Ezekiel Bible Study: April 9, 2025

Okay, so tonight we're getting pretty close to the end of the Book of Ezekiel.

As I look forward or look through the the remaining chapters here, you know, we'll be talking about a temple district tonight.

And I'll have to admit, even though I've read through Ezekiel in times past, several years, I had never really focused on the temple I have, but that there's the district that God has built around that temple in times two, which even more delineates the fact that this is a temple for the millennium, and that's something that is going to be built, at least to God's specifications, before the return of Jesus Christ.

So we're going to finish up chapter 44 tonight.

We'll get through chapter 45, maybe a little bit into chapter 46.

But just to bring us up to speed where we've been in the last few weeks, we have looked at the temple complex.

We've seen some artists' renderings of what that temple would look like, based on the detail that God has provided Ezekiel and to us through the Bible.

We see a very futuristic and a very large temple, much larger than Solomon's Temple.

We've talked about the priests and the orders of the priests. Last week, we talked about the line of Zadok or the sons of Zadok and that priesthood and the other priesthood, and how God differentiates between those who will serve and those who will be the priests in that time.

We've talked about some of the differences between the Millennial Temple and Solomon's Temple.

Tonight, we're going to talk a little bit about the land around the temple.

As we looked at the temple, I'm going to go ahead and pull up a temple just to remind you of what it looks like.

Then I'll pull another one up here as we get into the temple district.

This is the temple complex that we've got with the gates, with the 25-story, at least the people who calculate these things, the 25-story temple in the middle, the six-story gates that are there at the east, north, and south, the altar there in the middle of the entire complex, and the corridors at the priests and the Levites and the singers and those that would live in. A very big complex for the wall around it. You will remember as we talk tonight, as we got into chapter 40, where we began talking about the temple complex itself, God had put Ezekiel up on a high mountain. As he looked from that high mountain, it was like he saw a city in the distance. He saw a city in the distance. This temple complex is very large, but as we look at the district that God is talking about, as we get into chapter 45, we see it really is quite a sizable city. What Ezekiel was seeing out there was something that was much more than just the temple complex itself. Let's pick up in chapter 44. We ended last week in verse 27. We talked about the type of things that were going to be taught in the millennium.

We talked about how it will be all of the New Testament that we know about, but also all the Old Testament, that they would be taught about the sacrifices, the need for blood to cover sins, and all those laws and ordinances that are there in the Old Testament, they will be as part of the temple operation. As we look at those laws, ordinances, the statutes that are back there, those are things that are going to be taught in the millennium as well. Let's get to chapter 44.

Begin to talk about the Levites and the priests. God talks about their inheritance, is what he's talking about here in verse 28. It says, it shall be in regard to their inheritance, the priests and the Levites, that I am their inheritance. You shall give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession. What he is talking about here is they are going to serve that temple area. They are the servants of God, and their livelihood, if we can put it in that term, will come from the work of God. They will live in that temple complex. Their quarters are in that temple complex. They will have their food, their meals in that because people will bring their tithes, they will bring their offerings in terms of grain and fruits and livestock. That's what they will eat. We're going to go back and look at some of the Old Testament laws in there because they're very clear in there, but they will be completely dependent on God. I remember hearing a minister say long ago, and it's implicit throughout all the Old Testament, as long as the priests and as long as the Levites are teaching the way of God and the people are living the way of God, they will never be without food and everything that they need. Because people faithfully tithe, people faithfully bring their offerings, and the temple would continue to be in operation.

So he says, I am their position. Verse 29 says, they shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering. Every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

So it's not that they're going hungry. There is plenty. And we're going to see that as we look at this temple district, even with the offerings come, there has to be land for this figure that is known as the prince, just so that all the livestock and the grain and all those things can be there to keep the temple in operation. Verse 30, the best of all firstfruits of any kind, and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices, shall be the priests. You shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

And then in verse 31, it says, they shall not eat anything that died naturally or was torn by wild beasts. So when you look at what God has done here and how he has orchestrated and provided for the Levites, it's a system where they're honoring God, but at the same time they are supporting the work, the temple, if you will. So let me let a few people in, and while I do that, Dixie, if you have a question or comment? I do. I was wondering what will be the covenant that will be in effect during that time? Actually, it'll be the whole Bible. It'll be the Old Covenant as well as the New. It'll be the entire Bible that's taught at that time. Do you remember last week we even talked about circumcised in the heart and circumcised in the flesh? So yes, yeah, so it'll be the whole Bible that's taught. Okay, thank you. And Kay, am I correct? Kay? Yep, you're mic on.

Okay, I just I had to leave at eight o'clock last week. Did you cover who the Prince was in verse three of 44? We didn't yet. We're going to do that tonight, though. Oh, you're going to do it tonight?

Yes, we'll talk about him tonight. That's all I've got. Okay, so looking at those verses that God did that He provides for us, we see that in the Old and New Testament. Look at a few verses there because even we're supposed to be looking to God for everything we do. Yes, we wish we do our jobs, we're good employees, we work hard, we do the things that God wants us to do, but it is Him who provides for us. If we look at Philippians 4 in verse 10, Paul was traveling around all the Gentile areas and whatever, and he was entitled, if I can use that word, to their tithes or whatever, but he didn't worry about it. He always knew that God was going to provide for him. Sometimes he had plenty, sometimes he had very little, but he never worried about it. We see that sentiment there and how he conducted himself in verse 10. He says, I rejoiced in the Lord—I'm in Philippians 4 verse 10—I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last your care for me has flourished again, though you surely did care, but you lacked the opportunity. Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am to be content. And that is a key thing. He just always trusted in God. Sometimes there was sometimes there was not as much as other times, but God always provided. I know how to be abased, he said, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I've learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound, and to suffer needs. Suffer need. And then he says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. So that's a very good attitude to have. As we go through our lives, there are times there are there's plenty. We may lose jobs. We always look to God. He will always provide. Of course, we have several Old Testament examples of like Elijah, when he went out into the wilderness and God provided for him in the future when the church flees, however that is, that God will work that out. He will provide whatever we need. It may look like a hopeless thing, but God is always there to provide. If we look continuing in the New Testament and 1 Timothy, sometimes we get ourselves in trouble because of money. And when there's plenty of things, I'm always reminded in times of plenty what God told Israel back in Deuteronomy 8.

