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this is the north battleford young people's 
weekend class number seven the topic for this  

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class is psalm 48 beautiful for 
elevation is mount zion and the  

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introductory reading for this class was 
from psalm 48. brother graham please

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thank you tim well a couple of things 
before we get going i'd just like to say  

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first of all a thank you to everyone for for 
having us out here for this week and it's been  

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very exciting for all of us i think hopefully for 
you and certainly for me it has been to be able to  

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for me get right into psalm one and two and 
to learn so much and at the same time to feel  

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like there's so much more there's so much that 
i left out of the note simply because i had this  

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enthusiastic idea that i could fit everything i 
had in a certain section and sister rachel said  

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there's no way you go over time at the best of 
times and you won't get all that in so we cut  

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out half the material from each class or so and 
and still felt that we weren't doing justice to  

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the topic so you know the discussions we had 
at the beginning is can you really get seven  

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or eight nine ten classes out of these two psalms 
without sounding like you're just stretching it  

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i hope you've been able to see that there hasn't 
been a lot of duplication there's been connections  

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throughout but these two psalms have given us a 
wonderful view a wonderful picture of our life  

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now and of course what's coming in the kingdom and 
as far as an audience goes i'd just like to make  

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a few comments first of all thank you very much 
for being such an attentive group okay that's uh  

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various different groups we go to and we speak to 
there's always a spectrum of students in the class  

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those who are varying ages and different levels 
of interest but what has impressed me so much and  

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encouraged me so much is to see all of you if not 
almost all of you taking notes paying attention  

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participation needs a bit of work i think we 
mentioned that a few times but that's okay  

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okay you're paying attention you're writing the 
notes down and that is fantastic to see that  

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is so encouraging because it means that you're 
taking an interest in these things and you're  

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making an effort to follow along and hopefully 
hopefully learning some things that you maybe  

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didn't know before or being reminded 
of them the other thing i really want  

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to stress i was mentioning to brother tim 
how encouraging it is is to hear the hymns  

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again you can go to various places and 
it comes time for a hymn sing and you  

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got lots of people with their hands 
in their pockets and the hymns and  

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you know i'm goes to sort of sing out loud kind 
of thing but this is wonderful from the first hymn  

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that we sung together on friday it just echoed 
throughout this room and it sounded like there  

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was a hundred people in here singing and for young 
people to do that it is so important god has given  

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us voices for one primary purpose and that is 
to praise his glorious name whether that be in  

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our conversations one other to sing and to rejoice 
so to hear you using your voices for that purpose  

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and to pour out your joy and thankfulness in these 
hymns is absolutely wonderful to hear that's just  

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something i really i really appreciate so keep 
it up young people that's where our focus needs  

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to be and we need to be able to rejoice it doesn't 
really matter whether we sing great or we can sing  

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parts or not but we sing with our hearts to the 
lord and that is very very encouraging to hear and  

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um one verse that uncle dan my brother showed me 
one time he says you know how important singing is  

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he says do you know what the first thing you're 
going to do when you're raised from the dead if  

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you die before christ returns you're going 
to sing and i went oh i know you're kind of  

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obsessed with singing but um really they took me 
to that verse in isaiah and it says they'll come  

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forth from the grave and they will sing i thought 
wow that's important isn't it so we got a lot of  

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practice to do because when you sing in front 
of the angel when you come out of the grave you  

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probably want to have a lot of practice right okay 
so this is really good it's really exciting to see  

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that so the topic we're going to look at to this 
evening we changed up a little bit because i had  

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we're going to go through psalm 48 and i had 
some handouts like this and i thought you know  

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what when we try to go through that at the end 
of the long weekend at the end of a long day  

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i'm pretty sure that as enthusiastic as the group 
is it's going to be a tough go so what we want to  

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do is we want to cover the same information but 
we're going to do it in a bit more of a pictorial  

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format as we go through now this song i don't 
know if you noticed as we read through it there  

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there's kind of in this psalm a summary 
of everything we've talked about did you  

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notice that anybody pick up any ideas in this song 
just nod your head no raising of hands necessary  

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did you notice that there were some things we 
talked about did you notice there was a temple  

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there was zion there was battles there was warfare 
there was nations coming to jerusalem right there  

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was zion being the center of the whole earth right 
i think one or two of these verses anyway was in  

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the exercise we did yesterday with our with our 
cards our prophecy cards we put together but this  

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psalm summarizes it's another place where we can 
get an overall picture of what god's purpose is  

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and how he's going to affect it now we're not 
going to go through that save to grab just a  

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couple of verses out of here which when i first 
went through this psalm i got assigned this in our  

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sunday school class at sunday school when we were 
going through the psalms and i kind of got this  

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and so one of those psalms you scratch your head 
you go wow yeah i remember some of those verses i  

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know nothing about it and so very exciting to 
go through and to see how much this tells us  

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about the temple and how much it tells us about 
again our work in the future just a couple of  

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things to notice great is yahweh and greatly to 
be praised in the city of our god in the mountain  

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of his holiness so right away you notice a few 
details and you say that there's a city of god  

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we think of that as jerusalem and it's going to be 
related to a mountain a mountain of his holiness  

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and then it says beautiful four and in the 
original elevation beautiful because of its  

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elevation the joy of the whole earth is mount 
zion and you kind of think to yourself right now  

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is mount zion the joy of the whole earth no it is 
not it is the curse of the whole earth as it were  

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it's the place of contention it's a place 
the center of war and conflict and it will be  

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until the lord jesus christ establish it is 
establish it is it as his place and yet we're  

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being told also that it's going to be elevated 
above all things it's going to be beautiful  

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because of its elevation and today when you come 
to jerusalem you don't look up to it do you tim  

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it's not the highest mountain around is it it's 
actually kind of neutral like hebron mountains  

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are much higher right and yet we're told that it's 
going to stand out through the whole earth they're  

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going to notice this that as you were to come up 
to jerusalem that it stands out and we're going to  

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see in zechariah a little bit later that because 
of the earthquake that happens when christ returns  

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the so the surrounding areas are going to recede 
and the mountain is going to be elevated even  

