Ezekiel

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Ezekiel
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• On the fifth day of the fourth month of the
  thirtieth year, I, Ezekiel the priestwas living
  with the Jewish exiles by the Chebar River in
  Babylonia. The sky opened, and I saw a vision of
  GodThere in Babylonia beside the Chebar River, I
  heard the LORD speak to me, and I felt his power.
  I looked up and saw a windstorm coming from the
  north. Lightning was flashing from a huge cloud,
  and the sky around it was glowing. Where the
  lightning was flashing, something shone like
  bronze. At the center of the storm I saw what
  looked like four living creatures in human form,
  but each of them had four faces and four wings.
  Their legs were straight, and they had hoofs like
  those of a bull. They shone like polished bronze.
  In addition to their four faces and four wings,
  they each had four human hands, one under each
  wing. Two wings of each creature were spread out
  so that the creatures formed a square, with their
  wing tips touching. When they moved, they moved
  as a group without turning their bodies.

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• Each living creature had four different faces a
  human face in front, a lions face at the right,
  a bull's face at the left, and an eagles face at
  the back. Two wings of each creature were raised
  so that they touched the tips of the wings of the
  creatures next to it, and their other two wings
  were folded against their bodies. Each creature
  faced all four directions, and so the group could
  go wherever they wished, without having to turn.
  Among the creatures there was something that
  looked like a blazing torch, constantly moving.
  The fire would blaze up and shoot out flashes of
  lightning. The creatures themselves darted back
  and forth with the speed of lightning. As I was
  looking at the four creatures I saw four wheels
  touching the ground, one beside each of them. All
  four wheels were alike each one shone like a
  precious stone, and each had another wheel
  intersecting it at right angles, so that the
  wheels could move in any of the four directions.
  The rims of the wheels were covered with eyes.
  Whenever the creatures moved, the wheels moved
  with them, and if the creatures rose up from the
  earth, so did the wheels.

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• The creatures went wherever they wished, and the
  wheels did exactly what the creatures did,
  because the creatures controlled them. So every
  time the creatures moved or stopped or rose in
  the air, the wheels did exactly the same. Above
  the heads of the creatures there was something
  that looked like a dome made of dazzling crystal.
  There under the dome stood the creatures, each
  stretching out two wings toward the ones next to
  it and covering its body with the other two
  wings. I heard the noise their wings made in
  flight it sounded like the roar of the sea, like
  the noise of a huge army, like the voice of
  Almighty God. When they stopped flying, they
  folded their wings, but there was still a sound
  coming from above the dome over their heads.
  Above the dome there was something that looked
  like a throne made of sapphire, and sitting on
  the throne was a figure that looked like a human
  being. The figure seemed to be shining like
  bronze in the middle of a fire. It shone all over
  with a bright light that had in it all the colors
  of the rainbow. This was the dazzling light which
  shows the presence of the LORD. When I saw this,
  I fell face downward on the ground. Then I heard
  a voice. (Ezekiel 11-28 GN)

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• saying, Mortal man, stand up. I want to talk
  to you. While the voice was speaking, Gods
  spirit entered me and raised me to my feet, and I
  heard the voice continue, Mortal man, I am
  sending you to the people of Israel. (Ezekiel
  21-3 GN)

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• I realized I was seeing the brightness of the
  LORDs glory! (Ezekiel 128 GN)
• This was the appearance of the likeness of the
  glory of God. (Ezekiel 128 NET)
• The sight was like the glory of Yahweh.
  (Ezekiel 128 NJB)

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• Jerusalem will fall
• God is in control Satan will be defeated king
  of Tyre
• Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia, Tyre, and Egypt,
  will all fall to Babylon
• A message of hope for the future

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• The LORD spoke to me. Mortal man, he said,
  denounce the prophets of Israel who make up
  their own prophecies. Tell them to listen to the
  word of the LORD. This is what the Sovereign
  LORD says These foolish prophets are doomed!
  They provide their own inspiration and invent
  their own visions. People of Israel, your
  prophets are as useless as foxes living among the
  ruins of a cityTheir visions are false, and
  their predictions are lies. They claim that they
  are speaking my message, but I have not sent
  them. Yet they expect their words to come true! I
  tell them Those visions you see are false, and
  the predictions you make are lies. You say that
  they are my words, but I havent spoken to you!
  (Ezekiel 131-7 GN)

