET - DATE JONAH(825-785BC)? JOEL(800BC)? HOSEA(785-725BC)?...

EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

PROPHET - DATE

JONAH (825-785BC)?

JOEL (800BC)?

HOSEA (785-725BC)?

MICAH (785-710BC)?

AMOS (784BC)?

ISAIAH (701-681BC)?

NAHUM (700BC)?

ZEPHANIAH (630BC)?

JEREMIAH (629-588BC)?

DANIEL (606-534BC)?

HABAKKUK (598BC)?

EZEKIEL (597-573BC)?

OBADIAH (588-562BC)?

EZRA (536-456BC)?

HAGGAI (532-512BC)?

ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)?

ESTHER (485-465BC)?

NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)?

MALACHI (420-397BC)?

KING / EVENT - DATE

TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)?

HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)?

SHALMANESER (727-722BC)?

ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)?

SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)?

NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)?

ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) (597-586BC)?

JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)?

BELSHAZZAR (541-523BC)?

CYRUS (559-529BC)?

BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)?

DARIUS (511-475BC)?

OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

DRY BONES SHALL LIVE V. 1-14‘GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL’

ONE KINGDOM, ONE KING V. 15-28‘ONE FLOCK, ONE SHEPHERD’

READ: EZEKIEL 37:1-2

THE DRY BONES SHALL LIVE

1 The hand of the LORD came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.

2 Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 37:1-2

THE DRY BONES SHALL LIVE 1 The hand of the LORD came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2 Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry.

WHAT DID THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD DO?‘set me down in the midst of the valley’

WHAT VALLEY WAS THIS?

WHAT WAS IN THIS VALLEY?‘it was full of bones’ – ‘indeed they were very dry’

HOW DID THE BONES GET THERE?


WHAT VALLEY WAS THIS?‘the Valley of Slaughter’



READ: JEREMIAH 7:32-3332 ‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the LORD, ‘when it will no more be called Tophet, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Tophet until there is no room. 33 The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away.’ NKJV


WHAT VALLEY WAS THIS?‘the Valley of Slaughter’



READ: JEREMIAH 8:1-21 ‘At that time,’ says the LORD, ‘they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves. 2 They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth. NKJV



3 And He said to me, ‘Son of man, can these bones live?’ So I answered, ‘O Lord GOD, You know.’

4 Again He said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!


THE DRY BONES SHALL LIVE 3 And He said to me, ‘Son of man, can these bones live?’ So I answered, ‘O Lord GOD, You know.’ 4 Again He said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!

WHAT DID THE LORD ASK EZEKIEL?‘can these bones live?’

HOW DID EZEKIEL RESPOND?‘O Lord GOD, You know.’

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?‘Prophesy to these bones’

SAY TO THEM:'O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 37:3



CAN THE LORD DO THIS?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?

READ: DEUTERONOMY 32:3939 ‘See, I am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand. NKJV





WHAT DID HANNAH SAY?

READ: 1 SAMUEL 2:66 The LORD kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up. NKJV





WHAT DID JESUS SAY?

READ: JOHN 5:2121 As the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. NKJV




WHAT DID PAUL SAY?

READ: ROMANS 4:1717 ….. God gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; NKJV

READ: 2 CORINTHIANS 1:99 We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, NKJV


4 Again He said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?

‘Prophesy to these bones’

SAY TO THEM:

'O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!”

WHAT DID JESUS SAY?

READ: JOHN 5:25

25 ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.’ NKJV


5 Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: ‘Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.

6 I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.’

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE BONES?

‘I will cause breath to enter into you’

‘I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you’

‘I will cover you with skin and put breath in you’

‘You shall live’



WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE BONES? ‘I will cause breath to enter into you’

‘I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you’ ‘I will cover you with skin and put breath in you’



HOW DID THE LORD GOD FORM MAN?

READ: GENESIS 2:77 The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. (soul) NKJV






WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?

