Ezekiel Bible Study: April 30, 2025

Okay, so we are going to finish up Ezekiel tonight. It's been a long time in the book of Ezekiel. We've actually done two very long books in a row, Isaiah and then Ezekiel. But we have learned, at least I hope we've learned a lot throughout these books, about the times we live in today, the type of things that we should be learning and applying into our lives as we live our lives. Not afraid of prophecy or what's happening, but growing closer to God and allowing His Spirit to give us the strength and to always pray for Thy kingdom come. I think it's been fascinating to go through the temple chapters and get a vision of what life will be like in that temple area, in that temple district. And tonight, as we finish the book up, we'll look at some of the land divisions that God has, therefore the people of Israel. As we look at chapter 48, it can be kind of a mundane chapter because it has all these, you know, this much for Dan, this much for Asher, this much for Naftali. So we won't look at every single word here in this chapter, but we will rehearse the map. We began to look at that a little bit so we can see how God delineated everything and how He lays it out very orderly. Just remember, as we are going through this, that it is physical Israel that He is talking about here, as He brings the people back from where they've been scattered around the world into the land that He promised Abraham all those millennia ago. He will put them there. What we read, there is also the land division that was back in Numbers 34. I have a map that kind of shows, I'm not sure how well the map that I pulled off the internet is, that shows the slight differences between what's in Ezekiel 48 and Numbers 34 as far as the land divisions. The purpose of it was to show that Israel didn't get all the land. They didn't conquer all the land that God had promised them at that time, but He will this time provide all the land that He had promised to them.

Jim mentioned about physical Israel. Remember, they are physical Israel. These are physical people that live over into. Remember that Israel is a God-says-and-I-say-that-He-created Israel.

They are special people because He did create them. They did come from miraculous births like Isaac to Abraham and Sarah, and then Esau and Jacob, and then Joseph, you know, born to Jacob. All through that lineage that is called Israel, He created them. So, very special people. He always intended for them to be the model nation. That's what He wanted them to be. They never achieved that in the Old Testament. Today, we live by God's laws, but we're not the physical nation of Israel. The United States and Canada and Australia are, but we're the spiritual people. But, you know, in the millennium, the physical people will fulfill God's what He always desired for them. So, let me pull up a map here.

Which one of these? Let me pull up this one. I didn't show you this one last week. I think this one actually is a little clearer, and it ties it more to the Bible, so you can even see where they're getting their delineations from. I'm only going to mention the tribes as we go through the first several verses. We'll focus a little bit more on the Temple District, because God does spend a lot of time, again, talking about that Temple District that they see there, just below the midline on that map. But He has it all lined out by the cities here. He says exactly how He wants it done. The tribe of Dan is in the northern part. In verse 3, it's Asher. South of Asher is Naphtali. Then Manasseh, Ephraim, Reuben, and Judah. After you have Judah, then you have the Temple, the Temple District that's there. In the Bible, we're down at verse 8 then in chapter 48.

You have that Temple District. That's a pretty large area. You can see the amount of land that God has done there. For just the Temple District, you have some land allocation that's similar to Judah and Reuben, even a little bigger than that. As I looked at the trying to figure out what 25,000 square foot was, it talks about those areas where it says the priests and Levites there. That's like a 10 square mile area back in there. But let's just read verse 8. It says, by the border of Judah from the east side to the west, from the east of...I have some people waiting to get in here...from the east side to the west, you shall set apart 25,000 cubits in width and in length the same as one of the other portions from the east side to the west with the sanctuary in the center. You can see where the sanctuary is there for the priests. That's the Zadok line of priests, the little star there where it says priests. The temple is right there in the middle of it, and then you have all that area around the temple that's there. And that entire area where the prince is on the east and west side, that's what the peace stands for, the Levites below, and then we'll get down to where the workers are. All that is called the temple district. It is a it is a veritable city and large area that that God is working with there in that area. So let's just read through it because he gives a little bit more detail, especially about the city workers in that southern section of the district as we go through this. Verse 9, it says, the district that you shall set apart for the Lord shall be 25,000 cubits. That's the 10 square miles. To these, to the priests, the holy district shall belong on the north side, or on the north 25,000. On the west, 10,000. That's where it says in verse 10, again, the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the center, exactly as you see it there. It will be for the priests of the sons of Zadok. And you remembered we talked about the sons of Zadok. And again, when God says things once, we pay attention. When he says it twice, he wants us, I think, to pay even even a little more attention because he repeats who the sons of Zadok are and why they're important to they have this space designated for them. They are the ones who are sanctified, who have kept my charge, who did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. And you remember we did talk about that on how the line of Zadok stayed loyal to the kings, down to David. And it was the Levites at the time that departed from David, I believe, at that time when we, or no, I guess it was Solomon that they did. So, Scott specifically talks about that just as we've talked about before. Shows that what we do in this life does matter, that we always want to ask God for the discernment and help lead us and let him lead us in the direction that he wants us to go, always following his word, knowing the Bible well, and keeping our focus on the word and following him and following the truth.

So, it shall be for the priests, the sons of Zadok. Verse 12, it says, And this district of land that is set apart will be to them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites. So, you'll remember that when God was talking to the prince that this land was for his, this was specifically designated for the entire millennium, this was their land. So, the priests had their lands, it was going to be theirs. They couldn't give it away.

No one could take it from him when God gives land, and he intended people to live on the land so they could see the benefits of it and feel, feel and learn about what he had created because we do learn a lot about God through the creation that, that, that he made. So, it's an important thing, and he wanted everyone to have land. So, he says, it'll be a thing most holy by the border of the Levites. And then he says, opposite the border of the priests in verse 13, the Levites will have another area this time with 25,000 cubists in length, 10,000 in width. Verse 14, They shall not sell or exchange any of it.

They may not alienate this best of the land, for it is holy to the Lord. So, that area, I mean, God specifically designated it for the priests and Levites, and that area, they're never, they're not to get rid of any of it. They're not to be blending it out, that lending it out or anything like that. It's the best part of land, for it's holy to the Lord.

Let me, I see some hands, but let, let me, let me move through here a little bit more, and then, and then we'll take some questions all at one time as we, as we move through this. So, just, we can do that. Verse 15, the 5,000 cubits in width that remain along the edge of the 25,000 shall be for general use by the city.

So, you can see that area down there for dwellings and common land, and the city shall be of the center. So, you see that designated in this map. So, we get a little bit more detail about what that workers section is. It says a little bit smaller than the priests of Levite's land, but he says the city there that they, that will be there is, is, is right there in the center.

