Ezekiel Bible Study: April 16, 2025

Yeah, so tonight I thought we would start with talking about Zadok. A few weeks ago we talked about Zadok and the delineation of the lines between the Levites and the priests in the Millennial Temple service. And we mentioned that Zadok had a history of always aligning with God's people. We mentioned that he was there with David throughout David's reign, and that that line never did defer. Even though the other line of the priests, they would stray and they would come back, the line of Zadok did not. So I thought maybe we would spend the first couple minutes just going through Zadok, because it is quite interesting as we go through this book of Ezekiel. And tonight you'll notice it as well when we get into chapter 46. It does reference us back to a lot of Old Testament things that we may just discount or think we know enough about, but in the millennium as we've talked, there will be these discussions, these teachings that go on about things like the sacrifices, the jubile here, the new moons, and using God's calendar as opposed to using the calendar that we all use in the world today when everyone will be living just the way that God had asked his people to do and planned for them to do. So let's just take a little bit of time and go back and look at Zadok, because he is quite an interesting character when you see the kings that he served and how he did align himself always. He had the discernment and to continue serving the people that God was working with. If we start with let's start with 1 Chronicles. I've got some verses written down here to just kind of go through this. I'm not going to go through all of the verses that pertain to him, but if you're interested you can do that later. But just to give you a flavor of who he was, in 1 Chronicles 12. 1 Chronicles 12 and verse 1, it says, These were the men who came to David at Ziklag while he was still a fugitive from Saul, the son of Kish, and they were among the mighty men, helpers in the war. So when David was claiming the throne of Israel, he had these armies. You remember that he was in exile. Saul was executed. And then there was always this tension and these conflicts that went when someone was going to take a kingdom. So we're introduced here to the people who were with David at the time of Saul. If we drop down to verse 17, some of the people that came to be with David, of course, he had to be very cautious about who he was with too. Like, are you with me or not with me? Because there were some who were for David, some who weren't. And so he makes this comment so we kind of get a flavor of the times that are there. It says, Some of the sons of Benjamin, verse 16, and Judah came to David at the stronghold. And David went out to meet them and answered and said to them, If you've come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you. But if to betray me, to my enemies, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look and bring judgment. And so he's quite discerning who's with, and you can kind of feel the conflict that's there as this is coming together. And of course, we know David was God's chosen one. You read down through the verse and you see that they are with David. If we drop down to verse 23, then it says, Now these were the numbers of the divisions that were equipped for war and came to David at Hebron to turn over the kingdom of Saul to him according to the word of the Lord.

Drop down, you see all these people being named. And down in verse 28, we see Zadok. We say Zadok, the man we're talking about, Zadok, a young man, a valiant warrior, and from his father's house, 22 captains. So we're introduced to Zadok. He's a man of a valiant warrior captain, with 22 captains at his side, fighting for David, fighting on David's side to have the kingdom restored or given to David. So then if we go back to another one of the events of the kings in 2 Samuel, 2 Samuel 8, we find as this is going on, verse 17, you know, David, of course, has the throne, and there are the priests of their name that are going to be under him. 2 Samuel 8, verse 17, we see Zadok again. Verse 17 says Zadok, the son of a high tube, and a Hymalek, the son of Abiathar, were the priests. So we have Zadok, who is fighting in David's armies. Zadok and a Hymalek are now the priests in his kingdom, and they were dual priests throughout that time, and they remained true to David through the various conflicts that he endured until the time of Adonijah. So let's just track this a little bit more and see. In 2 Samuel 15, 2 Samuel 15, yeah, here we have, you know, David went through many things and many people who are trying to take his throne. I think probably the most heartbreaking of all of them for him was Absalom, his son, when his son decided to turn against him. This was after David had showed him mercy to bring him into his court and to allow him to be back in his court. And then we read what Absalom did is he kind of prepared the way for a rebellion against David. 2 Samuel 15, verse 4, as Absalom was welcomed back into the court, verse 4, it says Absalom would say, oh, to the people who were coming to David to hear their cases, oh, that I were made judge in the land that everyone who has any suit or cause would come to me, then I would give him justice. And so it was whenever anyone came near to bow down to him that he would put his hand out and take him and kiss him. In this manner Absalom acted toward all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. And I just remember reading that verse decades ago and thinking, wow, how Absalom, he pretty much took away the hearts of the men it says here, he stole. He was trying to steal the kingdom in that way away from David. Of course it led to outright rebellion. David had to run for his life, basically. And you can imagine the turmoil that was in his heart as he saw his son, who he's so much thirsty to, literally turned against him and looked for his life. So if we go on in 2 Samuel 15 and drop down to verse 24.

Let's look at verse 23. This is David is having to leave. Some of the people are going with him.

Verse 20 says, And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people crossed over. The king himself also crossed over the book, Rook Kidron, and all the people crossed over toward the way of the wilderness. There, there with David was Zadok also, and all the Levites with him bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and a Baithar went up until all the people had finished crossing over from the city. So they left the city, they took the ark with them, they were there to support David. And then in verse 25, David says, Zadok, take the ark back to Jerusalem and let God decide who should be king, who should be king in Israel. The king said to Zadok, carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favors in the eyes of the Lord, He'll bring me back and allow me both it, and He'll show me both it and His dwelling place. But if He says, Thus, I have no delight in you, here I am, and let him do to me as seems good to Him. And so Zadok did exactly as he was told. They took the ark back to...

They took the ark back there.

Looking at a verse here that I think I'm down wrong. Verse 29, yeah, therefore Zadok and a Baithar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and they remained there. So did as God had wanted him to do. And so David then has some other things. You see the trust he has in then down there in verse 35, talking about what is going on with this other Ahithophel that's there. He says, Don't you have Zadok and a Baithar the priests with you there? Therefore it will be that whatever you hear from the king's house, tell it to Zadok and a Baithar the priests. And David had the trust in them, and they were loyal to God or to David. Let's move on to 1 Kings 1.

1 Kings 1 and verse 7. Now David is old. David wants to pass the throne onto Solomon. But as usual, when there's a change in leadership, you have all this fighting going on. And Adonijah, one of the sons of David, decides he should be king. He would be the rightful king, even though David has appointed Solomon. So you have another conflict in the kingdom. And up until this time, you have both of those priests, Zadok and a Baithar, both being loyal to David, always coming down on his side, loyal to him. But here with this Adonijah challenge to the king, you see a Baithar depart from David and side with Adonijah. So in verse 7, it says, He conferred with Joab the son of Zoriah and with the Baithar the priest, and they followed, and they followed and helped Adonijah. But Zadok the priest, the nai of the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimiah, Rea, and the mighty men who belonged to David were not with Adonijah. So here we have two priests that worked under David, both of them loyal, but now that Adonijah comes, we have a Baithar parting off, siding with Adonijah, but Zadok remaining with David.

Drop down to verse 45.