When your stomachs are full and you're living in nice houses and everything looks fine in the world, don't forget me. And as you've heard me say many times, sometimes the trial of plenty is even worse than a time of need because we can kind of forget God and coast and forget that it is him and keep our focus on him. So in Paul in 1 Timothy 6 and verse 8, he offers the same sentiment that we saw him write in Philippians 4. He says, Having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich, fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. And that's a very tough word, perdition, right? I mean, we're here at the time and a couple nights, a few nights we'll be observing Passover.

Judas is a figure on that night, and the Bible calls him the son of perdition. It's a very dire state to be in. And God says, those who desire to be rich, when they let the love of money take them over, that drowns men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a rut of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierce themselves through with many sorrows. Paul, I think, was familiar with those things. He saw many things as he pastored in the very areas that he was in, when he abounded and when he suffered. And it's a lesson for us and a reminder for us today that we have to remind ourselves, it's God who provides. And no matter what the force, don't let ourselves get enamored with the things, but be enamored with God and just thankful for what he provides for us.

We read the same type thing back in Ezekiel 34. If we go back there for a second, Ezekiel 34, you'll remember this is the chapter that speaks to the shepherds.

Now, we will all be shepherds one day, so sometimes we could read this chapter and say, I've heard people say, this doesn't even apply to the ministry today. It does. I mean, everywhere the Bible applies to all of us. We're all trading to be kings and priests. And so, when we read these words, we can't say, it doesn't apply. Everything in the Bible applies to us.

But it's very interesting when you look at Ezekiel 34 and when God talks about the shepherds and how he chides the things they're not doing, the very first thing he goes to is money.

The money and the focus on money that clouds the people from their responsibilities.

Ezekiel 34, verse 1, the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel, saying, son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, thus says the Lord God to the shepherds, woe, woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves. Shouldn't they be feeding the flocks?

So, what he's talking about there—and we won't turn to 2 Peter 2, verse 3, but that's a verse that I remember even hearing, you know, when I was much, much, much younger and a minister talking about it. And the old King James says, you know, the shepherds have made merchandise of my people.

They look at them, you know, as paychecks, as opposed to people to love and care. The sheep that God has called, that he expects all of us to work together to be led toward him. And remember, they are his sheep and to take care of them the way they are. And God says here, you know, they're looking at them to feed themselves as opposed to them shepherds feeding them. That's—and I think that's all of us. We are here always with the focus on each other and how we help each other be who God wants us—who God wants us to be. In verse 3, he goes on, he says, you eat the fat and you clothe yourselves with the wool. You slaughter the fatlings, but you don't feed the flock. You don't feed the flock. And those are our tough things. And sometimes—in fact, this week I got a letter from, you know, actually another country that kind of like, kind of like, depressed me a little bit because they were talking about how this and that they couldn't get. And they had just some basic needs and they weren't being fulfilled. And I thought, wow, the pastors need to be aware of those things. You need to be there for the people and provide what they need. And it's all going to get taken care of and everything like that. But we all need to keep our minds on each other as well and remember part of the family that we have. He goes on, well, I'll just read the first three verses there that he talks about not strengthening the weak and things like that. So let me see what I have next here before. Yeah, go ahead, Tracy. While I'm looking at my notes here, let me go ahead and if you have a comment. Oh, you don't? Okay. Let's go back to numbers, then. It's just one last thing. So we'll go back to the Old Testament where God is instructing his priesthood back then what to do and see the similarities of what he instructed back then to what we just read in Ezekiel. Numbers 18 and verse 11. Yeah, this is again kind of a repeat of what we read in Ezekiel, but you can see when God was setting up the first tabernacle with Moses and the first tabernacle with Solomon said the same thing to the priests back then. So we can see the similarity in operation of the temples back in the Old Testament time and the the millennial temple.

Verse 11 of Numbers 18, he says, this is yours, the heave offering of their gift with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I've given them to you, he's speaking to the priests, and your sons and your daughters with you as an ordinance for everyone who is including your house may everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine in the grain, their first fruits which which they offered to the Lord, I have given them to you. Whatever first ripe fruit is in their land which they bring to the Lord, it will be yours.

Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. Every devoted thing in Israel will be yours. It's quite a blessing. If we drop down to verse 20, he talks about the inheritance that was touched on there in Ezekiel 44 as well. Verse 20 says, the Lord said to Aaron, you shall have no inheritance in their land. You shall not have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel. Behold, I've given the children of Levi all the tithes as an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, the work of the tabernacle of meeting. Hereafter, the children of Israel shall not come near at the tabernacle of meeting, lest they bear sin and die. But the Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It will be a statute forever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. God is the inheritance. They rely on him. They rely on him for the things and not the things of the world. That's just the way God set it up.

So we see the similarity again then of what happened back in Old Testament times, and as the temple comes into operation in the millennial times, those regulations, laws, statutes, commandments, and everything of Old Testament times will be taught. The reason they're not today is because we had no temple today. If there was a temple that God blessed today, we would be we would be following all those ordinances. Today there's no temple, so there are none of those rituals that we do. We are learning the New Testament way, but we will be teaching both of those things in the millennial time as we look at how God has set up the temple and the operation of it there in millennial times. So that will conclude chapter 44.

And as we move into chapter 45, we're going to get into the district more. But before I move into that, are there any lingering questions or comments?

Okay, let's move into chapter 45 then. Chapter 45, again, is very interesting. We know about the temple. Now we're going to learn about the land that surrounds the temple. Bill, before we get going, Bill, did you have a comment? Yeah, yeah. What's your opinion on laying up food and so on for the hard times for us to do that kind of thing today? I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I mean, I think it's a principle that we have storehouses and stuff like that. Where it gets into problems is if we begin relying on that, right? Some people have. They want to lay up two and three years worth of stuff, and they're relying on that more than God. That's where the problem is. But to have some stuff there, regular supply is not any problem at all. So, all right, thank you.

Forty, okay, 45 and verse one. Moreover, as he goes on in giving his principles here, moreover, when you divide the land by lot into inheritance, you shall set apart a district, a district for the Lord, a holy section of the land, its length, and he gives it there 25,000 cubits, the width will be 10,000 cubits, it will be holy throughout its territory all around.