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higher and so it's going to be this great mountain 
now you guys on the prairies kind of don't have  

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much in the way of mountains do you i noticed but 
but imagine if you did and out across the prairie  

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you could see in the distance 25 30 miles when 
you see this great mountain kind of like when you  

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finally get to alberta and you hit the foothills 
right and you can sort of in the distance  

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you can kind of see the mountains creeping out 
well that's the kind of imagery that's being here  

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being presented here and it's beautiful 
it's going to be the joy of the whole earth  

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so right away that tells you that this psalm is 
talking about the future would you agree it's the  

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joy of the whole earth it's got to be sometime 
future today the rest of the psalm after that  

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says like this is how it's going to get there's 
going to be war and there's going to be two more  

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there's going to be fighting and eventually 
nations are going to come into submission  

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and then it gives this picture of 
nations coming up you know they've  

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heard about this rumor of this temple that's 
been built in jerusalem and nations come up  

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and look what it says they walk by it in verse 8 
wow as we heard so have we seen in the city of god  

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our god will establish it forever it's a picture 
of nations coming up and people coming up to  

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jerusalem and walking around and before they left 
home and they traveled however they traveled up  

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to mount zion to sort of see the temple they'd 
heard these rumors they'd heard talk about and  

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they kind of go wow this magnificent temple is 
there and it's real and they're marveling at this  

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it goes down in verse 12 and this is this is the 
passage that that really strikes me and it's uh  

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probably because um you know that him cry out 
and shout he knows that him raise your hand if  

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you do right we're going to sing that to close 
i think is that right tim that's the one i chose  

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and i can remember my dad we used to live in 
langley and go into vancouver at a meeting it  

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was about a 45-50 minute drive so very similar 
to what a lot of you do when you go to meeting  

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well so we would sit there and we would sing 
and we would sing hymns i particularly remember  

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your dad knew me uncle james he would be in the 
case to spend a lot of time with us and we would  

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drive in and all of us with uncle jonathan and 
me and uncle jimmy and we'd be singing cry out  

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and show it was my dad's favorite and you didn't 
get to vancouver meeting without singing that  

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so cry out and shout thou inhabitants of zion 
and i knew it was something about the kingdom  

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and so to look at it in psalm 40 it was 
so exciting to that what we sang about  

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and what you got here as you go through i want 
you to picture this so we talked about you're  

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being a king priest in the kingdom and maybe on a 
particular day your job is actually going to be in  

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the temple okay and you've got all these mortals 
that are going to come up because they're going  

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to go up to the mountain of the house of the lord 
to learn of the god of jacob says isaiah chapter 2  

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and you're going to be standing to greet 
them so you're a greeter at the temple  

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and this is what you're going to say to them 
when they come up they're kind of awestruck  

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by this impressive structure and you're going 
to say this to them you're going to tell them  

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you're going to say now walk about zion it's 
as if you give them the little tourist brochure  

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right but it's more than that walk about zion 
and go around about her so come on you're going  

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to take take a little walking tour of this place 
and go around about it and tell the towers they're  

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off mark well the bull works and consider 
the palaces i want you to do this it's like  

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take a little notebook and write notes just like 
you're doing now take a little notebook and write  

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notes about the things you're doing okay when it 
says to mark well her towers it says to count them  

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so you know what is one there's two three forty 
sports right so you're gonna go around and you're  

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gonna count these magnificent towers that are all 
around the city and then when it says um so that's  

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to tell the towers to count them and then it 
says mark well the bulwarks mark weld as strength  

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and the fortification of this place and that word 
for mark well means to write it in your heart  

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to write it in your heart so everything you 
see here when you see this temple write it in  

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your heart and then it says so you can tell it to 
the generation falling so what that means in the  

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kingdom you're going to instruct mortals to come 
in and observe everything they see at the temple  

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and you're going to tell them you've got 
to make a special attention to this because  

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when you go back to your homes wherever they are 
in the world you need to be able to tell them  

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everything you saw so that they can learn 
and so they can have the desire to come up  

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and see and you know that struck me because when i 
realized that and i thought wow that's what we're  

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going to tell people in the kingdom i thought 
you know what i better be able to do today i  

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better be able to tell my children in a generation 
following me as much about that temple as i can  

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and the only way for me to do that is to learn 
a little bit about it and so we set ourselves  

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the grand task of trying to get just a little 
glimpse that's all we're even proposing i don't  

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even know if i could say i have a little glimpse 
have a little bit of an idea of what that temple  

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is going to be like because there's so much 
to learn and what we want to do tonight is to  

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present to you a little bit just a little bit a 
simplified version of some of the things we read  

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in the sections of scripture that talk about 
this temple that's going to be in the future okay  

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so we just want you to sort of join us along 
we're going to try and keep it as simple as we can  

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we're going to use some drawings that have been 
done by various brethren and sisters over the  

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years particularly from have anybody heard of 
brother sully he lived in the early 1900s or so  

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and he was an architect and he set himself to 
looking through those chapters in ezekiel the  

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last nine chapters that that deal with all the 
architectural numbers and things probably has  

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anybody remembered that going through the daily 
readings and you get to ezekiel 40 and you go  

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oh no right you've been there i've been there 
i still don't like that some chapters and you  

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go and it talks about there's so many reeds and 
cubits and knobs and arches and lattices and this  

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and other words that we don't even know what they 
are you feel that way sometimes and i used to feel  

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that way too i still do a little bit but i have 
a general glimpse of what it's about and it's so  

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exciting to be able to read those chapters with 
at least a little glimpse and and we're going  

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to try and sort of unveil some of that as we 
go through here do you know what's interesting  

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anybody know how many chapters are involved 
describing all the details of the building of  

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this temple that's going to be in the future take 
a guess and i insist upon participation it's only  

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numbers you have to just guess a number between 
one and a hundred how many chapters are involved  

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fifty there's one that's wrong but that 
was okay it was a noble effort okay  

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so what you know that anybody else who can't 
be any worse than naomi's guests but she had  

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a bold effort thank you okay it's not 50. 
there's only 48 chapters in the details  

