Shekinah Glory

Original URL   Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Transcript

uh thank you all very much it's nice to have uh you all with us tonight um steve in his little blurb said that i'm walking in the footsteps of uh maurice stewart no pressure there steve thank you very much um

the chicana glory is a fascinating topic i can understand why uh maury stewart according to steve uh enjoyed it so much it's a it's an absolutely fascinating topic um what we're going to look at first of all is what what is it uh how it's represented um and how it's received and uh we'll pay particular attention to uh how it's received in the immediate and in the long term because it's really kind of fascinating um

i was asked to do this class i mentioned the chicano glory in a couple different uh iterations and in a few classes

because once you kind of understand what it represents it sort of seems to pop itself up uh in all kinds of different places um unsurprisingly some of which it's sort of um

uh pre-announced in a way and then in other cases you sort of have to interpret the fact that what's actually appearing there is a kind of glory and it answers some of the more interesting riddles um in scripture so let's let's jump into it um i've two two sort of pieces of groundwork before we start first of all i've got a lot of stuff here so we're gonna have to go fast and and furious i apologize for that but there'll be no slowing down today uh secondly the slides that i pick are not necessarily con chosen to be um historically accurate and a lot of the events we're gonna look at i'm sure you all have a picture in your mind of what those events look like

these pictures aren't to change your mind these pictures are just to sort of get a feel for the tone of what it would be like to have this remarkable vision take place before you so the slides have more to do with um with the intensity of them than with whether or not this is a historical depiction of what's going on at any given time um so here we go so what is the what is the shekinah glory well if you if you went to your concordance and looked up the word shekinah you wouldn't find it it's not actually a biblical word it's a word that jewish writers used to to sort of

delineate a certain aspect of the glory of the lord uh that that aspect has to do with the visual image um the visual um presence of god on earth the word shekinah means he causes to dwell which is an interesting word that the jewish writers chose i think they knew what they were talking about when they picked this idea of shekinah

because ultimately god is going to dwell on earth and the shekinah glory really in the end is about uh god's dwelling so i think they knew what they were talking about when they picked that word even though it's not necessarily a biblical word um the glory of the lord can appear in a lot of different ways it can be taught in scripture it can be talking about the purpose of the lord they can be talking about future events it can be talking about all kinds of different stuff but this one is specific to one aspect of when this phrase the glory of the lord is used

it has to do with uh god's undeniable visible presence in the natural world

most of the time chicano glory is manifested by fire or a cloud

usually when people think of the chicano glory they think of you know the pillar of fire at night and cloud during the day in the wilderness and that's certainly a representation of the shekinah glory what they might think of the fire that comes down and consumes the sacrifice at the off at the um dedication of the temple and so most of the time it it is manifested as fire or what uh is connected with fire which is light or smoke or cloud and what one of the things that's connected with the cloud is smoke clouds aren't necessarily always water clouds uh sometimes they're fire clouds if you will or smoke we'll look at some example of that examples of that but the ultimate manifestation the ultimate manifestation of god's presence in the natural world is of course the lord jesus christ and so when we take a look at the shekinah glory it will be in many times a reflection of christ in some aspect or another because he is the ultimate fulfillment of the shekinah glory of god's presence uh in the natural world so we should be able to see him uh and we will we won't go over it in every one uh

i i don't know what that means great j i gotta notice it says jay's requesting remote control of your screen

if you want to change my pictures but uh i don't i don't know what that means um anyway um

so let's get started on some examples of the shekinah glory uh oh yeah so this is what hebrews says uh about the fact that jesus is the ultimate representation of the psychiatric lord it says who being the brightness of his glory in the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged our sins sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high and that's hebrews 1

verse 3 which is just showing the representation that the lord jesus christ is the ultimate uh shekinah glory talking about the brightness of god's glory and the express image of his of his person and there's two types of uh chicano glory we're going to talk about if you will and the two types of these those that are expressed as the glory of the lord we'll see that in a lot of some of the exodus examples that we use and then those that we can interpret as the chicano glory and those can get really interesting those are the ones that kind of answer some of the riddles in scripture that people ask about why certain things uh happen the way that they happen and we'll look at that in just a few minutes so the first one i looked at is the burning bush now you might not consider the burning bush