READ: PSALMS 104:29-3029 You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. 30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the earth. NKJV






WHAT DID ISAIAH SAY?

READ: ISAIAH 26:1919 Your dead shall live; Together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust;For your dew is like the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead. NKJV


THE DRY BONES SHALL LIVE CAN THE LORD DO THIS?

WHAT DID JOHN SAY?READ: REVELATION 11:7-11

7 When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 9 Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves. 11 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. NKJV



7 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone.

8 Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.


7 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.

WHAT DID EZEKIEL DO?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DRY BONES?


WHAT DID EZEKIEL DO?‘I prophesied as I was commanded’

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DRY BONES?‘there was a noise and suddenly a rattling’‘the bones came together, bone to bone’

‘the sinews and the flesh came upon them’ ‘the skin covered them over’

BUT‘there was no breath in them’

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?‘there was no breath in them’

ARE THEY STILL DEAD?



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.’

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.


THE DRY BONES SHALL LIVE 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.’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.

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?WHY THE FOUR WINDS?

WHAT DID EZEKIEL DO?WHAT HAPPENED?

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?WHAT DID THIS MEAN?


‘Prophesy to the breath’ SAYING:‘Come from the four winds’

‘breathe on these slain that they may live’

WHY THE FOUR WINDS?WHERE DID THE LORD SCATTER THEM?

READ: EZEKIEL 5:1010 …. I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 12:1414 I will scatter to every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his troops; and I will draw out the sword after them. NKJV


WHY THE FOUR WINDS?WHERE DID THE LORD SCATTER THEM?

READ: EZEKIEL 17:2121 All his fugitives with all his troops shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered to every wind; and you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken.

READ: ZECHARIAH 2:6-76 ‘Up, up! Flee from the land of the north,’ says the LORD; ‘for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven,’ says the LORD. 7 ‘Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’ NKJV

FROM WHENCE WILL THE LORD GATHER THEM?




WHY THE FOUR WINDS?


READ: ISAIAH 43:5-65 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, And gather you from the west; 6 I will say to the north, 'Give them up!‘ And to the south, 'Do not keep them back!‘ Bring My sons from afar,And My daughters from the ends of the earth — NKJV




WHY THE FOUR WINDS?


READ: JEREMIAH 31:88 Behold, I will bring them from the north country,And gather them from the ends of the earth, Among them the blind and the lame, The woman with child And the one who labors with child, together; A great throng shall return there. NKJV




WHY THE FOUR WINDS?

WHAT DID DANIEL SEE?

READ: DANIEL 7:22 Daniel spoke, saying, ‘I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the Great Sea.’ NKJV

WHAT DID THE FOUR WINDS REPRESENT?WHAT IS THIS GREAT SEA? ‘MEDITERRANEAN SEA‘




WHAT DID DANIEL SEE?

READ: DANIEL 8:88 The male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven.

WHO WAS THIS GOAT? ALEXANDER THE GREAT?

WHAT DIRECTION DID THE FOUR NOTABLE ONES GO?‘toward the four winds of heaven’


WHAT DID EZEKIEL DO?I prophesied as He commanded me

WHAT HAPPENED?‘breath came into them and they lived’

‘and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army’

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

WHAT DID THIS MEAN?

READ: ISAIAH 25:88 He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken. NKJV




HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

WHAT DID THIS MEAN?

READ: DANIEL 12:22 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt. NKJV




HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?WHAT DID THIS MEAN?

READ: HOSEA 6:22 After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight. NKJV

READ: HOSEA 13:1414 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. NKJV


‘breath came into them and they lived’HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?WHAT DID JESUS SAY?

READ: JOHN 5:25-2925 Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, 27 and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. 28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29 and come forth — those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. NKJV



11 Then He said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, 'Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!'

12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.