Now, the ensuing verses here, and it can be a little confusing, so I'm going to put up kind of a map here that shows, it'll more illustrate what is being talked about in here.

In verse one there, you know, as he talks about, you can see the whole area there in gold. There's a whole area, there's a whole district right there in the middle of the blue, the holy district that we're talking about in verse one. You can see where the temple area is. That's the big temple area that we've been talking about the last few weeks, and you can see what a small part of the whole temple district it is. So what God is talking about here in verse one of verse 45 is a holy district, and it is for the priests, and he gives all the measurements here. Now, I don't think, I looked right before I got online, and I had a pictorial that showed how many miles this was, but there this is like a 10 mile wide area, this district, and I think I think it's either six or eight miles, you know, east and west, about 10 miles wide, six or eight miles north and south.

I may have that a little bit exaggerated, but it is a large area. It's not a small area, as you can tell by the size of the temple in the middle of this. So the holy district, that's the area, that is the area for the the priest, it says in verse one. If we look at verse two then, it says of this, there shall be a square place for the sanctuary, which you see there, the temple, 500 by 500 rods. That's exactly what we read back in chapter 40 and 41, the size of the temple area, with 50 meters around it for an open space. So this is the district you shall measure, 25,000 cubits long. You can see that there, 10,000 wide, and it shall be the sanctuary, the most holy place.

So it's the middle district there of this land that God is dividing up that says this has to surround the temple. The temple's not going to be like in the middle of Cincinnati in a building.

There's a whole holy portion that's designed for the whole temple operation that is more than just the temple area itself. Verse four tells us it'll be a holy section of the land belonging to the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the eternal. It'll be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. So this is where they will live.

When we talk about they don't they won't have an inheritance in the land. This is their inheritance.

This is where they will live. They are there to serve the temple, the work of God in that area.

Their homes will be there. That's where their livelihood is. That is big enough for them to have all sorts of whatever normal life is. We'll get to that city district that you see down there in the bottom where it even mentions areas for crops and produce and whatever. A lot of that will support the whole temple complex. And again, a few verses someone already asked about the prince. We can see the land that's designated for the prince out to the east and west of this district, but it's still part of the district. So again, we see how God is setting this up.

Verse 5 says, "...an area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 wide shall belong to the Levites." That's the peak area there. So you have the priest's area. Remember that when we were talking about the sons of Zadok, the priests, there was the sons of Zadok. And then the other line of priests was Ithamar, descendants of Aaron. Zadok, because they always remained faithful to God.

They never strayed for him. Ithamar would stray a little bit if there was a king that went apart from God. They would come back, but Zadok always remained loyal to God and to the one in whose God-Spirit was working. So they are the priests, and then the Levites of that group, they are in there. They do more of the temple service. The priests actually are there and able to go into the sanctuary, as you recall, where the Levites were not permitted to go into the actual temple or the most holy place, I guess it's called. So you have the pink area there.

It belongs to the Levites, the ministers of the temple. They will have 20 chambers as a possession.

They are there, too. They live there. They take care of the temple area. The priests, remember, they're serving. There's a lot going on. There's a lot going on at the temple all the time. It isn't like our Sabbath services today, where we rent a hall or even own a building, and most of the activity happens just on Sabbath. This is a very live, always active thing in honoring God and people coming there and sacrifices going on and offerings coming on and a whole operation. It is a daily business there. So they will have 20 chambers as a possession. Verse 6, you shall property of the city and area 5,000 cubits wide. This is the bottom district here, the city part.

You shall appoint as the property of the city and area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 long, adjacent.

That's next to the district of the Holy Section. It will belong to the whole house of Israel.

The Bible doesn't say exactly what that area is for, but the commentaries, and I'm sure they're just speculating what would go on in that. This is for the whole area of Israel. This is for other people who live in that area. They have assumed it's an area for crops, produce for workers, cultivated by all the tribes, whether that's all it is or it's a place where they are serving something in the temple area as well, but it's set aside. All this supports the temple area.

It is a very large area. It's a very large area. I don't know what happened to the graph I had that told how many square miles. Well, you know what? That tells how many square miles, but there are a lot of square miles a little later on when we get into where would this be located, this whole temple area, because it is such a big area that it cannot be located on the temple mount today.

It simply cannot be there. We'll get to that in a minute.

You know what? We're going to get to the prints in verse 7. Maybe we will get to that for just a moment. I'm beginning to learn how to use AI a little bit and ask it some questions to try to give me some answers. How many of these square 500 cubits and rods? How many feet are these and everything like that? I did ask it, you know, okay, we've got a large, I want to say 462 square miles or something like that. Maybe it's over a thousand square miles, this this portion of land. Can that fit on the temple mount? I knew the answer to that. They said, no, it's impossible for this whole area to land on the temple mount. I said, what about the city of David where the Gihan spring is? They said, no, it won't fit down there either. If we go back to Zachariah, not back, but forward in Zachariah 14, we have at the time of Christ's return, we do have, you know, where it talks about his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives and the Mount will cleave in two. And it's a very interesting set of verses there. If we begin in verse 4, where it talks about this, because it talks about this river. And later when we get into chapter 47, we'll be reading about this river that comes forth from the temple, and it goes out to the east, and it's a beautiful set of verses, just a beautiful set of verses because it heals all the land that's along with it, and the farther out you go, the more, the deeper and deeper it gets. It's one of my favorite parts of the Bible to read that one. But here in Zachariah 14 in verse 4, well, it's verse 3, it says, the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as he fights in the day of battle. This is his return. This is him coming back to earth, all his saints with him. That's you and me if we continue to follow God and grow closer to him and have the blessing of being part of the first resurrection. He will return as he fights in the day of battle, and in that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west, making a very large valley. Half of the mountain shall move toward the north, and half of it toward the south. So we have this tremendous effect, topographical effect on the earth at that time, with this valley moving in different, you know, being split into and moving north and south. You shall flee, he says in verse 5, through my mountain valley. For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. Thus the Lord my God will come, and this is in all the saints. That's us, the people in the first resurrection, with him. It shall come to pass in that day, that there will be no light, the lights will diminish. It shall be one day which is known to the Lord, either day nor night, but at evening time it shall happen that it will be light.