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seven has a grand answer much 
closer but it's still too high nine

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seven is too high  

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so that's good would you like to try me five five 
that's an excellent answer it's still too hot

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it's a bit low it's good i like 
the effort like finally after  

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nine classes we're getting some participation

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there's about two and a half chapters unless i'm 
mistaken but somewhere around there of actual  

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number type architectural type drawing like how 
many verses did you guys memorize this weekend  

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i heard you guys remembering 
dozens of verses it seems  

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so do you think you can manage two chapters yeah 
they're tough chapters i'll give you that okay  

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but when i realized there's only two and a half 
chapters of the hard number stuff i thought  

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i think i could i can make a half of that and you 
know we've got in the brotherhood we've got lots  

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of references to help us to go through that so 
it's not like we got to start from scratch okay  

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but we get this wonderful picture now before we 
go there ahead of myself as sometimes happens  

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um i wanted to think of three verses i 
might even have them on the screen here

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three verses second samuel chapter seven promises 
to david who knows them if you don't know them  

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write that verse down second samuel chapter 
seven and make it a point to memorize that  

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before next sunday because you absolutely have 
to know the promise is today okay you have to  

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know that's sort of like the promises to abraham 
it's right in that vein so if you don't know this  

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maybe you don't need to memorize it but make 
sure by next sunday you know what that's about  

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that's how critical that passage is well it talks 
about david remember david wants to build a house  

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remember that he says i want to build the 
temple nathan says great david go do all  

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this in your heart and that night god says 
to nathan i don't want david to build that  

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i'm going to build him a house and he talks about 
a time when david's son his greater son the lord  

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jesus christ the seed of promise would be king 
and he would build a house and by that he refers  

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to two things clearly he refers to building a 
spiritual house of people of individuals that make  

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up a family but he is also referring to a literal 
house that christ would be the orchestrator of  

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in the kingdom a literal house a house of prayer 
for all nations now you remember when the lord  

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jesus christ says that in matthew 21 and verse 13 
do you remember when he goes through the temples  

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and he sees the money changers those deceitful 
cheaters who are basically ripping people off  

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as they came to buy sacrifices or offerings 
remember that and do you remember that where  

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jesus goes through with a whip and a scourge 
he drives out the animals that are there  

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he flips over the tables of the money changers and 
what does he say he says to them it is written my  

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house shall be called the house of prayer but you 
have made it to den of thieves and he's quoting  

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from isaiah i believe it is and he says my house 
shall be called a house of prayer for all nations  

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so that there is going to be a house a 
temple that's going to be built at some point  

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that all nations will come to and it will be 
the center of worship i don't know what you  

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think but we have you guys have in collegial 
hall that was pretty crowded today right  

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that was great i was i realized when i first 
came to north battleford there was like  

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25 30 people here which was about 20 something 
years ago so it's grown magnificently but you  

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guys are starting to crowd out one of those 
rooms right and you just represent one little  

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town of north battleford now if you are going 
to have a house of prayer for all nations  

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do you think it's going to be bigger or smaller 
than your wildlife federation building it's very  

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simple question bigger this is great okay all 
right so it's a house of peripheral nation it's  

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gonna be big that would be a logical expectation 
the purpose of it is again expressed in isaiah 2  

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verse 3. it's a place where people from all over 
the world wherever they're going to get there in  

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the kingdom age are going to come up to worship 
and i've made this really easy for the next  

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question i want you to see if you can pick out the 
key words okay just not yet okay i gotta read it  

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first but listen to this in isaiah the beginning 
of the prophecy of isaiah the word of isaiah the  

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son of amos concerning judah and jerusalem and it 
shall come to pass when in the everybody help me

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shall be established in the top of the 
mountains and it should be exalted above the  

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hills and all nations shall flow onto it and many 
people shall go and say comey let us go up to the  

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of the lord to the of the god of jacob and he 
will teach us of his ways we will walk in his  

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path it almost sounds like the way 
of the tree of life doesn't it for  

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out of sight shall go forth the 
law and the word of the lord from  

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so what are the key words if you can pick out say 
three key location type words go ahead gideon zion

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jerusalem we need one more house house 
i think that was the other one yes  

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so you have a house you have a mountain 
you have a city would that be fair  

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and all these things are 
bundled together as a location  

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wherein people will come why for what purpose 
are they coming to this mountain and city and

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isn't house

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not you no you kind of when it comes to like 
leadery type people sometimes i'll say that  

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until i get desperate why are they coming it's in 
that last little verse there oh i heard they want  

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to learn right what was the job of a priest we 
looked at that this morning the priest should keep  

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knowledge why so people can inquire about yahweh 
at their mouth okay so that suggests to me that  

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you might be working there if you're one of those 
saints and helping people to learn about the god  

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of jacob okay so there's a verse which draws 
together a whole bunch of ideas about what the  

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kingdom what this worship place is going to be 
like we're expecting to see a mountain a city  

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a house a house of prayer a temple these kind of 
ideas is something that is not just a figurative  

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idea not just a symbolic thing but something very 
literal because if you remember we've talked a  

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number of times that in the kingdom god is going 
to be working with real people real flesh in real  

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time so that people have the real opportunity to 
have their hearts converted to the word of life  

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now i want you to turn with me to 
ezekiel chapter 40. so this begins the  

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really exciting the other really exciting 
chapters of the bible because depending  

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on what topic you particularly are interested 
in they happen to be the most exciting at the  

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ezekiel chapter 40 begins this part in our 
readings where we get a little bit uh oh  

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i don't understand what we're going to do is 
we're going to read just the purpose of this  

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because ezekiel is going to go somewhere 
he's a captive in babylon and he's going  

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to be carried away by the spirit of god to a 
certain place and i want you to see if you can  

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see the similarities to where ezekiel is going 
and to what we just read in isaiah okay so we're  

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going to pick it up in ezekiel and chapter 40. 
so ezekiel is a captive in babylon remember  

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and in the visions of god god brought me into 
the land of israel and set me upon a very high

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mountain by which was the frame of a city on 
the south so don't worry about all the details  