as the shekinah glory of god it doesn't have sort of that massive manifestation like the pillar of fire does in exodus but it fits all the criteria of the sheikah lord in that it is a supernatural

vision in the natural in the natural world and of course there's an angel that speaks from the bush but what makes the bush

this sort of supernatural kind of event and it has to do of course with the fact that the bush wasn't consumed a bush burning in the wilderness wouldn't be all that unusual pretty much anything could have set the bush off you know could have been a lightning it could have been somebody starting it on fire for warmth or you know it could have been some you know rambunctious midian teenagers who were knocking over mailboxes and lighting bushes on fire so if you think about it when moses first saw the bush he probably wasn't all that impressed he probably didn't pay that much attention to it looked over and said oh there's a bush on fire or whatever you know moved one about his business what started to catch his attention was the fact that it just kept on burning he probably looked at it two or three or four different times and each time he looked over he thought wow that's a pretty impressive bush it's still burning but there's a certain point in time where you realize something else is going on and that's exactly what happened uh to moses right it says in um

exodus now moses kept the flock of jethro his father-in-law the priest of midian and the angel of the lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and he looked and behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed that was the amazing thing about the bush was the fact it just kept on burning

so it says

and moses said i will now turn aside

and see this great site why the bush is not burnt so again a burning bush wouldn't be anything spectacular but the fact that it just kept on burning and was not consumed is what caught moses attention notice moses calls it this great site aft after a period of time moses realized something supernatural was going on because the bush doesn't naturally burn uh forever um so that's what caught his attention and that's really you know the power of uh the shekinah glory

but notice that moses decides to turn aside

and see the great sight that's actually what what um

god recognize notice it says and when the lost the the lord saw that he turned aside to sea god called on to him out of the midst of the bush and said moses moses and he said here am i so the lord doesn't respond until moses turns aside because moses has got to recognize that something supernatural is going on and then he's got to decide to go see what's happening now not everybody uh who sees something supernatural decides to go see what happening in fact a lot of people flee you know if you think of you know the other shepherds in the wilderness with moses you know there's there's shepherd al you know in the wilderness as well seeing this bush burning and burning and finally his wife says to him you know aren't you going to go see what that is and al says nope what we're going to do is move we're going to pack our stuff and get out of the way i don't know what it is i don't want to get involved and away goes al and his family and really it's it's kind of a silly story but that's what a lot of people do when it comes to the miraculous uh are in and around them if you think about the fact that we try to get people to understand that the bible itself is a miracle and their response to it is don't want to know about it don't care don't talk to me about it and that's what happens a lot of times but that wasn't moses moses had to go see what this thing was and so as soon as he turns to go see this great sight the lord goes uh and speaks to him from from the shekinah glory from the burning bush that does not that is not consumed and i mentioned also that you we should be able to see the lord jesus christ in the the visions of this shekinah glory and we can certainly see it in the the burning bush the burning bush is a reflection of the lord jesus christ in a very specific way in that specific way is this the burning bush was natural it was just a bush that's all it was

and yet it was not consumed by the fire

and that's how it reflects the lord jesus christ who we are told was in all points like as we are yet without sin so the lord jesus christ was natural like we were he was in the fire like we are the fire of sin the fire of temptation the fire the will of the flesh and yet it was never consumed he was never burned by it and so that's why by the way i believe why when moses gets to the bush and god tells him through the angel take your sandals off for where you are standing on his holy ground the holy ground he was standing on was the presence of the christ that's obviously not jesus christ we don't believe in that sort of pre-existent concept but certainly in the plan and purpose of god this bush is a representation this shekinah glory is a representation of the complete shekinah glory in the lord jesus christ the one holy one if you will and so moses who would recognize because if we can recognize it certainly moses could and we'll see other people that don't recognize it moses recognizes what the bush represents it might take him a while to figure it out but you can be assured moses understood that he had a redeemer who was holy and that's why he's told to take his sales off because he's standing on holy holy ground okay so that's the burning bush we're going to move on uh from there

next i'm going to look at the pillars we talked about before in exodus 13.