So if you read through chapter 2, you see that even Adonijah comes, and he tries to convince Bathsheba to give him one of David's concubines, that was going to be a challenge to the throne, where she's actually giving it, in essence, to Adonijah. So he's killed. So in verse 45, you see Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet. Both of these have remained loyal to David throughout. I mean, they stayed with God, and when God talks about it, they never deferred. They had the discernment, they had the loyalty, they saw where God was working, and they never left him. The other Levites, the other line of Levites, as you remember, they did.

They would come back to God, but they made some misjudgments along the way, and God in Ezekiel, the millennial temple, holds him accountable for that, based on the service that he gives them. In verse 45, Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they've gone up from there rejoicing so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you heard Solomon is sitting on the throne.

Second Kings... no, not second keys. First Kings 2 and 24. Okay, this is Solomon speaking then. He's been anointed king by Zadok and Nathan. He says in verse 24, First Kings 2, Therefore, as the Lord lives, who has confirmed me and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has established the house for me, as he promised, at Anijah, at Anijah shall be put to death today. So King Solomon, sent by the hand of Aniah, the son of Jehoiada, and he struck him down and he died.

And to Abiathar the priest, that's the one who had departed from David, incited with Ananijah, and to Abiathar the priest, the king said, Go to Anatoth, to your own fields, for you are deserving of death. But I will not put you to death at this time because you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David, and because you were afflicted every time my father was afflicted.

So Solomon removed Abiathar, from being preached to the Lord, that he might fulfill the word of the Lord, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh. You'll remember Eli was of that other line as well. That didn't hold true to the law of God, teaching the law of God. He was willing to compromise the law and all those things.

So down in 2 Corinthians 2, verse 35, yeah, 1 Kings 2, verse 35, the king, Solomon, put Beniah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar. And so you see what the history of Zadok is. He may have been obscured to us, but then when you get to Ezekiel and you see God actually saying, this is how the service in the temple is going to be divided between the two lines of priesthood, Zadok will be going into the holy place, Zadok will be performing sacrifices, and the other ones will be servants in there.

You can see how God has looked at things down through the ages, and the discernment of that line of priests, how they remained loyal to God, and always were able to discern where God was working the entire time. So it's just notable as we see some of the things there in Ezekiel to look back into the Old Testament and think, what does that really mean, and to look at the stories that are there and the examples that God has set for us that we might overlook.

Okay, any questions on that? If not, we'll get over here to Ezekiel 46, where we're going to start tonight. So, well, let's get to chapter 46. As I said, we're going to see some Old Testament things in here, too, that are very notable.

This, remember, is the Millennial setting. This is the time after Christ has returned to earth. He is there in the temple. The Millennial temple has been built. We've seen the pictures of it. We've seen the beauty of the just a spectacular setting that it's in. We've seen the whole temple district and that whole city of God. Notable is when we get to chapter 48 here, probably next week, where the name of the city is, the Lord is there. The Lord is there. This is His city.

This is what He set up. It's His people that are working and serving in that area. But in chapter 46, we learned more about this Prince that we talked about last week. And you'll remember we had a discussion about the Prince. Some think it could be David.

Even though we see many scriptures in the Bible that indicate he's a human, it talks about him sweating. It talks about him having sons and passing inheritance onto his sons, which indicate that he is a human being. He's not Jesus Christ the Messiah. He likely isn't David. He could well be from the Davidic line of that line because that has always remained intact today as well. He will be overseeing the temple. You have the priests who are administering the sacrificial things and the operations of the temple. But there's this Prince who oversees all the other affairs of the kingdom, the land division that we'll see. He's responsible for sacrifices, collecting sacrifices, seeing that everything stays on time. The operation of the temple is going very well.

And in chapter 46, we see him and are introduced to some of what his responsibilities are in these sacrifices. The sacrifices of the temple, which are real physical sacrifices that will be going on. Chapter 46 in verse 1 says, Thus says the Lord God, the gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six working days, but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. So here we get an insight into what the calendar will be, how time will be marked in the millennial time. We won't be flipping our calendars from April to May like we will in a couple weeks. It'll be like there's the beginning of the there's the beginning of a month, right? There's the new moon. Those will be Oh yeah! Those will be marked, you know, as each month passes from time to time, that will be how God marks time. So when we come to the seventh month and we see that seventh new moon, ah, that's the Feast of Trumpets. Ten days later is the Day of Atonement. Fifteen days later the Feast of Tabernacles begins. That's the way time will be measured at that time.

The different world, but the world that God created. And it's notable then because we see the creation and how it marks time for us just the way that he he had planned it to be.

Yeah, Becky, go ahead. Hi, Mr. Shaby. I'm here. I actually have a question. It's not on this chapter, but it is it does have to do with what you're talking about time. Okay. For night to be, we keep that at sunset on the 15th. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay. I know, like in your last message, you had talked about it being the daytime portion of Passover on that next day.

So it is Passover until sunset has always been my understanding. That the 14th, yes, the 14th is Passover day until sunset, correct. Is it tradition that we keep night to be at sunset or do you know is there scripture? Is it scriptural? It's beginning of it goes back to Exodus 12 42, where it mentions night. If you want to turn back there, you don't have to turn back there. I'll turn back there real quick. It marked Israel coming out of Egypt. And so pictures are coming out of the world that God has brought us out because God miraculously brought Israel out of Egypt. In chapter 12 and verse 42, speaking of that night, it is a night of solemn observance to the Lord for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. This is that night of the Lord, a solemn observance for the children of Israel throughout their generations. So you know, you can see in Numbers 33, it was by night. God brought them out on night at the beginning of the 15th. And it's that night of solemn observance. So it is as the 15th begins, yes. Okay, that's always been my understanding. I thought that I'd heard maybe that it was a tradition, and I didn't think that was correct. I thought scripturally, it's, I mean, I know that Passover was the evening of the 14th and that they didn't leave until the following night. Right. And if you kept it earlier, it would be on Passover, not night to be, right? Correct. You should, it's a night, yes, of the 15th that we keep it on. So thank you. I appreciate you letting me put that in the middle of the Ezekiel chapter. Thank you. But it did have to do with time. It did have to do with time. And we're in a few times the way God wants us to. Thank you very much. Sure. Hey, Kay. Yeah, I just, I was going to say something about the Zadok, about Zadok. Yeah. I closed myself out by accident. But what, but what, I know some people that go by the Zadok calendar today, instead of the Hillel 2 calendar that we go by for the few days. I was just wondering if you could speak to that because it's off. It's off by a couple of days, according to what we do. You taught, you've caught me. I have, I have never heard of the Zadok calendar, so I have to do a little on that. There is. So maybe someone else here has, but I, I haven't heard that one. So yeah, there is a Zadok calendar. Okay. And I just, you know, bottom corner. But anyway, that's all I had. Oh yes. Yeah, I'll let Mr. Murray know something about it. Okay. Okay. Yes, there are so many calendars. Temple calendar, Zadok calendar, New Moon calendar, but we go by the Hebrew calculated calendar. I've been in the church since 19, well, 1964, 65, I guess. And one great test. Here is the test of all calendars.

