GOD'S MINISTRY
THROUGH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OF
BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Revs. Mr. and Mrs. H. Dean Daniels
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COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS ABOUT PROPHECY - PART IV
Section Four
76. The end of "the times
of the Gentiles" (Lk.
"And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and
shall be led away captive into all nations: and
"For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant
of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in
part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And
so all
"Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of
thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city
shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the
city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be
cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord
go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of
battle.
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of
Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives
shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and
there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove
toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee to
the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto
Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the
days of Uzziah king of
And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have
fought against
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is
left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year
to year to worship the King, the Lord
of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And it shall be,
that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto
In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses,
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord's
house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in
77. The judgment of the living nations at the second coming of Christ (Mt. 25:31-46).
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the
holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And
before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from
another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall
set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King
say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an
hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a
stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye
visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous
answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred,
and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee
drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or
naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and
came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto
you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on
the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for
the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was
thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in:
naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then
shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an
hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did
not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily
I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these,
ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous into life eternal" (Mt. 25:31-46).
78. The final and complete
regathering of
"And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which
shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his
rest shall be glorious. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his
people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros,
and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the
islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the
nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of
"At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of
Hear the word of the Lord,
O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that
scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his
flock. For the Lord hath redeemed
Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of
Thus saith the Lord;
A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel
weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they
were not. Thus saith the Lord;
Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall
be rewarded, saith the Lord; and
they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine
end, saith the Lord,
that thy children shall come again to their own border.
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus;
Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to
the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was
turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my
thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of
my youth. Is Ephraim my dear son? is
he a pleasant child? for since I spake against
him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for
him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord. Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine
heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn
again, O virgin of
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath
created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet
they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when
I shall bring again their captivity; The Lord
bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness. And there
shall dwell in
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of
Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made
with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them
out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an
husband unto them, saith the Lord:
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel; After those days, saith the Lord,
I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will
be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every
man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from
the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember
their sin no more.
Thus saith the Lord,
which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon
and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves
thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is
his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel
also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. Thus saith the Lord; If heaven
above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I
will also cast off all the seed of
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the
"The word that came to Jeremiah from
the Lord in the tenth year of
Zedekiah king of
And Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum
thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in
Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it. So
Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to
the word of the Lord, and said
unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in
Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of
inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it
for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord. And I bought the field of Hanameel
my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and
weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. And I
subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him
the money in the balances. So I took the evidence of the purchase, both
that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which
was open: And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of
Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son,
and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase,
before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
And I charged Baruch before them, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Take
these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this
evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may
continue many days. For thus saith the Lord
of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed
again in this land.
Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto
Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the Lord,
saying, Ah Lord God!
behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and
stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: Thou shewest
lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers
into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name, Great
in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the
ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according
to the fruit of his doings: Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of
Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men;
and hast made thee a name, as at this day; And hast brought forth thy people
Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong
hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror; And hast given them
this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing
with milk and honey; And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not
thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou
commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon
them: Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city
is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the
sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come
to pass; and, behold, thou seest it. And thou hast said unto me, O Lord
God, Buy thee the field for
money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying, Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any
thing too hard for me? Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the
Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take
it: And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on
this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered
incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke
me to anger. For the children of
And now therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say,
It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by
the famine, and by the pestilence; Behold, I will gather them out of all
countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in
great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them
to dwell safely: And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: And I
will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the
good of them, and of their children after them: And I will make an everlasting
covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I
will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Yea, I
will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land
assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. For thus saith the Lord; Like as I have brought all this
great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have
promised them. And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is
given into the hand of the Chaldeans. Men shall buy fields for money, and
subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in
the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities
of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord" (Jer. 32).
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall
the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall
fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall
appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of
the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of
heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great
sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four
winds, from one end of heaven to the other" (Mt. 24:29-31).
"And so all
"He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the
Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there
shall be no end" (Lk.
79.
