Jehovah Establishes His Permanent Residence On Earth???

[work4jah (James 4:17)]

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Why Does Bible Prophecy Show Jehovah Permanently Resides In His Earthly Temple?

(Ezekiel 43:7-9; Ezekiel 48:35)

Hi everyone…let’s consider this verse…Ezekiel 48:35

New International Version
"The distance all around will be 18,000 cubits. "And the name of the city from that time on will be: the Lord is there."

Good News Translation
The total length of the wall on all four sides of the city is 10,080 yards. The name of the city from now on will be "The-LORD-Is-Here!"

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The perimeter of the city will be six miles, and the name of the city from that day on will be: Yahweh Is There."

American Standard Version
It shall be eighteen thousand reeds round about: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Jehovah is there.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The city will measure about 31,500 feet all the way around. From then on the city's name will be: The LORD Is There.

NET Bible
The circumference of the city will be six miles. The name of the city from that day forward will be: 'The LORD Is There.'"

Christian Standard Bible
The perimeter of the city will be six miles, and the name of the city from that day on will be, The LORD Is There."

The above verse cited (Ezekiel 48:35) tells us that Jehovah will one day exist within a righteous earthly temple of His making, a temple that has restored pure worship on earth, completely. Malachi 4:5,6; Matthew 17:10,11. Ezekiel chapters 40-48 gives us the entire scenario.

As shown in chapter 43 the nation of Israel has fallen into apostasy thus bringing Jehovah’s anger upon them as a nation and people. In this particular chapter of Ezekiel (43) it shows the leadership of the nation of Israel is particularly vexing to Jehovah and His standards of pure worship. They are truly wicked as they have put their “threshold beside Jehovah’s threshold and their doorpost beside Jehovah’s doorpost”, bringing His righteous wrath and anger upon them. They are showing themselves to be “a God”, rivaling Jehovah God in His temple. (2 Thess. 2:3-12)

This new arrangement is said to be led by a righteous priesthood on earth. It has in it a chieftain or prince (Ezekiel 44:2,3; 45:7; 45:16,17; 46:2-18; 48:21,22 ) who is leader of the spiritual nation as well as special priests called the “sons of Zadok” (Ezekiel 40:46; 43:19; 44:15; 48:11) who also take the lead in the re-establishment of pure worship on earth.

Ezekiel 43:7 “And He went on to say to me: “Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I shall reside in the midst of the sons of Israel to time indefinite; and no more will they, the house of Israel, defile my holy name, they and their kings, by their fornication and by the carcasses of their kings at their death,”

Within this new righteous temple, Jehovah gives His people the assurance that this arrangement will become His throne or government on earth (as well as a priesthood) as He states it will become the place of the “soles of His feet”, where He specifically says He will reside among the nation of Israel forever more, and promises that they will never again defile His holy name with their spiritual fornication of their kings. So then, this temple will be both government and priesthood all rolled into one entity. In addition, these wicked kings are also referred to in the prophecy of Ezekiel as wicked chieftains in Ezekiel 45:8,9.

In our day and time, it would be very easy to identify this spiritual fornication practiced by Israel with the dastardly crime committed by the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses with the UN/NGO alliance that was revealed in 2001 by the Guardian Newspaper. Thus, we can make the connection between Israel going into apostasy and the Jehovah’s Witnesses as a people and nation using the prophecy of Ezekiel chapters 40-48.

Therefore, we can see why Jehovah will take up permanent residence in his new governmental and priestly arrangement on earth on a permanent basis as He takes decisive action against his own people and wicked leadership by establishing a new temple of pure worship on earth with new righteous spiritual leadership. It is in this earthly temple that Jehovah will dwell till time indefinite, or forever. (Ezekiel 43:7)

…I will await your thoughts.

Agape,
work4jah

[work4jah (James 4:17)]

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

[work4jah (James 4:17)]

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Rev 22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.

