(Daniel 5:5 - NIV) —Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.

(Daniel 5:5 - AFV) — At that moment fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace across from the lampstand. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

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THE SMART FINGERS AND THE DIVIDED BODY PARTS

That appearance was a vision with physical manifestation, which involved a fraction of an invisible being becoming visible and seen in the world of matter and physical energy. With this, we understand that no law mandates full or complete appearance of complete body from one realm to another: Partial appearance or fragmented visibility is allowed across various realms to those who are given the ability do so.

Therefore, in the above verse, whoever had the fingers or the part hand that appeared, had the authority to operate paradoxically: His revelations in this vision are paradoxes:

◇1◇ He wanted to partially appear/be-seen, but did not want to fully appear/be-seen.

◇2◇ He wanted to partially appear in a night, but wanted to appear by a light/lamp.

◇3◇ He wanted to see people to see his writing on the wall, but did not want them to be able to read his writing or understand the message.

◇4◇ He wanted to get their attention and apprehension without comprehension.

Therefore, this is example of “Dark Vision, Dark Revelation, Dark Saying/Dark Speech;” not because it came in the dark, but because it came by the light and yet dark in light.

Such paradoxes are parables, and parables are paradox that involves partial seeing but no perceiving, partial hearing but no understanding, commanding attention but no true comprehension. As it is written,

[Matthew 13:13-14 BSB] - This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’ In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

The king, Belshazzar, was seeing and watching the hand that wrote. Somehow, I feel that because Daniel was not there when this happened but yet he wrote the bible verse above, that perhaps it was the king, Belshazzar, (or those there) who gave Daniel the details of what he wrote in the top bible verse above.

Therefore, the king saw the fingers as Fingers of a man's hand, not the fingers of God or the fingers of animals. We already saw that the Rabim, Cherubim of the Four Living Creatures attending the Throne of God, have a Man's hands under their wings. A man's hands go with a man's fingers. If you are a man, check whether you have man's fingers.

Yet, the hand whose fingers wrote on the wall was not using ink or pen to write, just as you don't need those to write on your smart screen phones or gadgets. Neither the wall was a smart screen nor was the plaster on the wall a canvas; but the Fingers as smart.

(Daniel 5:6 - GW) — Then the king turned pale, and his thoughts frightened him. His hip joints became loose, and his knees knocked against each other.

(Daniel 5:6 - AFV) — Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees knocked against one another.

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Do you have sense? You will not fully know what it means for all your senses, muscles, conscience and thoughts, to torment you until you have come to see what the heavens have written about you. You think you are in control of your body parts and thoughts, wait until you see your judgment verdict or sentence written, even before they are read to you. Oh man, stop deceiving yourself with “May his/her gentle soul rest in peace.” Stop wishing the dead “Rest in peace” or “Mercy” etc., because by doing so you are rebelling against the ordinances of God pertaining the issues death. Rather, wish or pray for the dead to live again. Peace, mercy or grace, cannot be given to a dead soul unless the dead first rise to life. Those are transactions that happen when there's life. If the man/woman did not have rest, peace, mercy, grace, when alive, its too late to have it when dead. So, any dead person you wish rest in peace for, first raise the person from the dead back to life because that's easier than deceiving yourself that the prayers of the living can give peace or mercy to the dead when that prayer cannot bring the dead back to life. Your rest, your peace, your mercy, your judgment, and your rewards, are usually determined or set while you are alive, not when you are dead. What happens when you die, is not to determine your judgment, but to make you face or see your already determined judgment or the Handwriting already written in the books concerning you, just as the king, Belshazzar, was seeing what was already determined and now written concerning him in “Judgment is Set.”

In the top bible verse here above:

☆1☆ The king's countenance changed — There was fall or change in his appearance, because he read what the heavens have written about him, seeing written judgment.

☆2☆ The king's thoughts troubled him — His thoughts and conscience became his enemies/troubles in self torture, when he saw what the heavens have written of him.

☆3☆ The king's hip joints became loose — Should I call it “Waist Pain?” Rather, let me call it “Waist Dislocation:” - No more sex with those wives or concubines around, for all muscles and joints for sex are gone on sighting what heaven has written of him.

☆4☆ The king's knees knocked against each other — Some knees are too proud to do what their feet are doing on the ground because those knees refuse to bow. But behold, even proud knees are turned against each other, fighting themselves for what the eyes have seen written by the heavens in judgment concerning the man in them.

Question: It was not the king alone that saw the handwritten on the wall; why was he the only one all these things in the bible verse above was befalling?

Answer: Though others saw what the king saw, those things did not befall them so much as they befell the king because they were not yet seeing what the heavens have written about them but seeing what the heavens have written about the king. If you see what the heavens have written about someone else in terrible things, you may be touched or affected but not as much as when the person in the character is seeing or hearing them himself/herself, or when you see/hear your own handwritten Judgment.

Thus, all that was written on the wall were basically about Belshazzar, not the others.

(Daniel 5:4 - NKJV) — They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

(Daniel 5:4 - TLV) — They drank the wine and praised the gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.

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IN AND OUT THEIR BODIES

They were both putting something into their mouth and bringing another something out of their mouth.:Wine was going into them, but praises to the gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone, was coming out of them.

[Mark 7:15-16 GW] — Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It’s what comes out of a person that makes him unclean. Let the person who has ears listen!” 

Supposing they were praising the Lord God, even though they drank wine from the gold Vessels of the temple house of God in Jerusalem, their act of praising the Lord God would have sanctified their act of drink wine from the vessels of God's house. What comes out of men weighs more than what goes into men. So, whether you eat or drink, giving glory to God and the name of Christ Jesus is grace to whatever you are doing.

[1 Corinthians 10:19-22 GW] — Do I mean that an offering made to a false god is anything, or that a false god itself is anything? Hardly! What I am saying is that these sacrifices which people make are made to demons and not to God. I don’t want you to be partners with demons. You cannot drink the Lord’s cup and the cup of demons. You cannot participate at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons. Are we trying to make the Lord jealous? Are we stronger than He is?

[1 Corinthians 10:30-32 GW] — If I give thanks to God for the food I eat, why am I condemned for that? So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God. Don’t cause others to stumble, whether they are Jewish, Greek, or members of God’s church.

That was not the case in the top bible verse above: They were drinking from the cup of the Lord, and at the same time glorifying demons through praising gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone. They were imbibing from vessels of the Lord on the table or altar sacrificed to idols or devils.

The scene here is like a king who hosted over 1,000 men, beside women (concubines and wives) in a drinking party, with beer, strong drinks or expensive wine. And as they drank, they praised and hailed the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone, (perhaps in some form of worldly music and songs). This form of idolatry involves eating and drinking as ritual or rite in worshiping or adoring idols or the gods of material things. There is a similar idolatrous ritual involving fornication, and not just eating and drinking. Though that was where Belshazzar and his lords were going to next if not for the Handwriting on the Wall, considering wives and concubines where particularly mentioned in that party, carnival or ritual. Nonetheles,

♧1♧ When only eating and drinking are involved in ritual or party of idolatry, the Idolatry is called “Eating (or Drinking) food sacrificed to idols.”

♧2♧ But when fornication (sex or orgies) are involved in ritual or party of idolatry, the Idolatry is not called “idolatry” but “fornication.” This is because, Fornication is greater abomination than idolatry. So, if a man is worshiping idol and he is also into fornication, supposing he is to be condemned by his greatest sin, then his greatest sin is fornication (sexual immorality). Fornication by default involves covetousness, lust, idolatry, abuse of God's creation, uncleanness, forbidden fruit, corruption, robbery or theft, unholy covenant and unholy union (evil marriage or soul-tie) etc, all in the act of Fornication. Every other sin or iniquity does not affect the body, except Fornication.

Twice did the children of Israel joined in a party or ritual of idolatry or worshiping idols while Moses was yet their leader in the wilderness journey to the promised land.

◇A.◇ The first time they worshiped idol (golden Calf) in party or rite, only eating and drinking was involved (without fornication) — [Exodus 32:6-9], Only 3,000 of them were killed despite Moses’ Intercession, and God gave them over to worship the host of heaven according to Stephen (Acts 7:40-42). And Paul still called the worship and ritual of eating and drinking, idolatry. As written,

[1 Corinthians 10:7 AFV] — Neither be idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."

◇B.◇ The second time they worshiped idol (Baal) in party or rite, fornication was involved — [Numbers 25:1-6]. 24,000 of them were killed despite Moses’ Intercession, and the killing would have continued had Phinehas not killed one or the remaining leader of Israel among the heads or leaders God told Moses to execute but God's instruction was not fully carried out as this one was remaining and so killing continued until Phinehas killed the last head or prince during sex in fornication. Though Paul mistakenly gave the number of those killed to be 23,000 instead of the 24,000 thousand counted [Numbers 25:9], yet Paul did not call the sin idolatry but called the sin Fornication -[The only Fornication of Israel before Canaan]. As is written,

[1 Corinthians 10:8 AKJV] — Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Therefore, the ritual party, celebration or carnival, of idolatry may involve:

Sacrifice in which eating and drinking from the cup, vessels, tables or alters, of demons, making something of demons to go into the people's body through partaking in eating or drinking of the sacrifice; or,

Fornication, which also involves joining bodies to the demons by joining to the LovePeddler or Harlot in fornication or sex with fellow human or animals.

Supposing a woman called Jezebel is committing four different sins including: 1. She's a false prophetess claiming to be a prophet, 2. She's doing pastoring/teaching job over the church (when some have problems with women pastoring a Church as Paul had), 3. She's seducing servants of God into eating things sacrificed to idols (demonic unholy communion in idolatry) as she does even in a church, and 4. she's also seducing servants of God into committing fornication as she does. Now, supposing also you as a preacher is only allowed to warn her to repent of one sin alone out of the four or more sins I mentioned Jezebel does: Which of these sins will you warn her to repent from?

Tell her to repent of her fornication rather than telling her to repent of her idolatry, falsehood etc , if you have only one shot at telling Jezebel just one thing to repent of.

[Revelation 2:20-23 AFV] — But I have a few things against you, because you allow the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce My servants into committing fornication and eating things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her fornication, but she did not repent. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their works. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am He Who searches the reins and hearts; and I will give to each of you according to your works.

(Daniel 5:3 - NKJV) — Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

(Daniel 5:3 - TLV) — So they brought the gold vessels that were taken out of the Temple of the House of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, consorts and concubines drank from them.

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THE SOURCE MARK ON SPIRITUAL THINGS

We are looking at these two sentences:

♧1♧ They brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and,

♧2♧ The king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

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The gold vessels they brought still retained the mark or identity of where they came from — Which is, “Taken from the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem.” Spiritual Treasures have this property of retaining the mark or linkage to their sources where they were taken from, irrespective of the distance/place apart, time apart, or transformation they had undergone. This could be ‘blessing’ or ‘problem’ depending on whether such treasures allow separation from their sources or not, and whether they are used according to their purpose or abused against their purpose and purity.

In the top bible verse above, it sounded like they just brought those gold vessels all the way from the temple in Jerusalem at that very moment, but the said gold vessels have been over 20 years or more in Babylon: Or they were taken from the treasure of a shrine belonging to one of the false gods of Babylon in the land of Shinar as in “Daniel 1:2.” But inspite of those gold vessels were brought from a treasury of a false god located in the land of Shinar after so many years, the vessels of gold were not bearing the mark or source code of coming from a Shrine or Shinar, but still retained and bore the mark and source code of coming from the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem.

Other examples of such instances in support of this spiritual reality about spiritual treasures bearing the mark, source code or identity, of where they were taken from no matter what or where they have been through, include:

A. The Ark of the Covenant being captured, taken from Israel, and kept in the shrine or idol house of Dagon in the land of the Philistines, but still retained the glory, the rules, the sanctification and power it had in its source host [1 Samuel 4, 5].

B. The Rib or Bone God took from the man, Adam, and transformed into a woman, and yet “Woman” forever bears the mark or source code of “Taken out of or from a man.”

C. The Forbidden Fruit already taken or separated from the Forbidden tree, and was in the hand of the woman, and though the man did not take or eat the Forbidden fruit directly from the Forbidden tree, yet wherever he got/saw that fruit it bore it source.

D. Etc.

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The King, his lords/princes, his wives and his concubines drank from the gold vessels taken from the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem. Because those treasures all carry the mark or source code of taken from the temple of the house of God in the city of Jerusalem, what those king, lords, wives and concubines, were doing with those vessels in Babylon is equal to them doing the same thing with them in the temple or house of God in Jerusalem.

And none of these mentioned were Levites, priests, holy or sanctified to do what they did with those vessels bearing such temple of God mark on. The same way it applies that Adam eating the forbidden fruit from the woman's hand is same/equal in offense as if Adam was eating the forbidden fruit from its forbidden tree.

Nothing wrong with a King hosting a banquet or feast for his lords, noblemen or guests as Belshazzar did; Neither is improper for the Ruler to eat and drink with his ministers and subjects. But the King's Presence must overshadow the presence of all at his table. The King's presence must be influencing their table manners more than their presence is influencing the King at the table. Belshazzer was obviously under the influence of the thousand of his lords or noblemen he was hosting with a feast. And this influence on the king was more dangerous than the influence of the wine he drank on the king. Soon, he would give a command to bring the vessels of God's house to please his lords, noblemen, wives, and concubines, by making them available for them to drink with.

I know such influence: It's not the influence of drugs or drinks, but some form of peer pressure or political pressure, influence of class and women. The young, inexperienced, king Belshazzer, trying to please the top echelons of princes and their women.

May you not organize or host a feast, party or event, in which the people you invited, the guest you are hosting, and the publicity you are craving, will overwhelm, influence and pressure you to make decisions you would not have made or say things you would not have said in being yourself.

☆1☆. Don't be like Belshazzar here, under such party and publicity influence, leading him into a pride and desecration in direct mockery of God.

☆2☆. Don't be like Herod, under such party and publicity influence, leading him into beheading John the Baptist, who was sent as forerunner to the greatest Man.

☆3☆. Don't be like Herod, under such party and publicity influence, leading him into receiving the adoration of men calling him a god and not man, before angel killed him.