and there's a couple interesting things about the pillars we certainly know that they were they were a fire uh during the night and smoke during the day and the lord went out it says in exodus 13 both that for them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way and by night in a pillar of file to give fire to give them light to go by day and night he took not away the pillar of the cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people so we recognize this as the chicane of glory this is the glory of god coming down from heaven this is not not something you can call something else this is not some anomaly this is not some you know strange event uh that's the thing about the chicana glory is you you can't call it anything else it has to be what it is and it is the supernatural imposing its will or its or its vision or its sight upon the natural it is god's uh glory he controls the glory and sometimes it's massive and sometimes it's small but it's under his control and you can't deny what it is and that was certainly true with the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night you couldn't call it something else that was god's presence before before the israelites which is fascinating when you think about the fact that they would uh soon rebel

um even though god's presence was there you would think that god's presence in such a miraculous and such an overwhelming form would keep them in faith would keep them in sort of like a understanding that they stand in the presence of god and god's will be done and yet not long after this in cage bunny of course they they um reject uh the land and all that goes on down there and here's these amazing things and notice it never leaves

so the pillar is there throughout the exodus wanderings

and if you think about it that fits again as it should the lord jesus christ who said i will never leave you nor forsake you so as we go through our wilderness wander there is the lord jesus christ as a cloud during the day and fire uh for light at night uh again we should be able to see the lord jesus christ in in each of these i don't know if i'll mention it in all of them but it's it's an aspect of what it's all about and so that so this is this is you know one of the one of the ultimate examples of of this iconic glory it's overwhelming it's powerful and you cannot deny uh what it is

this is an interesting one this takes place in exodus chapter 60

and this is when uh the the children of the wilderness start um grumbling and of course it says they grumbled against moses and aaron but the lord says they're not grumbling against moses and aaron they're grumbling against me it's not long that long into their wilderness journey when they start grumbling as we know and they and so because they start complaining you know we have nothing to eat we have nothing to drink they say you know would have been better if we had been left in egypt to die in egypt it would have been better back there than be stuck out here in the wilderness and so of course we know the lord gives them quail and the lord gives them manna uh but then in exodus 16 verse 10 it says this and this is all uh during the same events it says and it came to pass as aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of israel that they looked toward the wilderness and behold the glory of the lord appeared in the cloud so again the shekinah glory appears in the cloud with the again the chicano glory is either clouds or or light or something something generally of that ilk so this is one artist's rendition of how the chicano glory uh would have appeared in uh the cloud this massive sort of kingly looking something uh that came from the cloud i'll give you a couple other examples here's another one uh sort of a shadowy figure in the cloud kind of reminiscent of uh

jacob's ladder um here's here's my personal favorite um for those of you this is this is a guy by the name of jerry gilliam actually is this is his concept of what got appearing in the cloud is uh i don't think it was any of those actually uh i think that's uh the wrong interpretation i don't think it was a matter of playing what do you see in the cloud you know i see a ducky and you know danis he's a horsey and somebody else sees god almighty i don't think it was that in fact i think this is just my speculation um but if you think about it it makes sense i think it looked like this

and it came to pass as the whole congregation the children they look towards the wilderness and behold the glory of the the lord appeared in the cloud

now you look at that picture and you think to yourself well there's nothing spectacular about that picture at all that's just a light shining through a cloud and i would agree with you 100

there's absolutely nothing spectacular about that picture unless at the same time

you have this

so if you look where they were where they were at this point in sinai is down at the southern tip of sinai and where they were looking to see the cloud was towards the wilderness by the way the reason why it's toward the wilderness that that the shekinah glory shined is because that's where god was god was in the wilderness and the sign was you're not going back to egypt you're following me into the wilderness but if you look up at the sky where the wilderness is from the south then you'll be looking north and you'd be seeing this miraculous light in the cloud you'd think nothing of it you think it's the sun unless of course the sun is already out there

and if the sun is already out there now you get a problem or what you have is the shekinah glory you were you're not going to have two sons in the sky

so i think that's what it looked like and i think because the sun was already there that's why they were so overwhelmed by the chicano glory again it's something that has to be undeniable and a light the size of the sun shining through a cloud

would be undeniable as far as being supernatural

all right so that's exodus 16.

