by work4jah (James 4:17) » Thu Mar 15, 2018 11:19 pm
Hi all,
I would have to say that I see Revelation 21:2-4 as having a direct connection to the restored temple of Ezekiel chapters 40-48. Then too, I see a direct connection with Revelation 22:1,2 with Ezekiel 47:1-12. In fact, I see both the temple of Revelation and the temple of Ezekiel as being the same temple, but shown only from the perspective that one is the beginning stages of the temple and the other is the finished product, Revelation being the latter. For example, Ezekiel 41:21,22 shows the altar that is before the curtain separating the most holy is described as being a table made simply of wood. These verses show this altar as being in its primitive state, not being overlaid with gold as we would expect the finished product to be, as being the altar of incense.
This statement might shock you, but I believe this temple (Ezekiel’s temple) gets its start on earth prior to the start of the 1000 year reign of peace on earth.
For example, let’s look at Ezekiel 45:20 which says “You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.” - ESV
This shows the people are still prone to making mistakes and sinning. So then they have not reached perfection in God’s eyes, being free of sin as we would expect of God’s people in the 1000 year reign.
I also think that Ezekiel 37 provides an additional clue that would tie in this temple of Ezekiel with Revelation chapter 21 also. Let’s notice verses 24-28 of Ezekiel 37:
24“My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 25They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever. 26I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”
This prophecy is clearly an earthly scene.
If you compare Revelation 21:3 to Ezekiel 37:27 I think you will see they are saying the same thing. In Ezekiel 37:24-28 we gain a lot of clues as to how pure worship will be restored on earth. In Ezekiel chapter 37 it speaks of a sanctuary that is placed among God’s people that will sanctify the apostate nation eternally in God’s eyes. This sanctuary I believe is the same as the City of New Jerusalem that comes down from God in heaven to restore Israel from apostasy. I repeat, New Jerusalem comes down from heaven to sanctify and restore apostate Israel on a permanent everlasting basis.
In my opinion I would not see the churches of Christendom or other religions as being the people that are most closely associated with the glorification and sanctification of God’s holy name, as Jesus taught us at Matthew 6:9. I only see the Jehovah’s Witnesses as an international people numbering 8.5 million, as being the people that have gone off into apostasy. For example, let’s take a close look at Numbers 6:27:
(Numbers 6:27) 27 And they must place my name upon the sons of Israel, that I myself may bless them.”
To me, for me to identify a group of people as being Israel based on the above verse, I would look for a people who are closely associated with God’s name, wouldn’t you?
In fact, I would look for the modern day nation of Israel to be a people for his name as Acts 15:14 says.
Since Jehovah’s Witnesses are known to be a religion which stays separate from politics and political organizations…a people who describe the governments as being vicious wild beasts in the book of Daniel and Revelation in their literature, it is truly shocking to know they would sneak to become a part of the DPI for the UN organization for 10 years. Most Jehovah’s Witnesses when they hear such a thing find such a thing so stunning that they simply can’t believe it, since they have publicly said over and over again that any religion that would support or have affiliation with political wild beast organizations as being a religious harlot and filthy whore religions worthy of destruction in the lake of fire. Therefore, it is a big deal when we find out that the governing body of Jehovah’s Witnesses is carrying out this very deed right under the noses of millions of Jehovah’s Witnesses with complete impunity. This is shocking.
As Ezekiel 43rd chapter says, these wicked leaders have put their threshold beside Jehovah’s threshold and their doorpost beside Jehovah’s doorpost suggesting equality right within the temple that God inhabits. This surely would make them gods in front of the people of Israel. Therefore, they fit perfectly the wicked man of lawlessness of 2 Thessalonians 2nd chapter verses 3-12. Certainly a God that exacts exclusive devotion like Jehovah would not approve of such heinous activities going on in his temple. (Exodus 20:5) This would surely bring on Jehovah’s anger and wrath upon these wicked leaders, the governing body of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Surely we can see the need for the nation of Jehovah’s Witnesses to be razed from apostasy and given a pure worship by God via a restored temple arrangement on earth as Ezekiel 40-48 shows, and is shown at Isaiah 49:5,6 as being the duties and assignment of the modern day servant of God.
Then too, we see the restoration of pure worship on earth shown in Revelation 21:2-4 and 22:1,2 as well as Ezekiel 37:24-28, all tying in to the restored temple arrangement shown in Ezekiel chapters 40-48.
In the title of this topic, I raised the question of why Jehovah would reside permanently in His earthly temple. Within the information I posted, I hoped to show that Jehovah would take up residence in His earthly temple forever more after He vented His wrath on his rebellious house of apostate Israel as shown in Ezekiel 44:6. I wanted to show Jehovah would reside in a righteous environment among His own people Israel, who had now been restored to pure worship on earth.