(Daniel 5:2 - NKJV) — While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

(Daniel 5:2 - GNT) — While they were drinking, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver cups and bowls which his father Nebuchadnezzar had carried off from the Temple in Jerusalem. The king sent for them so that he, his noblemen, his wives, and his concubines could drink out of them.

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Let's go to the Wedding at Cana, when the Lord Jesus Christ turned Water into Wine, not for party pressure or influence even though His hour had not yet come. The way the Chairman of the occasion tasted the Wine the Lord Jesus brewe, and issued a statement to the Groom, so also in the top bible verse above the king, Belshazzar, tasted the wine and issued a statement. The Chairman's statement was about serving the best wine first before the worst, but the king's statement was an order to bring the best and dedicated vessels to serve the wine they drank in the feast.

In both occasions, the vessels for the wine come into play. One of the silent facts in the Best Wine the Lord Jesus brewed was the vessels the Wine was made or served. It was not just about the difference between the wine, but also the difference between their vessels. The Lord Jesus did not turn water into wine in the vessels of wine; rather He turned water into wine in the vessels of water. He did not use the container where wine had been before, nor was the vessels of the old wine used to serve the governor/chairman of the occasion. Both the containers and the cup were for water, not for wine, and yet they became the vessels that served the best wine therein.

Well in that story, we were told the chairman did not know where the wine came from, even though the servers knew where it came from. Knowing where a wine comes from is not just about knowing its source but also knowing the giver and the vessels. Learn this secret about wine and their vessels:
“Wine can damage a wrong vessel, and a wrong vessel can ruin a wine.”

The quality of a wine is not just about its source, ingredients or recipe, but also vessels or packaging/bottling of it. Else, wine and vessel may damage each other. As is written:

[‭Mark 2:22 AMPC] — And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the bottles destroyed; but new wine is to be put in new (fresh) wineskins.

One of the differences between “Oil and Wine” is that oil gains more refined from one container into another but wine loses quality from one container into another. So, the less a wine gets turned or moved from one container (vessel) to another, the better it's.

[Jeremiah 48:11 FBV] — The people of Moab have been living comfortably since the country was founded. They're like wine that hasn't been disturbed, not poured from one container to another. So the taste and fragrance remains the same. They haven't experienced exile.

From the top bible verse above, Belshazzar had ordered that the vessels, which his father (actually grandfather) Nebuchadnezzar had looted from the temple he also destroyed in Jerusalem, to be brought in and used to serve the wine he, his noblemen, his many wives and concubines, would drink. The vessels he was summoning were gold and silver vessels, but were also sacred and dedicated vessels to the Lord God of Israel

(Daniel 5:1 - NKJV) — Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand.

(Daniel 5:1 - GNT) — One night King Belshazzar invited a thousand noblemen to a great banquet, and they drank wine together.

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See his error in the bible verse above so you don't repeat it: — He hosted the banquet for the thousand of his lords, but he drank in their presence: instead of him to comport in ways for them to drink in his presence, he was the one drinking in their presence. Somehow, this great feast for a thousand lords and their king’s drinking of wine in their presence became their last supper: Not Holy Communion, even though they later used holy vessels or cups from the Lord’s temple to drink of the wine.

When I read this Bible verse above with GNT as expressed above, I became occupied on its use of the word “One Night:” — That would mean the following:
☆1☆ The Last Night of the Kingdom of Babylon,
☆2☆ The Night when the part of silver shall take over the head of gold as in Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's first dream,
☆3☆ The Night for the Handwriting on the Wall: Handwriting on wall comes in nights.
☆4☆ The Night of the last supper or last feasting for a thousand lord and their king.

But beside GNT, no other bible versions (I have) mentioned night in the bible verse above. So, let me walk with what is available in the bible verse above. “Daniel 5” is a special chapter in so ways, particularly in transition of the kingdom and dominion from one kind of people to another kind of people. In today's terms, it's about how existing “World Superpower” was overthrown by unexpected “Rival,” not in battle field but from a banquet feast of wine orgies.

RECOGNIZING THE CHERUBIM BY THEIR FEATURES

(Ezekiel 10:20 - AFV) — These were the living creatures that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.

(Ezekiel 10:20 - NIV) — These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the Kebar River, and I realized that they were cherubim.

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Ezekiel recognized them as the same Living Creatures he saw under God by the River Chebar: but more than recognizing them this time, he knew them or realized who they were — “Cherubim.” This means, the first time he saw them by the River Chebar he did not know or realize they were the Cherubim; but now that he saw them by the temple he both recalled seeing them before (by River Chebar) and also understood they were Cherubim, and not just the Living Creatures.

Why couldn't he know they were the Cherubim in the first time he saw them?

It's in the perspective he was viewing or seeing them relatively to seeing God in the visions. In the top bible verse above, he first saw the Living Creatures “Under God” and that means now he saw more clearly by seeing “God above them” — Cherubim.

I know you have not fully understood the difference between the two perspectives, so I explain further: — In “Ezekiel 1,” he first saw the Living Creatures before he saw God - (God was the last Person or Vision he saw by the River Chebar visions), but in these current visions of “Ezekiel 8-11,” he first saw God before seeing the Living Creatures - (God was the first Person or Vision he saw, from his room in captivity). So, therefore: –

☆1☆ — The viewing perspective of the first Visions was “From Bottom to Top”

☆2☆ — The viewing perspective of the current Visions was “From Top to Bottom”

Seeing people under/beneath God is good, but seeing God first before seeing the people above whom God dwells is better perspective that will enable you know those people or things better. For by such views, you will not just see things or people under God, but see the wrung of the ladder, rank, proximity, order in position or hierarchy that further identifies or defines who they are in the presence of God. Seeing the Living Creatures under or beneath God wouldn't give you that because all things or all living creatures are under/beneath God: but viewing from Top to Bottom, those defined them better. That was how he realized they were the Cherubim, by realizing they were the dwelling place of God in closeness. If these Creatures, Beasts, or Winged Creatures, are the dwelling place of the Most High, who does not dwell among animals, creatures or Beasts, except mankind as “Immanuel,” then those Living Creatures are the Cherubim, because Cherubim are the only Beasts or Living Creatures that God dwells among or between or above, them.

Like Ezekiel here, some men have seen some men more than ones before they realized the men they've been seen were angels, and some men have seen angels more than ones before they realized the angel is the Lord Himself or realized who the angels are.

The way I used to see men of God before I really knew or saw the LORD was very different and inadequate for me to really know those men of God, until I began seeing from the Head downwards rather than seeing from the Feet upwards. In viewing His Dwelling Place or Household, Top to Bottom is always a better perspective to view. Even in architecture, top to bottom is better view than its inverted inverse.

Always remember, someone's relative position to the Throne of God holds part of the person's identity or who the person really is: — ID is not just about name, number, etc.

(Ezekiel 10:21 - NKJV) — Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

(Ezekiel 10:21 - NIV) — Each had four faces and four wings, and under their wings was what looked like human hands.

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COUNT THEIR FACES
The number of their faces did not change from how Ezekiel first saw them by the River Chebar. And the first time he saw them, the Face of a Man was the first Face he saw as the leading Face: but currently, the Face of a Cherub was leading face. Nonetheless, their Four Faces are for the Four Cardinal Quadrants of Creations - NEWS.

COUNT THEIR WINGS
The number of their wings in current visions did not change from how Ezekiel first saw them by the River Chebar. The Rabim, identified as Cherubim, have 4 faces and 4 wings, and perhaps 2 hands. There's a tradition that holds the name “Cherubim” to mean or refer to the angels with just two wings, and one face — Typical picture of Angel, having two wings but looking as a man or woman in all physical appearance, is who a Cherub is. Atleast that's the portrait of the cherubim in the Holy of Holies, overshadowing the Mercy Seat and the Ark of the Covenant — Two Wings, One Face, Two Hands, Men. Then, in “Ezekiel 41” Cherubim was portrayed on the walls of the Temple as having — Two Wings, Two Faces. Nonetheless, their Four Wings are for the Four Cardinal Winds of Heaven: North Wind, East Wind, West Wind, South Wind - NEWS

COUNT THEIR HANDS
The number of their wings in current visions did not change from how Ezekiel first saw them by the River Chebar. God does not dwell in temple built by men's hands, but He dwells between Cherubim that have the kind of men's hands.

(Ezekiel 10:22 - NKJV) — And the likeness of their faces was the same as the faces which I had seen by the River Chebar, their appearance and their persons. They each went straight forward.

(Ezekiel 10:22 - NIV) — Their faces had the same appearance as those I had seen by the Kebar River. Each one went straight ahead.

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Recall that he saw one of the four faces as the Face of an Ox by the River Chebar [Ezekiel 1:10], but in the current Visions he was seeing the face he once saw as the Face of Ox now being the Face of a Cherub [Ezekiel 10:14].

Since the Bible verse above equates the resemblance of the faces in current visions to those faces in the visions by River Chebar, even though the face of an Ox was replaced by the face of a Cherub between both visions, therefore it means — The Face of a Cherub is as the Face of an Ox.

BETWEEN THE CHERUBIM, ABOVE THE CHERUBIM & BESIDE THE CHERUBIM

(Ezekiel 10:18 - BSB) — Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stood above the cherubim.

(Ezekiel 10:18 - NIV) — Then the glory of the Lord departed from over the threshold of the temple and stopped above the cherubim.

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While the Glory of the LORD was by the entrance door or threshold of the temple, supposing a man was to guess where next the Glory will go from there, the man would have guessed that the Glory of God would enter inside next. But from the Bible verse above, it was evident that even if the LORD stands at an open door to His temple, His returning to the Cherubim is more likely or attractive to Him than entering His Temple.

Those who seek God in tabernacle, during the old times, addressed Him as “He who dwells between the cherubim,” not He who dwells within the temple/tabernacle. See examples of “He who dwells between the cherubim” in “1 Samuel 4:4.” It was a name or title used address Him like “Your Excellency, Your Majesty:” As written-

[‭II Samuel 6:2 NKJV‬] — And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, whose name is called by the Name, the Lord of Hosts, who dwells between the cherubim.
Again,
[‭I Chronicles 13:6 NKJV‬] — And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, to Kirjath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God the Lord, who dwells between the cherubim, where His name is proclaimed.

So, the Lord God may put His name in the temple built by men to Him, but His name is proclaimed as “He who dwells between/above the Cherubim,” not as a name as “He who dwells in a temple or church built by men” because He does not dwell in any house, temple or church, built by men's hands. As it is written,

[Act 7:47-48 BSB]- But it was Solomon who built the house for Him. However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

So, when you go to temple or church to pray or speak to God, do not address Him as if He dwells in that church/temple; rather address Him as He dwells in heaven, not earth:

[Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 GW] — Watch your step when you go to the house of God. It is better to go there and listen than to bring the sacrifices fools bring. Fools are unaware that they are doing something evil. Don’t be in a hurry to talk. Don’t be eager to speak in the presence of God. Since God is in heaven and you are on earth, limit the number of your words. Daydreaming comes when there are too many worries. Careless speaking comes when there are too many words.

The same Lord Jesus who said where two or three of you are gathered in My Name I'm in your midst, also said, “When you pray, say, “Our Father in heaven…” Address Him as God in heaven, or to be more precise, “God who dwells between or above the Cherubim:” — For no other god, angel or being, dwells between/above the Cherubim

So, to close this lesson, here is a good example of a man who though he went into the Temple or House of God to pray to God, the man/king addressed God as He who dwells between the cherubim (not God who dwells within the temple or house of God).

[Isaiah 37:14-16 AFV] — And Hezekiah received the letter from the courier's hand, and read it. And Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD. And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying, "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, Who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.



In the top bible verse above, the glory of God moved away from being just above the Door to the House of God to being above the Throne and the Cherubim. The Glory of God would rather be above the Throne and the Cherubim, than just be above the Temple — For the Throne and the Cherubim are greater than the Temple. Coming to the Throne of God is greater than coming to the house of God.

Angels, especially the Seraphim, stood above the Temple of God in the next bible reference below; and even birds do perch above the temple or house of God as built; but no angel, no Seraphim, no Cherubim, no Satan in temptation of Jesus, ever stands above the Throne and the Cherubim of the Throne, except the LORD God alone.

[Isaiah 6:1-2] — In the year that King Uzziah died, I then saw the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above the temple stood the seraphim; each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.



(Ezekiel 10:19 - BSB) — As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.

(Ezekiel 10:19 - NIV) — While I watched, the cherubim spread their wings and rose from the ground, and as they went, the wheels went with them. They stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the Lord’s house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.

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☆1☆ Once the Cherubim lifted up their wings, they rose or ascended from the ground — they were not even flapping their wings, neither was their wind or storm current — All they needed to do to fly or ascend was to raise their wings or point them up.

☆2☆ The Wheels, having the spirit of the cherubim in them, was always beside them inseparably. Nothing could part between them and the Wheels having their spirit in them, not even height, depth, things present or things to come, could separate them.

That's too much more than I could say transpired between Elijah and Elisha, having the double or twice of the spirit of Elijah, and yet could not go with Elijah when taken up by a chariot into heaven — the same Elisha that swore he would not be parted from following Elijah, but will follow him wherever he goes, but during upward rising above the ground, even the double spirit of Elijah on Elisha could not help Elisha to follow Elijah. Now, therefore, appreciate the reality that the spirit of the cherubim in the Wheels keeps the Wheels unparted from the Cherubim even when they rose upward.

☆3☆ Well, they are not gone yet, for their next stop was the Eastern Gate, done with the Northern gate. The next Chapter, “Ezekiel 11” contains more from the East Gate.

SPIRITUAL SIMULATION

(Ezekiel 10:16 - BSB) — When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.

(Ezekiel 10:16 - NIV) — When the cherubim moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the cherubim spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not leave their side.

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These Living Creatures do not move anyhow, considering what's at stake whenever they move or change position. Their moving or changing position come with equivalent movements or changing in position of gigantic Wheels. This means the Living Creatures were in control of the Wheels, but also means they are in chain with the Wheels: they are both in control and in chain. This "Remote Control."