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• The priests did not ask, where is the LORD? My
  own priests did not know me. (Jeremiah 28
  GN).
• Dont point your finger at someone else and try
  to pass the blame! Look, you priests, my
  complaint is with you! As a sentence for your
  crimes, you will stumble in broad daylight, just
  as you might at night, and so will your false
  prophetsMy people are being destroyed because
  they dont know me. It is all your fault, you
  priests, for you yourselves refuse to know me.
  Now I refuse to recognize you as my priests.
  (Hosea 44-6 NLT)

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• My people are deceived by prophets who promise
  peace to those who pay them, but threatened war
  for those who dont. To these prophets the LORD
  says, Prophets, your day is almost over the sun
  is going down on you. Because you mislead my
  people, you will have no more prophetic visions,
  and you will not be able to predict anythingThe
  citys rulers govern for bribes, the priests
  interpret the Law for pay, the prophets give
  their revelations for money and they all claim
  that the LORD is with them. No harm will come to
  us, they say. The LORD is with us (Micah
  36,11)
• It is the duty of the priests to teach the true
  knowledge of God. People should go to them to
  learn my will, because they are the messengers of
  the LORD Almighty. But now you priests have
  turned away from the right path. Your teaching
  has led many to do wrong (Malachi 27,8)

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• Then Jesus went back to the synagogue, where
  there was a man who had a paralyzed hand. Some
  people were there who wanted to accuse Jesus of
  doing wrong so they watched him closely to see
  whether he would cure the man on the Sabbath.
  Jesus said to the man, Come up here to the
  front. Then he asked the people, What does our
  Law allow us to do on the Sabbath? To help or to
  harm? To save someones life or to destroy it?
  But they did not say a thing. Jesus was angry as
  he looked around at them, but at the same time he
  felt sorry for them, because they were so
  stubborn and wrong. Then he said to the man,
  Stretch out your hand. He stretched it out, and
  it became well again. So the Pharisees left the
  synagogue and met at once with some members of
  Herods party, and they made plans to kill
  Jesus. (Mark 31-6 GN)

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• Wherever they went, they brought disgrace on my
  holy name, because people would say, These are
  the people of the LORD, but they had to leave his
  land. That made me concerned for my holy name,
  since the Israelites brought disgrace on it
  everywhere they went. Now then, give the
  Israelites the message that I, the Sovereign
  LORD, have for them What I am going to do is not
  for the sake of you Israelites, but for the sake
  of my holy name, which you have disgraced in
  every country where you have gone. (Ezekiel
  3620-22 GN)

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• The Sovereign LORD said, Look at Jerusalem. I
  put her at the center of the world, with other
  countries all around her. But Jerusalem rebelled
  against my commands and showed that she was more
  wicked than the other nations, more disobedient
  than the countries around her. Jerusalem rejected
  my commands and refused to keep my laws.
  (Ezekiel 55-6 GN)

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• The LORD said, Mortal man, your people are
  talking about you when they meet by the city
  walls or in the doorways of their houses. They
  say to one another, Lets go and hear what word
  has come from the LORD now. So my people crowd
  in to hear what you have to say, but they dont
  do what you tell them to do. Loving words are on
  their lips, but they continue their greedy ways.
  To them you are nothing more than an entertainer
  singing love songs or playing a harp. They listen
  to all your words and dont obey a single one of
  them. (Ezekiel 3330-32 GN)

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• You are like salt for the whole human race. But
  if salt loses its saltiness, there is no way to
  make it salty again. It has become worthless, so
  it is thrown out and people trample on it. You
  are like light for the whole world. A city built
  on a hill cannot be hid. No one lights a lamp and
  puts it under a bowl instead it is put on the
  lampstand, where it gives light for everyone in
  the house. In the same way your light must shine
  before people, so that they will see the good
  things you do and praise your Father in heaven.
  (Matthew 513-16 GN)

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• The LORD Almighty says, The time is coming when
  people from many cities will come to Jerusalem.
  Those from one city will say to those from
  another, We are going to worship the LORD
  Almighty and pray for his blessing. Come with
  us! Many peoples and powerful nations will come
  to Jerusalem to worship the LORD Almighty and to
  pray for his blessing. In those days ten
  foreigners will come to one Jew and say, We want
  to share in your destiny, because we have heard
  that God is with you. (Zechariah 820-23 GN)