And in that day it shall be that living waters will flow from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. In both summer and winter it shall occur, and the Lord will be king over all the earth, and that day it will be the Lord is one in his name.

And then in verse 10 it gives these specific things there, and all the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimon, south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate and the corner gate, and from the tower of Hanonil to the king's wine presses. Now, I don't have a map of all that. I looked for one. I couldn't find one online. And so, but God gives some details here of what's happening. The land around Jerusalem is going to be altered when Christ returns. So he gives all these dimensions here of where these places are. He talks about the Mount of Olives being split into. He talks about water then flowing from that area to out to the east and to the west. And he says in verse 11, the people shall dwell in it, and no longer shall there be utter destruction, but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. So with that in mind, you know, I asked, is there a...can that...can the dimensions of the Temple district, this whole whatever number of square miles it is now, it's over 500 square miles, can that fit anywhere in Jerusalem today with the existing Mount of Olives and the hills and everything that there the answer came back? No. So then when I asked it, well, what about if you look at Zechariah here, what does all that mean? Can you tell me, is that a place that this new Temple district could be? And here's what came back that I thought was very interesting. You know, could the Temple district fit into the vision of land created by Zechariah 14, 4-10? I asked it. And this is what Grok wrote back that thought was very interesting.

It said, yes, the Temple district aside in Ezekiel 45 can fit into the transformed landscape of Zechariah 14 versus 4-10. The leveling of the land into a vast plain, and there you go, there's a number bigger than I remember, approximately 1,600 square miles provides more than enough space for the holy portion that takes up 725 square miles, the city portion 362 square miles, and the prince's lands estimated at 426 square miles. The elevated Jerusalem, remember the verse says Jerusalem will be elevated. The elevated Jerusalem covering one to two square miles can accommodate the sanctuary, which covers 18.6 acres, and possibly the city, while the split Mount of Olives creates a valley that could channel the water flowing from the temple. And then the question was, you know, the current landscape of Jerusalem with its hills and limited space cannot support Ezekiel's vision, but Zechariah's topographical changes create a feasible setting for the entire temple district.

I thought that was really interesting because I think we always read what's there in Zechariah 14 and think, what's the purpose? What's the purpose of the Mount of Olives splitting in two? Yeah, we get the water going for the east and west and whatever, and all these directions in verse 10, you know, the land will be turned into a plain, all this this flat area that can be built upon.

And then when you get into this temple district and begin to see, look at the complex that God is building. It's not just the temple area. It's all the land around how the Levites will live there, how the priests will live there, how there will be a city for the Israelites, and the land for the priests or the princes we get into as well. And then, you know, I mean, I'm telling you, AI is a completely amazing thing that you can feed a question like that into it. Give it the Bible verses and just say, calculate it, calculate it, and tell me is this possible? And then it comes back without with exact things. It's kind of like an amazing thing. So with all that in mind, when we look at the temple, the millennial temple prophecies, and the little nation of Israel today, talking about building a third temple, we know that the design they have is nothing, nothing like the design the Bible has, but cannot possibly be built in Jerusalem today anyway with the current landscape. It has to be after Christ returns, and all that land is altered so that the temple district can be built exactly to the specifications that that God intends. So just always really interesting what God provides us. And Mr. Shavey, I got a question. Yeah, go ahead. After the Bible study last week, you know, this dimension, I actually figured it out. And you know, I might be wrong, but the 25,000 by the 10,000 cubits, I came out with 17,500 acres, which is 27.5 square miles, which is a little more than five miles by five miles, you know, area. But when you're talking about, you know, the priest district, the prince's district, and the district for the Lord, and then all the 12 tribes, because I was looking at the later chapter, the 12 tribes are all getting that same amount of land. Yeah. And you know, you multiply that by, you know, 15 or whatever, and it's quite a big area. It's amazing. It's amazing that God has that all planned out, right? And it all happens. And yeah, we won't get into chapter 48. But where that all that land is divided up, I haven't gotten into all the detail of that yet. But I do plan of letting Grock do a lot of that detailed calculation for me. So yeah, it's fascinating when you look at how God has planned all that out and what will happen as a result. So okay, well, let's go back. Let's go back then. Oh, wait, I see Kay and Tracy's hands up, okay?

Okay, I just wanted to say he just kind of answered the question. Okay. A qubit is 17 to 19 inches.

Yeah. And that's, and that's, I think that's what they use in Grock. I mean, they, they, when you ask how long it is, it'll say, well, if it depends on this, and sometimes people say it's 26 inches. So I'm not sure exactly what they used in this, but you know, it's a big area. It's a big area. Yeah, I use 21 inches. I think that's the Royal qubit, but I, you know, I'm not sure. 21 regular qubits, 18, I think, isn't it? Yeah, I got a thing, a conversion thing in the back of my Bible, when it's got 17 to 19 inches for a US Imperial. But, you know, okay. Okay. Tracy, do you have a question or is your hand up from before? I have a question. You asked me that. My hands got shaky, pushed all the wrong buttons. I get my stuff. Anyway, it's not very interesting. I have two points. But one, you said in the Bible, if God does something or says something once, it's important. If he does it twice, pay attention. I think it's very interesting to me.

I'm not everybody, but the fact that God parted the siege for the Israelites to go through, and he's parting mountains for the Israelites to live, or his people to live, you know, the priest to live in that holy land right there where he split the mountains. And when he corrected people in the Old Testament, he used to split the land with earthquakes and people fall through a whole family or whatever. Excuse me, please. But I just find that extremely interesting because I think, why does God work that way? Because everything has a meaning, but I just don't know what it is at this point. It's just interesting to me. The other thing I wanted to say earlier is this whole Bible study interests me in the fact that recently, like for dinner tonight, I got a grilled cheese sandwich because they had pork. I was thoroughly unimpressed, but at the same time, I had to remember, you know, nursing homes don't have the best reputation for the best cuisine in the world. But compared to the Haitians and other nations, I eat like a king with a grilled cheese sandwich. And compared to people that aren't in nursing homes, they eat like kings and queens. And the kings and queens really don't eat much better than the people of America right now. I have to be honest, because when I was in England, I heard a little bit about what they eat.