Imagine a heavy duty truck is tied to your moves: then you are in control but you are not free from the truck because the truck follows you everywhere and you must be careful to also watch out for the truck's own moves and spaces when calculating/making your own moves and rooms. Women who bear the burden of always carrying and caring for a child wherever she goes will understand a little of such burden.

Supposing you forgot the truck that's following you in changing positions in equal and corresponding reaction to your own changes in position, then you ran into a crowded area to greet a friend, the truck too will run after you into the same crowd and cause terrible accident: for your motions are remote controlling the motions of the heavy duty truck, and you cannot cease, pause or put the truck away from repeating your motions in equivalency.

(Ezekiel 10:17 - BSB) — When the cherubim stood still, the wheels also stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

(Ezekiel 10:17 - NIV) — When the cherubim stood still, they also stood still; and when the cherubim rose, they rose with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

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Bond of the living spirit between the cherubim and the Wheels is stronger than the force of gravity and frictions at work. Even when the Cherubim with their wings rise up from the ground, the wheels without wings would still fly or rise by the Cherubim who use wings. Is it natural for wingless wheels to fly against gravity and mount without wings yet as eagles?

You must believe that spirit and affection are strong enough to pull heavy things against gravity in the physical as well as in the spiritual realms. When you are truly joined in spirit and affection to Someone who can fly or ascend, you who can neither fly nor ascend on your own will surely fly or ascend according to your spirit bond to that Person. For us I am referring to Christ, but for the Wheels I am referring to the spirit of the Living Creatures in them. When men vulcanize tyres, they fill the tyres with air; and the air inside the tyres carries the weight of the vehicle and all loads on them. But inside the Wheels are not just air, but the spirit of the living beings.

☆1☆ The spirit of the living creatures was inside the Wheels, but the life of the wheels was inside the living creatures. Even so,

☆2☆ When the Spirit of Christ dwells inside you, your life dwells inside the Christ. You're a member of His Body, but He's your life.

[Colossians 3:2-4] - Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with Him in glory.

You are seeing one of the ways spiritual "Remote Control" works, between the Living Creatures and the Wheels. Their spirit is inside the Wheels, and that alone is the "Simulation" that remote controls the Wheels. It was not microchip, but spirit behind this simulation.

So imagine God sitting on the Throne, and the Throne on those high and gigantic Wheels, do you think the Living Creatures will mistakenly move around knowing their movement will pull those Wheels which may pull the Throne of God without His Will to move? How much standing at attention, at a point, like a tree, do you suppose these Living Creatures endure whenever they have to keep these Wheels steady on one spot?

These are Escorts to the Most High, and they have some of the greatest endurance and discipline to be who they are to the Almighty God.

[Ezekiel 1:21 AKJV] — "When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."

When you fall others connected with you will fall also, when you stand others connected with you will stand also, when you go up others connected with you will go up too. So whether you know it or not, you are leading others connected with you in whatever you do or go. This is more real in the spiritual.

AS THEIR FACES AS DIFFERENT

(Ezekiel 10:14 - BSB) — Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.

(Ezekiel 10:14 - FBV) — Each of them had four faces: the first face was a cherub's face, the second a man's face, the third a lion's face, and the fourth an eagle's face.

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Some people have said or used these words: — “As our faces are different, so are our needs/problems.” But such words may not be used or true for the Cherubim of glory. These have different faces, but are in perfect sync and perfect harmony. As it happens among these Living Creatures where the Throne of God dwells, I hereby point out where we are moving to as chosen people when Throne of God dwells among us:

☆1☆ We are moving away from ‘As our faces are different, so are our needs different,’ and are moving to attain “Our faces are different, but our needs are the same.”

☆2☆ We are moving away from “As our faces are different, so does our minds vary,” and are moving to attain “Our faces are different, but we have the same mind.”

☆3☆ We are moving away from “As our races/kindreds are different, so are our bonds or boundaries different,” and are moving to attain “Our races/kindreds are different, but we are in one same Body and Bond.”

☆4☆ We are moving away from “As some of us face North, some face South, some face East, and some face West, so are some of us from the North (Northerners), some of us from the South (Southerners), some of us from the East (Easterner), and some of us from the West (Westerners),” and are moving to attain “Some of us face North, some of us face South, some of us face East, some of us face West, and yet we all come from, and go to, same direction irrespective of where we face.”

In the top bible verse above, the Cherubim had attained all these destinations with different faces, different races and different traces, for the Throne. They are proofs that the harmonization and unification of very different kinds of living beings are feasible and glorious. They are evidence that Heads can join together, hands can join together, feet can join together, and that living creatures and machines can join as one.

When you said to other men, “Let's join heads together,” you did not mean literally. But in these Cherubim, there is literally joining of heads together as one without losing each individual's face in the union. Your face is your unique identity, just as your name and unique number peculiar to you in glory.

To us, the divers Faces of these Living Creatures are illustration of the divers Facets of the Living Creator God. He reveals His divers Facets to different people, and yet all aspects/facets of God perfectly fits together in who He is. Even the Back Side of God, which Moses saw, is not His Blindside but a Facet of God which Moses was called to attend to in His Ministry. The Presence of God is not just about His Front Side, but also include His Right Hand Side, His Left Hand Side and His Rear or Back Side.

I agree with these Living Creatures, to never back any side of God's Manifest Presence; but to always be Facing any side of God that's made Manifest, no matter where or what one is doing. That's a meaning of doing all things to God, by facing or focusing on God while doing all things. Do no back Him, but always Face Him — These Living Creatures have the capacity to always do this; for they are never backing the Living God, but always Facing the Living God and yet facing all things around them.

(Ezekiel 10:15 - BSB) — Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar.

(Ezekiel 10:15 - FBV) — Then the cherubim rose up in the air. They were the beings I'd seen beside the River Kebar.

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While Ezekiel watched these “Watchers full of Eyes,” the Watchers or Cherubim were lifted up or they ascended up and were just hanging in the mid air. They did this even without the Head or God sitting on over them yet. God was by the entrance door or threshold of the temple, but wherever the glory of God was He could still “Remote Control” or “Ride” the living creatures with His Face and Body-Language. Therefore, the fact that the Cherubim suddenly rose upward, mounting up like eagles but without a storm, means the Face or Body-Language of God remotely controlled them to do so, because they only move and go where the Head is Facing or where the Spirit would go.

Also, in this bible verse above, Ezekiel equalized these Cherubim he saw by the temple in Jerusalem to the Rabim he saw by the River Chebar in Babylon. The Living Creatures could be seen anywhere whether by a River or by a Temple, or in the Heavens as John.

But saying they are the same even when your details about them varied slightly, should both raise and quell a concern: — In the immediate or preceding Bible verse to this one above, Ezekiel described their four faces thus: (1) Cherub’s Face, (2) Man's Face, (3) Lion's Face, and (4) Eagle's Face [Ezekiel 10:14]. But these differ in outline from how he described their faces as seen by the River Chebar thus: (1) Man's Face, (2) Lion's Face, (3) Ox's Face, and (4) Eagle's Face [Ezekiel 1:10]. So, unless the Face of a Cherub is as the Face of an Ox, the Cherub's Face replaced the Ox's Face in this second appearance of the same Living Creatures.

Therefore, I teach you to know the Living Creatures by their spirits and functions to the Throne of God, and not just by their appearances in visions or occasions. Their outward appearances or features may come differently, conflicting some things you think you already know about them as security measures: for those who are highly trained in Security Discipline understand the importance of being “Unpredictable,” as in, always changing their operandi, always changing their passcode and their features.

In the scriptures, no man has seen them twice in different occasions and fully gave the same descriptions of them:

☆1☆ Ezekiel saw the Rabim as “Living Creatures” - Having Four Wings and Four Faces — But the first or leading face he saw then to them was the Face of a Man. Since Man’s face was the leading Face, the Rabim were just called ‘Living Creatures.’

☆2☆ Ezekiel, again saw the Rabim as but as “Cherubim” - Having Four Wings and Four Faces — But the first or leading face he saw then to them was that of a Cherub. Since Cherub’s face was the leading Face, the Rabim were just called “Cherubim.”

☆3☆ John, [in Revelation 4:6-8] saw the Rabim as but as “Beasts” - Having Six Wings (not four) and One Face each (not four) — But the first or leading face he saw then to them was that of a Lion. Since Lion's face was the leading Face, the Rabim were just called “Beasts.”

In all of these appearances of the Rabim, the Eagle's Face had always been the last or fourth Face but not the least, and the most variable Face is the face of an Ox, which changed to appear as a face of a Cherub, and changed to appear as a face of a Calf. Ezekiel saw them on earth with four wings, but John saw them in heaven with six wings

(Ezekiel 10:11 - TS2009) — When they went, they went on their four sides; they did not turn aside when they went, but went in the direction the Head was facing. They did not turn aside when they went.

(Ezekiel 10:11 - GNT) - When the creatures moved, they could go in any direction without turning. They all moved together in the direction they wanted to go, without having to turn around.

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These special Cherubim, Rabim, are Living Creatures that do not turn to face anywhere because they are always facing everywhere everytime. They do not have “Turn-Aside” or “Blindside.” They could go everywhere without turning away from anywhere: this means they neither gain nor lose direction in all their movements.

According to the top Bible verse above, wherever direction the Head (God) turns to face, there the Living Creatures move in (without turning). The Face of God while riding them directs their movements, but does not direct their faces.

The usefulness of these in the days to come would include, when neither sun, stars, climes, nor landmarks, exist to indicate the four cardinal quarters (North, East, South, West), the Faces of the never turning Cherubim will tell each from the others, while movements of the Cherubim at any time will tell the direction the Head, God, is facing.

A direction does not cease to exist just because God is not facing that direction. For God had ordained Beings that always face every direction even when they are not traveling or walking that direction. These beings are not trees or static in one place, but are Living Creatures that move as the greatest “Vectors” God made with directions


(Ezekiel 10:12 - TS2009) — And their entire bodies, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels that the four had, were covered with eyes all around. [13] The wheels were called in my hearing, “Wheel.”

(Ezekiel 10:12 - GNT) - Their bodies, backs, hands, wings, and wheels were covered with eyes. [13] I heard a voice calling out, “Whirling wheels.”

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To make them face all four directions all the time, they were made to have four faces for all four directions; but to make them face all things all the time, they were made to be full of, and covered with, eyes, including their Wheels that are all covered with eyes. To see all things requires far more eyes than is required to see all directions.

A man has just two eyes that barely see everything visible in front of him, and yet the man is more distracted by the very little he is able and he loses more focus by just his two fleshy eyes than a full of uncountable number of eyes that see everything around them and yet are never distracted nor ever lost focus. Imagine the capacity of data such seeing beings have to process each time in lightning superfast speed.

Their entire bodies, backs, hands, wings and wheels, being covered with eyes also means they do not need clothing for covering anymore. Any clothing they put on over their eyes will be a veil covering their eyes. Men on earth wear eyeglasses, especially as recommended by their optometrist doctors; but in the Heavens, veils are removed from the eyes including eyeglasses being cast away from men's eyes just as scales fell off Paul's eyes in the day he was delivered from blindness.

When Adam and Eve had their eyes opened by the forbidden tree, they realized they were naked because by opening their eyes they had shut (closed) their more seeing eyes to open their carnal eyes. It's like when a man is dreaming with his eyes closed but seeing things in another realm of consciousness, and then he suddenly wakes up with his eyes opened in the natural reality but no longer seeing the things he saw.

Opened Eyes are glorious covering or clothing on those Living Creatures, like Body Cameras. People say eyes are delicate organs in the body that must be tendered and cared for; but I tell you that in the bodies and wheels of the Living Creatures that mann the Throne of God, Eyes are stronger than Steel even as the Wheels are.

In man, if your eye is single (pure) your whole body is full of light as clothing of brightness; but in those Living Creatures, their whole eyes are single (pure) and their whole body is full of eyes, and not just light. No Palace, Place or Power, has been so endowed with ornaments of so much eyes, lenses or cameras, as the Throne of God in the Protocol of these Living Creatures.


(Ezekiel 10:13 - TS2009) — The wheels were called in my hearing, “Wheel.”

(Ezekiel 10:13 - GNT) — I heard a voice calling out, “Whirling wheels.”

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The Wheels are called by their given name, “Wheel.” That's their name, and who they are. They are Wheel, not Wind, even though they do whirling as wind, they are wheel: called them “Whirl-Wheel” rather than “Whirl-wind.”

They have spirits, they have eyes, they have name by which they are addressed. Though they have no wings, yet they fly beside the cherubim with wings.

LESSONS FROM THE WHEELS

(Ezekiel 10:9 - NKJV) — And when I looked, there were four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub and another wheel by each other cherub; the wheels appeared to have the color of a beryl stone.

(Ezekiel 10:9 - NIV) - I looked, and I saw beside the cherubim four wheels, one beside each of the cherubim; the wheels sparkled like topaz.

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From this Bible verse above, I will substantiate three things about the Wheels: Their Number, their Harmony and their Purity. By the way, the Wheels are the Rollers or Tyres on which the Throne of God may sit on to move like “Wheel-Chair” or be mobile.

The NUMBERS OF THE WHEELS

The Wheels are countable, not uncountable: There were four of them. But even this number, 4, may be seen as 8, in the next top bible verse after this one above. This is because each of the four Wheels are basically 2-in-1, as in Wheel in Wheel. Talk later.

The HARMONY OF THE WHEELS

Wheels or Tyres in a vehicle usually maintain harmony called “Wheel Alignment and Balance” which is also a synchronization to make all the wheels be in relative harmony. But unlike how man made vehicles, trucks, barrows or carts are made with something that serves as “Aisle” to hold and control the wheels in the harmony; The Wheels in the top bible verse above has nothing like an Aisle or there is no connection between one Wheel to another of the Four Wheels. The Wheels are not interconnected with themselves, and yet they were always in perfect harmony, perfect alignment, balancing and in perfect sync with themselves without visible joint or connection amidst them.

Thus is how it worked: — Non of the Four Wheels is interconnected with one another, but rather each of the four Wheels is directly connected and loyal to one of the four Cherubim. One Wheel to one Cherub: and yet all the Wheels worked together in sync and perfect harmony with the others, without dealing with the others in the business.