"Now these are the names of the tribes. From
the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath,
Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these
are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan. And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion
for Asher. And by the border of Asher, from the
east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali. And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west
side, a portion for Manasseh. And by the border
of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for
Ephraim. And by the border of Ephraim, from the east
side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben. And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side,
a portion for
And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the
west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty
thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other
parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the
midst of it. The oblation that ye shall offer unto the Lord shall be of five and twenty thousand in length,
and of ten thousand in breadth. And for them, even for the priests,
shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in
length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east
ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in
length: and the sanctuary of the Lord
shall be in the midst thereof. It shall be for the priests that are
sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not
astray when the children of
And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over
against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the
city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst
thereof. And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four
thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred,
and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four
thousand and five hundred. And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the
north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and
toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and
fifty. And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion
shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be
over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof
shall be for food unto them that serve the city. And they that serve the city
shall serve it out of all the tribes of
And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one
side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city,
over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border,
and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border,
over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation;
and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof. Moreover
from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being
in the midst of that which is the prince's,
between the border of
And these are the goings out of the city on the north
side, four thousand and five hundred measures. And the gates of the city shall
be after the names of the tribes of
"The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
"But in the last days it shall come to pass, that
the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above
the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say,
Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach
us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of
Zion, and the word of the Lord
from Jerusalem.
And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong
nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they
shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them
afraid: for the mouth of the Lord
of hosts hath spoken it. For all people will walk
every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
In that day, saith the Lord, will
I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her
that I have afflicted; And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that
was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord
shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the
daughter of
Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say,
Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon
"Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of
thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city
shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the
city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be
cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord
go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of
battle.
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of
Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives
shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and
there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove
toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee to
the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto
Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the
days of Uzziah king of
And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have
fought against
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is
left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year
to year to worship the King, the Lord
of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And it shall be,
that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto
In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS
UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord's
house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in
80. The Millennial and eternal
temple built (Ezek. 43:7; Zech.
"And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne,
and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the
children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no
more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by
the carcases of their kings in their high places" (Ezek. 43:7).
"And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man
whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he
shall build the temple of the Lord:
Even he shall build the temple of the Lord;
and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he
shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between
them both. And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and
to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the Lord. And they that are far off
shall come and build in the temple of the Lord,
and ye shall know that the Lord
of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will
diligently obey the voice of the Lord
your God" (Zech.
81. Millennial and eternal worship established (Isa. 2:1-4; Ezek. 40-48; Zech. 14).
"The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
"In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in
the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the
fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand
of the Lord was upon me, and
brought me thither. In the visions of God brought he
me into the
Then came he unto the gate which
looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the
threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold
of the gate, which was one reed broad. And every little chamber was
one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were
five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was
one reed. He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. Then
measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two
cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward. And the little chambers of
the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they
three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side
and on that side. And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten
cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. The space also
before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the
space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were
six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. He measured then the gate
from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was
five and twenty cubits, door against door. He made also posts of threescore cubits,
even unto the post of the court round about the gate. And from the face of the
gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were
fifty cubits. And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about,
and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and
upon each post were palm trees. Then brought he
me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement
made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was
the lower pavement. Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the
lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward
and northward.
And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the
north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof. And the little
chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the
posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate:
the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits. And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were
after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up
unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them. And the
gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and
toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits.
After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts
thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures. And there were
windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the
length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. And there
were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before
them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon
the posts thereof. And there was a gate in the inner court toward the
south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.
And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the
south gate according to these measures; And the little chambers thereof, and
the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there
were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was
fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. And the arches round about
were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad. And the arches
thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the
posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.
And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and
he measured the gate according to these measures. And the little chambers
thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according
to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches
thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty
cubits broad. And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and
palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side:
and the going up to it had eight steps. And he brought me to the north
gate, and measured it according to these measures; The
little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the
windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth
five and twenty cubits. And the posts thereof were toward the utter court;
and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that
side: and the going up to it had eight steps. And the chambers and the
entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the
burnt offering.
And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this
side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the
sin offering and the trespass offering. And at the side without, as one goeth
up to the entry of the north gate, were two
tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were
two tables. Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side,
by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.
And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a
cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high:
whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering
and the sacrifice. And within were hooks, an
hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of
the offering.