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• I will make sure that my people Israel know my
  holy name, and I will not let me name be
  disgraced any more. (Ezekiel 397 GN)

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• Then I looked, and there was the Lamb standing
  on Mount Zion with him were 144,000 people who
  have his name and his Fathers name written on
  their foreheads. (Revelation 141)

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• And eternal life is this to know you, the only
  true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I
  have glorified you on earth by finishing the work
  that you gave me to doI have revealed your name
  to those whom you took from the world to give me.
  They were yours and you gave them to me, and they
  have kept your word. Now at last they have
  recognized that all you have given me comes from
  you for I have given them the teaching you gave
  to me, and they have indeed accepted it and know
  for certain that I came from you, and have
  believed that it was you who sent meHoly Father,
  keep those you have given me true to your name,
  so that they may be one like us.While I was with
  them, I kept those you had given me true to your
  name. I have watched over them and not one is
  lost except one who was destined to be lost.May
  they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me
  and I am in you, so that they also may be in us,
  so that the world may believe it was you who sent
  me. I have given them the glory you gave to me,
  that they may be one as we are one. With me in
  them and you in me, may they be so perfected in
  unity that the world will recognize that it was
  you who sent me and that you have loved them as
  you have loved meFather, Upright One, the world
  has not known you, but I have known you, and
  these have known that you have sent me. I have
  made your name known to them and will continue to
  make it known, so that the love with which you
  loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in
  them. (John 173-26 NJB)

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• All who believed were together and held
  everything in common, and they began selling
  their property and possessions and distributing
  the proceeds to everyone, as anyone had need.
  Every day they continued to gather together by
  common consent in the temple courts, breaking
  bread from house to house, sharing their food
  with glad and humble hearts, praising God and
  having the good will of all the people. And the
  Lord was adding to their number every day those
  who were being saved. (Acts 244-47 NET)

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• Son of man, give the prince of Tyre this message
  from the Sovereign Lord In your great pride you
  claim, I am a god! I sit on a divine throne in
  the heart of the seaSon of man, weep for the
  king of Tyre. Give him this message from the
  Sovereign Lord You were the perfection of
  wisdom and beauty. You were in Eden, the garden
  of God. Your clothing was adorned with every
  precious stone red carnelian, chrysolite, white
  moonstone, beryl, onyx, jasper sapphire,
  turquoise, and emeraldall beautifully crafted
  for you and set in the finest gold. They were
  given to you on the day you were created. I
  ordained and anointed you as the mighty angelic
  guardian. You had access to the holy mountain of
  God and walked among the stones of fire.

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• You were blameless in all you did from the day
  you were created until the day evil was found in
  you. Your great wealth filled you with violence,
  and you sinned. So I banished you from the
  mountain of God. I expelled you, O mighty
  guardian, from your place among the stones of
  fire. Your heart was filled with pride because of
  all your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom for
  the sake of your splendor. So I threw you to the
  earth and exposed you to the curious gaze of
  kings. You defiled your sanctuaries with your
  many sins and your dishonest trade. So I brought
  fire from within you, and it consumed you. I let
  it burn you to ashes on the ground in the sight
  of all who were watching. All who knew you are
  appalled at your fate. You have come to a
  terrible end, and you are no more. (Ezekiel
  282,11-19 NLT)

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• How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son
  of the morning! how art thou cut down to the
  ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou
  hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into
  heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of
  God I will sit also upon the mount of the
  congregation, in the sides of the north I will
  ascend above the heights of the clouds I will be
  like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought
  down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that
  see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and
  consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made
  the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms
  (Isaiah 1412-14 - KJV).

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• Then the Devil took Jesus to a very high
  mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the
  world in all their greatness. All this I will
  give you, the Devil said, if you kneel down and
  worship me. Then Jesus answered, Go away,
  Satan! The scripture says, Worship the Lord your
  God and serve only him! Then the Devil left
  Jesus and angels came and helped him. (Matthew
  48-11 GN)
• Jesus refusal was curt Beat it, Satan!
  (Matthew 410 The Message)

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• Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his
  angels fought against the dragon, who fought back
  with his angels but the dragon was defeated, and
  he and his angels were not allowed to stay in
  heaven any longer. The huge dragon was thrown out
  that ancient serpent, named the Devil, or
  Satan, that deceived the whole world. He was
  thrown down to earth, and all his angels with
  him (Revelation 127-9 - GN).