Their perfect harmony was not achieved by imitating, copying, pleasing or following their neighbor or their fellow Wheels; rather their perfect harmony came by their full loyalty, devotion and obedience to their different commanders, which were, Cherubim. It's like when well trained platoons of Soldiers are in marching parade, and all the platoons are marching in sync or harmony: No soldier is in harmony with the others by looking at them or doing what the others are doing, but rather all soldiers are synced by being focused, attentive and obedient to the voice of the parade commander. But we the church are breaking ranks and out of order or harmony because we are paying attention to the people we shouldn't be paying attention to, and not paying attention to our right and proper Instructors. The Wheels were in order because each one knows the voice of Its Instructor among the Four Cherubim; and the Cherubim too were in order and harmony with them, not by taking instructions one another, but by attention to and instructions from, the Spirit, God. So, in overall, the whole Tree is in harmony.

The PURITY OF THE WHEELS

The makeup of the Wheels is linked to a precious stone called “Beryl,” which is a rare gem that is colorless when it's 100% percent pure. The presence of any speck of impurity in a Beryl would make the Beryl to have or change color. So, to achieve any color you want from a Beryl, just add the right amount of impurity, defilement or dirt into the crystal or mixture of the Beryl. Topaz too is like Beryl — both are colorless and crystal clear when there is no speck or atom of impurity in them. That's substance the Wheels were built with — Beryl — Colorless and Clear Crystal of high preciousity



(Ezekiel 10:10 - NKJV) — As for their appearance, all four looked alike—as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

(Ezekiel 10:10 - NIV) - As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel.

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From this Bible verse above, the appearance of the Four Wheels in further detailed in a way that prompted recounting the numbers of the Wheels from 4 officially, to 8 fragmentally. Let me just discuss this under a subheading I will called:

TRINITY OF EACH WHEEL AMONG THE FOUR WHEELS

Each of the 4 Wheels is Triune or has trinity — Three in One:

☆1☆ — The Wheel that Runs along One Axis inside the Wheel — Let's call it “X-Axis Wheel”

☆2☆ — The Wheel that Runs Perpendicular Axis inside the Wheel also — Let's call it “Y-Axis Wheel” — Because of the Perpendicular Wheel (Spare Tyre), the Wheel does not have to turn left or right to change direction, but will just activate the Perpendicular Wheel that always faces the direction and then runs it without turning.

☆3☆ — The Spirit of the Cherub that commands, steers or connects the Wheel is inside the Wheel also — There's the spirit of the cherubim in his wheel.

[Ezekiel 10:17 BSB] — When the cherubim stood still, the wheels also stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

LIGHT BEARER — FIRE TRANSMITTER

(Ezekiel 10:7 - AMP) — Then a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between [the four of] them, and took some [of it] and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and departed.

(Ezekiel 10:7 - NIV) - Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand to the fire that was among them. He took up some of it and put it into the hands of the man in linen, who took it and went out.

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Fire is one of the wonderful things God made in ways that it does diminish by sharing. Take some fire from fire does not reduce the remaining fire, unlike some water or oil. The wise virgins would not share their Oil with the other virgins because the Oil they had was such that cannot endure sharing, lest it runs out. But instead of sharing to diminish true Fire, sharing rather multiplies the true Fire. A little fire is great matter.

In the bible above, sharing true Fire was well demonstrated to us:

☆1☆ — The four dwellers in the Presence of God always have the Fire in them and in their all the time, and that Fire that never dies nor quenches: Always in His Presence.

☆2☆ — A man clothed in linen came by seeking to get some of the glorious Fire to take to where such Fire is absent but needed more: He’s the Evangelist here, willing to take the Fire from the Throne out of the Temple where glory of God was saturated, into the streets and city outside the church or temple, to spread the Fire and glory to other places. This is outreach or reaching out. Though lots were going on or happening in the church/Temple, with God manifestly doing wonders and glories, the Evangelist was thinking about his mission, his field outside the temple or church venue, those he marked with his pen for saving or for escape out there, and he wasn't even going to wait till the end of the wonderful session of things God was doing in the temple church

☆3☆ — The Cherubim were busy playing the music sounds with their wings, and were key players in the ongoing session in the church premises, but yet because of the urgency of the Evangelist, who was standing by and without saying a word already sent his urgency signals - the cherubim understood their music was keeping him in church. Therefore, one of the Cherubim in the midst of playing the sounds with their wings, stretched out his hand through their to take some of the Fire, and gave the Fire he took to the Evangelist clothed in linen.

☆4☆ — Behold the miracle of multiplication of the Fire that began to happen from there: The Cherub used one hand to take some of the Fire, but by the time the Cherub would give the Fire he took with one hand to the Angel/Evangelist clothed in linen, the man clothed in linen needed two hands to receive/hold the Fire: thus he used 2 hands.

☆5☆ — As soon as the Evangelist received, he went out without waiting for sharing the grace in fellowship — he went with the Fire to reach out or evangelize and spread the Fire he was bearing. He was not just a Light-bearer, but Fire/Power Transmitter.

☆6☆ — Yes, that Fire he was transmitting was like electricity power transmission because that Fire from the Cherubim was basically a source of lightning: Written —

[Ezekiel 1:13 GW] — The living creatures looked like burning coals and torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning came out of the fire.

☆7☆ — Therefore, that Fire that grew from one hand to two hands would eventually grow into becoming enough for the entire city, and in terms of wattage, I estimate the Fire to be exceeding 100,000 Megawatts of electricity.

(Ezekiel 10:8 - AMP) — Beneath their wings the cherubim seemed to have [something in] the form of a man’s hand.

(Ezekiel 10:8 - NIV) - (Under the wings of the cherubim could be seen what looked like human hands.)

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The hands of the Cherubim look like a man's hands, not a man's hands look like the hands of the Cherubim. The hands of Apes or some Monkeys may look like a man's hands, but a man's hands do not look like the hands of Apes or Monkeys.

In the bible verse above, the Cherubim have a man's hands under their wings. Behold, their wings were not under their man's hands; rather their man's hands were under their wings. Their hands are subject to their wings, and they had to lift up their wings before they could wave their hands or even do certain things with those hands.

Yes, Wings rank higher than hands of a man among the Living Creatures in the Heavens. And they subdue more with their Wings than with their hands. And, even the Wind would come under their Wings to exalt them in flight above. Nevertheless, they could still make their hands and their wings to move as one or join together.

Remember, though they have man's hands, yet when the scriptures says that God does not dwell in temple built by men's hands, that does not include the man's hands the cherubim. Their man's hands are not of men, but of God.

SATURATION: See what may have triggered the Temple's Cloudy Saturation

(Ezekiel 10:5 - AKJV) — And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when He speaks.

(Ezekiel 10:5 - NKJV) - And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even in the outer court, like the voice of Almighty God when He speaks.

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Let me quickly drop this here before proceeding: “God has shown that even the courts outside the temple are as important as the space within the temple.” Now having made the point, let's proceed: — The Cherubim were in the inner court, and yet even from the outer court the sound of their wings was so audible and loud like the voice of the Almighty God when He speaks outloud. To relate the reach of the sound of their wings and the reach of the cloud of glory from the Lord: — With their wings in harmony they played music sounds that glorified God, and being glorified the glory of God filled everywhere with bright cloud or atmosphere of glory. Similar things were done by Priests/Levites choirs, as Cherubim here were doing, but in east side:

[‭II Chronicles 5:12-14] — and the Levites who were the singers, all those of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white linen, having cymbals, stringed instruments and harps, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets— indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one in harmony, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying: “For He is good, For His mercy endures forever,” that the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud, so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.

However, we must take the starting point backwards to include the outpouring of wrath or satisfaction of the wrath of God, which is judgment done in the house of God, as the foundation for the glory of God filling the temple in and out with cloud of glory. I am illustrating another similar or related event, which I will reference below. The glory of God would not celebrate that way if there was still shame or wrath in the temple or house of God. So even if all the choirs in the world play music and sing with all they have, if there's abomination or wrath of God in the house of God, the glory of God will not fill the house of God with the cloud of glory.

Inside heaven, the temple inside heaven, was a house of God where they stored sacred and Holy food, drinks and liquids. But interesting things the angels were also storing inside the temple inside heaven were plagues (pestilences/illness) like some kind of dangerous acid: — Why store such things as the wrath of God in bowls, plagues or illnesses inside the holy|sacred temple? And as soon as those seven angels with those plagues came out of the temple, one of the Cherubim or Rabim also brought seven bowls containing wrath of God from the Throne and gave them to the seven angels of plagues. That is not my point, but that upon all the music sounds and praises around the temple by angels, yet the glory of God did not saturate the temple in heaven with the cloud or smoke of glory, until the bowls containing the Wrath of God was removed from the Throne and the plagues removed from the temple in heaven to be poured out on the earth to satisfy God's wrath: Then the temple in heaven became saturated with cloud or smoke of the glory of God to degrees that no one could go into the Temple.

[b][‭Revelation 15:5-8] - After this I looked, and I saw in heaven the temple-that is, the tabernacle of the covenant law-and it was opened. Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. Then one of the four cherubim gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

(Ezekiel 10:6 - AKJV) — And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.

(Ezekiel 10:6 - NKJV) - Then it happened, when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim,” that he went in and stood beside the wheels.

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He had commanded the linen clothed man/angel to go take fire “Between the Wheels” but the linen clothed man went and stood “Beside the Wheels.” Is between the wheels the same as beside the wheels? Is the word take sounding as stand? Why couldn't the man clothed in linen able to reach between the wheels and take the fire himself when he got there?

Now recall the bible reference from “Revelation 15” I cited under the preceding Bible verse, and recall that the seven angels that came out of the temple in heaven with plagues were like this man all clothed in linen, and all assigned to get some things from the Throne and to pour them on earth lands. But with this experience here, the cherubim in Revelation 15 just prepared and packaged the stuff for them in bowls so that the seven angels clothed in linen would not have to come and stand waiting like this one is doing in the top bible verse above.

But notice also how this Bible verse above, in repeating the Lord’s instruction to the man clothed in linen, changed or replaced the use of the word “Coal of Fire” as God said it to him with just “Fire” as this Bible verse above rephrased it. So, it now sounds like he was commanded to take fire between the wheels and pour or scatter the fire in the city, not like Sodom under fire, but like Elijah sent to bring fire to the city's streets.

(Ezekiel 10:3 - AKJV) — Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

(Ezekiel 10:3 - NKJV) - Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.

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One translation said the Cherubim were standing on the right side of the temple and another said they were standing on the south side of the temple: Both are correct. The temple as built by Solomon had its Front view/elevation in the east, rear view in the west, left view in the north and right view in the south. Recall that those men worshiping the sun in the east were backing or had their backs toward the temple.

Just as the space inside the House/Temple had “Outer Room” and “Inner Room,” so also the Premises of the House/Temple had “Outer Court” and “Inner Court.” So when the man clothed in linen went to were he was sent to the Cherubim, he left God in the outer court and entered the inner court, right side, where the Cherubim, the Wheels and the Throne, were. And the Cloud that filled the inner court was of the glory of God there ahead of him even though he left God behind to enter the inner court: God is everywhere. And the cloud already filled the inner court, or he walked into the cloud.

Don't forget that in the Holy of Holies towards the west side of the temple, there were portraits of Cherubim covering a Mercy seat with two wings. But the Real Cherubim do not cover the Throne, which is also above them and not under their covering wings; The real Cherubim were in the inner court at the right side, and the glory of God on them filled the inner court with cloud without rain of water, but cloud of glory.



(Ezekiel 10:4 - AKJV) — Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.

(Ezekiel 10:4 - NKJV) - Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and paused over the threshold of the temple; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord’s glory.

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Then again the glory of the Lord God went up from the Cherubim and stood again by the entrance door of the House in front/east side, now within the outer court. This time, the glory of God was releasing cloud of glory into the Temple Room and cloud of brightness into the outer court.

☆1☆ Whenever I see the Lord God Himself doing this, I feel He is performing Priestly to His Temple or to His Creation by releasing glorious cloud and atmosphere over and within them. Men as priests do similar thing by releasing incense smoke to fill a space.

☆2☆ Again, the manifest glory of the Lord God went up from the Cherubim to skip the fence and the door instead of entering or exiting through the door. Recall the reason He had to avoid the use of the door in such manifest Glory, as I explained in my writing under “Ezekiel 9:3.” And to get the cloud into the Temple, the glory of God stood by the entrance of the door in a manner for the cloud to enter through the door while He would not Himself enter through the door with His manifest Glory.

☆3☆ As it was then, the Holy of Holies, which was supposed to be the head source for the glory or cloud became the tail, while the opposite direction was the source. Sometimes in crusade or gathering, the Lord may start from any angles or direction.

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(Ezekiel 10:1 - AKJV) - Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

(Ezekiel 10:1 - AMP) - Then I looked, and behold, in the expanse (firmament) that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared something [glorious and brilliant] above them looking like a [huge] sapphire stone, formed to resemble a throne.

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Remember we already saw that visions of God usually come in sequential phases, such as first comers, second comers, third… etc of more appearances or unveilings as one continues to see what is already revealed in the visions or dreams. In the bible verse above, a fresh vision or appearance happened, revealing a Throne above the firmament that was above the Cherubim. Though the Throne had been there all along the time the glory of God was there, the Throne did not manifest in the vision until this time when It appeared and was having the appearance of a Sapphire Stone. Now do learn these:

☆1☆ The Sapphire Stone appearance of the Throne means the Throne was blueish in coloration - [You may read my commentary on “Ezekiel 1:26” - www.peterch.org]. Sometimes you look up into the heavens and see it's blueish, but if you travel through space you hardly see what particularly makes it blueish.

☆2☆ The Firmament of the Cherubim is not the same as firmament of this space or physical heaven. Rather the firmament of the third heaven possessed the firmament of the second heaven in these revelations and visions. This second firmament is called ‘Open Heaven’ but a Firmament of the Cherubim is called “Opened Heaven” to man.