And without the inner gate were the chambers of the
singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and
their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having
the prospect toward the north. And he said unto me, This
chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests,
the keepers of the charge of the house. And the chamber whose prospect is
toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the
altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come
near to the Lord to minister unto
him. So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits
broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.
And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each
post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and
the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits
on that side. The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to
it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another
on that side" (Ezek. 40).
"Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured
the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other
side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. And the breadth of the
door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits
on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length
thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits. Then went he inward, and
measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the
breadth of the door, seven cubits. So he measured the length thereof, twenty
cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me,
This is the most holy place. After he
measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every
side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. And the side
chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they
entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round
about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the
house. And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to
the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round
about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber
to the highest by the midst. I saw also the height of the house round about:
the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great
cubits. The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber
without, was five cubits: and that which was left was
the place of the side chambers that were within. And between the
chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on
every side. And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place
that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the
south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round
about. Now the building that was before the separate place at the end
toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was
five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. So he
measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the
building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; Also
the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the
east, an hundred cubits. And he measured the length of the building over
against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries
thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the
inner temple, and the porches of the court; The door posts, and the narrow
windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the
door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and
the windows were covered; To that above the door, even unto the inner
house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by
measure. And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm
tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two
faces; So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one
side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it
was made through all the house round about. From the ground unto above the
door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the
temple. The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the
sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other. The
altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits;
and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were
of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table
that is before the Lord.
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. And the doors had two leaves apiece,
two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the
other door. And there were made on them, on the doors of the
temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there
were thick planks upon the face of the porch without. And there were
narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the
sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick
planks" (Ezek. 41).
"Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the
way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over
against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the
north. Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. Over against
the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against
the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against
gallery in three stories. And before the chambers was a walk of
ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the
north. Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were
higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. For
they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of
the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest
and the middlemost from the ground. And the wall that was without over
against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers,
the length thereof was fifty cubits. For the length of the chambers that
were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the
temple were an hundred cubits. And from under
these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them
from the utter court. The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of
the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against
the building. And the way before them was like the appearance of the
chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as
broad as they: and all their goings out were
both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. And according
to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a
door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall
toward the east, as one entereth into them.
Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south
chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy
chambers, where the priests that approach unto the Lord shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the
most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass
offering; for the place is holy. When the priests enter therein, then
shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there
they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy;
and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things
which are for the people. Now when he had made an end of measuring the
inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is
toward the east, and measured it round about. He measured the east side with
the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. He
measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round
about. He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
He turned about to the west side, and measured five
hundred reeds with the measuring reed. He measured it by the four sides: it had
a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to
make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place" (Ezek. 42).
"Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the
gate that looketh toward the east: And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel
came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many
waters: and the earth shined with his glory. And it was according to the
appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that
I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the
vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. And the glory
of the Lord came into the house
by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. So the spirit
took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the
Lord filled the house. And I
heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne,
and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the
children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no
more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by
the carcases of their kings in their high places. In their setting of their
threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me
and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they
have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. Now let them put
away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will
dwell in the midst of them for ever.
Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of
"Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the
outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. Then
said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man
shall enter in by it; because the Lord,
the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. It is
for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by the way of the
porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
Then brought he me the way of the
north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I fell upon my face. And the Lord said unto me, Son of man, mark
well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto
thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in
of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. And thou shalt say to
the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; O ye house of Israel, let it
suffice you of all your abominations, In that ye have brought into my
sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to
be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my
bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all
your abominations. And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye
have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
Thus saith the Lord God;
No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter
into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of
But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept
the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me,
they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me
to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God: They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come
near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in
at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and
no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner
court, and within. They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall
have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves
with any thing that causeth sweat. And when they go forth into the utter court,
even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their
garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they
shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their
garments. Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow
long; they shall only poll their heads. Neither shall any priest drink wine,
when they enter into the inner court. Neither shall they take for their wives a
widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the
house of
"Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for
inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the Lord, an holy portion of the land:
the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds,
and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all
the borders thereof round about. Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five
hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round
about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof. And of this
measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the
breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most
holy place. The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests
the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the Lord: and it shall be a place for their
houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary. And the
five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also
the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession
for twenty chambers.