On the first night of the day of, you know, the night to be much remembered, which is a spin, or the night to be much observed, which is a full board up, is a beautiful full moon. On the 15th day of Abib, we always have a full moon, and that is the test. And then guess what we have on the beginning night of the Feast of Tabernacles? On the 15th of Tishri, of the seventh month, we have again a beautiful big harvest moon, because they are the harvest seasons, right? That's the, and that was the moon, by the way, that was full moon when the pillar of fire with Jesus Christ in it led the children of Israel by night out of Israel on that night to be much observed. So the test of all calendars is that do you have a full moon on the beginning of the 15th of Abib, or the 15th of Tishri, or Feast of Tabernacles? Now, all those calendars fail. I've seen them all fail, except the one that the Church abides by, which is the Hebrew-calculated calendar. Very good, and that's an excellent point. That's exactly what I do. I try to point out there's a full moon, right? There's a full moon tonight, whatever, which we should do to show it's the right calendar. Someone just texted me who's on the Bible study and says, and this says, I believe this ADAC calendar is a solar calendar? Maybe is that a more accurate thing, as opposed to... Okay, okay. Bill Bruce, how are you?

Good. I just wanted to comment on the night to be much remembered. What I've always been told that it is we are to observe it, but the meal part of it is a tradition. That's something that never was commanded in the Bible. Correct. Now, what has come up in Salem many times is somebody will say, well, we can't eat until sundown, but that's not really doesn't really have anything to do with it. And that that's where the tradition part comes in. Yeah, I'd agree. In fact, we had that conversation a little bit this past Sabbath as well. It's okay to start eating a few minutes before. Just don't be together on the night when you're talking and keeping the conversation where it needs to be. Good point. So that really fits in with what I was saying. That's helpful. Thank you.

Okay. Let me get some people in here. Okay, let's go on. Again, we'll see this. We will see this.

Remember the time we're in the millennium, but look at the instructions to the prints here and how life will be. So we have the inner court. We have the priest that's coming in. Let me pull up just again to remind you of what this temple looks like.

So we have Ezekiel's temple, and then we have the priest. Not the priest, the prince.

You have the eastern gate there, and then he—now remember the outer gate there is closed. It's going to be permanently shut because that was where Jesus Christ entered in the Shekinah glory. So we're talking about the inner gates there that are right in front of the altar. It says that the priest—not the priest, the prince—will come in through the eastern gateway, and that will be opened on the Sabbath day, and it'll be opened on the days of the new moon. He'll go in by that way of the vestibule of the gateway from the outside, and he'll stand by the gate post. So you have this vision or this vision, this is again, of the whole temple complex there and what that gateway is into the inner court where the altar is. Let me pull that down and pull up another one that'll show you a little bit closer of what that looks like. And this is the the eastern gate. So you see the seven steps off there to the right as he's coming into that inner gate. It'll mention a threshold that's here in the Bible, and he'll go all the way out through the porch and then stand by those gate posts as these offerings are being offered. So let's read verse 2 again. You can look at that and get a visual of what he will be doing. The principal enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway from the outside, and he'll stand by the gate post. The priests, he's going to bring his offerings, but the priest shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings. He shall worship at the threshold of the gate, then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening. So on the Sabbath and on New Moons, this gate will be open. He will be there. He will be there worshiping. People will be able to be there with him, and I have another artist's rendering of what the porches of these gates look like. Pretty impressive. I I pretty impressive looking if if they've done all this from the Bible. I'll bring that in a minute, but just so you get the visual of what's going on there. Remember, then, the altar is right outside as the priests are going to be handling these offerings. In verse 3, it says, Likewise, the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of this gateway on the Sabbath and on the New Moons. Then it talks about these various offerings that we have. Let me pull up. I'll pull up the porches a little bit later.

Then we go into the offerings, and it gives us pause to think, well, what are these offerings? Again, we talk about them. They're in the Old Testament. If we lived in Old Testament time, we would be very, very aware of what these offerings are. But we might have to remember and think, well, what was the purpose of that burnt offering? What was the purpose of the grain offering and of those things? We have a burnt offering there that is going to happen, and God specifies exactly what that burnt offering on the Sabbath will be. The burnt offering that the prince offers to the eternal on the Sabbath day will be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. Remember last week we had people that were bringing to him these offerings. He has all this land to the east and west of the temple district where crops could grow, where there's pasture land, where these offerings can be done so he can bring or these animals that are brought for sacrifices, and then they can be brought to be sacrificed here. God doesn't leave it to any kind of guessing game. This is what happens on the Sabbath day. The burnt offering, if you want to go back, you can look at Leviticus 1, verses 1-17.

God details what that burnt offering is. It was one where the entire animal, every single part of it was burned completely to God. What it signifies is our complete surrender to God. We give everything to Him, just like Paul says in Romans 12, verse 1, we offer our lives as a living sacrifice. We don't hold anything back from God as He works with us, and as we yield to Him, and as His Holy Spirit leads us, we give more and more of self, less and less of me, and more and more of Him as our life progresses if we are really following Him and living the life He's called us to.

So it's a complete surrender to God, and that's what the burnt offering happens. So every single Sabbath, the prince, the prince and the people are around him on the Sabbath day, he brings it so this burnt offering is there. They will be talking, and they will be signifying. This is what this symbolizes, your complete submission to God, your complete surrender to God. It'll be a powerful lesson, one that we don't have today. We have the books, we have the words of the New Testament, we know what we are to do, we know what they did in the Old Testament time, but you can imagine when they're there and they have the knowledge of Jesus Christ and they know that He is the ultimate sacrifice, He literally gave it all for us so that our sins could be forgiven.

He was the living sacrifice that was required for us to even have the opportunity to have eternal life and our sins forgiven. That's what we do as well. So every Sabbath, they will see these burnt offerings 100% burnt before God. We should turn over to... let's turn over to Hebrews 9. We just read this at Hebrews, but let's read it again because I think it fits in so well here.

It's always good to remind ourselves, especially at a time in the literally millennial temple when people are wondering, will there really be sacrifices? Yes, there really will be sacrifices, and yes, they really will be meaningful, and you and I will be there to be explaining how they fit in so well with what we know today and with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

So in Hebrews 9, and verse 9 is talking about these sacrifices. It says, it was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make Him who perform the service perfect in regard to the conscience. And that's the key word in that verse, the conscience, right? Those physical sacrifices could be an atonement, a covering of the physical sins, but they never did reach into the mind, heart, and soul of people.

They just were a physical covering. Today, Jesus Christ's sacrifice made it possible that His, He can live in us. When we take of that bread, of unleavened bread as we're taking every day during this feast, He lives in us and it affects the way we think, the way we act, the way we react. Everything about us changes. We're literally a new man, you know, with new character, new way of thinking. The conscience, the conscience could never be affected by physical sacrifices, but they are an awfully good reminder.