☆3☆ The reason the Throne was hidden before but suddenly appeared now is has something to do with the report the man (angel) clothed in linen gave, saying, “I have done or completed Your (the Lord’s) command.” In other words, when Judgment is restored to the house of God the Throne of God will be restored to the house of God. The Throne of God does not dwell where the Judgment of God is lacking. This’ because — Righteousness and Justice (Judgment) is the Foundation or Base of the Throne.

It was easier for the Glory of God and His angels to appear or dwell in place lacking judgment than for the Throne of God to be there. So do not just seek the glory of God or the power of God, rather seek the Throne, which is also called the Kingdom of God and It's Righteousness and Justice (Judgment). The Church and the Temple have been given the power and glory of God when the Spirit of God was given Her; but it's about time for the Throne of God to be given to Her when the Judgment of God begins in Her.

Don't forget these three things that are highly precious but are “Hard to get” because they are not seen or found everywhere: Their being selective makes them uncommon

A. The Throne of God —Which does not show or dwell anywhere unless there is Righteousness and Justice/Judgment there.

B. The Tree of Life —Which is even more selective than the Throne is in being hard to get: this is because the Throne where righteousness & justice reigns, even if there are sinners or unrighteous people there - after all, it's on the Throne the Lord will judge sinners, provided righteousness & justice thrive there. But the Tree of Life will not even show up in a place where righteousness and justice/judgment dwell as long as there is still a fraction of sinner there. The Throne is against the sins, not against the sinners; but the Tree of Life is against both the sins and sinners for ever. In protest, the Tree of Life will never again show up on this earth no matter whether its millennial reign of Christ and righteousness, but the Tree of Life don't want the ground or soil where even the dead sinners were buried. So for the Tree of Life to show, this earth must be destroyed and a new earth brought where righteousness dwells and no sinner.

C. The Queen Bride of the Lamb as the City, New Jerusalem —She's as the Tree of Life, but in addition she does not even the Sunlight to exist in her space or any light or lamp that is from outside Her. All light that touches Her or reveals Her must come from within Her, not light from outside shining on her. And yet, She's the Light of the World to Come, while God and the Lamb are the Source of Her Light within Her. Moreover, She would not even have a Temple or no pastors will build a Church Building, Auditorium or Cathedral, within Her City walls - She's the House of God and men — for in Her, the House of God must not be separate or different from the house of men. That's full meaning of “The Tabernacle of God is with Men.” [Revelation 21:9-27].

Is a husband's house different from his wife's house? Or is a father's house different from the children's house? Even if they were different in heaven and on earth before, they shall not be different in Her.

(Ezekiel 10:2 - AKJV) — And He spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, “Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill your hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in in my sight.

(Ezekiel 10:2 - AMP) - And the Lord spoke to the man (seventh angel) clothed in linen and said, “Go between the whirling wheels under the cherubim; fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And he entered as I watched. [Rev 8:5]

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Interesting! Rarely do you find the Throne of God empty without anyone sitting on it like in this scenario. I remember a brother who usually say, “God is on the Throne” as a way of giving assurance that all will be well. But literally in this Bible verse above, God was not on the Throne, and yet He sent a man or angel to the Throne to take some things from a treasury under the Throne.

The Throne of God is not like a sit of Power that you say doesn't allow vacuum/vacancy: no one can even sit on the Throne if God was not there. And not only on the Seat of God, but in the entire heaven no man can sit on another man's seat even if man for whom the seat is has not yet come to heaven. So whether absent or not, seats are reserved. Some untaught people on earth do not see anything wrong sitting on seats meant for kings, chiefs or highest ranking person in office in their absence. They will say, “The person is not around, so let me sit and when he comes I will stand up.” But in heaven, you dare not even sit on a higher rank person's seat in his absence, let alone try to sit on God's Throne when He's not sitted. Don't act like Reuben going into his father's couch in his father's absence.

Now in the bible verse above, God Himself sent the angel or man clothed in linen to go fill his hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and between the wheels under the Throne of God who was some distance from the Throne. It's like sending a messenger to go underneath boss's office, desk, vehicle, etc, while the PA and special purpose Guards in charge are their as their duty post. Some PAs, managers, secretary or escorts, will not still that messenger to enter that corner or room to get what the boss sent the messenger to get even if they are sure the boss truly sent the messenger especially because the messenger described accurately the exact position and content of the said thing, which is a password or code secret that the boss truly sent him/her. They will rather ask the messenger to wait outside and then will go inside themselves and get those things and then hand them out to the messenger instead of allowing the messenger to go inside and get them irrespective of how the boss instructed the message.

So you see how the Lord God instructed the man clothed in linen to go get his hands filled with coals of fire, and gave him the secret location of the coals as passcode, yet by the time the man or angel gets to the Throne, the Cherubim would not allow him to go in or even take the coals by himself; rather they will get the coals and give him.

When some angels were sent by God to cherubim manning the garden of Eden to get some treasures out of the garden and give them to Adam and Eve, the cherubim allowed them to go in and get them. But the case was different with the cherubim manning the Throne of God. That's supposed to be the most highly secured place that not even Angels on errands can come near to touch Throne even though God sent the angels. Wherever the Throne goes, the Cherubim as escort must go, wherever the Rabim go, the Wheels will go: because the spirits of the cherubim is in the Wheels. Telling the man clothed in linen to go get coals of fire from the wheels is sending him to where the spirits were. So one of the Cherub will by his hand get the coals and give them to the angel in linen according to “Ezekiel 10:6-7.”

COALS OF FIRE

In “Isaiah 6:6-7” one of the Seraphim took a coal from the altar before the Lord, and touched the lips of Isaiah and therefore cleansed/purged him therewith. In “Revelation 8:5,” an angel fill a censer with coals of fire and poured out the same throughout the earth. And here the man clothed in linen is to cast handful of the coals of fire from the wheels throughout the city. This was for the purification of the city.

THE EVILS FROM AND THE EVIL COMMUNICATION THAT BEGAT THEM

[‭Ezekiel 9:9 NKJV] — Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’

[Ezekiel 9:9 BSB] — He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
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Should I say the reason the inquity of the house of Israel and Judah became exceedingly great, the reason the land became full of bloodshed, and the reason city became full of perversity, was all because the Lord acted/appeared like He had long forsaken the land and was acting like He does not see what were going on for long?

Or I should I say the reason why the inquity of the house of Israel and Judah became exceedingly great, the reason the land became full of bloodshed, and the reason city became full of perversity, was all because the people were telling themselves or saying that the Lord has forsaken the land and He does not see what were going on the land?

While the Lord’s seeming or acting distant, silent, hidden, blind or oblivion, has its own contribution too, it is men's misinformation and misapplication of God's seeming or acting distant, silent, hidden, blind or oblivion, that usually seduced or corrupted the men. That's the basic example of “Evil Communication Corrupts Good Manners.”

Here are few examples of such evil communications (wrong doctrines, misinformation, lies, deceptions etc.) about the Lord God that corrupts (decays, seduces or backslides) men who uphold them.

☆1☆ In the bible verse above, the evil communication that corrupted or seduced the community of believers among the house of Israel and Judah was the doctrines or beliefs that “the Lord had forsaken the land” and “The Lord does not see.” This in turn subtly turned those men with such ideologies into workers of iniquity, the land they say God had forsaken became full of bloodshed, and the city/society in perversity.

☆2☆ In Luke 12:45, the evil communication that corrupted or seduced the servants of the Lord among the community of believers was the doctrines or beliefs that “the Lord delays His return” and “The Lord will take far too long before returning.” This in turn subtly turned those servants with such ideologies into self-serving, wicked or negligent at feeding the house of the Lord God with the right food meant for them.

☆3☆ In Psalms 14:2, the evil communication that corrupted or seduced atheists or so-called freethinkers was the doctrines or beliefs that “there is no God” and ‘that evolution and natural selection were their creators/makers.’ This in turn subtly turned those men with such ideologies into corrupt, vile, people of reprobate mindsets.

In all of these, mankind has not been able to attain and sustain a society, land or city that is void of iniquity, wickedness, oppression, corruption, evil, in the absence of God. No matter how much people deny God, without God mankind cannot hold Moral society void of injustice, crimes, or evils, amongst themselves. We do really need the Lord God.

MUST REAP WHAT THEY SOWED

[‭Ezekiel 9:10 NKJV] — “And as for Me also, My eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head.”

[Ezekiel 9:10 BSB] — But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”
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When people that holds such ideologies, deceptions, doctrines, or beliefs, about God become emboldened to do whatever they like and then get away with whatever and however they have done, that proves their points about God to be more real even if those points were false. So because their points are not true but the evidence of their getting away with whatever they did is glaring, that will mean “God is mocked.”

So for God not to be mocked by counsels of men's heart, men must reap their deeds:

[Galatians 6:7-8 BSB] — Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

In the top bible verse above, if God's mercy or pity prevents God from repaying the deeds or seeds sown by men upon their heads, that means in this immediate bible verse God is mocked because a man never reaped what he sowed because of “Pity.” However, even though God said He will neither spare nor have pity, but will repay everyone's deeds or ways upon him; yet that act of repayment is also the act of Mercy, Pity, as well as act of Justice and Retribution. Making men to reap what they sowed is also kindness as well as severity - it's both mercy and judgment for God to repay one's deeds on him, to cause him reap the fruits of the seeds and labors he sowed/invested.

THE ANGEL'S REPORTING AFTER DUTY

[‭Ezekiel 9:11 NKJV] — Just then, the man clothed with linen, who had the ink horn at his side, reported back and said, “I have done as You commanded me.”

[Ezekiel 9:11 BSB] — Then the man clothed in linen with the writing kit at his side reported back, “I have done as You commanded.”
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It didn't take long for the man or angel clothed in linen to have performed the census and marked all the chosen ones in the entire city. God's angels are superlatively fast and efficient. Those in charge know every righteous or chosen ones on earth and beneath the earth. This is the reason the rapture will happen in a blink of an eye - not because of the trumpet sound, but because of the angels the Lord will send. Those who dramatize the rapture show it as suddenly disappearance and ascending of saints to heaven, but do not show the angels that must come to take them as they did Elijah. No rapture without angels coming down to earth to lift the rapturable from earth — For a man does not yet levitate or ascend into heaven without angel (except the Lord Jesus) just as a fish do not climb a tall tree outside water without a bird to pick it up.

[Mark 13:26-27 GW] — “Then people will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. He will send out his angels, and from every direction under the sky, they will gather those whom God has chosen.

My point of bringing rapture into this story of the top bible verse above is to point out the reality that the angels know the righteous and chosen ones in any location any where. Why wouldn't I connect this with rapture, seeing in the Book of “Revelation 7” similar things happened, the angel in charge of marking or sealing the foreheads of the chosen sealed the “144,000” in Israel and then the rest of the chosen in all other nations and locations of the world were raptured and were holding leaves or branches of palm tree as soon as they were in heaven before the Throne of God in same period.

In the top bible verse above, the angel/man clothed in linen came back to report to God that he has done as God commanded. We also saw that there was an occasion that the Lord sent an angel to go throughout the earth and bring back his report; and when the angel returned, he reported to another angel instead of reporting directly to God.

[Zechariah 1:10-11 BSB] Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.” And the riders answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and tranquil.”

Angels may be reporting to their leaders among angels, not necessarily directly to God.

REMNANT OF ISRAEL

[‭Ezekiel 9:8 NKJV] — So it was, that while they were killing them, I was left alone; and I fell on my face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Lord God! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?”

[Ezekiel 9:8 NIV] — While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell facedown, crying out, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

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The Scribe clothed in linen did not mark Ezekiel and yet the Executioners did not kill Ezekiel there. He was left alone or was the only man in flesh and blood standing while the rest of mankind in the open temple court were killed.

☆ So why was Ezekiel neither marked nor executed among the people there?

Though Ezekiel was there in Jerusalem (and in the temple), he was not classified or memberized within Judah or Jerusalem but within Israel and precisely those in exile. Infact, when you read beginning of “Ezekiel 11” you will discover there were yet 25 men and leaders of the city of Jerusalem by the East Gate of the Temple, who were evil schemers and evil politicians that gave evil counsel to Jerusalem, and yet they were not destroyed during this outpouring of wrath and destruction. In “Ezekiel 11:13,” one of those 25 men would suddenly be killed while Ezekiel was prophesying, and then Ezekiel will repeat similar thing he did or said in the top bible verse above by then.

In the top bible verse above, this was what Ezekiel did and said after the killing of the 25 men who worshipped the sun, which Ezekiel would again do and say in similar but slightly different way when one of another set of 25 men was killed in “Ezekiel 11:13:”
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He fell on his face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Lord God! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?”

In both occasions, what prompted Ezekiel to react this way was the destruction of God on those in Jerusalem or Judah, whom those who were in exile considered as “Remnant of Israel” because they were still left in their land while those who were taken into captivity or exile were considered as the lost people of Israel. So the hope of Israel was on those still in their land, whom they referred to as “Remnant of Israel.” However the Lord God correct that wrong impression or wrong reference to who were “Remnant of Israel” after Ezekiel use the same reference in “Ezekiel 11:13.” For then God began to reveal to him that these people of Jerusalem you and your people in exile (including they themselves in Jerusalem) call the “Remnant of Israel” based on geographical location are not whom God sees as “Remnant of Israel” because God will back those Israelites who were scattered in different countries of the world into their land, and give them a new heart and new spirit, removing the stony heart away from them, and rebuild them in their land. And meanwhile, many of these ones at Jerusalem currently then and calling themselves remnant of Israel shall be removed and lost instead.

You may recall the lessons that God taught Ezekiel by the dry bones rising again to redefine how God can bring back or restore the seemingly lost hope of Israel back even from their graves and from far countries.

So God may have different numbering for counting who are truly “Remnant of Israel, Children of Abraham, True Jews indeed (not synagogue of Satan) or True Christians.”

John the Baptist told them to not think that parading themselves as the ‘Children of Abraham’ grants them immunity or makes them untouchable, because God can raise these Stones into becoming the Children of Abraham before God” [Luke 3:8]. Paul —

[Romans 9:6-8 FBV] — It's not that God's promise has failed. For not every Israelite is a true Israelite, and all those who are descended from Abraham are not his true children. For Scripture says, “Your descendants will be counted through Isaac,” so it's not Abraham's actual children who are counted as God's children, but only those children of God's promise who are considered his true descendants.

