Ezekiel

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Ezekiel
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• Then lie down on your left side, and I will
  place on you the guilt of the nation of Israel.
  For 390 days you will stay there and suffer
  because of their guilt. I have sentenced you to
  one day for each year their punishment will last.
  When you finish that, turn over on your right
  side and suffer for the guilt of Judah for forty
  days---one day for each year of their
  punishment. (Ezekiel 44-6 GN)

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• You will feel my anger when I turn it loose on
  you like a blazing fire. And I will hand you over
  to brutal men, experts at destruction. (Ezekiel
  2131 GN)

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• Turn away from all the evil you are doing, and
  dont let your sin destroy you. Give up all the
  evil you have been doing, and get yourselves new
  minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to
  die? (Ezekiel 1830,31 GN)

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• And I will give you a new heart, and I will put
  a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony,
  stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive
  heart. And I will put My Spirit in you so that
  you will follow My decrees and be careful to obey
  My regulations. (Ezekiel 3626-27 NLT)

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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. It was the 5th year since King
  Jehoiachin had been taken into exile. (Ezekiel
  11 GN) 593 BC

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Chronology
King Prophet
650 Manasseh
Amon Nahum
Josiah Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Habakkuk, Ezekiel
Joahaz
600 Jehoiakim 605 1st invasion (Daniel)
Jehoiachin 597 2nd invasion (Ezekiel)
586 Zedekiah 586 3rd invasion (Jeremiah)


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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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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• Come now, and let us reason together (Isaiah
  118 NJB)
• If God spare my life, ere many years, I will
  cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more
  of the Scripture than thou dost. (Tyndale)

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• There are today thousands of professors of
  religion who can give no other reason for points
  of faith which they hold than that they were so
  instructed by their religious leaders. They pass
  by the Saviours teachings almost unnoticed, and
  place implicit confidence in the words of the
  ministers. But are ministers infallible? How can
  we trust our souls to their guidance unless we
  know from Gods word that they are light
  bearers? 4SP 413-415 (1884)

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• There is no excuse for any one in taking the
  position that there is no more truth to be
  revealed, and that all our expositions of
  Scripture are without an error. The fact that
  certain doctrines have been held as truth for
  many years by our people, is not a proof that our
  ideas are infallible. Age will not make error
  into truth, and truth can afford to be fair. No
  true doctrine will lose anything by close
  investigation. 1892

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• Every human being, created in the image of God,
  is endowed with a power akin to that of the
  Creatorindividuality, power to think and to do.
  The men in whom this power is developed are the
  men who bear responsibilities, who are leaders in
  enterprise, and who influence character. It is
  the work of true education to develop this power,
  to train the youth to be thinkers, and not mere
  reflectors of other mens thought. Education 17
  (1903)

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My holy name

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

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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. (John 173-6 NJB)

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The Great Controversy

• 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 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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• 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)

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• For we are not fighting against human beings but
  against the wicked spiritual forces in the
  heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and
  cosmic powers of this dark age. (Ephesians 612
  GN)

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Freedom in a world of rebellion

• 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.
• 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 who has the
  power over death. (Hebrews 24 - GN).
• Jesus 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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• 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 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).