It's not really anything better. And so we were very blessed, but at the same time, we had to depend on God because some days our food or our clothing might not be the best God promised system to provide for us. But if some days it might be a little less so that we learn that lesson, she'd depend on him. And I think that's why he made the lead by the way he did, to have to depend 100% on him. Completely, yes. And to keep teaching God's law so that they, you know, witches, they should do without even any things. But as long as they did that, everything continued fine. Just like it is if we will always follow God. Okay. Hey, Dale, yes.

Yeah, good evening. Hello. Hi. Yeah, I thought it was interesting. In verse 10, as you mentioned, Zachariah, they mentioned the four gates. And one of the commentaries from Jameson Fosse and Brown indicates north, and then west, and then east, and then south for, you know, for each of those gates in order. It just shows, again, God's design and the wonderful symmetry. And it would be a square. You'd figure it'd be perfectly square as well, right? The whole complex. Yeah, it's pretty well laid out. It's very symmetrical. Yeah, so. Yeah, just thought that I'd add that little detail there. Very good. Well, let's go back to chapter 45, then. And we were heading into verse 7 where we talk about this prince because, well, let me pull this back up again. So we have this area here for the princes. Let me pull up a different one for right now. This is just kind of like a very simple layout, okay? You've got the land for the Levites. You got the sanctuary, the place for the priests. Actually, they have that reverse. The land Levites are supposed to be. The Holy District is in the middle. So you have this land for the prince that's out to the east and west of the temple district there. And in verse 7 it says, the prince shall have a section on one side and the other of the Holy District and the city's property and bordering on the Holy District and the city's property extending westward on the west side, eastward on the east side. The length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions from the west border to the east border. Well, you can kind of see where that's all laid out in a little simpler map there. Maybe I should have left the other one back in there. But you can see the land for the prince, this person we were introduced to last week, that now we come across him again. And it says in verse 8, the land shall be his possession in Israel. And then it goes plural, my princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes. So we see that this prince, whoever he is, he's a kind of an authority figure. And in verses 8 and 9 here we find out what some of his responsibilities are. Let me pull up a different map here because I'm not, now that I see that one, I'm not too wild about it.

I'm going to pull this one back up here. Yeah, so you can kind of see the land that goes out to the east and west there. But we find out what this prince, and we'll get to who this prince might be here in a little bit, but let's look at some of the responsibilities that he has.

He's not a priest. He's not a Levite. He is a prince. So he is something. And he has some privileges, if I can use that word, that the priests don't have and others don't have.

And we're going to see some of those. Yeah, let me leave it for that. Well, but he's not a king.

He's not a king, right? I mean, when you look at the Hebrew word for prince here, it's n-a-s-i, nazi, and king is m-e-l-e-k. So he's a prince, but let's see some of what he does.

First God says, you know, he's going to administer the land. When we get into chapter 48, we're going to see how all the land is designated between the tribes of Israel that surround all this holy district. It says, thus says the Lord God, enough, O princes of Israel. So we've had princes here before, and they haven't operated in the way God's going to have the prince in the millennium operate.

Enough, O princes of Israel. Remove violence and plundering. Execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing my people, says the Lord God. So before these princes would have control over the land, they would be violent. They would plunder. They would dispossess people.

Land is a valuable commodity. And so you read of kings when they go in. They will take people's land. You remember even in the time of Joseph, when he was in second in command in Egypt, when they would sell goods to people who were in that famine. They would sign over property to the king so that they would continue enriching the king all of the time.

And so you have all these things. People are always trying to take people's land. God says, no more. The land is yours. You remember in God's laws—I didn't write down, we won't go through that, maybe another time we will— the land was always there. It would revert back to the people. If you had to sell your land to sell off some debt or something, but then you had the Jubilee period where it was all restored to you because God gives land.

I could turn to Micah 4, verse 4. You know that verse very well. It says, in the millennium, everyone will sit under their own vine and fig tree. And so everyone will have land because there's a valuable commodity and very spiritual lessons that come from land as well. To be able to work the land, to get familiar with it, the land itself that God has created for us is a tremendous spiritual tool. It keeps us connected to him. You look and see—I'm looking out my window here and here in Cincinnati—the grass is extraordinarily green with all the rain we've had here.

And out of just dirt and some seed, you've got these beautiful flowers coming out of nowhere here. You've got the grass that's really green. It's a miracle. And when you plant the tree and you get fruit from it, you plant seeds, and there's vegetables that come up from it, working with the land has a very valuable commodity. So God says, stop dispossessing my people. Execute justice and righteousness. That's what the Prince is going to be doing forward, teaching God's way, and he will be an honest one, not looking to see how he can take some of that land for himself, but making sure people have it.

In verse 10, you shall have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath. So, you know, business is going to be—this is going to be part of his responsibility—the business is going to be ethical. It's going to be exactly the way that God said it to be. And then in the Sui verses there, he says exactly, here's the standards of measure.

All over the world, all over Israel, this is what's going to happen. But, you know, it hearkens back to a few of the chapters in Proverbs. If you want to turn back there for a moment, we read about these honest scales. In Proverbs 16, in verse 11, you know, it's what God has always designed and wanted for his people. It's just men pervert the things that we get involved in. Proverbs 16 verse 11 says, honest weights and scales are the eternals. All the weights in the bag are his work. Honest weights and scales are his. Proverbs 11, Proverbs 11 and verse 1, dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.

So in his millennium, in the prince, part of his responsibility is everything gets ministered exactly the way that God said to do it. He's kind of like a governor, kind of like a prince, kind of like something. The Bible calls him a prince, not a king, but this is him, and he's there, and he's responsible for seeing that these things are done right. If we read, we'll just read, you know, quickly down through the next four verses here, because here God sets the standards. He, remember when when he was giving the vision to Ezekiel, remember he said, Ezekiel, pay close attention. Fix your mind on this, and Ezekiel has all this detail in here.

So God even said this is the standard for all of the ephah's and homers and all these other measures that we're not too familiar with, but the ephah, verse 11, that was the standard of measure for grains and things, and the bath. That was for liquids. Makes sense, given the word our bath today, but the ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one tenth of a homer, and I think that's 75 gallons is what I read, read somewhere that that would be what a homer or an omer is today, and the ephah one tenth of an omer, their measure shall be according to the omer.