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but right away in isaiah people were going 
to go to a mountain where there was a city  

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ezekiel is taken to a place wherein he is put on 
a mountain and when he looks around him as where  

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he sees it looks like the frame of the city is 
around me and what he's going to do now is he is  

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going to be told by this angel that meets him that 
there's a reason why he's here because you can see  

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ezekiel must go wow what this is amazing what am 
i here for and he says this in verse 4 and the man  

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said unto ezekiel son of ben i want you to behold 
with your eyes to hear with your ears and to set  

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your heart upon what i'm about to show you okay 
so if you had this instruction now listen kids  

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i want you to look at everything i'm going to show 
you be careful now and i want you to open your ear  

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all right and i want you to set your heart upon 
remember we talked about that word set your heart  

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but we're going to tell the mortals when they 
come out to do so now count the towers and  

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set your heart upon everything you see 
okay that's what he says set your heart  

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upon everything i'm going to show you are you 
going to pay attention when he tells you that  

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he says now write notes you're going to pick 
up your pen yeah get my pen ready everything  

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i see is going to get recorded and why does he do 
that he says for to the intent that i might show  

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them unto thee you were brought here i've only 
brought you here so i can show you this vision  

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and i want you to declare everything 
you see to the house of israel now  

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really briefly remember israel is captive in 
babylon they're going to be there for 70 years  

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what do you think the danger is of being a captive 
in babylon for 70 years what could happen to you

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is it possible you could get 
distracted to the ways of babylon  

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when you remember when israel went down into 
egypt what happens when they come out they be  

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mixed up with the religions and the ideologies of 
egypt and all that and so god's going to say this  

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he says i want a remnant to come out because in 70 
years i'm going to send a messenger and he's going  

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to come and he's going to say anybody who wants to 
go back to jerusalem to rebuild it he can go back  

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and god says i've got to make sure that a remnant 
will be faithful a remnant will be eager to leave  

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babylon i know i'm going to give him a vision of 
a future temple so i found this a bit stunning  

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because for myself i thought wow this is the 
chapters that i've always kind of glossed over  

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because i find it a bit confusing and yet he's 
telling captains in babylon without concordances  

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without computer generated imagery that if i can 
give them something to hold on to so they don't  

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lose the faith i'm going to give them a vision 
of the temple in the kingdom that'll do it but  

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you know what it was very effective because some 
70 years later 30 or 40 000 of the captives had  

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remained faithful and were ready and eager 
to go to jerusalem and to start rebuilding  

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the temple that's a little figure of when christ 
returns but there'll be those who are eager to  

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be participants in the building of the temple so 
that made me think wow if that was going to help  

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captives in babylon endure the challenges of this 
life and walk in the way of the tree of life i  

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bet it could help me i bet it could help me if i 
could focus on what this temple looks like and try  

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and understand at least a little bit of what it's 
going to be like then i might be more enthusiastic  

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to be there and to be part of it and i think 
that's what i believe that's what can happen  

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if we apply ourselves over the years to try 
and getting a figure of what's happening  

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so just to put things in perspective this is our 
little timeline that we've looked at something  

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similar right everybody's comfortable with 
this christ is going to return we've suggested  

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a 50-year period from the time that christ 
returns to way over here to when the temple  

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is actually uh open so we actually read about 
that in the prophecies of ezekiel when the glory  

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of god enters the temple and so the kingdom 
period starts at where the temple is open  

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and we talked about those three angel messengers 
the one that educates the world then babylon has  

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fallen and then an hour of judgment against the 
nations who resist breaking them with a rod of  

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iron and so on well during this period at some 
point the building of the temple starts i'm not  

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going to look at verses that demonstrate that but 
during this period we learn about various nations  

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bringing the wealth of the nations and coming and 
helping in the construction of this grand edifice  

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that's going to take a long time to build now you 
may say to yourself oh really like to build like  

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50 years to build 40 years to build something does 
anybody anybody has anybody ever been to england  

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or europe and seeing the massive cathedrals and 
churches anybody seen them anybody seen pictures  

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of these massive stone cathedrals like okay we 
went to one called wells cathedral which is one  

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of the oldest is that right wells cathedral 
one of the oldest welsh cathedral is massive  

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you go in there and you look up way way way 
up like you can't believe that five stories  

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up or whatever they get in stone arches and you 
guys how could they build that when they didn't  

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have modern technology to do it but they did 
but you know what those things took a hundred  

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years to build because they kept adding on and 
adding on so you could be a king and start wells  

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cathedral and it would be your grandson would 
actually see the finished project right so  

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in in real time we can see that grand structures 
take time to build especially if you don't have  

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modern equipment right so it's not unreasonable to 
me when i think about that god's using real people  

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to build this temple then then surely 40 years is 
okay it's a reasonable amount of time to collect  

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things and to have people involved in a building 
and regardless of whether it's reasonable or not  

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it's the way the scripture presents it but it's 
helpful to try and sort of picture things that way  

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so that's the time period we're talking and during 
that time period this temple is going to be built  

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i just want to pick up one or two other verses 
about the temple um we pick it up in ezekiel 43  

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and um and at verse 10 to 11. i want you 
to show how important the understanding  

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of this temple is or at least the effort to 
understand it was to the people in babylon  

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in verse 10 it says son of man i want you to show 
the house of israel what you've just seen okay  

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you've written it down you've recorded it maybe 
you do sketches i don't know but he recorded what  

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we see here anyway and he says tell the house 
of israel and why do what response does he want  

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he says i want them to be ashamed i 
want them to be ashamed of their sins  

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and let them measure the pattern and if 
they be ashamed of all they have done  

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then show them the form then show them 
more show them what's going to happen  

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the goings out the comings in the activity the 
sacrifices the meals the singing the worship

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i still find that amazing every time i read 
that that you're supposed to get a vision of the  

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kingdom a vision of this temple in the future age 
all that it contains and that is going to help you  

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to go wow i'm ashamed of my sins do you know what 
i can see the fruitlessness of this life and i  

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think the reason is is because the more you learn 
about it you go wow my life now i want to change  

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my life because i want to be there i want to be 
there with christ in the kingdom maybe working  