They are an awfully good reminder that puts God in the mind with those people of the Old Testament had to bring all those animals to be sacrificed. They had God on their mind continually. And as they watched those animals sacrificed and the blood being spilled over the horns of the altar and everywhere, what a reminder of what sin did.

So, it couldn't make the conscience perfect. Concerned only on verse 10. Mr. Shady? Yes, go ahead. Quick question. Yeah. Who are the people with the prince? Who are the people with the prince? Those are the people that would be there. I mean, they talk about people coming to the temple to be taught the way of the Lord. So, it would be the physical people that are alive at that time that live in that area. So.

Okay, thank you. So, verse 10 then, it says, these physical sacrifices were concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of Reformation. But 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. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, he entered the most holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of the heifer, sprinkling of the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, which it did in Old Testament times, and which it will do in the Millennial, an important part, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. So, you can serve him with heart, mind, and soul, and not just physically.

So, I think when we look at what will be taught and wonder, well, why would God want those sacrifices to be done then, it will be a powerful lesson. And I think even for you and me, who will be of the first fruits, if we continue to become those living sacrifices God wants us to be, it'll be an education for us to see that in operation, to see how the physical and the spiritual work together to make a complete impact on us. So, we have these burnt offerings, right? So, that's just part of every Sabbath and every new moon, right? This happens, these burnt offerings. If we go back to chapter 46 of Ezekiel and verse 4. So, we have the burnt offering, and then we have the grain offering that's there as well. And back in, I think this is Leviticus, I don't know if I wrote that one down. Oh, you know, I do want to go to Leviticus 1 for just a second. I want to show you something here that I don't know struck me when I was reviewing it, you know, the sacrifices again, and how it all ties together with what we do today, and the words we even read in Revelation. In Leviticus 1, where it's talking about the burnt offerings, you notice the book of Leviticus, because it just gets right into it. Here's the burnt offerings. Here's exactly how you should do it. If you go down, you know, God gives all the instructions on what it will do. It's an atonement for sin. But down in verse 9, the last sentence in verse 9 says, And the priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, and offering made by fire a sweet aroma to the Lord. As he sees the people there going through these sacrifices, they brought them there. The priests have done it exactly as he said, and you can look at the detail that's there. They've done it exactly as he said. And it's a sweet aroma to God when those sacrifices are done, and he sees the willingness and the detail that the people there are willing to put into it. If you go down to verse 13, you know, he's talking about if it's not a bull, but it's a goat or whatever it is this time, yeah, the sheep are goats. And verse 13, it ends with, it's a sweet aroma to the Lord. Verse 17, if it's a bird, it's a sweet aroma to the Lord when you do it the way he says. And then chapter 2 is where the grain offerings are there, right? And he mentions oil and frankincense should be added to it. Two notable oils that are in the Bible there. And even as he talks about the grain offerings in verse 2 at the end of it, it's an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord. And then he talks about unleavened. Everything needs to be unleavened. No leaven will be part of any offering before God. And we know that. Verse 9, a sweet aroma to the Lord. Verse 12, a sweet aroma, a sweet aroma to the Lord. So then you have the peace offering, which is a little different. It's a thank offering that could be brought at any time.

All these are sweet aromas to the Lord. And we're reminded in Revelation of how the prayers of the saints are sacrifices today. They would bring daily sacrifices. The temple was a very live place that had a lot going on in it. And they had all these sacrifices going on every day. We don't have the physical sacrifices, but daily we should be offering ourselves to God in prayer, in Bible study, in complete yield of this to Him and thinking about Him through the day. They did a lot of work. They did a lot of work physically. We need to be doing a lot of work to be giving ourselves to God. And those sacrifices, those sacrifices of agape that we make with each other, the sacrifices of praise that we read about in Hebrews 12 and 13, all those things are our sacrifices today. Even though we have a lot more time, and we have a lot more time, we, you know, I find myself sometimes thinking, man, I could be doing a lot more, a lot more sacrificing with a time rather than just whatever, whatever, whatever it is you might be doing. But anyway, it's just very interesting when you compare the sacrifices to some of that, when I was talking about a revelation that the prayers of the saints come as a sweet aroma to God. Of course, in Psalm, I don't remember the Psalm, I think it's around Psalm, was it 141 or 41 that talks about our prayers are like sweet incense to God. He appreciates and loves to hear our prayers and the times that we sacrifice to do the things that He would want us to do. So, we go back to chapter 46 here, chapter 46 here of Ezekiel. We see these offerings that are there, the burnt offering, the grain offering on the day of the new moon. He, again, in verse 6, talks about exactly what the offering that would be brought in that day is. A young bull without blemish, six lambs and a ram, and they shall be, and they shall be without blemish. And then the grain offering that will be there as well. He gives all the details of that, an ephar for a ram, as much as he wants to give for the lambs and a hin of oil with everyone. And when the prince enters, he shall go in—he'll, I just took that away—he shall go in by the way of the vestibule of the gate and go out the same way. So, he could—let me put that back up there, I'm sorry. I hit that button, not thinking where we were going here exactly. So, you notice when he comes in, he comes in through those seven steps, the inner court, he goes there to the threshold. That's by the posts that are there, and that's where he's worshiping, and we have the altar that's there. He's watching all these sacrifices that are going in. He comes in that way, and then he goes out that way, in and out of the east gate. That's his entry, and that gate is shut six days of the week, except for the Sabbath, on New Moon Day, or if he brings offerings the other days, he comes in during that time. But on the Sabbath and the New Moon Day, the gate stays open, so the people can go in there and worship God in that eastern inner court as well. The people don't enter. They enter there as they worship, but they don't enter the inner court the same way that the prince does. So, we will see that here in verse 9. Yeah, verse 9. Let me pull this one down. We'll put the other one, another one, up here.

Let's put this one back up here, and you can see the eastern inner court, where the little arrow is. But the people are going to enter into the inner court through either the southern gateway—I'm sorry, that's of course from the outside—they come in either through the inner courts, the southern or the northern, the gates actually, and then they come around, they can worship in here. But they don't come in the same way. They come in, and they enter through these ways. So verse 9 says, when the people of the land come before the eternal on the appointed feast days, whoever enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate.

And whoever enters in by the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. He shall not return by way of the gate through which he came, but shall go out through the opposite gate. So the prince goes in and out of the eastern gate here, but if the people come in through the south, they go all the way through. They pass in front of the prince, and then they go out the outer gate.