The shekel shall be 20 gurus, 20 shekels, you know, all these things, whatever that is, it's the same everywhere. Verse 13, this is the offering which you shall offer, and you know, in our time, in an Old Testament times, God said, give as you are able, right? He doesn't set a standard offering, but here he does set what the standard offering is. This is the offering which you shall offer. You have one sixth of an ephah from an omer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from an omer of barley.

The ordinance concerning oil, the bath of oil, is one tenth of a bath from a core. A core is an omer, or 10 baths, for 10 baths or an omer. And one lamb shall be given from a flock of 200 from the rich pastures of Israel. These shall be for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord God. So this is, and we see in verse 16, and the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel.

So everyone in Israel that's living there, this is their offering. This is what they give. It's all in support of this whole temple complex that is there. And we'll get to the questions here in a moment. And then when you see, all of this is given to them.

So when you see the land that the prince has to the west and to the east, somewhere all these offerings that are coming have to be stored. So this is pasture land is what the commentaries say, because as these things are brought to him from all the people of the land, his job is to keep them there. He's keeping the offerings of grain. There are crops growing there as well, all for the operation of the temple. He's overseeing all of that. And we get into verse 17, we see it's his responsibility then from those things offered to offer all these sacrifices as the Holy Days come up. So again, God is very exact and very detailed.

And this is how it's to be administered. This is how it needs to be done. These are the offerings that are then on the Holy Days and the new moons and Sabbaths and everything. So let me pause there and let you absorb that for a moment. We'll go to Bill Bratt, who has a question, and then Bill Wilson.

Two things. One, where's the temple in regard to the graphic that you have on our screen?

Right now it is right there in the middle, just above the middle in the blue section. See where it says temple? I see it now, yes. Second thing, don't you feel that this Prince is referring to Christ? No, we'll get to that in a minute. Christ is King of Kings, right? He's not the Prince. He's the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He's the High Priest. But we also see that this man is human.

We're going to see a verse there in a moment as well. Thank you. Bill Wilson. Yes, hi. I don't know that I'm trying to draw a conclusion here, but just add maybe a clue for the Prince, in terms of the office, maybe. Right. But it reminded me of Daniel 10 when Michael stood up and Michael was one of the chief princes that came to help me, for I hadn't been left alone there with the Kings of Persia when Daniel was in a pickle there. But, you know, maybe the office that Michael had illustrates for us the office, perhaps, of this Prince here in the temple.

It's not, as you say, not like Christ or one of the Levites, but an officer who has that kind of authority similarly to the way Michael had it. Or is it Michael himself? I don't know.

It's interesting when you look at that. I mean, they serve under God, right? But God calls them the Prince. So, yeah, they're kind of like the overseers. They've got their area of responsibility. Very good. Okay. Kate? Yeah, I just had a question. Okay, so I was, well, you said it should be a live person, but I was thinking that the Prince could be Joseph, and the Princes could be the patriarchs of all the tribes. You know, like Reuben was the patriarch of the Reubenites on down the line. And I just thought that that could be who the Prince and Princes are. It could be. He said they were going to be alive, so that wouldn't work either.

Well, let me just say that's come up twice. Just, Xavier, I'll get to you in just a minute. Let's look at chapter 46. We're not going to get this far, but in chapter 46, we read about this Prince again. Verse 16 of chapter 46. It says, Thus says the Lord God, If the Prince gives a gift of some of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons, it is their possession by inheritance. But if he gives a gift of some of his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be until the year of liberty, after which it will return to the Prince, but his inheritance shall belong to his sons, it shall become there. So with the word sons in there that he has sons, it's like he's a human in there. And then, first chapter 45, you know, chapter 45 and verse 22, it says, And on that day the Prince shall prepare for himself, and for all the people of the land, a bull for a sin offering. So, you know, since he's preparing the sin offering for himself, it appears that he would be a human otherwise, you know, it wouldn't be Christ because he's the King. You know, there are verses that, and some of the commentaries will even indicate it may be David or one of David's descendants, which makes sense.

But David would be an immortal being at that time. He wouldn't be preparing a sin offering for himself at that point, but it could be that he's there, but it may be one of his descendants as well. So, only God knows for sure, but we have a few clues in here of who he is, but we know that he's an important figure with a lot of responsibility, and God entrusts him with that responsibility.

Thank you.

Okay, Xavier.

I usually live in the Nill and Head brothers, JB. Those people who are, maybe they're summarizing that he may be a descendant of David. That's exactly what he is, one of David's descendants down the line, especially with him offering sin offering for himself, that shows that he's a sinner, he is a sinner, and in shallow is come, literally. So, there can be another king, the shallow is there. David may be king under the king of kings, but shallow is there, so you can't have another human king. That's right. Not in Israel. Very good. Mr. Murray.

Ah, yes, it's very interesting about the prince, but I think in chapter 44 and verse 3, we have a very clear description that it is certainly not an angel, and it is a human being, because it says, it is for the prince. The prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord. So, being who actually eats food, and he is a chosen human vessel to do the services you've been so clearly explained. Yep, very good. What was that at? 44. 44. 44. 44. 44. 44. 44. 44. 44.

Describing the prince, he actually sits with the Lord, of course, he will dwell in the temple, and of course, he will even eat meals with Jesus Christ. So, it's very good. Marta.

Yes, hello. Hi.

No, no. Clarification. In the past, weren't we taught that the humans, once they count children of God in the spiritual realm, we would be higher than Michael and Gabriel? Yes. Because we would be directly the sons of God the Father, and Michael is not. Correct. They're not children of God.

Okay, that's all. No, you're exactly right. Tracy?

I'm a little bit confused here, and I'm sorry, but so we'll be kings and priests, Christ is King of kings, Lord of lords. As far as my understanding, the purpose of a prince is to inherit the throne when the king dies, but it'll be millennial at that time, and mortal. So, I'm not clear, unless somebody already said it. I missed it. Why would there be a prince? Well, he will be. Prince is what they, is what it's translated here. When you look at this Hebrew word, n-a-s-i, I think I wrote it, it is actually translated as governor somewhere in Numbers, and so it could just be he's the governor might be a better way to put that. He is responsible for all these physical things that are going to go on there, and to be a just judge of the land, but the Bible calls it prince throughout here, but he's not going to be king, but he does have responsibility for all those things. Right. Well, thank you for clearing that. Okay. And Barry.