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• Now the snake was the most cunning animal that
  the LORD God had made. The snake asked the woman,
  Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from
  any tree in the garden? (Genesis 31 GN)

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• Now the snake was the most cunning animal that
  the LORD God had made. The snake asked the woman,
  Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from
  any tree in the garden? (Genesis 31 GN)

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• We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden,
  the woman answered, except the tree in the
  middle of it. God told us not to eat the fruit of
  that tree or even touch it if we do, we will
  die. The snake replied, Thats not true you
  will not die.
• God said that because he knows that when you eat
  it, you will be like God and know what is good
  and what is bad.
• The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how
  good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought
  how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she
  took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave
  some to her husband, and he also ate it. As soon
  as they had eaten it, they were given
  understanding and realized that they were naked
  so they sewed fig leaves together and covered
  themselves. That evening they heard the LORD God
  walking in the garden, and they hid from him
  among the trees. But the LORD God called out to
  the man, Where are you? (Genesis 32-9 GN)

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• The Son of God appeared for this very reason, to
  destroy what the Devil had done (1 John 38 -
  GN).
• Jesus himself became like them and shared their
  human nature. He did this so that through his
  death he might destroy the Devil (Hebrews 24 -
  GN).
• He came as the light of the world (John 812),
  because their minds have been kept in the dark
  by the evil god of this world (2 Corinthians 44
  - GN).
• Now the ruler of this world will be overthrown
  (John 1231 GN)
• He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the
  universe of their sham authority at the Cross and
  marched them naked through the streets.
  (Colossians 215 The Message)

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• This earth is a spectacle for the whole world of
  angels (1 Corinthians 49 - GN)
• God, who is the Creator of all things, kept his
  secret hidden through all the past ages, in order
  that at the present time, by means of the church,
  the angelic rulers and powers in the heavenly
  world might learn of his wisdom in all its
  different forms (Ephesians 39, 10 - GN).
• God revealed to these prophets that their work
  was not for their own benefit, but for yours, as
  they spoke about those things which you have now
  heard from the messengers who announced the Good
  News by the power of the Holy Spirit sent from
  heaven. These are things which even the angels
  would like to understand (1 Peter 112 GN).

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• Now is the time for this world to be judged now
  the ruler of this world will be overthrown. When
  I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw
  everyone to me (John 1231,32 - GN).
• Through the Son, then, God decided to bring the
  whole universe back to himself. God made peace
  through his Sons blood on the cross and so
  brought back to himself all things, both on earth
  and in heaven. At one time you were far away from
  God and were his enemies because of the evil
  things you did and thought. But now, by means of
  the physical death of his Son, God has made you
  his friends (Colossians 120-22 - GN)

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• You are doing the things your father does.
  Were not illegitimate children! they said to
  him. We have only one Father -- God! Yeshua
  replied to them, If God were your Father, you
  would love me because I came out from God and
  now I have arrived here. I did not come on my
  own he sent me. Why dont you understand what
  Im saying? Because you cant bear to listen to
  my message. You belong to your father, Satan, and
  you want to carry out your fathers desires. From
  the start he was a murderer, and he has never
  stood by the truth, because there is no truth in
  him. When he tells a lie, he is speaking in
  character because he is a liar -- indeed, the
  inventor of the lie! (John 841-44 Jewish New
  Testament)

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• You will know the truth and the truth will set
  you free. (John 832 GN)

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• The dragon was furious with the woman and went
  off to fight against the rest of her descendants,
  all those who obey Gods commandments and are
  faithful to the truth revealed by Jesus
  (Revelation 1217).
• I am a servant together with you and with other
  believers, all those who hold to the truth that
  Jesus revealed. Worship God! For the truth that
  Jesus revealed is what inspires the prophets
  (Revelation 1910).
• I also saw the souls of those who had been
  executed because they had proclaimed the truth
  that Jesus revealed and the word of God
  (Revelation 204).