Now, you read—you can read various things. I think our UCG commentary has it right. It signifies that when you come into the court of God, you come in as one man, but you are going out another. You are not the same. You don't go out of the court the same man that you were before, but you pass by that altar and everything that's going on over there. You pass over the river that we'll talk to— we'll probably get to that next week in chapter 47—the water that's there. You pass over all that, and you go out the outer gate the other way that you came. So you are not the same after you pass through the temple as you were before. I think that's a very good—exactly what God has in mind to have it specifically say that. They pass by the prince, they pass by the altar, they pass by the water, and they see that. And then when you see if they come in the southern gateway and they're going out this way, they're going out through all the rest of the temple district. They have a long way to walk as they walk past all of the rest of the temple and see the size of it. Next week, we get to chapter 47 next week. When this river is there and all these trees that have living the leaves on them that are there, they pass by all that and they see the whole temple district to get back to where they're going, no matter which way they came. It has to be quite a thing. It's a journey that they go on each Sabbath and Holy Day. And it has some meaning to it that will be explained to them and they'll know why they're doing those things. But it's just an interesting and interesting and a beautiful thing. Well, when you see it and see what God has done and what the people will be thinking as they go through those things.

Okay, verse 10. The prince is there. He's kind of the administrative guy. He's kind of like the one over everything. The priests are doing the work. They're preparing offerings. The line of Zadok is sitting there. They're doing the sacrifices. They're going into the Most Holy Place. The Abiathar line is serving, but not in the same way that the priests do. And the prince is there. He says, The prince shall then be in their midst. When they go in, he shall go in. When they go out, he shall go out. So he stays there the whole time. Now he stays there on the Sabbath day with them. He's not leaving the minute it's over and whatever. He's there. He's among them. He is kind of the leader, if you will, in that respect. He is that. God charges him with these when the sacrifices are done. This is how it's administered. You keep track of all this. You make sure the temple is operating in the way that it's supposed to be operating. And the people understand the spiritual aspects of it as well. Of course, the priests would be doing that, and you and I will be doing that as well as we are teaching these things and what they mean. So as people go and they do it, they learn more and more about God's way. Just like you and I learn more and more about God's way, every Passover that we keep, every year that we eat unleavened bread during the seven days of unleavened bread, the meaning of it becomes richer and richer. And so it will be with them as they go through this and see these rituals every week. You know, when I read about the prince being in the midst, it reminded me of Ezekiel 34 when we were reading of the shepherds. And Ezekiel 34, you remember, God gives pretty much the job description of a shepherd because he says, when he's there, this is what he will do. So everyone, this is a shepherd, which will be all of us. We're all in training for that. You know, we know what to do because this is what he will do. In verse 12, though, it says, as a shepherd, I'm in chapter 34, as a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep. And you know, I have in my Bible that he is among circled. He's to be with his people. I mean, he's there a part of them. They, you know, as they worship, he worships. They see him. They're with him. And God says the same thing about this prince. He's there with him. He's not, he's not going home. He's there for the whole Sabbath day. It says on the days of the week where he may bring offerings, you know, he, he'll come in through the East Gate, but then it'll shut when he's gone. But not on the Sabbath day, not on the new moon days, not on the holy days. He's there the whole time among the people as they come to worship God. And he's, he's part of who they are.

So if we go back to verse 10, again, you get the feel. If you're, you look at the temple, you look at what's going on, and you get the feel of how, how together everything is and how focused on God everything is and what they do and how much of their time is spent in, in thinking about God and understanding what they do and the cleansings that they need to go through as they analyze their lives every day.

And have they remained clean before God? Or does there have to be an offering brought, a sin offering or a trespass offering or whatever? So verse 11, if we go back to chapter 46, chapter 46, at the festivals and the appointed feast days, the grain offering, well, he's to give the details here, shall be an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, as much as he wants to give for the lambs and a hint of oil with every ephah.

And then he can make the prince, he can make voluntary offerings through the week, right? Now, when the prince makes a voluntary, you know, we would say a free will offering, just like we bring an offering to God, we give offerings not just on the holy days, but we send offerings through the month or through the year as well.

Now, when the prince makes a voluntary burnt offering or voluntary peace offering to the eternal, the gate that faces toward the east shall then be opened for him, and he shall prepare his burnt offerings and his peace offerings as he did on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he goes out, the gate shall be shut. The gate shall be shut. So he goes in, he goes out, not all the people are there that day. The congregation, the convocation is on the Sabbath and the holy days, they're there.

They're there with him, but he is bringing offerings to God as well. Voluntary ones, guess who he fits? But in verse 13, we see there is a daily, there's a daily offering that goes on as well. And here's where a little bit of the difference is between the Old Testament sacrifices and the and the millennial sacrifices. In the Old Testament, you'll remember it was morning and evening.

Morning and evening sacrifices every day. In the millennial time, it just talks about in the morning, in the morning. So that's a little bit of difference there. Again, it's a daily reminder. We are God's people, daily a reminder that we have offerings to make today, prayer, Bible study, meditation, remembering that we are God's people, not letting ourselves get so enamored in the world that we forget who we are. So verse 13, you shall make, you shall daily make a burnt offering to the Lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish.

You shall prepare it, you shall prepare it every morning, and you shall prepare a grain offering with it every morning. A sixth of an ephah, a third of a hen of oil to moisten the fine flour. This grain offering is a perpetual ordinance to be made regularly to the Lord. Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil as a regular burnt offering every morning. So there is always something going on to remind people, oh God, this is what we do.

That's a physical thing, which if we were all required to go outside and do something for God, we would probably all remember it. But how many times do we get caught up in, whoops, running late for work? Prayer has to wait until later in the day. You know, we need to be as disciplined with what we do with our offerings to God as we do. And it's, I'm sure, good exercise for the people in the millennium here. God first. Do what He wants to do. Make sure we get done what we need to do to honor and glorify God and remember who we are.

So we have all these sacrifices that are there. Again, if you want to learn more about those sacrifices, you can go back into Leviticus and look at some of those. It's a good education. Again, we'll be needing to know this. This will be some of what we'll be working with. And it'll be exciting. I think it'll be exciting to see how it all works, how it's all taught, and as we see how really, from the beginning of man's time until through the millennium, God had it all worked together.

He had it all worked together. The Old Testament times had tremendous meaning, and then adding on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ that our consciences and our minds and hearts could be touched, where the sacrifices alone couldn't, brings it all together into a complete complete picture.

So what time do we have here? Let's, okay, verse 16. We move into another Old Testament thing that we don't really adhere to today. We know about it, but it'll be in full. Oh, I've got several hands. Sorry about that. As we end the sacrifice, let me take the time here to get some questions. Yeah, go ahead. Let me see. Bill, and then Xavier, and Kay, and Barry.

Okay, one thing I'm wondering about with the sacrifices in the old days, and then this new day, if you will, the old ones looked ahead to Jesus Christ. The whole point was Christ's future sacrifice at that time. But in the world tomorrow, Christ will have already come. So these sacrifices seem to be the same thing except looking back to Jesus Christ rather than looking forward to Jesus Christ. Do you think that's likely? Yeah, I think it's the whole picture, but I think it's also looking ahead to eternity—how you worship God and how you overcome self totally and yield to God. Just like we do now, they will be learning what we do, but they'll also be seeing us. We are first-fruits who have—well, Jesus Christ was the first of the first-fruits—and with this Holy Spirit, we overcame the world, not by our power or by might. I think they'll be looking at that, and that'll be part of what they're taught as well. That's where the future is, and this is what you have to learn in order to overcome self.