Yeah, I just, it has to be David. You know, I mean, it just has to be. You read in Ezekiel 37, you know, it says, My servant David shall be their prince forever. You know, that's the same book in Ezekiel. Is it 34? It's it says, My servant David, a prince among them, I, the Lord, have spoken. And it's like David is like he's a friend of the Lord, you know, him and Jesus Christ go way back. It's like he goes into the sanctuary with the King of Kings and eats dinner with them.

He and, you know, Jesus said the apostles were going to be there with them, too, you know, on their 12th thrones. It's like, they're going to have meetings there. Very important meetings in the sanctuary. And it's like, I can't see it could be anybody else but David, you know, in Jeremiah, it talks about Jeremiah 30 and verse nine that God will raise him up. And, okay, so he has he has children. Okay. Well, do you think Solomon might come up into resurrection, too?

That's one of his children. It's like, you know, some of his other sons, you know, some of them probably won't be there in the first resurrection, but Solomon just might. He sounded like he could have made it there in the end. But, you know, being spirit, they wouldn't have any, I mean, he could give land to a spirit being, I guess, if the sanctuary, if, you know, I mean, to me, it couldn't be anybody besides David. I don't think. But that's just my opinion.

And we won't know for sure, right, until Christ returns. But do remember, it says he can give it to his sons. He eats bread, as Mr. Murray pointed out. What was the other one?

Yeah, he eats bread. And it's like, wasn't he the one that ate the show bread? What he wasn't allowed to? And he got away with it. He's the guy. David, when he's resurrected, is going to be free from sin. He doesn't need to offer a sin offering for himself. But he was offering it for the people.

He prepared it for the people. And it could be that he oversees that, and it's one of his descendants, too. I'm just saying, we don't know. We'll see what it is. All right, we'll make a bet.

Well, okay. We'll see. And we'll pat each other on the back and say, Dad, David was involved. We know he's going to be king over the tribes of Israel, right? We know that.

For sure. Okay, let me see. Berta, I think, Berta, you had a comment or question.

It's down in the lower, if you're on a desktop, it's on the lower left-hand corner.

What, how about Xavier and then Bill and we'll let Berta find it. There's a little microphone down there somewhere, Berta. Yeah, I like the fact that you mentioned the translation for governor, because he reminds me of Zuber, is it Zuber-Rell?

Yes, and he was a descendant also of David. Exactly. Yeah.

And I guess the majority of governors have always been.

Yep. So, let me see, Bill, Bill Brett?

Oops, I got some people waiting here. Would be that it might be Prince William, who will be he is sitting on David's throne and it very possibly might be him. Again, it's above yes.

Mr. Shady? I'm sorry, I missed part of that. Oh, we're hearing now, Berta. Just a second.

Okay, go ahead, Berta. Okay. You were talking about Sadak. Could be a descendant of Sadak?

Sadak? Yes. Well, he's not a priest, though, right? The prince is not a priest.

The priests are separately delineated, and this is a prince. He's got a separate set of duties.

Okay. Okay. You know, in my commentary, it could be a Sadakite. Sadakite.

Okay, very good. All right. Sorry. No, no, no. Good question. Bill, Bill, did you have something? Did I cut you off there?

Guess not. Good.

I've lost track of where we are. What time do we have here? Let's do another couple verses. I thought we'd get through chapter 45, but these are good comments. And this is an interesting piece of thing here. So the prince, while we're on the prince, let me finish my notes on the prince and see that we get him kind of covered, and we can come back to him next week as well.

So we've talked about him not being a king. It's the Hebrew word, nazi, n-a-s-i. We talked about him being human because he has sons. He prepares a sin offering for himself and the people of Israel.

That's where we were. We were down here in verse—we've talked about some of his responsibilities.

He's going to be a prince or a governor of peace and righteousness. He's not going to try to appropriate people's lands for themselves. He's going to see that people are—well, he's going to receive all the offerings that God delineates here in verses 11 through down through 15. And they give them all to him, and God has given him this land on the outside on the outside portions of the Holy District there that all this stuff can be housed—a livestock that's brought. And all of it is brought. And from—let's just go down through a few verses here. All this stuff that is brought to the prince is his responsibility then to do the offerings and the sacrifices on the Holy Days, the Sabbaths, and the New Moons. Verse 17, It shall be—I'm in chapter 45—it shall be that the prince's part it shall then it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.

So that's his responsibility. Next week we'll get into chapter 46. We'll see he's coming into the East Gate, the inner court, and all these things are going to be prepared as he offers them. But God's saying it's his responsibility to do all this. It's brought to him, and he's going to be pretty active on the Holy Days, New Moons. Thus says the Lord God, verse 18, In the first month, on the first day of the month—that's the beginning of the year. We just had the first of Abib here the week before Sunday, and of course the 14th begins here on Friday evening— On the first day of the first month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary. The priest shall take some of the blood, so he's going to bring it, but the priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering. He'll put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, on the gateposts of the gate of the inner court.

And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance. Thus you shall make atonement for the temple. So we have this cleansing ritual that begins at the beginning of each year as you begin the Holy Day season and as you move toward Passover and the days of Unleavened Bread. And then he says, verse 21, this is millennial times of the first month. On the 14th day of the month, you shall observe the Passover. A feast of seven days, unleavened bread shall be eaten. And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself, and for all, we already read this, and for himself and for all the people of the land, a bull for a sin offering.

And on the seven days of the... Oh, we are going to get through chapter 46. Okay. On the seven days of the feast, he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord. Seven bulls, seven rams, without blemish, daily for seven days, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. He'll prepare a grain offering of one ephah for each bull, one ephah for each ram, together with the hen of oil for each ephah.

And then he does the same thing in the seventh month. On the 15th day at the feast of tabernacles, he will do likewise for seven days, according to the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil. So you can see he's a busy guy. He's got all these offerings, but he's the one responsible for bringing all those offerings on those the new moons, the Sabbath, the holy days as God directs. And then we'll see where he has a special place of entry on those days that he goes into and how the people gather at that time. We'll look at that in chapter 46 next week, but let's end there for tonight. We've absorbed a lot here as we've learned, again, how God will operate and how things will be done in the millennium. Then we get a vision of how orderly things are and again, what all those sacrifices mean that God has all this going on and what the people will be learning who don't know what you and I know today.