Now, yeah, let's drop down to, yeah, because the, the verse 16 is a, is a lot of measurements. Verse 15 is, verse 17 is, verse 18. The rest of the length, alongside the district of the holy section shall be 10,000 cubits. It shall be adjacent to the district of the holy section. Its, its produce shall be for, it shall be, its produce shall be food for the workers of the city. So, you really have a whole little community going on here. You know, God has provided for everything.

We know the priests of Levite's, they are provided the, the food because people are bringing their offerings, their tithes, and, and the priests of the Levites eat that. We have the city workers, and he's provided for the produce to be workers of the city that are, they're common in that area. So, God has everything thought out very, very orderly and all, all, all there. The workers of the city, verse 19, from all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

So, it's not just for one tribe, but any one of those 12 tribes could come and work in that, in that area if they, if they want to. And then he repeats again that the, how large the entire district will be, and that is, it's quite a, it's quite a big area there, as you, as you can see.

And then on verse 21, it talks about the prince's area again. You remember the prince? He's a, he's a feature in, he's a feature in the book of Ezekiel, because he's responsible for all the administration of what's going on at the temple, the sacrifices. He's not a priest, but he does have a special role. He's got this land that on either side of, of where the priests, Levites, and the city section is.

And he has, that's places that for pasture, places for crops, the whole nine yards, again, a very self-sufficient area. He's got sons, he's got, he's got a lineage there that he can lease some of this stuff out to, but the inheritance always stays with the prince, as, as you remember. So it says in verse 21, the rest shall belong to the prince on one side and on the other of the holy district and of the city's property next to all of this land that's there.

Let's see here. So then we move down into verse 22. You know, we see what the rest of the tribes, what their land is allocated. As you go south of the temple district, you have Benjamin in verse 24. You have Simeon in verse 25, Issachari in verse 26, Zebulun in verse 27, and then you have Gad down there at the very southern border. So you have the tribes of Israel all there surrounding, you know, the temple district. That is the land that God delineated for them. Let me pull this other map up.

This is the other map that they said. So where it is in the, in red, the borders that you see there, that they say is where, see that's why now that you look at it even more, it looks like there's more land designated there in Numbers 34 than in Ezekiel 47. And the commentaries indicate that there's more land being allocated in the other one. So I'm not sure how accurate this map is, but it gives you another topographical map, you will, of the area of the world that we're in there. So okay, let me stop that. The rest of the verses are pretty interesting in here. Of course, we've been talking about the temple area, we've been talking about God. Okay, well, yeah, let me go ahead and take some questions since I see four of them here. Okay, go ahead. Yes, I want to speak to what you said about the Levites. Yeah. And for David, you know, they kind of disappear.

But if you read about Zacharias and Elizabeth, they were Levites, right?

Well, remember, yeah, they didn't disappear. What they did was they sided with the wrong side, if I can put it that way, but then they didn't come back. But the line of Zadok stayed remade. They were always on the, if I can use the term, right side on God's side through the entire thing, but the Levites strayed, but they always did come back to God. Okay, so my other question is, if John the Baptist was the son of a Levite priest, if you go by the succession, wouldn't John the Baptist also be a priest? Technically? Yeah, probably. Olivia's spirit being when he's resurrected. Well, I meant at the time. At the time. At the time, yeah. Well, he was a prophet. That's what he, yes, what he did. So yeah. Yeah, but just because he was the son of a priest, wouldn't he? The line would have gone in there. Yes, God had a different purpose in mind for him. So okay, I know that. I know. Yeah, I just, I thought that was interesting. That's all I have. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Hey, Bill.

Oh, that's why I thought that the Pharisees and Sadducees went out to him to get baptized, because they knew he was the son of a reigning priest. I'm done. There you go. He was known. Okay. Betsy? So on the prince, I remember talking, you were talking about that several weeks ago, but that will be a human at the time. It will be a human. The Bible indicates that, right? Because it says he has sons. It even talks about what he should wear, and they're, so that they're not sweating. Remember that? There's those verses in there. So it is a human, yes.

So it won't be someone that is converted, that survives through the tribulation into the millennium. It's going to be someone at that time after Christ returns. After Christ returns, yeah. A physical human being could, you know, some people, and this is 100% speculation that it could be of the line of David, right? That that would be there. But it wouldn't be David himself. David is called the prince, as someone pointed out a few weeks ago. But he's going to be a spirit being. He's going to be king, overall, Israel under Jesus Christ. So he wouldn't be the prince, but it might be someone from his line that that's there. But we don't know that for sure. Okay. Okay. And hands moved around. Bill, Brad, were you the next one? I think maybe so.

I'm not sure, but my quick question. Do you have any idea how vertical up and down on that map that we're talking about in miles? Any idea? I know. You know what? I didn't check that out. That would be a good question, though. So to see how long that is. No, I didn't. I didn't do that. If someone else knows that, you know, let us know. So I didn't check it out. All right. Thank you. Pretty pretty sizable area, though. Tracy. I'm just curious for you getting these maps.

You can get them on Google. I type in Ezekiel 47 maps or Millennial Temple maps or Land Division of Israel in the Millennium lap, and you can get those things on Google, and they've got an assortment of them there. You just google them up. You're looking for it. It comes up. Yep. I look for the one that looks more that's closest to the Bible. It is approximately 200 miles. Oh, 200 miles. Okay. Very good. And then Barry. Hi. Yay. How are you doing? Okay. Yeah, getting back to the sons of Zadok in the regular Levites. Remember back in chapter 44, verse 10, it says, the Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray, who straight away from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity. Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary as gatekeepers of the house and ministers of the house. They shall slay the burning. So they're working. It looks like the sons of Zadok have the premier jobs there, but they're going to be the gatekeepers. So the people that say, I want to be a gatekeeper in temple. Well, it looks like that's already been taken. That's already been taken, right? But they're there. They're there and they're serving the temple. Exactly. It's like a pretty good job, right? A pretty good thing to do. So, you betcha. Okay. Let's finish up the last few verses here. As we talk about the millennial temple and all the splendor and all the detail that God has given us, and last week we compared it to the temple that comes down from heaven, right? In Revelation 21 and 22. So we come down to verse 30. You know, we have God talking about these exits from the city, right? And there's all these exits for all the 12 tribes of Israel. Verse 30, chapter 48. These are the exits of the city on the north side, measuring 4,500 cubits. The gates will be named after the tribes of Israel.