let's move on to exodus 19. i'm going to keep moving oh we got plenty of time exits 19 verse 10 and this is when it the the glory of the lord of the shekinah glory appears on top of mount sinai and the lord said unto moses go on to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow and let them wash their clothes and be ready against the third day for the third day of the lord will come in the sight of all the people upon mount sinai

and it came to pass on the third day in the morning

that there were thunders and lightnings a thick cloud upon the mountain the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud so that all the people that was in the camp tremble and mount sinai all was all together on a smoke because the lord descended upon it in a fire and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace and the whole mountain quaked glory ah greatly and this is what we think of when we think of the iconic lord we think of this massive you know event you know the light shining and the clouds and the thunder and the lightning and god making his presence feel felt in this tremendous

uh display

of of light and sound and all of that and it is a tremendous display but notice the smoke is of a furnace it's a thick cloud upon the mount and they said it was like a fire going on the mount so that wouldn't be like a rain cloud that would be a cloud that's being formed by all the smoke and all the burning and all the fire and all the glory uh that would go on and yet they still rebelled

remarkably enough despite all these incredible things that they that they went through

yet it wasn't enough to overcome uh the will of the flesh that's one of the fascinating things about

this marvelous chicano glory because we'll see it again and again and again now let's let's go ahead to exodus chapter 40. this is an interesting one too uh the pillar cloud fills the tabernacle so they finally get the tabernacle made it's finally ready to go and the priests bring the uh the sacred uh articles into the tabernacle they put them down they put them in the right place and they walk out and as soon as they walk out uh this is where exodus 40 verse 34 picks up then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation and the glory of the lord filled the tabernacle and moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation because the cloud abode thereon and the glory of the lord filled the temple that's the shekinah glory and what caught my attention is why couldn't moses

go into the tent it says because there was a cloud there

and you know

if it was if it was a rain cloud what we'd normally think of as a cloud it shouldn't be able to stop moses from going into the temp to the tabernacle now it doesn't say that the lord said you can't go in it says that the cloud stopped

so what kind of a cloud would it be well i think again i think it's a smoke cloud i think moses like going into a burning building uh couldn't go into the tabernacle because of the smoke

um my brother's a firefighter and i don't know if you ever saw the movie backdraft but in the movie backdraft they go into these you know factory fires and you know they show them swinging from ropes and all that kind of stuff my brother says that's not a that's not fire at all you go into a fire it's all smoke it's not you know a wide open factory where you can see people swinging around and all that kind of stuff it's filled with smoke and i think that's exactly what the tabernacle was it was filled with it was filled with smoke so that moses couldn't go in there because he couldn't breathe

but look what happens in leviticus oh this is the end of exodus i'm sorry and when the cloud was taken up over the tabernacle the children of israel went onward in all their journeys but if the cloud were not taken up then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up for the cloud of the lord was upon the tabernacle by day and fire was on it by night in the sight of all the house of israel throughout all the journeys so again this this miraculous shekinah glory was there the whole time another reflection of the fact that the lord jesus christ is with us at all times but what i'll take a look at is what happens in leviticus so so exodus 40 is the end of the book of exodus and then the first few chapters of leviticus goes into what the burnt offerings were in different different um

procedural things like that and then you get back to the events in chapter nine

and look what it says so so they go through and they make all the burnt offerings and the different offerings that need to be made and then it says and aaron lifted up his hand towards the people and blessed them and came down from offering of the sin offering and the burnt offering in peace offer

and moses and aaron went into the temple of the congregation and came out and blessed the people and the glory of the lord appeared unto all the people so in exodus 40

moses tries to go into the tabernacle and he can't go in because of the smoke

and then aaron the priest plays the role of the priests and offers up all the sacrifices

all the sacrifices that are a reflection of christ's sacrifice and as soon as those sacrifices are done moses and aaron are now able to go into the tabernacle even though the cloud is still there

why

well because christ is now there because of what aaron did now you've got the opening up of the tabernacle and again he's always there in some

capacity or other i i've been working with a young man who was very interested in the bible uh he's actually a