And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five
thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of
the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of
And a portion shall be for the prince on the one
side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of
the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and
before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the
east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the
portions, from the west border unto the east border. In the land shall be his
possession in
Thus saith the Lord God;
Let it suffice you, O princes of
"Thus saith the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east
shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in
the day of the new moon it shall be opened. And the prince shall enter by the
way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of
the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace
offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go
forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. Likewise the people of
the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the Lord in the sabbaths
and in the new moons. And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto
the Lord in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a
ram without blemish. And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram,
and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. And in the day of the new moon it
shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they
shall be without blemish. And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a
bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall
attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah. And when
the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that
gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that
entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of
the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go
forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate
whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it. And the prince in the
midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go
forth. And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an
ephah to a bullock, and ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give,
and an hin of oil to an ephah. Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary
burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the Lord, one shall then open him the gate that looketh
toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace
offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his
going forth one shall shut the gate. Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt
offering unto the Lord of
a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.
And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of
an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to
temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual
ordinance unto the Lord. Thus
shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for
a continual burnt offering.
Thus saith the Lord God;
If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the
inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by
inheritance. But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants,
then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the
prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them. Moreover the prince
shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of
their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own
possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
After he brought me through the entry,
which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the
priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place
on the two sides westward. Then said he
unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering
and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them
not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people. Then he brought me forth
into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court;
and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. In the four
corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits
long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure. And there
was a row of building round about in them,
round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the
rows round about. Then said he unto me, These are
the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the
sacrifice of the people" (Ezek. 46).
"Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the
house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house
eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the
waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side
of the altar. Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led
me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward;
and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side. And when the man that had
the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he
brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ancles. Again he
measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were
to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were
to the loins. Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that
I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river
that could not be passed over.
And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this?
Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. Now when
I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on
the one side and on the other. Then said he unto me, These waters issue out
toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which
being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. And it shall
come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever
the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of
fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and
every thing shall live whither the river cometh. And it shall come to pass, that
the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be
a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their
kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. But the miry places
thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall
grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit
thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months,
because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof
shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
Thus saith the Lord God;
This shall be the border, whereby ye shall
inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of
And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it
by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among
you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born
in the country among the children of
"Now these are the names of the tribes. From
the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath,
Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these
are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan. And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion
for Asher. And by the border of Asher, from the
east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali. And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west
side, a portion for Manasseh. And by the border
of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for
Ephraim. And by the border of Ephraim, from the east
side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben. And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side,
a portion for
And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the
west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty
thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other
parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the
midst of it. The oblation that ye shall offer unto the Lord shall be of five and twenty thousand in length,
and of ten thousand in breadth. And for them, even for the priests,
shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in
length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten
thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length:
and the sanctuary of the Lord
shall be in the midst thereof. It shall be for the priests that are
sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray
when the children of
And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over
against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the
city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst
thereof. And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four
thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred,
and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four
thousand and five hundred. And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the
north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and
toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and
fifty. And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion
shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be
over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof
shall be for food unto them that serve the city. And they that serve the city
shall serve it out of all the tribes of
And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one
side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city,
over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east
border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west
border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy
oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the
city, being in the midst of that which is the
prince's, between the border of
And these are the goings out of the city on the
north side, four thousand and five hundred measures. And the gates of the city shall
be after the names of the tribes of
"Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of
thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city
shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the
city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be
cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord
go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of
battle.
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of
Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall
cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there
shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward
the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee to the
valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal:
yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of
Uzziah king of
And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have
fought against
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is
left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year
to year to worship the King, the Lord
of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And it shall be,
that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto
In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses,
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord's
house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in
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CONTINUE WITH COMMENTS
AND QUESTIONS ABOUT PROPHECY - PART V
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the grace and mercy of God be on your soul]
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Mr. and Mrs. H. Dean Daniels Sui Juris