THE DRY BONES SHALL LIVE 11 Then He said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, 'Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!' 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

HOW DID THE LORD EXPLAIN THIS?‘these bones are the whole house of Israel’

WHAT DID ISRAEL SAY?

HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?


HOW DID THE LORD EXPLAIN THIS?‘these bones are the whole house of Israel’

WHAT DID ISRAEL SAY?'Our bones are dry, our hope is lost’

‘we ourselves are cut off’

READ: PSALMS 141:77 Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave,As when one plows and breaks up the earth. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 49:1414 Zion said, ‘The LORD has forsaken me, And my Lord has forgotten me.’ NKJV




WHAT DID JOB SAY?

READ: JOB 17:13-1613 If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness, 14 If I say to corruption, 'You are my father,‘ And to the worm, 'You are my mother and my sister,' 15 Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it? 16 Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?’ NKJV


11 Then He said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, 'Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!'



WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY TO THE LORD?

READ: LAMENTATIONS 3:54-5554 The waters flowed over my head; I said, ‘I am cut off!’ 55 I called on Your name, O LORD, From the lowest pit. NKJV


HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?‘I will open your graves’

‘I will cause you to come up from your graves’‘I will bring you into the land of Israel’

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?

READ: EZEKIEL 6:8-98 Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries. 9 Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.





READ: JEREMIAH 29:1414 ‘I will be found by you’, says the LORD, ‘and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ says the LORD, ‘and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.’





READ: AMOS 9:14-1514 ‘I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. 15 I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them,’ Says the LORD your God. NKJV





READ: ZEPHANIAH 3:2020 ‘At that time I will bring you back, Even at the time I gather you; For I will give you fame and praise Among all the peoples of the earth, When I return your captives before your eyes,’ Says the LORD. NKJV

READ: ZECHARIAH 8:88 ‘I will bring them back, And they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They shall be My people And I will be their God, In truth and righteousness.' NKJV




WHAT DID JESUS SAY CONCERNING THE DEAD?

READ: MATTHEW 22:31-3231 Concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, 32 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.’ NKJV




WHAT DID JESUS SAY CONCERNING MOSES?

READ: LUKE 20:37-3837 Even Moses showed in the burning bush passage that the dead are raised, when he called the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' 38 For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him. NKJV




WHAT DID PAUL SAY CONCERNING ISRAEL?

READ: ROMANS 11:1515 If their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? NKJV



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.

14 I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it and performed it," says the LORD.’



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.

14 I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it and performed it,’ says the LORD.

WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO? ISRAEL?

WHAT WILL THEY KNOW? WHEN?

you shall know that I am the LORD

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?


THE DRY BONES SHALL LIVE 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.

WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO? ISRAEL?

WHAT WILL THEY KNOW? WHEN?you shall know that I am the LORD

WHEN‘I have opened your graves’

‘and brought you up from your graves’


14 I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it and performed it,’ says the LORD.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?‘I will put My Spirit in you and you shall live’

‘I will place you in your own land’

HOW WILL THE LORD DO THIS?

READ: ISAIAH 11:1-21 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots. 2 The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD. NKJV





WHEN WILL THIS COME TO PASS?

READ: EZEKIEL 36:27-2827 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. 28 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.






READ: EZEKIEL 36:3636 The nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it. NKJV






READ: JOEL 2:28-2928 It shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions. 29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.


ONE KINGDOM, ONE KING

15 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

16 ‘As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: 'For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.' Then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.'

17 Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.


ONE KINGDOM, ONE KING 15 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 16 ‘As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: 'For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.' Then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.' 17 Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?

WHAT DO THESE TWO STICKS REPRESENT?ISRAEL & JUDAH?JOSEPH & EPHRAIM?

WHY JOIN THEM TOGETHER?WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?


16 ‘As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: 'For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.' Then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.'

WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?‘take a stick for yourself and write on it’

'For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions’THEN

‘take another stick and write on it’ 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim,

and for all the house of Israel, his companions‘




READ: GENESIS 48:17-1917 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; so he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. 18 Joseph said to his father, ‘Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.’ 19 But his father refused and said, ‘I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.’ NKJV

WHY DID ISRAEL PUT EPHRAIM BEFORE MANASSEH?



WHAT DID THE LORD TELL MOSES TO DO?

READ: NUMBERS 17:2-32 Speak to the children of Israel, and get from them a rod from each father's house, all their leaders according to their fathers' houses — twelve rods. Write each man's name on his rod. 3 And you shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi. For there shall be one rod for the head of each father's house. NKJV

WHAT DID EACH ROD REPRESENT?the head of each father's house



WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SOLOMON DIED?

WHO BECAME KING OF ISRAEL?

READ: 1 KINGS 12:2020 It came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only. NKJV

WHO REMAINED LOYAL TO DAVID?



WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BIRTHRIGHT OF REUBEN?

1 CHRONICLES 5:1-31 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel — he was indeed the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that the genealogy is not listed according to the birthright; 2 Yet Judah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came a ruler, although the birthright was Joseph's

WHO DID THE BIRTHRIGHT BELONG TO?REUBEN? JUDAH? JOSPEH?

WHY DID JUDAH PREVAIL?



WHAT HAPPENED TO REHOBOAM?WHY?

READ: 2 CHRONICLES 10:17-1917 Rehoboam reigned over the children of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah.18 Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was in charge of revenue; but the children of Israel stoned him with stones, and he died. Therefore King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste to flee to Jerusalem. 19 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day. NKJV


READ: 2 CHRONICLES 11:14-1714 The Levites left their common-lands and their possessions and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to the LORD. 15 He appointed for himself priests for the high places, for the demons, and the calf idols which he had made. 16 After the Levites left, those from all the tribes of Israel, such as set their heart to seek the LORD God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD God of their fathers. 17 They strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years. NKJV

WHAT DID THE PRIESTS & LEVITES DO? WHY?


WHAT DID ASA DO?

READ: 2 CHRONICLES 15:8-98 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephraim; and he restored the altar of the LORD that was before the vestibule of the LORD. 9 He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who dwelt with them from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for they came over to him in great numbers from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him. NKJV

WHO CAME TO JOIN JUDAH & BENJAMIN?Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon

WHY?


READ: 2 CHRONICLES 30:11-2011 Some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. 18 A multitude of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, ‘May the good LORD provide atonement for everyone 19 who prepares his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he is not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary’.20 The LORD listened to Hezekiah and healed the people. NKJV

WHO CAME TO JERUSALEM? WHY?Ephraim, Manasseh, Asher, Issachar and Zebulun



READ: PSALMS 78:6767 He rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD DO?

WHY?



READ: HOSEA 5:4-54 They do not direct their deeds Toward turning to their God, For the spirit of harlotry is in their midst, And they do not know the LORD. 5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also stumbles with them. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD DO? WHY?Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity




WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?‘join them one to another for yourself into one stick’

WHO WILL JOIN THEM TOGETHER? WHY?READ: ISAIAH 11:12-13

12 He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth. 13 Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart, And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, And Judah shall not harass Ephraim. NKJV

WHY DID EPHRAIM ENVY JUDAH?


WHY DID EPHRAIM ENVY JUDAH?

WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT EPHRAIM?

WHO WAS CHOSEN FROM THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM?READ: NUMBERS 13:8 & 16

8 From the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun; 16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.

WHERE DID ISRAEL SET UP THE TABERNACLE?READ: JOSUAH 18:1

1 The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of meeting there. And the land was subdued before them.


WHERE DID JOSHUA DIVIDE THE LAND TO ISRAEL?

READ: JOSHUA 18:1010 Then Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD, and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions. NKJV

WHERE WAS SHILOH?

WHAT LAND WAS GIVEN TO JOSHUA?