volunteer minister for another type of church and he said to me today so is christ like everywhere in the old testament and i said yeah yeah pretty much he's pretty he's pretty much there and all the and all that you see and that's not the way most people uh most churches uh consider these these events that take place in the old testament and a lot of them don't even consider the old testament but he's shocked to find out when i said oh so that represents christ so that represents christ because he doesn't he's never seen that before but there he is again and now and notice that moses and aaron go in and come out like the whole purpose of them going and going and do anything they went in to say look we can go in and now we can come out and so now the tabernacle is open uh for for the priests and for all that are going to serve in the tabernacle because the offerings of christ have been made so there's the the pillar of cloud and the tabernacle

now i'm going to go to uh first kings chapter eight and to uh second chronicles and look at the dedication of the temple

um and again i know this picture doesn't represent anything i would have picked uh as how the dedication of the temple went but it does show the intensity of the moment and the intensity of that moment when the temple was dedicated with solomon there is just it's it's one of those things you say you wish you were there i would have liked to have been there to see you know that whole thing take place it must have been unbelievable uh to experience

and yet

moses felt solomon rather fell away even though this remarkable event took place

solomon fell away now i'm not making comments about solomon's eternal uh passage or any of that kind of stuff but we know that he eventually was worshiping idols with his wives so it's incredible that he would go through something like this and i'll talk about why i think that is in just a moment just a few moments anyway in first kings chapter 8 it says and it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place that the cloud filled the house of the lord so that the priests could not stand to misminister because of the cloud for the glory of the lord had filled the house of the lord just like just like with the tabernacle and over in second chronicles 7 it says this this is just the sec the other rendition of the story you know that's repeated now when solomon had made it and no i didn't want to do that go back

when solomon had made an end to praying the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering in the sacrifices and the glory of the lord filled the house and the priest could not enter into the house of the lord because the glory of the lord had filled the lord's house and when all the children saw how the fire came down and the glory of the lord upon the house they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement and worshiped and praised the lord saying for he is good for his mercy endureth forever

so you have this incredible event and everybody falls on their faces now i put that word saying and i in italics and parentheses because it's not really there

i'm not getting you into the all the specifics of it but i don't believe they said it at all i think they wrote it in the ashes upon the ground um

at that moment instead of speaking because i don't think they could speak because the lord is in his holy temple let all the earth keep silence before him and i think the majesty and the wonder and the overwhelmingness of this moment would not have allowed them to speak

uh so they wrote it into the ashes on the ground for the lord is good his mercy endures forever

then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the lord and king solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and 000 oxen 120 000 sheep so the king and the people dedicated the house of god and the priests waited on their offices in other words once the once the king and the people dedicate the temple now the temple is open now they can go in whereas before they as we just saw they couldn't go in because of the cloud once again christ is now there uh in symbol if nothing else in purpose if nothing else and now the temple is open in that remarkable uh event in kings and chronicles i think it's one of the great events in all of history

so let's go here just just one more if we look at a couple of the other ones uh saul is blinded uh by the light in acts chapter nine

and as he journey he came near damascus and suddenly there was

shine round above him a light from heaven and saul arose from the earth and when his eyes were open he saw no man so this massive light the shekinah glory knocks paul to the ground again is that that great picture this is not the way i ever would have pictured it myself but i thought it was an interesting picture one of the things interesting about it is the young the man that falls down is a young man and so i went and looked and yes saul was probably about 27 at the time uh that this event took place you don't really think of i i never think of saul slash paul as a young man uh yet he would have only been about 27

at the time that he was riding towards the masks he had a pretty long history uh after that so that's one of the reasons why i like this picture is because the the person knocked off the horse is a young man and so the light comes from heaven but i want to make there's a certain point i want to make about it it's what paul makes later on

uh this is uh this is the end of accident i'm sorry and that they that were with him saw indeed the light were afraid but they heard not the voice of him that spake so they saw the light and scared the daylights out of him and understandably so

in acts 26 paul was talking about this moment and this is what he says

he says whereupon as they went to damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests at midday o king i saw on the way a light from heaven