The three gates north, and then he names them. One for Reuben, one for Judah, one for Levi. On the east side, same measurement. One for Joseph, one for Benjamin, one for Dan. On the south side, one for Simeon, one for Issachar, and one for Zebulun. And on the west side, one for Gad, one for Asher, and one for Naftali.

Now, it is interesting as he talks about these, and they're all named after the 12 tribes of Israel, which is fascinating. But that's exactly what God says back here in Revelation 22, when we talk about the 10th and 12th gates that are there. So if we look at Revelation 22, verse 9. I'm sorry, Revelation 21, verse 9. 21, verse 9. You have God describing this temple. I don't want to read too much of it here. I have 9 to 17. Well, let's go ahead and do it. It's a beautiful set of scriptures.

Verse 9. One of the seven angels who had the seven bulls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone clear as crystal.

So this isn't the millennial temple. This is one, you know, after the physical earth is gone, God descends from heaven. There's this temple that's descending from heaven. She had a great and high wall with 12 gates and angels at the gates and names written on them, which are the names of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel. So you can see now how just how special Israel is to God. Again, he sells us, you know, in Isaiah, we read it several times. I created you. I created you. They're his people. They're his special his special people.

And of course, spiritual Israel that we are today is very special opportunity that God has given us as well. Three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, three gates on the west. And the wall of the city had 12 foundations, and on them were the names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb.

So yeah, the 12 tribes of Israel, where the gates are, and on the foundations you had the names of the 12 apostles. And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall. The city is laid out as a square. Its length is as great as its breadth, and he measured the city with the reed, 12,000 furlongs.

Verse 17, you know, just does that as well. And then, of course, as you go through the rest of the chapter, you see the stones that God has built into that temple. A beautiful, a beautiful, a beautiful thing. Of course, as you go on here, you know, the glory of God is what lights that temple up. So you have, you know, we have this millennial temple, and then we have the temple coming down from heaven.

The millennial temple has gates. It's got the names of the 12 tribes. The heavenly temple that comes down has the name of the 12 tribes. And let me, let me finish up here, verse 35, and then we'll take some comments. Verse 35, this is all the way. I'm back in Ezekiel 48.

I'm sorry. Make sure I haven't forgotten something here. Yeah, verse 35 in Ezekiel 48, all the way around shall be 18,000 cubits, and the name of the city from that day shall be the Lord is there. It's quite a name, isn't it? I mean, some of our cities are named after people, some are named after places and whatever, but that city, the Lord is there. And when you look that up in the Hebrew, it's Yehovah, Shama, which means divine presence.

And so you have God dwelling in that area. And what a special place on earth that will be when you have that whole temple area. When you read in Isaiah 2 and in Micah 4, where it says, let's go up to the house of the Lord, up to the mountain, there he will teach us his ways.

You can kind of just visualize, now that we've been through this, what that will be like as people come to that very special area of the world where it's called Yehovah, Shama, or the Lord is there, or divine presence, because that's where God is. That's where his law will go forth. That's where people will be administering and exactly where he is.

The whole world will be united in the truth and in the way of God by being taught that by people all over the world. So a very fitting conclusion to the book.

So okay, do we have... how about Darlene? You got a question? I do! I noticed and I'm wondering why. So with the land distribution, you have Manasseh and Ephraim, but then when it comes to the gates, it's the original brothers. So there's no Manasseh and Ephraim, it's Joseph and Levi. And I'm wondering why that is. Why that is, is you'll remember that God did put... He did have it. Jacob put his blessing on Manasseh and Ephraim, the sons of Joseph. And so he did say that there's going to be 13 divisions here in the land so that Manasseh had its own area and Ephraim, just as today they are two separate countries, but two separate areas, but they did come from Joseph.

The gates are 12, but the land areas are 13. That's the main area. Thank you.

And I've lost... Let me see, we got Bill Bruce.

So won't there be other... Wouldn't there be something about...

Well, they'd have part of the land, the strangers or whatever, or is that talking something different? No, we talked about that last week. God said if there's any strangers that want to dwell with you, they will have a land inheritance within that as well, but they have to abide by all the laws the same as Israel. They become part of Israel at that point. But I mean, will they be in part of that division or included somewhere else? No, the strangers can live in those divisions, whatever tribe they want to be in. Oh, that's right. I remember reading that now. Now, that's part 4723, chapter 4723.

Anyway, I had a question about Zadok. Yes. Now, Zadok, you think he... I'm talking about the original Zadok. You think he had the Holy Spirit? I think those priests... Yeah, I think the high priest did. That means that he'll be there and be able to watch his descendants be the priest, you know, and maybe see over them a little later. That would be interesting.

That would be interesting. Yeah, that's... I mean, it looks like God did give the kings of Judah the Spirit. I remember it did say that about Saul, but then Saul, by his actions, God took the Spirit away from him because he disregarded him. So David clearly did. Solomon, in the beginning, how he was the rest of his life. At the end, of course, he seemed to acknowledge God pretty thoroughly. So yeah, I think the priests did too, especially the ones who were loyal to God like Zadok throughout. Now, is Revelation 22.15 the same one somebody brought up last week when it talks about dogs on the outside and sorcerers and oramongers? Yes, I think so. I think what God is reminding there is that, you know, when we see these beautiful pictures of millennial temples and God descending to earth, that there won't be people who have not come out of sin that are going to be there. I think that's just a reminder to all of us that, you know what? Yes, work on purifying yourself so that you're there using God's Holy Spirit.

You know, back to Zadok, that reminded me of David and how humble he really was, because remember, he said he basically told God whatever, you know, as far as with Absalom. If it's Absalom, I'll accept it. If it's me, it was God's will, whatever it was. Yes. All right. Okay. Bob Lomboy, hi. Hello, Mr. Shaby. I'd like to comment on the map, the strips, the distance from north to south. Okay. So the scholars came up with Ezekiel 4714 as a justification.