READ: JOSHUA 19:5050 According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked for, Timnath Serah in the mountains of Ephraim; and he built the city and dwelt in it. NKJV


WHERE WAS SHILOH?

WHAT DID REUBEN, GAD & MANASEH DO?

READ: JOSHUA 22:99 The children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they had obtained according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses. NKJV


WHAT DID REUBEN, GAD & MANASEH DO?

READ: JOSHUA 22:10-1210 When they came to the region of the Jordan which is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan — a great, impressive altar. 11 Now the children of Israel heard someone say, ‘Behold, the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan — on the children of Israel's side.’ 12 When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered together at Shiloh to go to war against them. NKJV

WHY DID GILEAD FIGHT AGAINST EPHRAIM?

READ: JUDGES 12:1-41 The men of Ephraim gathered together, crossed over toward Zaphon, and said to Jephthah, ‘Why did you cross over to fight against the people of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you with fire!’2 Jephthah said to them, ‘My people and I were in a great struggle with the people of Ammon; and when I called you, you did not deliver me out of their hands. 3 So when I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hands and crossed over against the people of Ammon; and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?’4 Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because they said, ‘You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites.’ NKJV


WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT SHILOH?

WHAT DID ALL ISRAEL KNOW?

READ: 1 SAMUEL 3:20-2120 All Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the LORD. 21 The LORD appeared again in Shiloh. For the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD. NKJV

WHAT HAPPENED TO SHILOH? WHY?

READ: PSALMS 78:6060 He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men, NKJV


WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EPHRAIM?

READ: JEREMIAH 7:12-1512 ‘Go now to My place which was in Shiloh , where I set My name at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. 13 And now, because you have done all these works,’ says the LORD, ‘and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you, but you did not answer, 14 therefore I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh . 15 And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brethren — the whole posterity of Ephraim.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO EPHRAIM? WHY?



WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?join them one to another for yourself into one stick

WHO WILL JOIN THEM TOGETHER? WHY?READ: JEREMIAH 50:4-5

4 ‘In those days and in that time,’ says the LORD,‘The children of Israel shall come, They and the children of Judah together; With continual weeping they shall come, And seek the LORD their God. 5 They shall ask the way to Zion, With their faces toward it, saying, 'Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD In a perpetual covenant That will not be forgotten.'



18 And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, 'Will you not show us what you mean by these?' —

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.’

20 And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.


ONE KINGDOM, ONE KING 18 And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, 'Will you not show us what you mean by these?' — 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.’ 20 And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

WHAT WILL THE PEOPLE SAY TO EZEKIEL?

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?

READ: EZEKIEL 37:18



READ: EZEKIEL 12:9-12 9 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, 'What are you doing?' 10 Say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are among them.’11 Say, 'I am a sign to you. As I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall be carried away into captivity.' NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 37:18



READ: EZEKIEL 21:77 It shall be when they say to you, 'Why are you sighing?' that you shall answer, 'Because of the news; when it comes, every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming and shall be brought to pass,' says the Lord GOD.’ NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 37:18

WHAT WILL THE PEOPLE SAY TO EZEKIEL? 'Will you not show us what you mean by these?'

READ: EZEKIEL 24:16-1916 ‘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. 17 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. 18 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. 19 And the people said to me, ‘Will you not tell us what these things signify to us, that you behave so?’


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.’ 20 And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?‘I will join them and make them one stick’

READ: JEREMIAH 3:1818 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers. NKJV


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.’ 20 And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.


READ: ZECHARIAH 10:66 I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back,Because I have mercy on them. They shall be as though I had not cast them aside; For I am the LORD their God,And I will hear them. NKJV


‘ 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,


HOW?READ: JEREMIAH 23:5-6

5 ‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the LORD,‘That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. 6 In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. NKJV



21 Then say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

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.



21 Then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

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.