above the brightness of the sun so the shekinah glory can be brighter than the sun shining around about me and them which were journeyed with me so paul says this light was so bright that it was literally brighter than the sun this is the chicano glory controlled by god it doesn't always have to be brighter than the sun because god controls it but in this case it was and there's a hint in isaiah that it gets even brighter than that in isaiah it says this

moreover the light of this is talking about uh the kingdom age moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun so the moon will be as bright as the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days and the day the lord bindeth up the breach of his people and heal off the stroke of their womb so it's suggesting that this light could be seven times brighter than the sun so keep that in mind as we look at a couple more before we get uh towards the end so here's josh the ones we're going to look at now a little more interpretive they're not not uh explicitly shown as uh the chicano glory but when you consider what the chicano glory represents uh you can recognize that it's the chicano glory that's there and in saul chapter 10 and i love this picture because i've been talking about how the people are not amazed uh by the chicana glory not as much as you think they would be and this is a picture of joshua literally acting as if he's holding uh the sun in his hands and yet there's that guy sitting there on the crowd paying no attention to it at all couldn't kill us he's that same guy like like uh the guy in the wilderness i don't want to get involved i don't want anything to do with that and we know this story this is the story of the battle where the sun never sets so how can uh the sun never set how can from a natural perspective how could that happen and the suggestion is well god can do whatever he wants and that's absolutely true but from it from what we understand about nature it would be impossible for the sun not to set you'd have to change you know the path of the earth and all that kind of stuff it says and the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies is not this written in the book of jasher so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole day

so how can the sun stand still well we know the sun does stand still but that's not what they're talking about they're talking about the idea that the sun never sun never sat well the sun can go right ahead and set if there's something else representing the sun

if the chicana glory is there which can shine just like the sun then the sun can set the nature doesn't have to be adjusted all you need is another light and that's what the chicano glory provides it provides another light so there's the light shining and you say well how could the sun set people would see it but not if not if there's a cloud bank as cloud bank you wouldn't see the other sun go down you just see the light still continuing to shine so that's how you could have light consistently shining into the night because you have another light now nature doesn't provide another light but the shackling glory is the glory of god so that's how you can understand joshua chapter 10

about the light never go the sun never setting it's actually really the sheconic lord

which brings us to hezekiah because this is one of the great questions of all time how does the the sundial move backwards right you'd have to literally stop the rotation of the earth uh second kings chapter 20 uh says and hezekiah answered it is is it a light thing for the shadow to go down 10

degrees nay but let the shadow return back with 10 degrees and isaiah the prophet cried unto the lord and he brought the shadow 10 degrees backwards by which it had gone down in the dial of ahaz i have no idea why it's called the dial of ahaz that would be a nice study in and of itself and i could not find a uh

an intense picture of a sundial so i got the usual boring picture you find an interesting picture of a sundial it's just not there but of course the question is always about so how does the shadow move in the opera opposite direction and the argument must be that god just turned the earth uh the other way uh which of course again creates a whole bunch of problems uh geologically if you will so i thought i went on the internet i confessed and i found uh one guy's explanation of how this could be and i really enjoyed i have no idea this guy is uh but he had a comment on it and this is this is what he said

he said speculation involves that the earth rotated backward and pivoted on a different axis why we would look at a naturalistic mechanism when the text says god did it is beyond me both of these speculations carry massive geological upheavals if they occurred naturalistically god would have to miraculously cover these events since there is no record of these massive upheavals and then he says this a better speculation is that time is not continuous but

quantized

existence can change between one quantum state and another without having to pass through supposed intermediate states if every moment is newly created quantize state in the mind of god then in the blink of a thought he can do as he wills i love that because what he's saying is it's crazy to think that god moved the earth in the different direction what he did was he changed time that's much more understandable which of course again creates the same sort of obvious problem uh so this so another guy responds uh in the comments to what this guy had to say and his response was really interesting and what he said was this this is a comment to his um his idea is this there was a meteor that briefly outshone the sun and caused another stronger shadow that went back 10 steps from where the sun's shadow was this doesn't change the sun's shadow but adds another brighter light source depending on the direction of the meteor it could look like the shadow is going back 10 steps and i think that's exactly what happened except there wasn't a meteor it was the chicano glory which can shine seven times brighter than the sun you don't have to change the rotation of the earth you don't have to move the sun you just create a greater light source and you move it in the other direction and sure enough that dial shadow will move back the other way so this is uh colossal ritalin uh in second kings with hezekiah can be easily explained by the power of god through the shekinah glory through the lord jesus christ