It would be equally inherited one or another. Okay. And based on the 25,000 cubits on the Holy District, they deduced that that is equivalent to seven, eight miles for that one strip. Okay. So equally, it turns out that from north to south, it'll be 84 miles, roughly. So each tribe will have seven miles north to south. Oh, very good. Okay. Okay. Yeah, pretty well equally divided. It's just straight lines across there. So you can kind of, yeah, see they have about the same amount. Very interesting numbers. Yep, it is. We got Kay. Yeah, I just wanted to talk again about the Sojourner because it says in Exodus 1248 and 49 about Passover, right, that if they're circumcised, that they could be as a native born. It specifically says that there is one law for native born for the Sojourner who is Sojourner among you. So as long as they're an obedience, then they are as native born. Yep, that's exactly right. They have to commit and do what Israel will do. Same thing when you mention circumcision that is set in Ezekiel for the Sojourner that are in that area as well. So, okay. Let me see. Tracy, one more?

Yeah, I should just one more at the moment. Anyway, I just was wondering, well, you said that they had the Holy Spirit, and I've been in the case, a lot of them screwed up and went south, except that they weren't living in the New Testament with the gospel message, so they still have the opportunity to live again and learn, or if they kind of turn their back on God and they'll be in like a fire. Yeah. Are you talking about Zadok or someone else? No, just the high priest had the Holy Spirit, right? Yeah, I don't want to speculate on what God might do, right? He's the judge. He knows what was in their heart, so I, you know, yeah, I don't know. I know the guy that's also... I think he said no of his, but it's somewhere. Yeah, he's ultimately fair, so, yeah, he'll... everyone will have an opportunity, so. Just curious. Okay, very good. Anything?

Any... any other questions? I'm looking at hands here. I don't see anything else.

Barry, go ahead. Yeah, I think I told you this, what my speculation is here, that it was actually Ezekiel that God was giving him this vision, and he was the one that God said to divide this land up, you know. He had special things that, you know, Ezekiel was actually looking... it looks like he prepared a lot of these offerings, and then the priests actually offered the sacrifices. But, you know, over in chapter 47 in verse 13, thus says the Lord God, and he's speaking to Ezekiel, these are the borders by which you shall divide the land as an inheritance. Okay, and then later on in 47 in verse 21, and you shall divide this land among yourselves to the tribes of Israel. 32, it says it shall be that you will divide it by lot. And then, they shall be to you as they did born. Okay, yeah, Bill just mentioned that. And it shall be that in whatever tribe the sojourners, there you shall give him his inheritance. And it's like, you know, all throughout these last eight chapters of Ezekiel, you know, when God says you, I think he's talking to Ezekiel specifically, and he's going to have a giant job to do in this millennial scene.

Anyway, that's my speculation. Yeah, I have no reason to disagree with you. I mean, once it's done, it's done, right? Once it's all allocated, it's a big job, but you're right. And Ezekiel is going to see all of that. He's heard what God said. When he's resurrected, he'll remember all this, so it may well be his job. So when it's done, it's done. So yeah, good to be. We'll find out. We have a lot to find out.

We have a lot to find out when Christ returns. So, okay, I thought what we might do. I've got a couple other things because I knew this wasn't going to take long. I know last week we talked a little bit about Daniel 12 and the daily sacrifices and the abomination of desolation. So I prepared something on the abomination of desolation that we could talk about, the one under Antiochus Epiphides, if you want to do that. I also have a summary prepared in the book of Ezekiel. It's such a wide-ranging book and so much in it that I thought maybe we could go through a summary of it just to kind of refresh our minds of what we've talked about because there's four major sections of Ezekiel that we've gone through. I got puts things in order that we could kind of remember some of those things that we talked about as we put the whole book together.

I do want to do what time is it here? You know, we might have time to do both. Why don't we go ahead? Why don't we go ahead and do the summary of Ezekiel and then we'll do the abomination of desolation. So for those who are newer, who haven't heard exactly what Antiochus Epiphides did, it's a very educational thing when he came into Jerusalem and pretty much just completely upended the Jewish religion. Now when Christ says, you know, when you see the abomination of desolation, we can expect a similar thing is going to happen at the time of his, at the time that it's nearing his return. So why don't we do the review? Bernice, if you got a question while I pull up, while I pull this thing up here. So. I was wondering, can you share the summary of Ezekiel with us, like a copy or something that we can have? Yes, yeah, I'll go through it. And then if you want it, I don't know on our new website if I can post something on that and you can go download it. But if you want one, if you email me, I can just email it. I can email it to you as well, probably just as easy as posting it up on a website someplace. So okay.

Let me see what I've done here.

Okay, so.

Yeah, I've got a big bucket. So anyway, so we have four parts to Ezekiel. And this will recall. And if you have anything special you'd like to say during this time, if you recall something that that there are any of these sections, feel free to say that. I think it's a good review for everything. In the first three chapters, you'll remember of Ezekiel. In chapter one, we have a vision. God takes Ezekiel on a vision of heaven, of the throne room. And you'll remember we talked about the visions that God gave to Ezekiel. It's like when he was ready to reveal something to Ezekiel, he had a new purpose for him to do or something else he wanted him to be able to see or prophesy on. He would take him in a vision to a various place. So we have in chapter one the whole throne room. Of course, he gets Ezekiel's attention at that time. He falls down on his face, right? Because who wouldn't when you're in the presence of God and he knows that God is calling him to do this work?

One of the things as God repeats there, it's like he's going to be a prophet to the rebellious house of Israel, remembering that the house of Israel at that time, the physical one, had already gone into captivity. So we know many of the prophecies in the book of Ezekiel are for the end time house of Israel, especially as we go through those prophecies and see some of those things happening in our world today. So he tells him, you're going to be the watchman.

One of the things that I remember well during that section is Ezekiel, they're not going to listen to you, but you're going to tell them anyway. So it's really the same commission that we have today. The world may not listen to us. Maybe other people that should listen to us aren't listening to us. He says, do it anyway. That was Ezekiel's commission, and he did that.

So when we go down to the next section of the book, in chapters 4 through 24, he talks about Judah and the impending disaster. You will remember that we spent some time going back into Isaiah, back into Jeremiah, as we went through some of these chapters, because Isaiah talked about some of the things that God prophesied, and Jeremiah did as well. As we went through all those sections where God, in a lot of detail in the whole 20 chapter section there, talked about the detailed sins of Israel and how he took care of them and everything else. Chapters 6 and 7 are very intense chapters. Chapter 7 is a really interesting chapter. I think we could really relate to that when we look at our world today. That's the chapter. It's kind of written in a poetic type form. If you recall, it'll talk about a singular disaster, and then over and over the end is near, the end is coming, and then you go down to the end of the chapter. It says, disaster upon disaster, that these things as the nation moves further and further away from God, more and more disasters occur to it, indicating it's impending doom.