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in the temple taking my turn greeting visitors as 
they come up and telling them to walk about zion  

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or maybe instructing people or healing people 
or whatever our particular work's going to be

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ezekiel 44 and verse 4 just flipping over

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we're going to skip that one actually and we're 
gonna go to first corinthians three verse 16  

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just for time

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in first corinthians three let's have a look  

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at what that has to say first 
corinthians three verse sixteen

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and he says know ye not that ye are the temple 
of god and that the spirit of god dwelleth in you  

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if any man defile the temple of god him shall god 
destroy for the temple of god is holy which temple  

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you are and so what this is telling us is that it 
has to have an effect on us so the temple we see  

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in the future with all of its perfection has to 
be reflected in how we're living our life today  

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that we see ourselves as like a mini cameo 
of that a mini example of what the temple of  

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god should be like and just like the glory of 
god's going to be in the temple in the future  

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so the glory of god has to be shown in 
our life now as we are preparing for that

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now one of the things we do that we need to set 
our settle ourselves for is we go back to ezekiel  

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40. we're now going to take a run through of a 
quick line drawing of what the temple is based on  

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measurements that we have in ezekiel okay now when 
you get to ezekiel this is the math part i kind of  

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like a little bit of math not a heck of a lot of 
math but a little bit of math and you see this  

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picture in ezekiel 40 after he's told to record 
everything and to write it all down he jumps  

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right into this in verse 5 and it says and behold 
there was a wall around the outside of the house  

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okay remember we're on the mountain he sees it's 
a city and he kind of walks down the mountain as  

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it were and goes to the outside and goes wow this 
is actually a house okay and he gets there and he  

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sees it's a great wall he looks down the distance 
and he sees a wall that goes around the house  

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and he says he's got to measure it and in the 
man's hand was a measuring read of six cubits long  

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by the cubit and a hand breadth and so he measured 
the breadth of the building one read in the height  

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one reed and so on this is a very important 
verse and you may see the significance of it  

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the more you study it but what he says he's going 
to measure the building and he's going to give him  

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a read now who knows what a read is it's kind 
of one of those things on the screen a meat  

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is simply a long a reed is a long stick 
with which he's going to use to measure  

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now i don't know if i was going to go measure 
something today i would not use a stick  

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to measure so he's going to measure this distance 
of this wall he's going to take a a reed which is  

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he calls it six cubits and just to give you an 
idea what six cubits was the temple cubit or the  

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cuba described here is equal to a cubit and a 
hammer you know usually we call a cubit is kind  

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of this distance here around 18 20 inches or so 
of man's hand he says well it's not a normal cube  

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but it's a cubit and a hand wrench okay so we're 
looking at around 24 inches something like that  

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and he says now there's six cubits to this reed 
so we've got a long stick that's six cubits or 12  

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feet long so 12 feet is about to the peak there 
roughly i would say maybe that's eight foot so  

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nearly two three quarters of the way up to the top 
of the roof there okay and he's going to take a  

00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:06.000 align:start position:0%
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stick and he's going to lay it down and so the way 
you would do that is someone lays the stick down  

00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:12.880 align:start position:0%
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the next person puts their finger where that 
stick was right you move the stick alone put  

00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:17.120 align:start position:0%
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it down and you run put your finger you know what 
i'm saying right and you're going to go all the  

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way along this and do it and he's going to go with 
this one two three four five right i'm going to  

00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:29.200 align:start position:0%
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tally up how many reeds long the length of this 
building is now he's going to go around and this  

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is amazing he goes around and he finds out that 
it is 500 cubits 500 little ticks on his page

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500. now here's something that's very obvious 
but if you had to do that what does it mean  

00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:51.520 align:start position:0%
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you're doing if you're going to measure 
with a reed what are you going to have to do  

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give you an idea you could use a laser 
measure and you could stand here and go  

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500 beats but he didn't have one so he 
couldn't stand here footy so the first  

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thing ezekiel has to do is he has to 
walk around about this temple this city  

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and that's something i've got if anybody wants 
to see afterwards we've got a little animation  

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of the pathway that ezekiel takes as he runs back 
and forth through this temple city looking at all  

00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:23.760 align:start position:0%
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the various different things but ezekiel is going 
to go and he's going to see it we want to see what  

00:32:23.760 --> 00:32:29.360 align:start position:0%
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taking the general ideas here of what ezekiel 
sees now in the chapter 42 and verse 20 ezekiel  

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is going to walk around the entire edge of the 
city so he measured this city this temple city by  

00:32:34.800 --> 00:32:42.800 align:start position:0%
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four sides and it had a wall around about and it 
was 500 reeds long and 500 reads broad now based  

00:32:42.800 --> 00:32:48.000 align:start position:0%
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on what we said that a read is 12 feet anymore 
we're going to do quick math what's 500 times 12.

00:32:53.280 --> 00:32:54.320 align:start position:0%
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close close

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judge distance available i'm standing 
somewhere especially on the prairies  

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but a mile is a long distance right so you set 
your marker on the car on the road when you go  

00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:22.320 align:start position:0%
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home and it's okay here's the mile marker and go 
1.6 kilometers because that's the same as a mile  

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and you go well that's the distance you 
walk that was one width of this temple  

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and then you find that he re you read a little 
bit further and tells you he goes through the  

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wall and he goes for a courtyard and it's actually 
an inner wall as well and it's also just under the  

00:33:35.600 --> 00:33:42.560 align:start position:0%
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the 500 read mark okay now in chapter 46 if you 
keep reading ezekiel is wandering back and forth  

00:33:42.560 --> 00:33:46.400 align:start position:0%
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well not wandering because it was a deliberate 
course god tells him to go and he comes to the  

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corners and he notices these massive towers and 
he says and in the four corners of the court  

00:33:52.560 --> 00:34:01.600 align:start position:0%
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were courts they were joined by these towers of 40 
reeds high and 30 reeds broad so that's 360 foot  

00:34:01.600 --> 00:34:07.280 align:start position:0%
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square these corner towers that we're going 
to ascend 480 feet high anybody know how high  