…I will await your thoughts.
Agape,
work4jah
[size=125]Hi all,
I would have to say that I see Revelation 21:2-4 as having a direct connection to the restored temple of Ezekiel chapters 40-48. Then too, I see a direct connection with Revelation 22:1,2 with Ezekiel 47:1-12. In fact, I see both the temple of Revelation and the temple of Ezekiel as being the same temple, but shown only from the perspective that one is the beginning stages of the temple and the other is the finished product, Revelation being the latter. For example, Ezekiel 41:21,22 shows the altar that is before the curtain separating the most holy is described as being a table made simply of wood. These verses show this altar as being in its primitive state, not being overlaid with gold as we would expect the finished product to be, as being the altar of incense.
This statement might shock you, but I believe this temple (Ezekiel’s temple) gets its start on earth prior to the start of the 1000 year reign of peace on earth.
For example, let’s look at Ezekiel 45:20 which says “You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.” - ESV
This shows the people are still prone to making mistakes and sinning. So then they have not reached perfection in God’s eyes, being free of sin as we would expect of God’s people in the 1000 year reign.
I also think that Ezekiel 37 provides an additional clue that would tie in this temple of Ezekiel with Revelation chapter 21 also. Let’s notice verses 24-28 of Ezekiel 37:
24“My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 25They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever. 26I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”
This prophecy is clearly an earthly scene.
If you compare Revelation 21:3 to Ezekiel 37:27 I think you will see they are saying the same thing. In Ezekiel 37:24-28 we gain a lot of clues as to how pure worship will be restored on earth. In Ezekiel chapter 37 it speaks of a sanctuary that is placed among God’s people that will sanctify the apostate nation eternally in God’s eyes. This sanctuary I believe is the same as the City of New Jerusalem that comes down from God in heaven to restore Israel from apostasy. I repeat, New Jerusalem comes down from heaven to sanctify and restore apostate Israel on a permanent everlasting basis.
In my opinion I would not see the churches of Christendom or other religions as being the people that are most closely associated with the glorification and sanctification of God’s holy name, as Jesus taught us at Matthew 6:9. I only see the Jehovah’s Witnesses as an international people numbering 8.5 million, as being the people that have gone off into apostasy. For example, let’s take a close look at Numbers 6:27:
(Numbers 6:27) 27 And they must place my name upon the sons of Israel, that I myself may bless them.”
To me, for me to identify a group of people as being Israel based on the above verse, I would look for a people who are closely associated with God’s name, wouldn’t you?
In fact, I would look for the modern day nation of Israel to be a people for his name as Acts 15:14 says.
Since Jehovah’s Witnesses are known to be a religion which stays separate from politics and political organizations…a people who describe the governments as being vicious wild beasts in the book of Daniel and Revelation in their literature, it is truly shocking to know they would sneak to become a part of the DPI for the UN organization for 10 years. Most Jehovah’s Witnesses when they hear such a thing find such a thing so stunning that they simply can’t believe it, since they have publicly said over and over again that any religion that would support or have affiliation with political wild beast organizations as being a religious harlot and filthy whore religions worthy of destruction in the lake of fire. Therefore, it is a big deal when we find out that the governing body of Jehovah’s Witnesses is carrying out this very deed right under the noses of millions of Jehovah’s Witnesses with complete impunity. This is shocking.
As Ezekiel 43rd chapter says, these wicked leaders have put their threshold beside Jehovah’s threshold and their doorpost beside Jehovah’s doorpost suggesting equality right within the temple that God inhabits. This surely would make them gods in front of the people of Israel. Therefore, they fit perfectly the wicked man of lawlessness of 2 Thessalonians 2nd chapter verses 3-12. Certainly a God that exacts exclusive devotion like Jehovah would not approve of such heinous activities going on in his temple. (Exodus 20:5) This would surely bring on Jehovah’s anger and wrath upon these wicked leaders, the governing body of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Surely we can see the need for the nation of Jehovah’s Witnesses to be razed from apostasy and given a pure worship by God via a restored temple arrangement on earth as Ezekiel 40-48 shows, and is shown at Isaiah 49:5,6 as being the duties and assignment of the modern day servant of God.
Then too, we see the restoration of pure worship on earth shown in Revelation 21:2-4 and 22:1,2 as well as Ezekiel 37:24-28, all tying in to the restored temple arrangement shown in Ezekiel chapters 40-48.
In the title of this topic, I raised the question of why Jehovah would reside permanently in His earthly temple. Within the information I posted, I hoped to show that Jehovah would take up residence in His earthly temple forever more after He vented His wrath on his rebellious house of apostate Israel as shown in Ezekiel 44:6. I wanted to show Jehovah would reside in a righteous environment among His own people Israel, who had now been restored to pure worship on earth.
…I will await your thoughts.
Agape,
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