Rev 22:15 Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

The verses above shows us the timeframe when New Jerusalem gets its start on earth. The above verses show us New Jerusalem exists upon earth prior to God’s destructive day of Armageddon.

First of all, it points out that outside of the walls of New Jerusalem would be all sorts of wicked ungodly people. It mentions the “dogs”, “sorcerers”, “sexually immoral”, “murderers”, “idolaters”, and “everyone who loves and practices falsehood”. We certainly know these type of people wouldn’t exist during the 1000 year reign of righteousness. Therefore, these are undeniably earthly conditions of wickedness that we see prevalent even in our day and time. This means, New Jerusalem would exist for a period of time on earth amidst people who are still practicing wickedness, prior to Armageddon.

It will be during such a time as this that Jehovah would extend the invitation to all righteously inclined individuals on earth to come and take life’s waters free (Revelation 22:17) and wash their robes in the blood of the lamb and avail themselves of the trees of life that give life sustaining sustenance and spiritual health to all who are willing and thirsting for righteousness on earth. This is clearly an earthly arrangement for the benefit of all mankind before Armageddon.

Thus we can see Revelation 22:14,15 ties in quite nicely to Ezekiel chapters 40-48, and Ezekiel 37:24-28.

…I will await your thoughts.

Agape,
work4jah

[work4jah (James 4:17)]

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Going back in retrospect, I originally started this thread in order to highlight one very important point, namely: to highlight the thought of "Why does Bible Prophecy show Jehovah permanently resides in His earthly temple? (Ezekiel 48:35) And, what would such a situation mean for us today?

I believe the big thing we can walk away with after considering such a title is the fact that Jehovah does have a temple on earth in our day and time that currently exists in idolatry and total apostasy. Further, the title of this thread highlights the fact that it is indeed Jehovah's ultimate purpose to redeem them from apostasy, that is a sizable remnant of this people (but not all of them), and restore them to His spiritual favor in His newly established, cleansed temple as described in Ezekiel 40-48. In this way, Jehovah would atone for their sin of the original temple and/or reconcile the house to Himself. (KJV Ezekiel 45:20)

For example, let's take a look at chapter 43:7-9 of the book of Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 43:7 and he said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places,
Ezekiel 43:8 by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them. They have defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger.
Ezekiel 43:9 Now let them put away their whoring and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.

Even though this original temple is said to be rife with idolatry and has completely apostatized from Jehovah and pure worship, we still see Jehovah taking an active role in restoring spiritually-speaking, this wretched people to pure worship. Jehovah is very interested still in this people who is guilty of idolatry on a grand scale. Jehovah purposes to rescue this people from the clutches of such evil leadership. But this people must be willing to repent of their spiritual fornication and wicked reverence of these "dead" wicked "kings" that have offended Him so greatly.

One of the things we notice is Jehovah stated twice they had "defiled" His "Holy Name."

It is clear from this statement that the sanctity of God's Holy Name is of paramount importance to Him. Such a statement as this from Jehovah greatly helps us identify which religious group on earth today has greatly offended Him. Surely these wicked kings that He speaks of above that have exalted themselves to god-like status right within Jehovah's temple will be completely destroyed by Jehovah when He brings His righteous wrath upon these wicked king-like figures within His temple arrangement that they have wickedly polluted.

This same temple that had been polluted by these wicked leaders, will be properly cleansed and restored to Jehovah's favor so that this people could render sacred service to Jehovah again. In this restored temple that now practices pure worship, we are told that within it has a "Chieftain" or "Prince" who acts as High Priest and sons of Zadok who are assistant priests, to lead the temple in pure worship. Ezekiel 44:3; 45:22; 44:15-31

Thus, it is within this earthly temple that Jehovah has cleansed and atoned for, that He purposes to take up permanent residence forevermore. Ezekiel 43:9

Agape,
work4jah

[work4jah (James 4:17)]

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