Chapter 8 is quite interesting chapters. Again, God takes Ezekiel on a vision, and he shows them, if you recall, in the temple at that time, the sins, the abominations that are being done in the temple that the people don't even know about behind closed doors and in secret. You'll remember we laid out the map of the temple there, and God would take Ezekiel up to one room, and it'd be like, look what they're doing! They're worshiping Tammuz, and then he would take them to another one, and he'd say, no, look, there's even a greater abomination than these, and he would move to four or five different things, and then finally you remember, you know, he's like, look, look, Ezekiel, there's 25 men, and they're out, they're facing east, and they're pretty much worshiping the sun, is what God was saying. So he was showing the secret sins of the people that were being done behind closed doors, and then in chapter 9, chapter 9, he talks about these men, and there's one that has the writers in corn, and he tells them to go around, and the people who are sighing and crying over the sins of Israel and Judah that put a mark on their forehead, right? Put a mark on their forehead because they're not participating in those sins, but they are aware of them, and they're living the life that God wants them to live. So they have this mark on them, and then God says, then he goes out and he says, kill, kill the rest, kill the rest of them, right? But don't come near the people that have the mark on their forehead that are sighing and crying. Of course, that's a message for us today, you know, that we don't, you know, we don't revel in the world around us, and as we see the world crumbling around us, or even things, you know, people in the church, you may go astray and who may do things that are just completely outside, and you think, how can you do that? I mean, sigh and cry and pray that they will come back to their senses and keep following God and not allowing their own selfish ways and the ways of the world to sink into lives, but always be looking to God. But sigh and cry and pray, pray for those people. And that's a notable thing that God tells us that we should all remember, but I felt one of the things that is quite poignant in chapter 9, when he says, go out and kill those who are not sighing and crying and who don't have that mark on their head that they're following God, and he says, begin at my sanctuary. So I know as we've gone around to the various regions of the United States and talked about, you know, the responsibility of elders and things, we have pointed that or verse out all the time, because it says, begin, begin at my sanctuary, begin with the elders in my sanctuary, because we are responsible to set the examples of the ways of God's way of life and to be living it. To set the example to be living it and to be to be teaching it.

So let me see if I can move this down a little bit here.

So as we go down, yeah, we have very many prophecies. I've got some of them listed here. Oh, one thing I didn't mention. You remember that early on when God was going to have Ezekiel prophesied. He didn't give him just words. He gave him things to act out, like laying on your side for a while. And then later on, he had other things that he needed to do as well. In chapters 12 to 19, you'll probably remember the very graphic comments that God has there about how Israel, how he raised her up, he clothed her, he made her into something, and then she became a harlot and, you know, pretty much betrayed him in the way she acted and was looking for everything around the world rather than staying close to him. Of course, it's a picture of us. You know, if God calls us and he gives us the opportunity to know him and to have the calling of the invitation to the wedding supper that he's given us, we stay loyal to him. We don't look at the world and, you know, be all about and everything else like that. Like he pictures, you know, the harlot and that thing that ancient Israel was, if we wouldn't do that either, we would remain loyal to him. And then, you know, finally in chapter 20 and 24, we have the final siege of Jerusalem, and it actually falls during that time when Ezekiel and them are in captivity. And then in part three, we have, remember, we talked about seven different nations that surrounded Judah there and the prophecies against each one of them. Each one of those border on Judah's land there. And we talked about Tyre and Sidon, a magnificent prophecy in Tyre. We talked about it when we were in the book of Isaiah as well.

But all those lands, all those lands fell. And if you remember, because that section is leading into the millennial stages, we said it was like God is preparing this land. All these people that were there that were sinful, God eliminated them all. I mean, he pretty much, as you read through the minor prophets, he just eliminated them. So there were no survivors in that time. It's as if he is giving that land, preparing that for the time that Israel is going to move back into that area. The nations have defiled the land, and God is pretty pointed in Ezekiel 30, I think it was 46 or 47 when we read, the land is His. He can give it to whoever he wants, and he had promised that to Israel way back in Numbers 34. So those chapters in chapter 32, was it? Yeah, 25 to 32, preparing the land for Israel to come back. And that's what we have happening in the rest of the book. Of course, we have in chapter 33 a reminder of watchmen, which today our role is to be a watchman, to warn people of what is coming, to preach a gospel message, the Isaiah 58 type one message, a warning to the house of Jacob, a warning to the people of God, a gospel message throughout the rest of the world. That was Ezekiel's calling. And then in chapter 34, he talks about the shepherds, a very good chapter for us today, who are ministers, but a very good chapter for everyone, because we're all in training to be those things, to see what a good shepherd does, what God expects of us who have care of his people, the way that he said, and to love them, and to take care of them, and to provide the leadership to God, always taking them to the master, and always pointing them to God in everything we do. Of course, in chapter 37, we have the dry bones, a very powerful vision there that talks about the resurrection of Israel.

There, it tells us that David will be the resurrected king over all of Israel. Then we have the Gog and Magog thing. We actually did a biblical worldview thing on that as well, and talked about how that would be occurring after the return of Jesus Christ. This is a time where they were going to attack a land of unwalled villages. Then, of course, the millennial chapters that we just talked through, where God gives us a very detailed picture. I think I'll always remember what he said to Ezekiel there. Fix your mind! Fix your mind to what I'm going to show you, Ezekiel. He did. He paid very close attention. I know Barry has mentioned a couple times that Ezekiel has all this in his mind as he was really paying attention. Of course, God's Spirit in him, just like the things that he wants us to do. He provides the skills, he provides the talents, he provides the memories of the things we need to do. Ezekiel probably will be a total speculation key in some of this because he has that vision. God gave it to him directly.

We have a book that is wide-ranging. It's a prophecy for the future. Much of Ezekiel is a book for right now. We can see the things that are happening in the world around us, and they identify very, very closely to Ezekiel in so many of the cases. I think maybe that's one of the reasons God had us go through this book, so that we can kind of see the world around us in the pages of a prophecy that was written thousands of years ago. That's kind of it. I've been ignoring, I'm sorry, I'm just kind of talking, but I see some hands up there, so I will go ahead and, if you've got anything you want to share on Ezekiel or anything else, we can talk about that.

Why don't we start with Debbie, since we haven't heard from her yet, and then we'll go up the line there. Debbie? Hi, Debbie. Hi, can you hear me? We can hear you, yes.

Okay, hi.