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480 feet high is how long how high is the eiffel 
tower is anybody well not the iphone what's the cn  

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cn tower you know anybody being at the cn tower 
in ontario space needle in seattle i've been  

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there okay the cn tower in ontario is i think 
it's about a thousand feet right for the very  

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pointy top anybody you want to correct okay so you 
can look it up afterwards it's very tall well this  

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is 480 feet tall but it's 360 feet so that's a 
football field right football field 100 yards  

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:44.320 align:start position:0%
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anybody knows football it's good there's no 
football fan so that's good anyway a big soccer  

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field is around 300 feet long and it's about 
that way a little bit bigger and you make that  

00:34:49.120 --> 00:34:53.120 align:start position:0%
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square and that's how big these towers are and 
there's one in every corner that would ascend  

00:34:53.120 --> 00:34:59.200 align:start position:0%
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way up so when you think now when ezekiel 
says when the sama says mark will her towers  

00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:05.120 align:start position:0%
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now go around and count the towers you can see 
why now if this was something little it just had  

00:35:05.120 --> 00:35:09.840 align:start position:0%
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little towers like you have down on the mall hey 
wow yeah it's got to be like yeah 30 feet high  

00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:14.160 align:start position:0%
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it wouldn't be very impressive would it do 
you think it would be impressive to go around  

00:35:14.160 --> 00:35:20.000 align:start position:0%
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a building that had towers that were 480 feet 
high i think it would it would be magnificent  

00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:24.640 align:start position:0%
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and then we're told this little bit in the 
middle here it says that once you go inside  

00:35:24.640 --> 00:35:30.480 align:start position:0%
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the inner gate there's this inner wall that 
has courts or chambers for the singers and  

00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.000 align:start position:0%
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some of them look north some of them look 
south some of them are all around and we get  

00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:38.960 align:start position:0%
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this vision of an inner wall inside this temple 
and you know what's going to happen there you're  

00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:44.160 align:start position:0%
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going to find it there's places for the priests 
so if you're a priest in the kingdom you're  

00:35:44.160 --> 00:35:48.480 align:start position:0%
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gonna have a place to stay in the chambers that 
are in that inner inner inner wall inner court  

00:35:49.520 --> 00:35:53.440 align:start position:0%
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and there's also gonna be levites that are gonna 
be able to come and minister just sort of to  

00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:57.840 align:start position:0%
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the outside of that there's gonna be places for 
singers who like singing you know maybe part of  

00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:01.840 align:start position:0%
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your job is going to be part of the priestly choir 
in the kingdom well that's where you're going to  

00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:06.080 align:start position:0%
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stay in that orange ring there right these are 
real places that are going to be there there's got  

00:36:06.080 --> 00:36:10.000 align:start position:0%
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to be i mean think about it where are you going 
to stay there isn't a place for you to stay right  

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we move on a little bit farther we read this 
in ezekiel 43 now this is the law of the house  

00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:21.840 align:start position:0%
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upon the top of the mountain the whole 
limit thereof roundabout shall be most holy  

00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:28.160 align:start position:0%
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behold this is the law of the house so it talks 
about the central part of this temple being this  

00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:33.680 align:start position:0%
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mountain you remember you know ezekiel isaiah we 
read about they're going to come to the mountain  

00:36:33.680 --> 00:36:39.120 align:start position:0%
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of the house of the lord it's going to be at 
mount zion and when we read it in ezekiel he  

00:36:39.120 --> 00:36:43.120 align:start position:0%
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was going to stand on the top of a mountain 
he's going to be surrounded by the frame of  

00:36:43.120 --> 00:36:49.840 align:start position:0%
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a city that he realizes is really the house of 
god well that's the imagery we have we have the  

00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:56.240 align:start position:0%
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center of this of the world worship is on this 
elevated mountain and it's going to be most holy  

00:36:56.240 --> 00:37:01.520 align:start position:0%
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what does that make you think of when you hear 
the phrase most holy anybody want to help me out

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that's good can you develop that 
idea because it sounds like you  

00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:12.400 align:start position:0%
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just repeated what i just said yes you 
said which is good but most holy where  

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we've heard it somewhere in the old testament 
perhaps in the what sorry tabernacle is

00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:36.400 align:start position:0%
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okay so that's right in the tabernacle there 
was the holy place and the most holy well in the  

00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:41.360 align:start position:0%
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temple that solomon built there was the holy place 
and the most holy witness it's not surprising then  

00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:46.320 align:start position:0%
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that as we come to the central focus of this 
temple this place of worship we're going to find  

00:37:47.040 --> 00:37:51.680 align:start position:0%
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a most holy but you know what is really 
amazing and this actually surprised me when  

00:37:51.680 --> 00:37:56.960 align:start position:0%
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i read through it well i knew before i looked 
into ezekiel but at one point it surprised me  

00:37:56.960 --> 00:38:00.720 align:start position:0%
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that there was going to be an altar in 
the kingdom now why do you need an altar

00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:03.600 align:start position:0%
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yes

00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:10.960 align:start position:0%
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we read all through the law that we have 
sacrifices and the sacrifices were there to  

00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:17.280 align:start position:0%
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teach people things they were to teach the people 
how sinful sin was to see the need for the grace  

00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:21.120 align:start position:0%
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of god and to look forward to messiah who was 
going to be that lamb that was going to be offered  

00:38:21.120 --> 00:38:25.920 align:start position:0%
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without blemish right and all the other things 
associated with that but then when christ came the  

00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:30.480 align:start position:0%
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sacrifices came to an end right that's what he was 
trying to teach the jews in the first century look  

00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:34.480 align:start position:0%
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sacrifices don't take away the blood of 
bulls and ghosts doesn't take away sin  

00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:39.680 align:start position:0%
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and so that was hard for them and so we 
understand that in this dispensation we don't have  

00:38:39.680 --> 00:38:44.320 align:start position:0%
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sacrifices but here we're being told 
there's going to be an altar in the kingdom  

00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:49.280 align:start position:0%
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and this altar is actually going to be huge it's 
going to be 12 reads long so it's 12 times 144  