Basically, God had different system for determining who “The Remnants of Israel” or The True Jews” are, from how men count or consider these things. Nevertheless, Ezekiel employing that “Remnant of Israel” technique in making Intercession helped in preventing total annihilation of the sinners in Jerusalem then. Do not forget this lesson: — Even if God will not have Mercy on Israel, God will still have Remnant of Israel. Therefore, when using mercy to intercede will not work, using remnant to intercede may work, just as Ezekiel was good at doing before God.

[‭Ezekiel 9:7 AMP‬] — And He said to the executioners, “Defile the temple and fill its courtyards with the dead. Go out!” So they went out and struck down the people in the city.

[Ezekiel 9:7 BSB] — Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.

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Though this event illustrated “Judgment begins at the house of God,” this event differ here from the one to come. The reason is because this one in the bible verse above would result in desecration or defilement of the temple or house of God, while the judgment to come have the goal or purpose to purify or cleanse the temple or house of God from all filthiness of both the flesh and the spirit, perfecting holiness in the true fear of God.

In the bible verse above, the Lord God commanded the executioners to defile the temple, fill the courts with the corpses and then go out to continue the killing and slaughtering spree in the city outside the temple, after they are done with the temple. Before then the Word of God had revealed to Ezekiel about such defiling/desecrating:

[Ezekiel 7:22 BSB] - I will turn My Face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

Judgment Began from the House of God

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(Ezekiel 9:3 - NKJV) - "Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where It had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at His side."

(Ezekiel 9:3 - NIV) - "Now the glory of the God of Israel went up from above the cherubim, where It had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. Then the Lord called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at His side."

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#1. Clear your mind from thinking it's from the Cherubim inside the innermost holy chamber called Holy of Holies that the glory of the God of Israel alighted to the entrance of the temple here. And make it clear the Cherubim here were the true and living ones, not their image within the temple.

#2. Brief on how God alighted here — the significance of His alighting from above the Cherubim by going up first before coming down directly to the entrance of the temple more rather like a vertical entrance rather than horizontal entrance through the gate.

#3. In comparing these events inside this particular verse above with the preceding two verses and the events in "Numbers 12:4-5" outline three or four similar acts of God in those two references as His patterns:

A■ In both instances, God first called them to come there before the Glory of God moved to there.

B■ In both instances, the glory of God descended from above them while they were there already: not from the sides the glory came but from above, and the Glory did not come before they came but when they were there.

C■ In both instances, the glory of God stood by the entrance, and He called them the second time to come nearer to Him — When you have fulfilled the invitation and finally come to the church, ushers will beginning giving you another invitation to make you sit or come to the front seat or closer to the Pulpit. But in both instances, when they fulfilled the invitation and were there, the Lord God Himself was ushering them, not to the front seat and not even to enter the hall, but ushering them to draw nearer to Him in glory.

D■ It is to “His Side” the Lord ushers, not to the frontier or higher seat like other ushers in church do. The Lord is calling men to His Side, including those who are in His house. For not all who are in His house are on His Side, for not all who come to His house come to Him. — “Who is on the Lord’s Side? Let him come to Me.”

#4. Return back to how the glory of God vertically came down into the Temple premises even though the glory of God was upon the Cherubim just outside the premises and the gates were opened. This is not just about the image of jealousy that provokes to jealousy by the entrance, but more of how the glory of God preferring to descend or fall rather than coming from the sides/gates. You may also recount how Satan took the Lord Jesus up the pinnacle of the temple and asked Him to cast Himself descending down from there in the sight of the people, rather than they seeing Him use the side gates to enter. You may recall the Jews want to see a man descending from heaven to believe He is their messiah, not a man that they know how he came from below or among them. And that in the last days, they would eventually see the Lord Jesus Christ descending from above, even the same Jesus whom they pierced; and they shall mourn because of Him, and believe in Him. Some believed Him when He came humbly through the womb of a woman; some believed Him when they saw He ascend into heaven; but there are those who would not believe Him until they see Him descend from heaven to earth. Recall what the angels told the apostles in "Acts 1:11."

#5. Well incase someone would ask, has the glory of God never came into the Temple through the gates or doors before? Explain that as the Spirit or the Wind, He comes through all and He's in all: but when He comes in manifest appearance and glory, He does not just pass through any door or gate or way. Then explain that the first time God in manifest Glory shall enter or pass through a gate into His Temple, that Gate shall never be opened for all men (except the Prince) to ever pass through that Gate or Door again because the Lord God Himself has passed through it — "Ezekiel 42:1-3."

#6. In furtherance on that, let them know that unlike how the glory of God skipped the fences or gates into the Temple premises in the top bible verse above, similar events was later witnessed by the same Ezekiel, who saw the glory of God entering the future Temple of God but through the Gate this time (not the upper gate or northern gate, but the eastern gate), which was the reason the East Gate of the Temple shall be strictly out of bound to all men except only the Prince (the Lord Jesus) - this similar event to the top Bible verse above was witnessed by Ezekiel in "Ezekiel 43:1-4."

#7. Behold, before then the Glory of God was by entrance of the gate as if He would enter by the Gate, but when He entered He jumped the gate or fence. Again the glory stood by the entrance door into the main temple, as if He would use that entrance door if He would even enter inside; but He wouldn't use that door to enter though He stood by the door and calls man clothed in linen to come nearer to Him as He stood by that tent of meeting in the wilderness and called Moses, Aaron and Miriam to draw nearer to Him instead of Him to enter through the door.

#8. Infact, I have not seen or read where the Lord being manifest ever entered any man's house through the door until He became the Lord Jesus Christ and began entering people's houses using the door. In the old times before Christ, the Lord being manifest hardly if entered inside any man's house or tent through a door, unless in Spirit, in Dreams or Visions or in His own House like when He called, Samuel Samuel. However, His Spirit and His angels do enter into men's houses and homes physically or manifestly. Example, three Men (the Lord God Himself and two angels) visited Abraham and they only sat outside under a tree; but when the two angels met Lot in Sodom, the two angels went into Lot's house. Perhaps if the Lord as Man or Manifest was with the two angels, they would not have entered nor lodged in any man's house. But the Lord came as Jesus Christ, and behold He's does not only enjoys entering homes/houses of men, but He's Infact standing at the door knocking for who will hear and open the door for Him to enter through the door for a feast date with the person.


(Ezekiel 9:4 - BSB) - “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”

(Ezekiel 9:4 - FBV) - “Go through the whole the city of Jerusalem and place a mark on the foreheads of those who sighing and mourning at all the disgusting sins that are done there.”
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The Lord’s instruction to the Scribe clothed in linen was to pass through the city of Jerusalem and write/sign his signature (autograph) on the foreheads of those who frown, sigh, cry and protest against sin, iniquity or abomination in the city. To avoid ambiguity, let me state that:

He did not say those who are righteous or innocent; but said those who are pained, afflicted or fighting against sins, iniquities or abominations. There are so-called righteous people or let's say in today's words, so-called Christians who are “Lukewarm” - neither hot nor cold - they may not be doing the sins or abominations, but they are doing nothing against the sins either. They are playing as civilian in a warfare that all must be either soldiers for Righteousness or soldiers for sins - no civilian or sitting on fence. Therefore, such Lukewarm or confused liabilities shall become casualties because they shall not receive such mark on their foreheads.

He did not say those who are protesting or fighting against poverty, hunger, insecurity or sufferings; but said those who are pained, afflicted or fighting against sins, iniquities or abominations in the land and in the house of God.

[Hebrews 12:3-4] — Now meditate deeply on Him Who endured such great hostility of sinners against Himself so that you do not become weary and faint in your minds. You have not yet resisted to the point of losing blood in your struggle against sin.

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(Ezekiel 9:1 - KJV)
"And he cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand."

(Ezekiel 9:1 - NIV)
"Then I heard him call out in a loud voice, 'Bring near those who are appointed to execute judgment on the city, each with a weapon in his hand.'"

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In this Bible verse, Ezekiel witnesses a profound moment of divine communication and action. Here are five significant aspects of this passage:

#1. "The Lord spoke with a loud voice" — relate His difference in voice loudness from how He previously spoke to Ezekiel nearer to Him then to His speaking to someone seemingly distant. Then relate the impart the loudness which the Voice had on Ezekiel's feeling and awareness of other beings he seemed not to have noticed — The loudness of God's voice does things, not just to whom He's addressing in speech but also, to all who hear. Show His loud Voice is not just when it's heard from heaven to earth as if He uses a voice magnifier in heaven, but also here on earth His Voice can still be loud from earth to heaven or to hell as indicated:

The loudness of God's voice signifies its authority and importance. When God spoke closely to Ezekiel, it conveyed intimacy and direct communication. In contrast, when speaking with a loud voice from a distance, it commands attention and signifies the magnitude of the event unfolding.

#2. "Cause those in charge (or executioners) of the city to draw nearer" — Build on them having charge of the city, but were not near the city until they were called to draw nearer. Use them to differentiate two kinds of having charge over a city or over a man: One is having charge or assignment over a city by occupying the city and running things there, and the other having charge of the city but kept far away from it until time of emergency or of taking over comes. Even though death is given charge over men, death stays far from men until the appointed time or call comes.

The phrase "those who have charge over the city" can imply both spiritual and earthly authorities. These figures were summoned to draw near, indicating they were not always present but were assigned to execute judgment when called upon. This contrasts with earthly rulers who govern from within the city, illustrating a different kind of authority.

#3. They were men He was referring to, even though they were angels or spirit beings — build on how those given such charge are both angels and men, using the three Men that passed through Abraham on their way to Sodom to destroy it as illustration.

Although described as men, these figures could represent angelic beings tasked with executing divine judgment. The reference to the three men visiting Abraham before the destruction of Sodom highlights how spiritual beings can take on human-like forms to fulfill their duties on earth.

#4. Coming with their weapons of destruction along — build with — These ones are not given mere "Weapons of our Warfare" as Christians were given to take charge of their cities; rather for their taking charge over their city they were given "Weapons of Mass Destruction."

The "destroying weapons" these figures carry signify the severity of their mission. Unlike spiritual weapons used by believers for spiritual warfare, these are instruments of physical judgment and destruction, emphasizing the finality and severity of divine judgment.

#5. Relate this event to that of the first passover, and these ones called forth to the angel of death in the passover.

Just as the angel of death passed over homes marked with the blood of the lamb during the first Passover, these appointed figures will spare those marked with the seal on their foreheads. This signifies divine protection amidst judgment, drawing parallels between God's acts of justice and mercy across biblical events.

(Ezekiel 9:2 - NKJV)
"And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his battle-ax in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer’s inkhorn at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar."
(Ezekiel 9:2 - NIV)
"And I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with a deadly weapon in his hand. With them was a man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. They came in and stood beside the bronze altar."

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PART A — "...Six men came from the way of the Higher or Upper Gate, which at the North side, each with a deadly weapon in his hand:" — Here are four notable points:

#1. Six men responded or showed up to answer the Loud Voice call of the Lord, and therefore they drew near as the ones in charge over the city. Show that there's place for more than one men or angels to have charge over one single city or even one individual. You may use the scripture Satan quoted to the Lord Jesus, saying, "God will give His angels charge over you..." as illustration of multiple men or angels having charge over seemly one unit.

These six men, embodying the authority given by the Lord, arrived at the city ready to execute judgment, akin to the angel of death in Egypt or the angel of destruction in David's time. This underscores that multiple agents can hold authority over a single city or person.
#2. These six men with such mandate were already in the city by the time Ezekiel saw them coming through the upper gate, and they did not come empty-handed because they would not leave without casualties in their city of charge: Relate how their presence already in the city was like the angel of death's presence in Egypt or the angel of destruction over Israel because David chose that option after he numbered Israel.

Their presence within the city already, as Ezekiel observed them entering through the upper gate, indicates their preparedness for executing divine judgment. This parallels David's choice of judgment upon Israel, signifying that their mission would not be without consequences.

#3. As for the direction through which they entered into where Ezekiel began seeing them: Let us know the higher Gate or upper Gate was the biggest gate to access the temple of God. That Upper Gate to the temple was built by a man (a king) who never stepped foot into the Temple, because his father was struck with leprosy inside the temple: and so like a vow he never attended church there but he helped build the upper gate (2 Chronicles 27:2-3). Behold he who came to build never entered the upper gate he built, but those who came to destroy had no problem entering through the upper gate they didn't build, even if the image of jealousy that provokes to jealousy be found there.

The upper gate through which they entered was significant as it provided access to the temple of God, even though it was built by a king who never set foot inside due to his father's affliction. This gate symbolizes access for those who come to destroy, contrasting with its builder's vow.

#4. The six men were not coming into this gate with Thanksgiving, Praise, Offerings, but they came in Obedience to the Lord and did not come empty-handed even though they were not bringing offering or tithes. Their bringing weapons of mass destruction would suffice. If any has problem with such bringing of weapons of destruction into the Lord’s house, recall where the sword of Goliath was kept and given to David in "1 Samuel 21" or recall "Psalms 149:6-7."

These men did not enter with offerings or praise but obeyed the Lord with weapons of destruction, reminiscent of the sword of Goliath kept and given to David or the psalmist's exhortation in Psalms 149:6-7.

PART B — "With them was another man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. And they came in and stood beside the bronze altar."

#1. Now in this section, you will relate how a man who was clothed differetly, not holding weapons of destruction like them was among them. Was he supposed to be there given the details of the instruction of the Loud Voice call out to them and the instruction of bringing weapons of destruction? And yet the man brought ink pen for writing or as a Scribe.

Amid the six armed men, there was another figure, dressed in linen, not carrying weapons but equipped with a writing kit. His presence raises questions about his role alongside the armed men, highlighting his unique function as a scribe or recorder.

#2. Show that the man was even more in charge of the city than the rest of them — he was the Accountant General in charge of the souls or population of the city. So while multiple angels may have charge over one city, they have their specific roles or different departments.

This man in linen held a higher role, akin to an Accountant General overseeing the souls of the city. This distinction among the angels demonstrates that while they share responsibility, each has specific duties or departments.