ONE KINGDOM, ONE KING 21 Then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;


READ: ISAIAH 43:5-65 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, And gather you from the west; 6 I will say to the north, 'Give them up!‘ And to the south, 'Do not keep them back!‘ Bring My sons from afar,And My daughters from the ends of the earth NKJV




READ: EZEKIEL 20:42-4342 You shall know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I raised My hand in an oath to give to your fathers. 43 And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings with which you were defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you have committed. NKJV




READ: HOSEA 1:1111 The children of Judah and the children of IsraelShall be gathered together, And appoint for themselves one head; And they shall come up out of the land, For great will be the day of Jezreel! NKJV




READ: MICAH 4:6-76 ‘In that day,’ says the LORD, ‘I will assemble the lame, I will gather the outcast And those whom I have afflicted; 7 I will make the lame a remnant, And the outcast a strong nation; So the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion From now on, even forever.’ NKJV


ONE KINGDOM, ONE KING 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.


WHAT DID THE GENTILES SAY?

READ: JEREMIAH 33:2424 Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off' Thus they have despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them. NKJV




HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?

READ: EZEKIEL 17:2222 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I will take one of the highest branches of the high cedar and set it out. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and prominent mountain.




READ: EZEKIEL 34:13-1413 I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country. 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. NKJV




READ: EZEKIEL 34:23-2423 I will establish one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them — My servant David. He shall feed them and be their shepherd. 24 And I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.



WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?‘I will make them one nation on the mountains of Israel’

‘and one king shall be king over them all’

WHAT DID JESUS SAY?READ: JOHN 10:16

16 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. NKJV

WHO ARE THE OTHER SHEEP?

READ: EZEKIEL 37:23


23 They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.




HOW DID THEY DEFILE THEMSELVES?

HOW WILL THE LORD CLEANSE THEM?




HOW DID THEY DEFILE THEMSELVES?‘with their idols’

WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM?READ: JEREMIAH 7:23-24

23 But this is what I commanded them, saying, 'Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.' 24 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. NKJV




READ: EZEKIEL 11:17-2017 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.’18 And they will go there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there. 19 Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, 20 that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God. NKJV




READ: EZEKIEL 36:25-2725 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. NKJV



READ: EZEKIEL 36:28 & 3328 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.

33 ‘On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt.’ NKJV

READ: NAHUM 2:22 The LORD will restore the excellence of Jacob Like the excellence of Israel, For the emptiers have emptied them out And ruined their vine branches. NKJV



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.

25 Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children's children, forever; and My servant David shall be their prince forever.





WHO WILL BE THEIR KING? SHEPHERD?

WHERE WILL THEY DWELL?

WHO WILL BE THEIR PRINCE?



WHO WILL BE THEIR KING? SHEPHERD?David My servant shall be king over them

WHAT DID SAMUEL SAY TO SAUL? WHY?READ: 1 SAMUEL 13:13-14

13 Samuel said to Saul, ‘You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you. For now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 Now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.’ NKJV




WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?

READ: PSALMS 78:70-7170 He chose David His servant, And took him from the sheepfolds; 71 From following the ewes that had young He brought him, To shepherd Jacob His people, And Israel His inheritance. NKJV





READ: ISAIAH 55:3-43 Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you — The sure mercies of David. 4 Indeed I have given him as a witness to the people,A leader and commander for the people. NKJV




WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?READ: EZEKIEL 21:25-27

25 Now to you, O profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose iniquity shall end,26 thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Remove the turban, and take off the crown; Nothing shall remain the same. Exalt the humble, and humble the exalted. 27 Overthrown, overthrown, I will make it overthrown!It shall be no longer, Until He comes whose right it is,And I will give it to Him.’ NKJV





READ: EZEKIEL 34:23-2423 I will establish one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them — My servant David. He shall feed them and be their shepherd. 24 And I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.





READ: HOSEA 3:4-54 The children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or teraphim. 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They shall fear the LORD and His goodness in the latter days. NKJV



WHERE WILL THEY DWELL?‘in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant’

IS THIS PROMISE CONDITIONAL?WHY?