Okay, Xavier. Hi, bros, JB. Hi, everyone. Going back to the previous comments about times, do you guys remember when there was those what we call petrods? Yeah. The multiple eclipses that happened in the— Oh, yeah, okay. Yes. All right. At that time, I would always go and look at what these people were doing, some of the methods that were mentioned, and the majority of the time, they missed the full moon because they didn't get to see their new moon when they wanted to. So they were always a day late or two days late, and that just proved because you can't have an eclipse without a full moon.

So after those petrods, I said, these people are—what they have, sadly, is a counterfeit, and they don't realize it yet. But ultimately, with God's help, they will.

Yeah. Well, we're going to get a conversation on it today. We know exactly what the new moon is, right? I mean, NASA tells us exactly the second that a new moon occurs. Yeah, so it's— Yeah, one year, the majority of them didn't see it in Jerusalem, but a group in America, somewhere in the Midwest of America, saw it. So the majority of them were off, they missed it, the full moon came, the eclipse came. You can't have an eclipse without a full moon. We had the night to be able to be observed, and they missed it. And they were way off, and from there I said, yeah, you guys, sadly, are still deceived, and hopefully one of you will be. Yeah. Okay, and God doesn't say, well, they had to wait till they see the sliver, if they could see that sliver, right? There's probably disagreement on that a lot, like you just said. So, okay, Kay.

Yeah, I just want to say that I want to do a parallel of the sacrificial system. When the Israelites came out of Egypt, they had basically forgot everything they learned.

For the most part, because they had the Egyptian influence. So, the sacrificial system was set up so they could learn how to worship God. You know, so you fast forward to the millennial reign, and anybody that's left in the world that makes it through the tribulation, then they're going to have the sacrificial system will be set up so they can learn about God as well, and how to worship Him, because they have no knowledge of that. That's just kind of my opinion, but that's the way I see it.

So much of the world, even if they believe in Christ, they just discount the Old Testament altogether, right? So, they've got to understand the value of it, and it all fits together.

This is part of their learning curve, the sacrificial system, and how they can, with the help of those of us, if we're there. So, anyway, that was just what I wanted to say.

Thank you. Okay. Hey, Barry.

Yeah. Hi, Mr. Shaby. Yeah, thank you, Xavier. Those are full-blood moons in a row that we had. To me, it was God approving His calendar and approving what we're doing in the church, because all four of those hit right on the Holy Days, you know, during the feast, and then also during the the first day of Unleavened Bread. But anyway, that's not what I was getting to. I was getting to the point where, when you, in verse 12 that you just talked about, He said, then He shall go out, and after He goes out of the gate, shall be shut. That meaning the Prince.

And then, but in verse 13, 14, and 15, it says, you shall make a burnt offering of the Lord, of the Lamb. And now, remember who they're talking to? They're talking to Ezekiel, the angel, and Christ. They're talking to Ezekiel, and I think it's He. You shall make a daily burnt offering. In verse 14, and you shall prepare a grain offering. And then in verse 15, it says, thus they shall prepare the Lamb. Speaking of the priests, to me it sounds like Ezekiel is playing a much greater role in this temple than we know. It's almost like he's in charge of it. It looks like he's in charge of divvying the land out. And God is telling exactly how to do it. And in verse 19, He says, then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, and they're showing him all this and explaining, you are going to do this, you are going to do that. Those pronouns are so important here. No, that's who they're talking to, Ezekiel. That's a good point. That's a good point. It's, and you, and you, and he said to me, you're right. That's exactly what it's saying there. That's an interesting, that's an interesting take on that. Yeah. And Ezekiel, when he is resurrected, he is going to have that, this vision of this temple in his mind, like no one except God and the angel that was there with him. So yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Dale. Yeah, yeah, good evening. Hello. I just changed a little bit talking about the people coming in through the north and going out through the south.

You know, they go the same way. They're all in the process of conversion of learning, right?

And working out their salvation. I just thought it was an interesting kind of a supplementary scripture to talk about the eternal saints. It's in Revelation 3 and verse 12, and it says, he overcomes when I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out. But that's interesting. He shall go no more out. That is interesting. Yeah, that is. Yeah, good. Yeah, and I'll write unto him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and I will write upon him my new name. Very good. I thought it was interesting tie in there. I think it is very interesting.

Very good. Yeah. Reggie. Hi. Hello. Oh, wait, wait, Tracy, Reggie, and then then Tracy. I apologize.

Okay. I'm here. I'm thinking that, you know, this is going to be the millennial temple in Jerusalem.

But, you know, there's other parts of the world where people will be living too.

So, will there be places of worship for other areas other than Jerusalem?

I don't know. I've had that same thought, but God doesn't say. God doesn't say.

Everything starts with Israel, right? It seems like Israel is the focus. They're going to be the model nation that God wanted them to be back in the Old Testament times as well. And where it goes from there, it would remember, you know, I mean, as the world, though, as I think about it, when the millennium starts, 90% of humanity has been decimated. And so everyone's on this one area, this one landmass there, you know, where Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, all that comes together. I don't know. When it talks about the Feast of Tabernacles and everyone goes up to the temple for the feast and everything, I don't know. Well, we'll just have to say, I don't know. I don't have an answer to that. It's an interesting question, though, because there will be people will have to understand that in other parts of the world as well. Okay. Hey, Tracy. Yeah. Some answers we'll get later, right? So, yep. Hey, Tracy. Hello. Part of what you were just saying is, there's part of the Bible that says all roads will lead to Jerusalem. I don't know if that's new world or this world. Well, it'll be. I remember when we were in Isaiah, wasn't it Isaiah? It was always you, no matter if you were in the north or south, you were always going up to Jerusalem and down to everywhere else, because it was always up to Jerusalem. That was the goal. And yeah, maybe you've been lying with what you're saying. So anyway, I kind of thought something together that probably, I don't know if this makes sense to anybody else, is she said, we're going to have David's era being priests, probably teaching us how to be priests their way, the way that it was originally intended, are going to have us and the anti-Lamb. They'll have all these people in the middle, dark edges and everything.

That's going to be a lot of common combining of people and eras and understandings. And that's going to be a little bit complicated. It's going to be a lot complicated, but God's got under control. That's why he's calling people from every tongue nation language in the world.

So there's enough to handle and understand what the people who are living over into that time will be.

So God's going to be the one worshiped in the temple. Christ is going to be living the whole world.

And then we're going to be priests and kings. Yes, that's what the Bible says.

I think I feel safe for being a king than a priest because there's too many respects I can make.