So, this is a news we speculated that, in the millennial brain or in the millennium, that the people who lived up to the energy was old, and then either resurrected or died. But then you said something last week that was very insightful that I never saw them, and you said there's only two resurrections. So that just canceled out any resurrection throughout the millennium, and I find that it's not unlikely that the people in the millennium, they come this way over here. I mean, they did back in early Old Testament, and also, you know, how human it all, that's not fair. So, as far as Satan, they were not sent by Satan. They had one church. They had enough to say, no, they're this way, no, but that way. So, I think Satan is going to be loosed to text those in the millennium, because they have not been elected by Satan last 100 years.

I know God has it all worked out, because everyone has to face that, right? Everyone has to choose God. And, yeah, very good. We will find out. That's one of the things, one of the many things that we know God has it all worked out, and we'll all sit there and we'll marvel at that. He had all this planned out for the foundation of the world. It'll be awesome to watch it all unfold. So, let me see who we've got here. How about Bill Brad?

A few minutes ago, you mentioned something about the wedding supper, and also that coincides with the marriage of the Lamb. Do you have a feeling of when that'll happen? Will that be like at the first resurrection, when we rise with Christ, and we'll probably go to the Father and be presented to Him? Do you think the wedding supper might take place at that point in time, or when do you think? Well, I think it'll take place around that time, right? I mean, it'll be when, yeah, when the resurrection is in, we meet Christ in the air, and whatever transpires from there. Very well aware of it. So, what it says in Revelation 15 there, Revelation 15, but yeah, and Revelation 19, that marriage supper. It'll happen before, I believe, well, obviously before, because in Revelation 19, we've returned to earth with Christ, right? We return to earth with Christ at the time that He comes, so that wedding supper would have taken place before that. So, all right, thank you. Uh, Barry?

Barry, you'll have to take your, turn your mic on, Barry. All right. There it is. Yeah, I thought something you didn't mention, to me, is very important. When God in chapter three, He told Ezekiel, you're going to be mute, you know, you're not going to be able to speak unless you speak my words. He says, I'll give you my words and you will speak those. Well, it might have been months, even years before anybody heard anything from Ezekiel. And that just made him all that more of a prophet. People, you know, they listened when he spoke because the only time he spoke was with God's words. And then it was, wasn't until chapter 33, you know, 30 chapters, seven and a half years later, that, you know, the prophecy came to pass where the guy came from, from Jerusalem and said, the city has fallen. And then he was able to talk again. And God said that was the sign. And that was seven and a half years. Mute, you know, he couldn't say his own words. Yeah, that's a good point. That's in a Word document. So yeah, I mean, as if anyone wants those, you can go through and say, wow, that was a point that wasn't there and fill in those blanks as you want as well. So yeah, I think that's a good point. That's a good point. Yeah, there's so many interesting things in Ezekiel to kind of just, you know, to go back and look at those. So that's very interesting.

Let me say Bill, Bill Hillibranner. I want to make sure I have things to understand, right?

We're talking about the temple, the temple being rebuilt after Christ returns, is that correct? That's what the Bible would indicate, yes. Yeah, that's really interesting. I'd never thought about that before, but wow. There's other things then that fit. One of the things that was mentioned last time was about the firewood. There were no, you know, they had shields and so much wood and they burned it. Right. And I've meditated on that for some time, and I think that's quite a while into the millennium. And I think it's been firearms have been banned.

My own feeling is that there won't be any need for firearms. And even if there was hunting of deer for meat, my brothers all use the combo of bows. So I think that it is really wood and shields.

And in regard to the timing, in Ezekiel 38, four of the sons of Japheth are mentioned and one of his grandsons that come up against the unwalled cities. Right. If we go over to Isaiah 66, it mentions the Tarzan fire. It met Matthew's sons and that will come up against the nations and that there'll be ones that escape. So what's happening in Ezekiel 38 inspired by an evil thought coming into their mind? Right. Well, let me get to the gist of it.

Many of us are considering that God and Magog of Revelation are the same as Ezekiel 38. I know it hasn't been the teaching of Herbert Armstrong. It's not the teaching of Fred Colther or the church.

But the fact that, well, one of the things I'd like to see us get into that was never done is the bullocks offerings or all of the offerings for the Feast of Tabernacles day by day.

And I don't remember that was ever gotten into any symbolism. 13 bullocks the first day.

It's very easy if you put bullocks in to see a bullock represents a tribe or a country.

And yeah, I mean the church teaches that 38 occurs at the beginning of the millennium and Revelation at the end. Right? So that's kind of where when you look at the verses in there as we went through that chapter, we did talk about all the all the indicators that this was earlier on in the millennium. So we could go back and talk about some of those as well. But yeah, I would like to see us go through Numbers 29 because that symbolism is there. And even the Jews agree that bullock represents a nation, but the Jews think that it adds up to 70 in their Gentile nations that they're going to rule over with Messiah. No, the church is going to rule the Messiah. But I would like to see us everybody, I could be able to go through Numbers 29 because the church has never, I don't know, that's ever been developed. Yeah, well we could do that. We can do that separate. Let's keep it on Ezekiel for right now and any questions. I see a few more hands out here as well. Let's keep it on that. And if we have time, we'll go, well, maybe we'll have time to go work through the abomination of desolation pretty quickly. We don't have to do that, but we could run it through. Hey, can I move on to Bill Bruce then? What I like is the part where I flattened it totally off and took all the stuff and built a bridge all the way up to the island. Awesome. That's an amazing prophecy. Only God could do that, right? That is one of the proofs of God that everyone should look at and know that could only happen with God. So, yeah. No, it is very, very how to show. That's not very how to show. It is very, very Gordon. Yeah, I think he could tell us his last name if he wants. Yeah, Ganon. Ganon, that's right. Yes.

Okay, now as far as Ezekiel and the part he was talking about, they probably do.

Is the black meat going to be a spirit being effect on that?

Well, I mean, spirit beings will have physical responsibilities, too, right? So, yeah. And they'll be able to appear as humans. So, I mean, he could do that. It doesn't have to be that him to do that. It might be him, but that could be his first job to coordinate, make sure everything comes out exactly the way the vision God gave him. So, thank you. Barry Ganon.

No, I'm sorry. My hand was not supposed to be. Oh, it's not up there? Okay.

Here, he launched the alarm. Oh, Jim, yeah, did you have a question?