#3. If that reason doesn't suffice for the man being more incharge than them over the city — Show the fact that the man was clothed in linen reveals he was higher in rank or office than they were. Not all angels appear on earth as men dressed in Linen, example like Daniel saw in "Daniel 12:5-7."

Immediately Pharaoh exalted Joseph into a prince, he clothed Joseph with Linen. And in the days to come, no priest shall qualify to minister inside the temple unless he qualifies and wears linen according to the angel in "Ezekiel 44:17." And though not all these six men were wearing linen when they came to destroy, the true Bride of the Lord shall be wearing Linen when She comes and follows Her Lord into the war of Armageddon and destruction of Kings [Revelation 19:8, 14].

The linen garment symbolizes higher rank, as seen in Daniel's vision and the priestly requirements in Ezekiel 44:17. This figure's attire contrasts with the armed men's, suggesting a different purpose or authority.

#4. As for the weapon of the man clothed in linen, his ink pen was far more formidable weapon than the weapons the rest brought: for their weapons are powerless on those or things on which the ink pen has written.

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[Ezekiel 8:15 BSB] - “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”

[Ezekiel 8:15 NIV] - He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see things that are even more detestable than this.”

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☆1☆ As you see the Lord doing here, He shows and knows what iniquities are, and knows which sin is greater than the other. Part of discipleship training is to know what sins are, where sins are, when sins are, and to know the nature and extent of sins. The Lord was showing Ezekiel these things for his learning and for his witnessing.

One of the banes of the endtimes is the generation of the world growing increasingly ignorant or oblivion of what abominations or sins are. With advancement in technology, comes advancement in deception: but those who know the Lord would increase in the knowledge of both His righteousness and the knowledge of what He sees as sin, which is Truth. We must be sanctified by truth, or we are not fully sanctified at all.

“You have seen this (abomination), yet you will see greater abomination than this” — The mystery of iniquity must be fully unveiled for the righteous and the holy to see right through them till there's no more mystery of iniquity.

☆2☆ Another reason the Lord would show His angels, His prophets and His close friends the iniquities of people is so that those close to the Lord would both understand and agree with Him when He judges the sinners and pours His wrath on them. It's more like God getting justified when He acts against the sinners. In God's Judgment, there must be justification: when He justifies the righteous, He must be justified; and when He condemns the sinner/wicked, He must also be justified. Hence He upholds righteousness in judgment so that He may not be condemned when He condemns. One of the reasons you as a man should not judge is because you will be judged when you judge, and you may be condemned when you condemn [Luke 6:37]. God knows how to condemn without being condemned or being justified when He condemns, because God knows how to expose or bring to light the secret things in darkness when He judges.

[1 Corinthians 4:5 FBV] — So don't judge anything before the right time - when the Lord comes. He will bring to light all the darkest secrets that are hidden, and He will reveal people's motives. God will give everyone whatever praise they deserve.

Judgment comes with Revelation or Demystification (Light and Exposure). If you do not have enough Revelation and Lights to judge anyone, do not judge or condemn anyone. For saying you misjudged a man you condemned is not acceptable, and admitting you judged wrongly is even a reason you should be condemned: the sin of misjudging shall not go unpunished.

When I talk under the last bible verse in this chapter, I will relate more on how God being justified when He condemns or judges the sinners also shuts up voices of intercessors. Before then, let look into the next abomination the Lord say was greater than the ones He already showed the son of man in His Expository Series.

[Ezekiel 8:16 BSB] - So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

[Ezekiel 8:16 KJV] - ‭And He brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

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This was the biggest of the abominations so far in that expository series. Though they were all idolatry, this one was the worst among the them.

☆ If it were based on the number of people involved — this one that had just 25 men would not have matched the one involving more number of women or 70 men.

☆ If it were based on the number of gods involved — this one that had just ‘Sun’ would not have matched the one involving many idols, demons and creatures.

It's not about the crowd involved nor about the varieties of demons or unclean things; rather its about the “Service and Worship” involved. To illustrate, take Roman Catholics’ claim “They are honoring Mary (and various saints), but never worship her (the saints).” Now supposing this claim is factual and true, it would still idolatry or abomination, but it would be less than the abomination of worshiping.

■☆■ The 70 elders were seen offering incense or oblation to various gods on Walls, doing “Joyful Mystery;” but they were not seen worshiping any of those gods by Ezekiel — That's idolatry of honoring or serving various gods, but not worshiping any of them.

■☆■ The women were seen weeping for Tammuz, doing “Sorrowful Mystery;” but they were not seen worshiping Tammuz by Ezekiel — That's idolatry of loving or devoting to dead gods with all one's heart, but not worshiping the dead gods.

■☆■ The 25 men were seen worshipping the sun, doing “Glorious Mystery” adoration to the sun as seen by Ezekiel — That's the peak of idolatry - worshipping any other creatures or thing apart from God the Creator of all.

Moreover, the peak of idolatry is not yet the peak of abomination that those 25 men were doing: they were also “Deny God, Profaning His Temple, and Blaspheming.”

— How they Denied God:
[Job 31:26-28 FBV] — Have I looked at the sun shining so brilliantly or the moon moving in majesty across the sky and been tempted to secretly worship them by kissing my hand to them in devotion? This too would be a sin deserving punishment for it would mean I had denied God above.

— How they Profane God's Temple:
They were in the innermost court of the temple, yet their backing was against the temple while they were facing the sun and worshiping the sun far away. This was in contrast to Daniel, being far away and in a country where prayer was forbidden, and yet he opened his window to face the temple of God while praying to God. When Solomon dedicated the temple, he spoke to God alot about men facing the temple.

[Ezekiel 8:17 BSB] - “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!

[Ezekiel 8:17 AFV] - And He said to me, "Have you seen, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they do the hateful things which they do here? For they have filled the land with violence and have turned to provoke Me to anger still more. And lo, they put the branch to their nose.

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I said the peak of idolatry was not even the peak of abomination done by the 25 men worshiping the sun here, and mentioned denying God, Profaning His Temple, and Blaspheming God.

But in this Bible verse, even the abominations of the house of Judah were not enough, for they added violence (bloodshed, oppression and wickedness) to their abominations (idolatry, immorality, uncleanness) and to provoking God to anger through blaspheming or insulting the Lord God by an act of putting branch to their nose. That was the blaspheming I referred to, among the abominations of the 25 men.

See how the Almighty God is reporting this matter or complaining to the son of man, tabulating His grievances with a whole nation of His People to the prophet. This would bring Him justification when He judges the said people in the presence of the witness.

[Ezekiel 8:18 BSB] - Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My Ears, I will not listen to them.”

[Ezekiel 8:18 AFV] - Therefore I will also deal with fury; My Eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in My Ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them."

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Here I will relate more on how God being justified when He condemns or judges the sinners also shuts up voices of intercessors and of mercy. Mercy or Pity may no longer be considered or regarded because the Lord God is justified in judging, condemning or pouring out His fury without restraint. Prayers, no matter how loud, would not be heard on their behalf because God is justified in outpouring His wrath upon them. This was to let the son of man, Ezekiel, know that even he pray for them in Intercession the Lord would not hear him because Ezekiel has seen or was shown the things they do to provoke the Lord to anger.

It's like the Lord told Jeremiah He will not hear his prayer for the people because he has seen or was shown the things they do in honoring the “Queen of Heaven” that provokes the Lord to anger. As it is written,

[Jeremiah 7:16-20 FBV] — You, Jeremiah, are not to pray for these people. Don't cry out to Me in prayer for them, don't plead with Me on their behalf, because I won't listen to you. Can't you see how they're behaving in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children collect the firewood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods to make Me angry and hurt. But is it really Me they're hurting? declares the Lord. Aren't they really hurting themselves and bringing shame on themselves? So this is what the Lord God says: Watch! My furious anger and will be poured out on this country, on people and animals, on the orchards and the crops in the field. It will burn and nobody will be able to put it out.

[Ezekiel 8:13 BSB] - “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”

[Ezekiel 8:13 FBV] - The Lord went on to tell me, “You're going to see them doing even more disgusting things than these!”

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I used to think that Satan the devil is specialist at accusing and exposing the sins of sinners among brethren before the Lord, while the Lord just sits as the presiding Judge until I came to know that the Lord also does expose the sins of sinners among brethren better than Satan the accuser of the brethren. Infact, Satan the devil does more of accusing and less of exposing sinners among brethren, but the Lord does more of exposing and less of accusing among brethren. Know the difference between both.

God is Light, and by default exposes or makes all things manifest: — There is nothing hidden, secret, covered or in darkness, that shall not be exposed by God - no exception.

In this Bible Chapter above, God was in His duty of exposing secret/hidden sins among brethren: And when it comes to exposing sins among brethren or people of God, He always does the works by Himself instead of sending angels to expose the sins of His people. And in the bible verse above, the Lord was still conducting the son of man through a journey of exposing the secret sins and abominations within the church, after taking care of the flight of the man of God from a far away country all the way to come and see the secret sins of the church in Judah or spy at their liberty and privacy.

There's an order the Lord was following in this His “Expository Series” — the order or pattern was a gradation of exposing/disclosing lesser before greater abominations. Therefore, He said in the verse above, the next abomination is greater than the former.

[Ezekiel 8:14 BSB] - Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

[Ezekiel 8:14 GNT] - So He took me to the north gate of the Temple and showed me women weeping over the death of the god Tammuz.

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We used to say in church gathering, that the Lord said, “Where two or three are gathered in My Name, I'm there in their midst.” But from this Bible verse above:

[1.] Even if they are gathered but not in the name of the LORD, He will still be there (though not in their midst but there) even though He's not invited or called. Whether they are gathered in the name of “Tammuz” or in name of a demon, the Lord will still invite Himself though He may not interfere/participate. Present differs from partaker.

[2.] Even if they positioned gate men, demons or gate signs that would provoke the Lord to change His Mind and not enter the arena, the Lord will still enter there: — The north gate in the bible verse above was the same north gate entrance they positioned the “Image of jealousy that provokes to jealousy” with motive or intent to keep the Lord away from entering in [Ezekiel 8:5:6]. It's like putting a blood on the door post during passover to keep death from entering the house, or like Witches draw circle to keep of demons or alien spirits etc, so they were trying to ward off the Lord from coming inside by positioning the image of jealousy at the entrance of the north gate. Yet that, and whatever, could not keep the Lord from there in with a man by the gate.

[3.] Even if they were strictly gathering of “women only” and no man was allowed or no Lord God was allowed in this women group, yet the Lord and a man He brought came there. The Lord could bring a man into women's fellowship, and He could bring a woman into men's fellowship. In Christ is neither male nor female [Galatians 3:28].

Now, what where they doing as Ezekiel saw in the bible verse above? And how was what they were doing considered by God as “Greater abomination than abomination of the seventy elders in dark room doing “stations of the gods” to carved or portrait images of creeping animals, unclean beasts and idols of Israel on the walls?

This was what they were doing: — The women were sitted, weeping for Tammuz.
And this was how: — Women weeping for Tammuz was greater abomination than elderly men serving various idols on the walls, all within the house of God.

Even though all are abominations, yet the women's weeping ritual for Tammuz was a greater abomination than the men's incense obligations to various wall portraits of creatures and demonic figures. This is because weeping for Tammuz was an annual ritual of weeping for a dead gods that was killed over a thousand years ago, and yet there was annual remembrance or commemoration of his death through a ritual of weeping, mourning, yearly funeral rites/rituals and wake-keeping of the anniversary of his death — That ritual is believed to reward with seasons or fertility. Christians do commemorate the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ yearly, but in those days, Tammuz was the man that was slain but believed to rise into becoming one of the gods among the stars — and the period of commemorating his death was in June/July.

As for the abomination of serving incense and prayers to various gods or creatures:
☆☆ They were offering incense, but the women were offering tears/broken heart.
☆☆ They were giving divided attention to various gods like harlots, but the women were devoted to just one with all they had in high concentration.
☆☆ They were doing is as a cult (secret cult), but the women were doing it as a religion and were more openly because they were not inside a room but outside.

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[Ezekiel 8:10 KJV] - So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

[Ezekiel 8:10 NIV] - So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and unclean animals and all the idols of Israel.

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When Ezekiel went into the room, he saw all kinds of crawling/creeping animals, wild animals, and images that people (of Israel) admire so much that they take such images as idols. Not only would the idolatrous people of Israel idolize those images, even people who are artists would have admired the carvings on the walls, people who are zoologists/biologists would have appreciated the varieties of different species of living organisms captured on the walls, people who are archeologists and people who love Museums would appreciate such specimens. But as soon as the son of man, Ezekiel, saw those portraits, superscriptions and embeddings on the walls, he saw them as evil, abominations, detestable, unclean and hateful.

When you have seen God and you are united in His Holiness, you will also see those things on those walls as abominable, evil and unclean. as Ezekiel saw them to be. Behold, it is not just about seeing secret/hidden things, but also about seeing them the way the Holy Ones the heavens see and judge them to be.

Therefore in the bible verse above, Ezekiel achieved the “Two Perceptions:” [1.] He saw the hidden things, and [2.] He saw the nature and judgment of those hidden things

Now understand these:

☆1☆ It is abominable for the Walls of the Temple of God to have an graven image or engraving (carved) or portraits of any unclean animal or beast or demon or idol.

☆2☆ In same light, it is abominable for your body, which is the Temple of God to have “Tattoo” of graven image or engraving (carved) or portraits of any unclean animal or beast or demon or idol on your body or skin, just as on the Temple walls.

☆3☆ Beware of the mark of the Beast on your body, beware of the mark of any beast or animal on your body including the name of the beast, and flee idolatry.

☆4☆ In the Holy Temple of God, there is only one kind of Living Creatures and only one kind of Trees, that may be engraven, tattooed, or portrayed on the Walls and Doors of the Holy Temple of God, and that would not be abominable, evil, unclean or unholy.