um so

there's that one

just a couple more this is actually how how the the thing started as i mentioned that uh the star of bethlehem was actually the chicano glory second matthew two where i mean matthew two verse nine says when they had heard the king they departed and lo the star which they saw in the east went before them till it came and stood over where the child was when they saw the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy because they knew what the star was right they they go into jerusalem and i'm not going to re teach the class but they go into jerusalem and they're surprised that nobody jerusalem is looking for this kid and the star had led them uh from the east right to to um jerusalem because they want to see this child and they go in and see hezek they wouldn't see uh herod and herod doesn't know anything about it he tells them oh he's going to be in bethlehem and they come out and they must have been incredibly discouraged but when they come out there's the star and the star doesn't just take them to bethlehem the star takes them right to the house that's why i picked that picture takes him right to the house to wear the child to where the child is that's the chicana glory and you can see it's the chicano glory hey it's a light obviously and b it says they rejoice with exceeding great joy they knew exactly where that light was coming from because by the way stars don't do that stars don't direct you to somebody's house uh in bethlehem

and when they were coming to the house they saw the young child with mary his mother and fell down and worshipped him and being warned of god in a dream that they should not return to herod they departed into their own country another way that verse actually tells us that they knew that that that star was almighty because if god wasn't there they would have never left that child with that mother knowing what he represented but because god was there in that star they knew that child was in was in good hands so that's the chicana glory appearing as a star over a house in bethlehem i love that picture i love the color of it

and then there's this the transfiguration whoops go back let's get i did it again hold on

and after six days jesus took peter james and john his brother and bringeth them onto a high mountain apart that was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sun and his raiment was white as the light again the shekinah glory the glory of god now in the person in the light of the world in the person of of the shekinah glory here matthew chapter 17

and one more

and there shall be no light there and they need no candle not the light of the sun for the lord god giveth them light and they shall reign forever and ever

and that's the chicano glory in revelation chapter 22 verse 5.

in the last few minutes i want to ask a question it is this

so the children in the wilderness saw the chicano glory it was there every single day

and yet they rebelled

in the time of solomon the temple was filled with the chicano glory a massive event takes place an incredible event takes place

and yet solomon falls away and the people fall away

in the days of hezekiah hezekiah is dying and he prays to god for more time and god gives them this incredible vision with the shekinah glory of the light going backwards and and hezekiah is healed and is allowed to live for 15

more years and as we all know those 15

more years were his most faithful faithless years

of his life

why

why is it that these people were not able to be transformed by the shekinah glory and i think the reason is this

it's because when god appears in that form before an individual that individual thinks it's about that

i think hezekiah is the best example of that i think hezekiah thought oh i'm okay because god has given me 15

more years remember when isaiah comes to him later on and says because you've told the people of babylon your mistakes

you're going to die and he says that's okay that means everything's good in my time

the shekinah glory is not about the people of israel this kind of glory is about christ

and when you recognize that that light exists because it reflects christ and not your relationship to god but his then you're able to deal with the shekinah glory that's why moses understood what the burning bush represented because moses from that point on becomes a child of his redeemer he becomes a follower of his redeemer because his redeemer exists in that bush that is not consumed so then it comes to us brothers and sisters we think to ourselves boy if we ever saw something as remarkable as the shekinah glory our faith would be complete that's all we would ever need

and the problem is in actual fact we've already seen it

this is the condemnation

the light came into the world

and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil but he that doeth truth

cometh into the light that his deeds may be made manifest

that they are wrought in god

that is coming into the shekinah glory

of the lord jesus christ and that's the only glory that really matters the chicano glory is a fascinating light that god controls again and again and again but we've already seen the light and we've already been transformed by the light so we can enjoy and appreciate its representation but we can never get better than the one who is the light of life and that's our savior the lord jesus christ