I was going to hold it till last there, but it sort of has to do with Ezekiel, because they were facing some pretty bad stuff in Ezekiel, and Ezekiel was trying to warn them and tell them what's going on, but nobody was paying attention. So, I've got something that everybody might want to pray about, because, as you know, we've got a new government. Well, not a new one, but we are facing some legislation that is going down, and if Parliament should ever get back up and running, they're going to attack churches. That is, the religious organization called the Rainbow, I can't remember the name exactly, religious group, that had just been funded three million dollars to put together the push to get this legislation through to take away that status, tax-free status, from churches in Canada, and every church and organization, every mosque, is going to have to be investigated and qualify. And this is a push by LNGBQT people, and so they're going to have to qualify. They will also take the assets that will belong to the government. So that's the legislation, and I've just been following it, but now that it's...

Carney! That's Carney. Okay, well he's...

We could use your prayers.

Well, you know, and for years there's been talk about the 501c3 in America, too, if the government ever starts saying, you have to do this, and you have to teach that in order to be tax-exempt, you know, so we know that's when all these tax-deductible things disappear. And because we won't teach what the government forces... But that is coming sooner or later. It sounds like you guys are a step ahead up there, it sounds like.

Not good.

Yeah, not good. So I see Dave Pramar's hand up there.

Yes, so good evening, everyone. Just a comment about Ezekiel that I get inspired by is the fact when he started, he was approximately 30 years old when he started, as we read, you know, in the 30th year. A lot of commentaries talk about that when he was 30. And it's just interesting to me because that was also the year for a Levitical priest to begin in their service. It's also the age of David when he became king, also the age of Jesus when he started his ministry, and also when Joseph began his service in Egypt. They were all 30 years old. And what's inspiring to me about that is, and reassuring, is that here Ezekiel was in line to be a priest, and here he was in captivity, but God knew exactly what he was doing. And no matter what the circumstances were, God was going to use him at the exact time that he wanted to use him, and it was at 30 years of age. And so that tells me that for a lot of things, you know, basically everything in life, we really don't have to worry about stuff. God has everything planned out the way he wants to use us, and the way he's going to work everything out according to his will. And to me that's very encouraging, that coincidence there.

It's not a coincidence, yeah, but it also shows the age, right? The age that we're mature, that we can enhance, I guess, do some of these things, or God knows we're mature. Yeah, it's very interesting.

Hey, Dale, Dale Craniford. Yeah, hello. Yeah, just to talk about the the gentleman who was talking about the bulleks and their significance, so it might just offer a scripture there.

Like he was saying they relate to maybe nations, right? Right. And Deuteronomy 33 and 17, it says, his glory, this talking about, you know, the blessings of the Israelite nations, his glory is like the first link of his bullek, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns.

With them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth. And here it says, and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. Yeah, there you go.

Yeah, that's interesting. That is interesting. Yeah, there you go. Okay, very good. Fred.

Yes, I've just been wondering since your world biblical view has been on for quite a while, and it's really strong, and I'm just wondering if you've had any or the church has had any persecution? I'll be blunt here. Mainly from the Catholics?

We have not. We have not. The one that just got released today, I said, I said, brace ourselves. We're not gonna get, I don't think we're gonna get persecution. I think we'll get some comments, though. We, it's titled, Did Pope Francis Go to Heaven? And we're doing the one after, yeah. So I think that one's gonna probably draw a lot of comments, comments for us, not happy comments. But it gives us an opportunity to talk about what really happens after death from the Bible. Nothing at all, persecution-wise. Hey, Mr Murray.

Greetings from Australia, Mr Shavey and everyone. One thing about the bullocks, if we could correct that to bulls. Bullocks are castrated bulls, and they're not sacrificed. It's a misnomer in the translation in the Bible. Should be bulls, so not bullocks. And there's 70 of them, of course, when you add them up in Revelation. And apparently, it's one for the 70 nations, original 70 nations. But there's more to that, too, because it's very interesting that there's only one bull sacrificed on the eighth day, which is very interesting, too. Look, with regard to the temple, it would be very interesting if you could do a special Bible study on the temple, because there is no doubt a section of the temple that is constructed before Christ returns. And it seems from Revelation 11 verses 1 and 2 that it is actually the temple building and the altar in front of it, because the beast actually sits in the temple, proclaiming himself to be God. And there are sacrifices there. And if we could address the 2300 days, the 1335 days, the 1290 days, and the 51260 days, that would be very instinct.

We haven't covered that as a church for a long time. We haven't covered that for a long time. Yeah, maybe that's what we'll do the next time. We're going to talk another book, but I know Daniel 11, a few questions have come up on that in chapter 12 as well. So you're right there in that same area. Let's, oh, let me let me learn. We won't have a Bible, just in case effort. We won't have a Bible study next week because we've got council meetings going on and everything, but it'll be two weeks, two weeks from today. But maybe that'll be our topic, kind of to tie some of this up before we go into another book. So, okay, very good. Becky Bingman.

Hi, good evening. Just a couple quick, I would love that if we did a Bible study on the number of days, the 1335, that would be great. And then Dale, I wondered, I didn't catch where his scripture was. It was Deuteronomy something. I think 3317 was that it? Yeah, yes, that's right.

3317. 3317 Deuteronomy, yes. Thank you. You're welcome.

Go ahead, let me say, who do we have? Bill Bruce. I'm writing down these things about the next Bible study, so I don't forget. So, go ahead, Bill. Are you going to be able to continue the series on Fridays? On Friday? Oh, the biblical worldviews? Yes, yeah, we released it today because the media guys are setting up for the GCE Thursday and Friday, so we got it done early. So, yeah, but it's going to continue to come out. There won't be one next week, again, because of everything going on in Cincinnati, but should resume after that. Good, because I don't know what I'd do without it.

It may have a slightly different look because it may be done from my home office. I've got to get some different lighting in here and stuff like that, but yeah, if the plans are, it'll continue.

All right. Okay, let me see. Who else do we have here? Bill Hellebronner. Okay, just in comment, I got to Ken Murray there about the bullocks. When Moses set up the tabernacle, there was one bullock for Reuben, one for Simeon, one for Levi. I write down line 13 bullocks. There are actually two bullocks for Levi because he had to have a sin bullock, as well as a representative bullock. But anyway, I just wanted to bring it out.

The article that I've written about Numbers 29 is about 10 pages, and it has many, many scriptures.

That scripture we mentioned in Ezekiel about, many in that day shall say, come, let's go up through the house of the Lord and learn of their ways. Those are the strangers coming out ahead of the whole country repenting. Okay, I said pretty much maybe now, but anyway, there's much more in Numbers 29. And then why there's one bullock on the last great day?