00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:54.000 align:start position:0%
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feet roughly so however long 144 feet 
as you can imagine it's quite big  

00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:57.200 align:start position:0%
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but you think about it if nations are 
going to come up to make sacrifices  

00:38:58.080 --> 00:39:02.240 align:start position:0%
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and losses are going to come you're going to need 
a big area to make lots of sacrifices that kind of  

00:39:02.240 --> 00:39:06.160 align:start position:0%
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kind of reasonable isn't it i mean if you had 
one altar the size that abraham would have made  

00:39:06.160 --> 00:39:10.160 align:start position:0%
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and you've got tens of thousands of people 
streaming up to jerusalem to make an offering  

00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:15.360 align:start position:0%
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i don't think you're going to get those all done 
in a day it's kind of reasonable then to think  

00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:19.680 align:start position:0%
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well if there's all these people coming out 
to make offerings then a larger altar would  

00:39:19.680 --> 00:39:24.400 align:start position:0%
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be appropriate the challenge is for us to come to 
terms with why we need sacrifices in the kingdom  

00:39:25.520 --> 00:39:30.080 align:start position:0%
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and that's the topic for for later but that's what 
it tells us and it tells us that there's going  

00:39:30.080 --> 00:39:38.000 align:start position:0%
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to be a a fountain of water that comes out from 
underneath the altar and it's going to flow down  

00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:45.280 align:start position:0%
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on the south side of the altar that's interesting 
has anybody ever heard that phrase that there  

00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:49.680 align:start position:0%
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will be the trees of righteousness on 
either side of a river claire's crystal  

00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:54.960 align:start position:0%
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you've read that in revelation 22 says and he 
showed me a water clear as crystal proceeding  

00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:01.120 align:start position:0%
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out of the throne and on either side was the 
tree of life or the wood of life lots of trees  

00:40:01.120 --> 00:40:04.400 align:start position:0%
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on either side the saints who were 
there for the healing of the nations  

00:40:05.680 --> 00:40:08.320 align:start position:0%
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well that's what we have as a picture 
there and then what we find is that  

00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:14.000 align:start position:0%
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that river flows out underneath the threshold as 
it says and sort of however that's done all the  

00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:18.960 align:start position:0%
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aqueducts underneath those walls they come out and 
the water flows down and that water is eventually  

00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:24.640 align:start position:0%
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as zechariah tells it's going to flow down over 
the edge over the mountains down into the dead sea  

00:40:25.200 --> 00:40:30.080 align:start position:0%
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and the scriptures tell us that the dead sea will 
be refreshing it will be caused to live again  

00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:35.600 align:start position:0%
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and that people will actually go fishing in 
the dead sea because it won't be dead anymore  

00:40:37.120 --> 00:40:40.640 align:start position:0%
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so major changes are going to happen and it 
kind of makes sense if you've got that much  

00:40:40.640 --> 00:40:44.880 align:start position:0%
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water coming out it's got to go somewhere doesn't 
it it's going to flow down it's going to refresh  

00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:50.800 align:start position:0%
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the land this idea of bringing back life to 
it and you know i went through this and maybe  

00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:55.200 align:start position:0%
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you've all seen kind of some of the pictures of 
ezekiel's temple everybody's seen that picture  

00:40:56.160 --> 00:41:00.720 align:start position:0%
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you know i remember seeing that years ago wow 
that's amazing but i did think to myself you know  

00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:05.760 align:start position:0%
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i've seen lots of people with that picture on the 
wall it's quite impressive but i thought you know  

00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:12.160 align:start position:0%
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before i could ever put that on my wall i really 
wanted to know whether it was just a great idea  

00:41:12.160 --> 00:41:17.360 align:start position:0%
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an artist's impression or whether it really you 
know had some substance because i think that's  

00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:21.040 align:start position:0%
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important that make sense to you you don't just 
sort of slap something up without we don't believe  

00:41:21.040 --> 00:41:25.440 align:start position:0%
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a doctrine just because we're told we want we want 
proven so our parents explain to us why i believe  

00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:29.280 align:start position:0%
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things will such was the case with this and you 
know when i went through this simple exercise and  

00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:34.000 align:start position:0%
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we spent quite a lot of time going through even 
just to get that little piece that we just showed  

00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:39.920 align:start position:0%
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you i was so convinced that you know what it's 
a huge place it's amazing and we read more and  

00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:45.280 align:start position:0%
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more about what's going to happen there everything 
starts to come alive you see you know what it said  

00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:49.120 align:start position:0%
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it says there's going to be in the corner towers 
there's going to be kitchens who likes cooking  

00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:55.680 align:start position:0%
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maybe you get to cook right why do you think you 
need to cook if you're immortal do you need to eat

00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:02.000 align:start position:0%
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i don't think you need to but you might enjoy 
it it might be a pleasure you have god's made so  

00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:07.040 align:start position:0%
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many wonderful things to eat but but who is going 
to need to eat what kind of person needs to eat  

00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:13.440 align:start position:0%
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that's the name mortals so mortal people we're 
told they're going to come up remember isaiah  

00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:17.920 align:start position:0%
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let's go up and learn of the god of jacob so 
they're going to come up there and you know  

00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:23.040 align:start position:0%
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they're going to walk up from a city that's about 
20 miles away there's a place called yahweh shama  

00:42:23.040 --> 00:42:26.560 align:start position:0%
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and it's a city that's built about 20 miles i 
think it is to the south and they're going to  

00:42:26.560 --> 00:42:31.360 align:start position:0%
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come there from all parts of the world and they're 
going to stay there overnight finally arrived okay  

00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:34.080 align:start position:0%
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and they know what they're going to do they're 
going to go up to the mountain of the house of  

00:42:34.080 --> 00:42:38.400 align:start position:0%
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the lord they're likely going to have to walk 
up there 20 miles how far can you walk in a day  

00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:43.920 align:start position:0%
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about 20 miles it's about right 
lovely walk up to these virgin  

00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:46.800 align:start position:0%
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pastures kind of like north battleford 
maybe even but a bit greener  