That how blood has to occur, and then the fact that Jesus Christ is right there with his blood that has been shed for all of us. So let me stop there if there's any other questions, comments, or anything. I've got, let me see, I don't know, Barry? Barry, you got another comment?

Or is there his or him, though, from before? No, I couldn't get it off. Okay, that's fine.

Bill Bruce, we haven't heard from Bill tonight. Hi, Bill!

Yeah, now as far as this Prince, he said he won't be doing the offerings like the priest's job, right? But he will be bringing it there. He will be bringing it there, and we'll be seeing that.

We'll be seeing that next week a little bit, too. Okay, well, one thing more. Last week on Robin Weber's Bible study with Scott Ashley, Scott said that all the heifers have been disqualified.

Had you heard that? I haven't heard that. No, interesting. That's what he said. He said that he had heard that they had all been disqualified. Interesting. I'm going to have to look that up.

That would be surprising. I do remember seeing an article about a month ago where the priests over there—and I wonder if that was what they were leading to—said something about they were looking at the scriptures, and does it really—it says Red Heifer, and they've always interpreted it.

It can't have you in one right here, but is that really what the scripture said? And I wonder if that's why that article showed up somewhere, that they are now looking to see how they fixed that verse to make it happen. That's interesting. I hadn't heard that, though. Would they lie about it?

Yeah, I think they desperately want that Red Heifer. We'll see what happens, because a lot of the speculation was that that would happen at Passover time, so maybe that's why this is coming out right now, too. Don't you think maybe they would lie about it, even if they did do it, possibly?

I don't know.

Just to take the Muslim heat off of themselves?

I mean, I think they really—well, I don't know. We'll see. Well, if it's sacrificed, we'll probably find out the real story here within the next few months.

Well, if it goes right, please do find out.

I'm going to look it up. I hadn't heard that all of them were disqualified. I just do remember reading that article, and I thought it was interesting that they were speculating, does it really have to be 100% like not even one white hair? I thought, well, that's an interesting thing to look at. Anyway, yeah. Mr. Shaby. Yes, hey, Frank.

Just a thought, because this is kind of confusing for me a little bit, but could this prince be the guy that's producing the top quality animals?

You mean as far as in the millennium? For the sacrifices. Oh, for the sacrifices? Well, I mean, he's—I mean, they're bringing him to him. It's the people of Israel that bring the offerings to him, so that's what it says. That they'll bring like one lamb out of a flock of 200 for the rich pastors of Israel. Yeah, they give half a percent of everything.

Who would like to give a half a percent to our government? There you go.

Okay, I saw Bernice. Hey, Bernice.

Hello. Hi. Question. So, all the sin offering that's going to be done in the millennium, is that like a memorial for the Lord for what he did for us? Or is it gonna—except he already died for our sins. So, I am wondering if the sin offering will be a memorial to what he did for us. I don't know how exactly it'll be taught. I mean, the sin offering of old reminded you that blood had to be spilled to cover your sins. Christ will be there, and people will know that he shed blood does give us the forgiveness of sins when we claim it.

But there is a lesson—there must be a lesson and a connection there that God wants everyone to have.

So, the Old Testament, that blood had to be shed. And even for the cleansing of the temple, as we just read in verses 18. So, it's a very important part of temple life.

So, yeah. Thank you. I'll bypass Tracy for a moment. I'm not sure if your hand is still up, Tracy, but yeah, Reggie, hi.

Mark. Are you waiting for me or somebody else?

Can you hear me? We can hear you, yes.

Yeah, we go back to the example of Cain and Abel.

You know, Cain's offering was accepted, but Abel's was. You know, Abel sacrificed an animal and changed sacrificed a grain. But, you know, in the Passover Christ had bread and he had the wine.

The bread was the grain and the wine was the blood. But Christ, whenever he died, he had his body and he had, you know, his blood was spilled. So, the reason for sacrifices is, there are people that don't understand the Bible at all. They don't even go by the Bible.

And so, the people that become princes and things like that will be human, but don't understand the Bible to a certain point. And other religions don't even go by the Bible.

So, that's the reason, you know, for the sacrifices, is that people that have background in the Bible will become princes, if that's my understanding.

Yeah. That's a good point. We have to remember, the people that live over in the Melindium aren't all people who are Bible school. Like Reggie said, some of them will have zero basis in the Bible. They have to learn from square one. Yeah. And all the Bible, just like for us too, that we will learn the Old Testament is very important for understanding the New Testament.

And even people in the United States who discount the Old Testament, it's still very important to learn that the Old Testament has meaning to it. So, Tracy.

There we go. I do not want to be late for this point, and a lot of people left, so it might be a good time to ask it if it isn't. Cut me cold. But the whole king and prince thing, Christ will be king of the Lord of lords. If I remember correctly, my memory is horrible lately.

David will always sit on his throne of the king of Israel. But my query is, he or Paul or somebody would always be eligible to serve as Christ's prince. But it says, David will be the prince. So, could he just have two positions? Maybe we don't know, but this is just the Bible never contradicts itself. So, this is me trying to work it all out in my head.

We know David will be king over all of Israel, right? It tells us that we saw that twice in Ezekiel. So, could he be? I mean, he could serve as the prince as well. I mean, I guess that's acceptable. We have those verses that show us a human. So, it's more likely it's a descendant of David, right? And he may work with them and everything. It's a lot of physical stuff that's being done here that that prince has. It's not all spiritual teaching. It's making sure the law is administered properly. David himself, when he was on earth, did that stuff. He was a righteous king as he learned God's way. And that prince will be learning all that as well, understanding the Bible and making sure everything is done exactly the way God said. So, we'll find out when God does that.

So, another opportunity to learn God's way about raising a son to be a prince.

Teaching our children, learn God's way, do God's way, pay attention to every part of it. Don't forget it exactly. Okay. Okay, anything else anyone?

Okay, very good. We're gonna, I would say 22. So, everyone.

We want to have a Bible study next Wednesday or not?

Yes. Okay, we'll do it. We'll do one thing.

Yes, sure. Yes, yes.

Thinking about what book we might want to do after the sequel because of one or two and we'll be done with the sequel. So, I'll be thinking about that. We'll talk about that for next week, okay?

Okay. Good night, everyone. Bye, everyone.

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