The last great day, God's going to make us all one tribe after the end of it.

We'll all be one. We'll all be one. Exactly. So the whole world will be united, which will be a beautiful thing. So okay, Tim Duncan.

This afternoon I was thinking about first John 2.6. We should walk as Christ walked.

And so I was trying to, every week and second, be perfect. And thinking about being like Christ, it was very interesting how the afternoon went. I'm hoping tomorrow be the same.

There you go. We're keeping in our mind the whole time things work out well and keep us focused. Okay, so let me, if there's nothing else, let's go ahead and call it a night. It's 815. So two weeks, two from, two weeks from night. We'll talk about the temple and some of the things that we talked about here. Looking at the books that we looked at last time. Let me just kind of run through those. You remember we had like four, I think it may be five books that were pretty well within one or two votes of each other. We had Jeremiah, and we had John, and we had Zachariah, Romans, Revelation. That's four. Seems like there was one part in there.

Daniel, Daniel, Daniel. Yes, you're right. That's the other one. Yes. So, you know, Jeremiah is another, Jeremiah is a very long book, and it's 52 chapters. We have been some in Isaiah, and when we were in Isaiah and Ezekiel, we've been to Jeremiah a little bit. So I'd like to see us put that off for a little bit, right? Because it'll be a repeat of a lot of what we've done. I think Daniel, you know, we're going to get into Daniel a little bit next week or two weeks from now as we talk about the end of it. As we do that, we might decide to go into Daniel, since it's right after the book of Ezekiel. Zachariah is one that, you know, as I read through it, I don't remember a lot being talked about in Zachariah, and there's a lot in the book of Zachariah. We referenced part of it when we talked about the Temple District and how when Christ comes, that the Mount of Olives is split into, and that the plain that is all developed there. That could be, that could be, this is speculation, right, the Temple District. So because that's all flat landed there, and it fits into that area. So, you know, I think we could look at Daniel. We could look at Zachariah. Someone this week recommended The Song of Solomon, which would be another interesting book to do, right? I mean, that's quite, it's a little stuff. So be thinking about that, and we'll, you know, we'll decide on the 14th where we go, where we go next. But I don't think it's going to be true. And I've done a, we have done a Bible study on Revelation back a few years ago. I have to, I have to find out in my computer where every chapter is so we could get those loaded into, loaded into there. And I wouldn't mind listening. We learn so much all the time. They're probably totally different now than they were back then anyway. So we'll, we'll, we'll do the temple. We'll do the temple next time, though. If that's okay. And then, and then maybe Zachariah or another one that was recommended was Deuteronomy. So, okay. Yes. You know, as far as Daniel, there's, does a real good job on that. Yeah, that's exactly right. I was thinking of that. We do have one coming out on Daniel right now. You can go and, because the ABC classes on Daniel have been taped. So it'll be on Revelation too. Yeah. Well, that's, yeah, that's right. That's the next one. And yes, and that, and those are all in the can. It's just every week a new one's there. So, you know, when that, they're fantastic. Yeah. So we could do that. Yeah, I, I, I forgotten that. I thought of it and I thought there's a reason we weren't doing Daniel and that's because it's online right now. So you could listen to that. So yeah. So what we lose is doing one of those other books that aren't online right now anywhere. So do what did you say? Deuteronomy. Yeah, we didn't have that one on the list last week, but Deuteronomy is an interesting book too. Maybe we'll take the poll again next two weeks and we'll decide from there. I think they're all interesting books and God will lead us to whatever one he wants us to learn something from right now. Mr. Shaby, I believe that Romans was one of the books mentioned also. Romans, yes. And that was one of those that had about the same number of votes. So Romans, Romans is in there as well. I say that maybe we do one more prophecy, a shorter prophecy, and then, and then Romans would be an interesting book to do.

So okay, let's, let me see, Becky, go ahead, and then Bill Wilson. I think it would still be neat to do Daniel as a group here where we can comment and interact on it. Okay. Just a thought of mine. And the other thing was in two weeks, you're saying we can still cover what we were going to tonight on the abomination of desolation. Yes, that's a fair plan. Yeah, we'll talk about that in two weeks as well.

Okay, thank you. Okay. Bill Wilson. Yes, thank you. I'd like to see lamentations. You mentioned, I think you mentioned that, Daniel. I mentioned it's a shorter book and maybe we get through it, but I think it's so important at this time of our lives where the nation, our nation is heading down, and the, we know that part of that book is about the encouragement that Jeremiah receives during that lamentation. So seeing is very appropriate emotionally for our day, seems to me.

Okay. Well, let me look. It didn't get as many votes, right? I was just going by the top votes getters, right? All of them were within the 18 to 20 things. But let me look through lamentations again. Since we've just gone through Ezekiel, since we have talked about the fall of Jerusalem, that might be a timely thing, and you're right. So only three chapters, maybe. Let me read through that again. But the next time we're going to do the temple, the temple things we talked about. So let me say, we'll get to you in a minute, Bill Hillabrenner, but go ahead, Fred Lamb.

Okay, I was just thinking, I know it's hard to do because you can't go to a specific book, but considering the times that we are living in, can you do something? I know they are in sermons, but can you do something on Christian living or preparing ourselves for what is coming?

We can do a Bible study on that. It'd be different than a sermon because it's more interactive, right, than more specific as opposed to... Okay, I'll mark that down. And we did have up there last time on, you know, there are specific topics that we could drop in every once in a while just to do something different than a chapter. So I've got that written down here, Fred. Okay, Bill, Bill Hellebrenner. I never thought about the temple being built after Christ's return. I never meditate on it. That is awesome. I really appreciate that piece of coming up, and that fits with a lot more stuff. Thank you. Yeah, when you look at the dimensions and when you look at the land required for that whole temple district, I mean, the plans they have in Little Israel over in the Middle East are nothing like that third temple. It's quite a structure.

Okay, very good. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Great to be with you tonight. I guess we'll go ahead and sign off. We will have a... I guess I don't know if all of Canada joins in with the GCE, but we've got the GCE telecast or webcast going on this week from Sabbath. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Okay, very good. So many of us will be together on a webcast anyway. So then, so have a very good Sabbath and then not next Wednesday, but we'll see you two weeks from Wednesday. Oh, go ahead.

Okay, everybody. Thanks. Bye, everyone. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.