Boldness in whoever he wants us to be. We just yield to him and he'll make it.

Well, thank you. Hey, Bob. How are you doing?

Oh, hi. Good evening, Mr. Shaby. The drawings and the diagrams that you're showing are really spectacular and I've never seen it this way before. And what struck me was the people going from the south, they go out from the north and from the north go out to the south.

But what struck me was in the middle of the courtyard was the river of life. So they cross it both ways. And it's very interesting. And although the drawings and the dimensions are very good right now, I always remember what Paul said. We haven't seen anything yet. It's just deep.

And it would be amazing when it all comes into play. But they're big for us right now, but it's still very impressive. The pictures are wonderful. When we see it, you're right. It's going to be like, wow. It's even more than we could have thought. Let me pull you up. Because I see we're at 811. We should... where were we here? I think we'll end there. We're going to get into the Jubilee year. I think we can do that next week. And then there's probably two more weeks on.

Now we'll see. I was thinking we would finish Ezekiel next week, but I don't know if we'll be able to or not. We're going to talk about the Jubilee year. Again, that's going to be a feature that's there as we see as we go on through chapter 46. Let me just pull up a couple more pictures since I pulled them off here, just so you can kind of see. I mentioned before those porches where the people would be. I don't know who did this, but I mean that's kind of a spectacular thing. You can see with the pink door, that's kind of the entrance to the temple there. You've got the steps up to the altar, and then of course this gate, the inner gate for instance, that the prince would be standing in along with the people. He'd be standing up, but then it'll talk about these porches that are there, too. Whoever did these series of drawings, they've got quite a few of them on there. It is really beautiful. It is really spectacular. In this one, you don't see the water as much, but in other ones next week we will. I'll show you another one here, too. It's the same person who did that. This is what their vision of the temple, based on what Ezekiel has. You can kind of see the blue. That's not really water there. You do see down at the bottom of the screen there, where the river is beginning to flow from underneath it and whatever. It does indicate that there will be maybe this area where there are some steps over water. I'm not sure if we see that exactly in the Bible, but probably there because water has a significant part in the way of God as well. Some of the people who are very talented at this stuff, when they put it together, it's like, wow, that is really quite a complex. When you see the whole district, it's amazing as well.

While I've got this picture up, we'll only touch on it next week, but the very last part of chapter 46 there talks about in the four corners. There are these four kitchens where offerings are boiled. Some of those offerings are actually boiled. It tells us there the trespass offerings in verse 20 and whatever. Those are the four kitchens where the priests would be boiling the areas. Those four corners that you see. Pretty sizable little areas that these things are prepared for. Of course, except for the burnt offering, the priests and the Levites are eating parts of those animals that are sacrificed. In the peace offerings, actually the offeror is there, and he eats part of that peace offering is together. He eats it with the priests and the Levites. It's kind of like the family gets together and has this meal. Nothing is to be taken out of the temple, if I recall right from the Old Testament, but they sit there together and eat it. The Bible specifically says what peace the offeror, or what parts the offeror, eats versus the priests eat, which is burnt to the Lord, to God as well. All very orchestrated, all very detailed, everyone doing those things, and all for the right reason. It's quite detailed and quite interesting when you look at everything. Let's stop there, then, since we've been going at it for about an hour here, we don't know where anyone is out. So, I guess any other questions? We'll pick it up next week with the Jubilee year, and then we'll go right into chapter 47.

Chapter 48 has a lot of land divisions and whatever. I think we're not going to read through every single verse of chapter 48. There's a lot of repetition there, but if you have a map that shows how that's all going to be orchestrated by all these borders here that are defined in chapter 48. So, oh, I know what I want to do. I'll take some questions. Well, you know what, before I do that, let me pull something up. We won't do this tonight. Maybe we'll do it next week if I can figure out how to do this. I put this poll together on the various books that people have done. I'll have to figure out how to do that. I thought I knew how to do that, but apparently I don't. Let me just mention the books of the Bible that have been mentioned for the next time. It was Jeremiah, Zachariah, Romans, Micah, Daniel, Acts, and Revelation. We've already done Acts and Revelations. We've been doing these Bible studies on Most Wednesday Nights back to 2020. Acts and Revelation, the details of those are already on the website there at the Home Office Bible study one there. Those are already there. I don't mind going through them again, but if you want to go through those, those are there. Probably if we went through them again, we will have learned or I will have learned more that we could talk about as well. Do remember also that last year it was Acts. The ABC classes did come out on Acts as well. We have those seven booklets. Zephaniah, I think someone mentioned Zephaniah tonight, and Lamentations. We have nine of them. Next week, I'll know how to do the poll. We'll have that come up, and then we'll kind of just see what everyone's thoughts are. But if you have any other thoughts through the week, you can email me and I'll keep a running total through there. I just want to wonder some of those that we'll be going into next because within the next week or two, we will be done with Ezekiel here. Let me take some questions. Bill, Bill Bratt.

I want your answer on something. Daniel 9, 27 talks about Jesus being cut off in the middle of the week. Do you think Jesus will preach something special to fill the remaining three and a half days?

Will he speak something special the last three and a half days? That's actually a long question on that, or a long answer. I think if you go on right now, the ABC classes are in Daniel. If you go online, and I think they might be up to Daniel 9 by now, let me check on that and reference it and get you some links that you can listen to about the whole Daniel 9. It'll talk about those last three and a half years as well.

Okay, may I ask you another question? We're all familiar with the Ten Commandments.

We would be able to go to Exodus 20 or Deuteronomy 5, but there are so many phrases in the Bible where it talks about the commandments and the statutes. Now, Leviticus 23, the Holy Days, it says there are statutes, but where would you tell people to go to see where these statutes would be? Like in Exodus 20 for the commandments, what would be the passage or whatever that you would give to tell people about the statutes? Yeah, well, actually, all the statutes are there in the Old Testament, right? But I would say you look at the Ten Commandments. In the millennium, all those statutes we see there, I think every single one of them are going to apply, right? Because the sacrifices are going to be there. The way you build things, the whole nine yards that's in there, that's the way of life that's going to be there. We say some of those things don't apply today just because of the society we live, but all those things have valid reasons. God doesn't do something just for fun, right? That there's a meaning behind everything that He has in there.

Where we might say, for instance, we don't have a temple today, so the ritual cleansings we don't do, but they all have meanings. The Ten Commandments is where we would be there, and then I would tell people they need to look through the Sermon on the Mount because Christ magnifies those. It's not just physical adherence to the commandments. It's the spiritual as well. Is there some kind of special place in the Old Testament, though, where the statutes are listed? Yeah, well, and you're talking, of course, Leviticus 23, right? We would also look at Leviticus 11, is it 11, where the painted and unclean meats are. There's a lot of portions of that Bible we do adhere to.

We could get you there, Liz. I think we have a booklet that talks about that, or something I've seen that details it, so we can look at that. Okay, I appreciate it. Thank you.