READ: PSALMS 89:3-43 ‘I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn to My servant David: 4 'Your seed I will establish forever, And build up your throne to all generations.’ NKJV




IS THIS PROMISE CONDITIONAL?

WHY?READ: ISAIAH 60:21

21 Your people shall all be righteous; They shall inherit the land forever, The branch of My planting,The work of My hands, That I may be glorified. NKJV




IS THIS PROMISE CONDITIONAL?WHY?

READ: EZEKIEL 28:2525 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and am hallowed in them in the sight of the Gentiles, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob. NKJV




READ: JOEL 3:2020 Judah shall abide forever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation. NKJV

READ: AMOS 9:1515 ‘I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them,’Says the LORD your God. NKJV



26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

27 My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

28 The nations also will know that I, the LORD, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.’ NKJV



WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?WHAT IS THIS COVENANT OF PEACE?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO NOAH?

READ: GENESIS 9:1616 ‘The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.’




WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO PHINEHAS?

READ: NUMBERS 25:12-1312 'Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace; 13 and it shall be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’ NKJV





READ: DEUTERONOMY 29:14-1514 ‘I make this covenant and this oath, not with you alone, 15 but with him who stands here with us today before the LORD our God, as well as with him who is not here with us today’ NKJV





READ: JEREMIAH 32:4040 I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me. NKJV




WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?READ; EZEKIEL 16:62-63

62 I will establish My covenant with you. Then you shall know that I am the LORD, 63 that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,’ says the Lord GOD. NKJV




WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?READ: EZEKIEL 34:25-26

25 I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 26 I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing. NKJV



WHERE DID GOD SAY THE TABERNACLE SHOULD BE?My tabernacle shall be with them

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?WHY?

READ: EXODUS 25:8-98 Let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. 9 According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it. NKJV




WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?WHY?

READ: LEVITICUS 26:11-1211 I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you. 12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. NKJV




WHERE DID ISRAEL SET UP THE TABERNACLE?

READ: JOSHUA 18:1-21 The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of meeting there. And the land was subdued before them.




WHAT DID ISRAEL DO TO PROVOKE THE LORD?

READ: JUDGES 18:3131 They set up for themselves Micah's carved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh. NKJV



WHERE DID GOD SAY THE TABERNACLE SHOULD BE?

My tabernacle shall be with them

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY HE WOULD DO?

WHY?

READ: AMOS 9:11

11 On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;




WHAT DID THE LORD SAY HE WOULD DO?WHY?

READ: ACTS 15:16-1716 'After this I will return And will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, And I will set it up; 17 So that the rest of mankind may seek the LORD,Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, Says the LORD who does all these things.' NKJV



WHAT WILL ALL NATIONS KNOW?‘I, the LORD, sanctify Israel’

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?

READ: EXODUS 31:1313 Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: 'Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.’ NKJV



WHAT WILL ALL NATIONS KNOW?I, the LORD, sanctify Israel

WHEN?My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.’


READ: ZEPHENIAH 3:1515 The LORD has taken away your judgments, He has cast out your enemy. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; You shall see disaster no more. NKJV



WHAT WILL ALL NATIONS KNOW?‘My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore’

WHERE IS THE SANCTUARY OF THE LORD TODAY?

READ: 2 CORINTHIANS 6:1616 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.’ NKJV




WHERE IS THE SANCTUARY OF THE LORD TODAY?WHO IS OUR HIGH PRIEST?

READ: HEBREWS 8:1-21 Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man. NKJV




WHERE IS THE SANCTUARY OF THE LORD TODAY?WHO IS OUR HIGH PRIEST?

READ: HEBREWS 9:1111 Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. NKJV




WHERE IS THE SANCTUARY OF THE LORD TODAY?

READ: REVELATION 21:33 I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.’ NKJV

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