The only Living Creatures that may be portrayed on the walls of the Holy Temple of God are “The Cherubim” and the only Trees or Plants ditto are “The Palm Tree.” For emphasis, I repeat only “Cherubim” and “Palm Tree” should be portrayed or engraved on the holy walls of the Temple of God. No other Angel, not even Michael, not Gabriel, not Raphael, not Uriel, not Sariel, not Raguel, not Ramiel (not Archangels), not Saints, not Mary, not Jesus Christ Himself, not Dove as Holy Spirit, not image of a dead man hanging on a cross etc., should be portrayed or engraved on Walls of Holy Temple.

Behold, in the top bible verse above, Ezekiel saw the portraits of those creatures on the walls as abominable: let us also see another occasion when the same Ezekiel saw the portraits of Cherubim and Palm Trees on the Walls and Doors of the Temple the Lord Jesus Christ would later build when He returns:

[b][‭Ezekiel 41:18-26 NIV‬] — were carved cherubim and palm trees. Palm trees alternated with cherubim. Each cherub had two faces: the face of a human being toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other. They were carved all around the whole temple. From the floor to the area above the entrance, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the main hall. The main hall had a rectangular doorframe, and the one at the front of the Most Holy Place was similar. There was a wooden altar three cubits high and two cubits square; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood. The man said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.” Both the main hall and the Most Holy Place had double doors. Each door had two leaves—two hinged leaves for each door. And on the doors of the main hall were carved cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls, and there was a wooden overhang on the front of the portico. On the sidewalls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side. The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs.[/b]

Now let's look at the Temple of Solomon, and see how the wisdom God gave him also incorporated Cherubim and Palm Trees in the design of that great Temple:

[1 Kings 6:29 AKJV] — And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.

[Ezekiel 8:11 NKJV] - And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.

[Ezekiel 8:11 NIV] - In front of them stood seventy elders of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.

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If you have been in program called “Stations of the Cross” usually held in Roman Catholic Church, you will relate how various portraits arranged sequentially containing pictures of milestones in the events between the agony of the Lord Jesus Christ through His crucifixion on the cross, are hanged or fixed on the walls of the Church. Then the priest would be leading a procession of praying crowd from one portrait to the other sequentially according to the order of the Lord’s approach to His death. E.g. they would come to a station (portrait) on the wall call “Jesus fell the first time” before they arrive the station of “Jesus fell the second time” and “Jesus fell the third time.”

Whenever the priest gets to any station or portrait on the walls round the church, the priest would stir up the burning incense in the censer to release more cloud or smoke of the incense to the portrait, which’s station he and his crowd are currently serving. That's how those in the top bible verse above were doing “Stations of the gods” to the portraits or carved images of those idols, creeping Things and Beasts, on the walls. They were about 70 elderly men of Israel, led by Jaazaniah, who was a son of Shaphan. Shaphan was a man popular known as Shaphan the Scribe in the days of Josiah the king; and Shaphan the Scribe helped in the great Reformation of Josiah (2 Kings 22). Unfortunately, a son of Shaphan, was a leader of underworld cults or Church of Satan.

[Ezekiel 8:12 NKJV] - Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each man in his [secret] room of carved images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has abandoned the land.’ ”

[Ezekiel 8:12 NIV] - He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”

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Those who work in darkness say “the Lord does not see us:” — Learn this, it's natural for one who is in darkness or shadows to see the person who is in the brighter light, more than the one in the brighter light can see one who's in darker or hidden shadows. But do not make the mistake of applying this same principle to the Lord and to the Watchers or Saints in heaven who dwell in far greater lights, and yet see far better the things in darkness more than the things in darkness see them in the lights.

Those who work in darkness say “the Lord does not see us:” Those who engage in underworld cults and operations of “Secret Societies” continue to do their things in darkness or secrecy even when they say God is dead or the Lord has abandoned the land. Even if God keeps off, and does not interfere, those who belong to the underworld secret cults and societies would still be afraid of coming out to the light for men to see the things they do in hiding or darkness. So they are not just dodging from the Lord, but they are also dodging from openness and exposition before men, yet they claim to be the enlightened ones. As such were Adam and Eve when they just ate of the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil, and began hiding in fear.

Always ensure whatever fellowship or group you belong are in the light, not shrouded in secrecy of darkness: Let your fellowship be in the light, and stop meetings in dark.

[‭Ephesians 5:11-13 NIV‬] — Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.

[‭1 John 1:5-7 NIV‬] - This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

[Ezekiel 8:7 AKJV] - And He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

[Ezekiel 8:7 NIV] - Then He brought me to the entrance to the court. I looked, and I saw a hole in the wall.

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Learn this:

Even though God brought you to the entrance or to an open door, it still may not be a sign He is directing you to enter or go through that door or entrance. You may have to patiently wait and watch, for there may be another secret or hidden door, besides the obvious door, which the Lord would show you and directly tell you to enter through, even if it's a small hole you have to dig through to enter or it's an unattractive opening. Don't just sing God will make a way where there seems to be no way, but also know that God may make a way where there are different ways already. He does not only make way where there is no way, but He also makes way where there is way already existing, but leading through different paths. So walk closely with God and His Wisdom to choose the right way.

In the bible verse above, the Lord God brought Ezekiel to the entrance or doorway into the court of the temple, but Ezekiel was not rash to enter or go through the doorway: he wisely awaited the Lord’s instruction, and he was rewarded with unveiled eyes to discover a hole on the wall, which those who are impatient would not have easily seen or would have ignored on their way in.

[Ezekiel 8:8 AMP] - He said to me, “Son of man, now dig into the wall.” And when I had dug into the wall, behold, there was an entrance.

[Ezekiel 8:8 NIV] - He said to me, “Son of man, now dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there.

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Who wrote the song, “This little light of mine, I am gonna let it shine?” Now applying that to the little hole or opening you found, you make work on the hole under the instruction of the Lord, digging through to enlarging your way until you turn the little hole into a opening to a doorway or passage that will take you faster, quicker and more direct to your discoveries and destinations. This is better than following the easier, the faster, the least resisting door, which may not have ever bring you into the place of such discoveries or destinations, but is sure the path that multitude do follow.

[‭Matthew 7:13-14 NIV‬] — “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

In the top bible verse here, the Lord God taught Ezekiel to dig through the narrow hole on the wall just by a broader and more obvious or conventional the entrance/doorway: and following the Lord’s instruction, he dug until the narrow or harder hole opened to another hidden or secret doorway inside the walls, but inconspicuous.

[Ezekiel 8:9 AMP] - And He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked, repulsive acts that they are committing here.”

[Ezekiel 8:9 NIV] - And He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here.”

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Now the hurdles may not be over at just finding the secret right door after going through rigorous narrow or hard way: sometimes, you may approach the right and secret door you found, but reading the signs of where it leads or what to find if you enter through the door may also be scary or discouraging. Fear not, and be not discouraged: rather rest in knowing the Lord God is He who chose the door and leads you through, irrespective of the signs, horrors, unpleasantness etc, behind the door.

[‭Psalms 23:4 NIV‬] — Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

In the top bible verse here above, the Lord God Himself to Ezekiel the sign of what's contained behind the door or what kind of things he would see/experience when he goes into the door; and though the things would be unpleasant or heartbreaking, yet He instructed him to go through the door. In other cases different, but in this case it was: “Go in and behold iniquities, abominations and wickedness don't inside there.” Brethren, it's not to see these things. The bible says that the righteous man, Lot, in seeing and hearing the wickedness in Sodom vexed his soul daily (2 Peter 2:. It's not easy to be seeing and hearing the badnews, wickedness and sufferings in the world and in my country; and worst are those happening among believers or churches.

I remember in my childhood days, there was a Christian music in my language (Igbo) sang by “Bro Luke Ezeji;” (in those days, most of the recorded Christian music in my language were purely sermons, messages or preaching in songs and music instrument such that sinners would be warned and converted. Somehow most of waves of gospel music later dominated the churches that match the era of prosperity gospel preachers that have plagued the churches now were not so then. The kind of gospel songs then were centered in Christ, heaven, repentance, and judgment of God to come, and yet they were anointed and inspiring music despite carrying such messages).

Now the translation of the particular song (by Brother Luke Ezeji) in English would mean, “Go inside the holy house (temple) to see the things that are committed in there; If you go into the holy house (temple), you will see abominations done therein: some are holding grudges/malice, some are liars/fraudulent, some are gossipers or busybodies, some are idolaters, some are fornicators (etc): these are supposedly the ‘children of God’ who say they are believers… including those leaders who are supposed to oversee the holy house…”

Though I did not know why all those things were being said about the holy house or church of God, and they were scary for my young mind then to imagine such things in the holy house of God, feeling the singers were like some sort of Jehovah’s witnesses. But now I look back and feel what he was saying concerning the holy house and churches was an understatement. In the top bible verse here above, God Himself said similar things to Ezekiel, saying, “Go in and see the wicked, repulsive acts and abominations that they are committing here.”

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[Ezekiel 8:4 AFV] - And, behold! The glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

[Ezekiel 8:4 BBE] - And I saw the glory of the Lord there, as in the vision which I saw in the valley.
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If you are also interested in further illustration of the Triune God, here is one: This bible verse and the preceding verses to this one above:

1. In Verse 1 – Behold the “Hand of the LORD” was on Ezekiel while he sat with the elders in his house:
2. In Verse 2 – Behold the “Man-Like Burning Being” whom Ezekiel saw:
3. In Verse 3 – Behold the “Likeness of a Hand” and “The Spirit of God” that lifted Ezekiel between earth and heaven and brought Ezekiel towards the North gate at Jerusalem's temple court
4. In Verse 4 – Behold the “Glory of the God of Israel” was already there when the Spirit of God brought Ezekiel from the “Man-Like Burning Being” he saw at his house only to come and see the God of Israel in glory here again.

[2 Corinthians 3:17-18 BBE] - Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the heart is free. But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

In the top bible verses above, Ezekiel saw the glory of the Lord by the Spirit or by the Lord who is the Spirit. Ezekiel also likened this glory of the Lord God of Israel he saw here by the North Gate to the glory of the same Lord God he had seen in the Plain/Valley. Now you don’t get that often in the scriptures where a man of God had seen God multiple times to an extent of comparing God’s appearance or glory to God’s previous appearance or glory. This is because men of God rarely saw the appearance of God in glory even once, not to talk of seeing God’s appearance in glory multiple times. Few saw the appearance of God in glory as many times as Ezekiel saw. Let’s outline so far how many times Ezekiel have seen God in glory in the first eight chapters alone:

1. “The Vision by River Chebar” — In chapter one, he saw the LORD God in Glory as “Man-Like Burning Being” on the Throne with the Rabim.

2. “The Vision in the Plain/Valley” — In chapter three, he saw God in Glory and he testified the glory of God he saw in the plain was as the glory of God he saw in the vision by River Chebar: no change/difference in glory.

3. “The Vision in his house” — In chapter eight, he saw the LORD God in Glory as “Man-Like Burning Being:”

4. “The Vision in the North Gate in Jerusalem” — In this chapter and bible verse, he saw God in Glory and he testified the glory of God he saw in here was as the glory of God he saw in vision in the plain: no glory changed

He would yet see more of the direct glory of the Lord God Himself, and still like the level or degree of the glory of God to how he previously appeared to him in glory.

Now learn this: When you see the Lord in glory, and it appears His glory increased or reduced from how you previously saw Him — It does not mean the Lord or His glory has changed, but rather means you have changed to better or worse respectively than you had previously been when you first saw Him depending on whether your eyes have become more unveiled or more veiled respectively. God does not change in glory, but we are ever changing from glory to glory: God is the same forever, yet always glorified.


[Ezekiel 8:5 AFV] - And He said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes now to the way of the north." So I lifted up my eyes toward the way of the north, and behold, northward at the gate of the altar the image of jealousy was at the entrance.

[Ezekiel 8:5 BBE] - Then He said to me, Son of man, now let your eyes be lifted up in the direction of the north; and on looking in the direction of the north, to the north of the doorway of the altar, I saw this image of envy by the way in.
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The Lord God Himself wants us to see Him and keep looking at Him, but He also wants us to see the things He sees and the things He's showing to us. He did not bring the man all the way to come here just to keep looking at Him especially when the man could see Him or keep looking at Him where he was coming from. He brought the man all this way to reveal to him things and for a purpose.

In the bible here above, the Lord God Himself told the man beholding Him to turn around and behold His household in the direction of the north: The word used was “Lift up your eyes…” as the eyes of the man must be lifted up to see where or what God was showing him. Now this was not like Moses’ serpent on a pole, which the sick people had to lift up their eyes to see and be healed; but when Ezekiel lifted up his eyes from seeing the Lord to seeing where the Lord was directing his sight or vision to see, the man saw doorway or passage opened to access the Altar but there was the Image of jealousy (Idol) in the passage.

Paul was concerned that a great and effectual door was opened to him but there are many adversaries (1 Corinthians 16:9), here God was concerned that the North Door to the altar was opened but there was the Image of jealousy that provokes to jealousy. You know the Lord would stand at the door and knock (Revelation 3:20), but which is more painful to the Lord between “not opening the door for Him despite knocking” and “opening the door but position iniquity, idolatry or something that provokes Him to jealousy and anger on His way through the door?” Both would keep Him out the door.

Which is easier to deal with between closed Doors and open doors with wicked, evil, or heartless enemies as the gate men or porters, who would not want you to come in?

[Ezekiel 8:6 AFV] - And He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they do; even the great abominations which the house of Israel is doing here, that I should go far off from My sanctuary? But turn again, and you shall see greater abominations."

[Ezekiel 8:6 BBE] - And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing Me to go far away from My holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things.
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You see another way the church kept God away from entering His Temple even though they opened the doors to Him (and He did not have to knock)? A nagging woman kept door open for her husband to come in, but he stayed out and did not come in because her nagging and troubles were by the door. Worse is when an adulteress positions the man she's in adultery with to be the lord of her doors when her husband comes.

Why does a church pray or sinh, “Come, come, come, Holy Ghost come” but they kept iniquity and idols in their midst that provokes to jealousy and anger?

[2 Corinthians 6:16 AFV] — And what agreement is there between a temple of God and idols? For you are a temple of the living God, exactly as God said: "I will dwell in them and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

May the Lord grant us the word and privilege to turn around to see the glories and praise of His Household and Sanctuary, for we ached from seeing her abominations.