Let me mark that down. Hey, Becky.

Hey there. I have an unleavened bread question. In Genesis 19, when Lot, when the two angels go to Lot's house, it mentions that when they finally agreed to go in and stay with him, he gives them unleavened bread. And I don't know if that's a reference to that taking place during unleavened bread, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, or if it's just like it was in haste. Because I know, like, when Abraham makes the unleavened bread, I get the idea that it's because it was in a hurry. But here, I don't, it doesn't really say. And I just wondered, is there anything else, anywhere that ties in with it that helps us to know? Yeah, I, you know, I don't know. Maybe someone else does. I haven't, I haven't heard that question before. So I, I don't know. This is the first year that it sort of stood out to me in that way. That's an interesting observation, though, that it was unleavened bread. So, you know, I don't know. Okay, thank you. But it makes sense. It makes sense, right? I mean, he took Lot and his family out of there and, and get out, right? Put, get this in out here. That's interesting. Okay. Those can my thought, and the Israelites left during that time. So I thought, well, maybe Lot and his family also left during that time. I think when we see those unleavened bread, I think probably they, they signify something. They signify exactly that. So, yeah, because not work around those, those seasons like that. So. Yeah. And it doesn't say that there was haste to my knowledge. So then it's purposeful to me that it just doesn't say he fed them bread. He fed them unleavened bread. Yeah. And they, and there they were, right? In the midst of an awful society, they were keeping unleavened bread. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of where my thought was, too. I think that's a good, good observation. Very good. So. Thank you for your help in me. Sure. Hey, Reggie and Sandy. It's Sandy this time. I have a question about the Council Pentecost, which we... Yep. Yep. Yep. You froze up on us there, Sandy. I think I know you're going with the question, so. Is what? Okay. Yep. You are. Yeah. Okay. Another, another question while, while they come back on. I think I know where Sandy's going with that question, but we'll let her finish it. So.

Okay. Okay. Well, anyone else? Anything else while, while we're waiting? Oh, I did. Did we lose them? I think we left them all together, right? They're gone. Yeah. They've come back on here in a minute. Let me, let me, let me, let me look at something here real quick before, before we hang up. So.

Okay. Okay. Anything else? Anyone? I think where Sandy was going was the count toward Pentecost. I'll wait and see a couple more hands up. Okay. How about James? James Chapman?

Yeah. So, Rick, I got an ingredient question again. I'm looking at matzo ball soup.

Okay. I'm looking at matzo ball soup. And it says it has, it's for Passover, but it also says it has sodium bicarbonate. Is that a leavening? I thought I'd look at my wife here. I, I think so. I think, I think so. Is there another lady? I think we throw anything out that says sodium bicarbonate. It's got leavening. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's what I thought. I know there's, there's bicarbonate of soda, I think. But why would they say it's for sodium bicarbonate? I don't understand. Yeah, I don't know. We don't, we don't eat matzo ball soup. A lot of that stuff is done for Jewish holidays, and they do those things so much different. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Hey, John Flink. Yeah, back to the questions on the unleavening bread. Do we have to have like matzo, the crackers, every single day, or just any unleavened bread? I, I think it's any unleavened bread. I, yeah, matzo seems to be the easiest one that a lot of people eat, but if it's unleavened bread, it's unleavened bread, right? Some of, some love, yeah, it doesn't have to be matzo.

Okay. All right. Thank you very much. A long time ago, you had to have some piece of matzo every day. Yeah, you need to have, you need to have unleavened bread every day, right? And yeah, it doesn't specify matzo that you said is unleavened. I think, I think it was just the people that said that. Yeah, that you had to have, had to have leaven, I mean the, uh, matzo, yeah.

Well, yeah, but it could be unleavened, and some people make their own unleavened bread, right? Yeah. Perfectly fine, too, so. Yeah, the day. Yeah. Hi, Sherry. Hi.

You look very good to you, so. All right. Thank you very much.

You're looking good, Sherry, so I hope you're feeling good, so. I hope I feel better, look better than I feel. Okay, okay. Well, we're keeping you in our prayers, so. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Sandy, are you still with us? Yeah, there you are. See you over here. Yeah, I'm sorry. We lost our connection. We had to reconnect. I don't know how much of my question you heard. You were talking about the count toward penny cost.

And that's, yeah. At the wave sheath offering, which I always understood it was this, the first Sabbath within the days of Unleavened Bread. Yeah. But the count started on the Sabbath before the first day of Unleavened Bread this year. Right. And that was, yeah, the Church has said that the key, the key day is the actual wave sheath offering day. The wave sheath offering day needs to occur during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And they based that on Joshua 5, right? Because if you look at Joshua 5, there was an explanation that was sent out about this, but if you look at Joshua 5, there was a Passover, and then they were eating, they were eating of the grain the day after, which indicates that the wave sheath offering happened that very same day, so that early on in the Feast, so that they could eat the grain, because God said you can't eat of the grain until the wave sheath offering was done. So that is why the Church bases is on that. Yeah, look at Joshua 5, and there is an explanation. It was in one of the Home Office updates two or three weeks ago, but we can get you that as well. If you go look at Joshua 5, you'll see the day after the Passover, they were eating the grain, and so that indicated the wave sheath was done on that day. So the Church has said it's sort of one of those exception years then. Yes, one of the unusual years like this year that there is no Sabbath within. If we waited until the Sabbath this week, which is the last day, then the wave sheath offering day would be outside the days of Unleavened Bread, and the wave sheath offering day is the important thing that is inside the days of Unleavened Bread.

I figured it was an explanation. I just first time I remember it falling like that. Yeah, thank you. It happens rarely. Okay, thanks. Okay, Bill Bruce. Good deal. Well, here I am. Hey, listen. So I know this is going to sound stupid, but the Unleavened Bread that we bought I absolutely love better than leavened crackers. It's like crackers. And could I eat that every day of the year? Well, you know, it's funny because someone mentioned that just last week to me that they like the Unleavened Bread all through the year. And I said, as long as you remember, it's special that you're eating it during that time. It doesn't become commonplace because for the rest of us, it's like every time you bite into that, it's like there's a reason I'm eating this this week. So it's like the same thing with the Sabbath. You're not supposed to pursue your own pleasures, right? My pleasure studying the Bible.

Oh, that's good. That's good. That's what God would be pleased with. Yes, keep doing that.

Anyway, thank you. Did you have another? Bill Brath, did you have another question?

Nope. I didn't take the hand down, did I? Okay, that's okay. That's okay. Okay, well, Ben, let me see. It's like 8 30, so it has been very good. Very good to be with all of you here tonight. Have a good rest of the week, good last holy day and Sabbath. We rolled into one and here in a few days, and we will look forward to seeing you next Wednesday. Okay, we'll do a poll on that. If you have any thoughts on the books of the Bible, let me know. Okay, good night.

Bye, see you now. Lisa, ciao, everyone. Bye-bye.