00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:52.800 align:start position:0%
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and you're going to walk up there and you're going 
to see this city in the distance why well because  

00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:58.800 align:start position:0%
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we just left it's elevated and you're going to say 
wow i remember and so and so told us about that  

00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:04.960 align:start position:0%
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when they came up to the temple last year to 
worship and they're going to walk up and they're  

00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:12.000 align:start position:0%
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going to get there at the end of a 20 hour 20 
mile walk what are they going to need to do

00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:16.480 align:start position:0%
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that's real isn't it i think why are your 
kitchens for well if you got real people  

00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:20.880 align:start position:0%
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you need real hunger to be satisfied so they're 
going to have kitchens to eat in and it talks  

00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:25.600 align:start position:0%
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about being able to sit down and eat with the lord 
remember that and there's going to be areas inside  

00:43:25.600 --> 00:43:29.600 align:start position:0%
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those chambers there's three story chambers there 
there's going to be kitchens there's going to be  

00:43:29.600 --> 00:43:33.520 align:start position:0%
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food being prepared you know what's interesting 
ezekiel actually smelled the food being prepared  

00:43:34.160 --> 00:43:37.760 align:start position:0%
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now you know he says and i i saw 
over there and there was food cooking  

00:43:39.600 --> 00:43:44.320 align:start position:0%
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in a vision you madness he smells food cooking so 
what's that for oh that's for the people to eat  

00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:50.080 align:start position:0%
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who come up to worship there's going to be places 
for people to sleep why because you don't walk 40  

00:43:50.080 --> 00:43:55.040 align:start position:0%
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miles away you walk 20 miles right and so they're 
going to be able to maybe stay and rest before  

00:43:55.040 --> 00:43:59.280 align:start position:0%
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they head back and they go home after they've 
they've witnessed the things they need they've  

00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:04.400 align:start position:0%
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come up to hear instruction maybe your job as a 
priest is to keep knowledge and maybe in some of  

00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:08.960 align:start position:0%
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these outer courts over here these huge areas over 
here you're going to have a group of people around  

00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:12.800 align:start position:0%
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you and they're going to say to you can you tell 
me what the promises that abraham were all about  

00:44:14.240 --> 00:44:17.920 align:start position:0%
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can you tell me what the sacrifice of christ 
is all about can you tell me why we're offering  

00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:23.360 align:start position:0%
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these offerings wow this is amazing what kind of 
experiences did you go through in your mortal life  

00:44:24.160 --> 00:44:26.320 align:start position:0%
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did you find it hard to walk away the tree of life  

00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.640 align:start position:0%
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you know when you're going to have all these 
experiences that you're going to remember  

00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:35.040 align:start position:0%
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and all the things that you've learned all 
the things you've been further taught as you  

00:44:35.040 --> 00:44:39.200 align:start position:0%
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as your mind is being expanded to receive the 
word and the counsel of god you're going to be  

00:44:39.200 --> 00:44:42.800 align:start position:0%
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able to convey these things to the mortals 
that come up so that's why they need food  

00:44:43.600 --> 00:44:47.840 align:start position:0%
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so it's a very real picture of real things 
and real necessities and you know what is  

00:44:47.840 --> 00:44:52.800 align:start position:0%
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really exciting ezekiel sees in this area over 
here on the east this area is specifically for  

00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:59.040 align:start position:0%
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christ and he sees this wonderful vision of 
christ the prince the glory entering the temple  

00:45:00.240 --> 00:45:04.320 align:start position:0%
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and there's a picture there of christ 
coming out as it were to conduct the choir  

00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:09.760 align:start position:0%
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now you all like singing can you imagine if 
you were one of the mortals going there so  

00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:15.440 align:start position:0%
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maybe you're not baptized when christ returns and 
you you're working on studying or maybe you're  

00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:19.520 align:start position:0%
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not quite old enough yet but you're taking the 
truth seriously and your parents are taken to the  

00:45:19.520 --> 00:45:23.920 align:start position:0%
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judgment and they're they they go in as immortals 
into the kingdom but you weren't quite old enough  

00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:28.320 align:start position:0%
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and you're still working on getting ready for 
baptism god says well for the sake of the parents  

00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:31.840 align:start position:0%
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he's going to take you and you're still going to 
be mortal but now you get to actually do all your  

00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:36.720 align:start position:0%
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first principles classes in the kingdom with 
immortals teaching you right and so maybe you  

00:45:36.720 --> 00:45:41.920 align:start position:0%
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come up to the temple and you sit there on the 
lawns and you just listen as this immortal choir  

00:45:42.560 --> 00:45:47.840 align:start position:0%
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breaks force into praise and singing wouldn't 
that be amazing who likes listening to a really  

00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:54.480 align:start position:0%
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good cantata where you can tell that the hearts of 
the people are there and maybe it sounds nice too  

00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:59.280 align:start position:0%
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maybe the melodies are good but maybe they're not 
but that doesn't matter you can tell when you see  

00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:04.640 align:start position:0%
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people singing with their hearts that they 
are rejoicing in the lord now you imagine the  

00:46:04.640 --> 00:46:11.200 align:start position:0%
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absolute perfect music the perfect harmony and 
the perfect words being sung by immortal people  

00:46:13.200 --> 00:46:16.640 align:start position:0%
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i think that's amazing i often 
think as far as that goes i imagine  

00:46:16.640 --> 00:46:21.280 align:start position:0%
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i wish i could have been like the shepherds i 
like raising we don't have big flocks like you  

00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:25.600 align:start position:0%
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have here but i like raising sheep and often 
times at night when i would go to check them  

00:46:25.600 --> 00:46:30.720 align:start position:0%
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particularly in lambing time and i'd look out at 
the stars and i would think about those shepherds  

00:46:30.720 --> 00:46:36.080 align:start position:0%
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who were in the fields when the angels came to 
them to announce the birth of christ you know that  

00:46:36.080 --> 00:46:41.280 align:start position:0%
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part where it says and all of a sudden the heavens 
burst forth for this multitude of the heavenly  

00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:46.880 align:start position:0%
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host praising god and saying right you remember 
remember that part and i think of that i think wow  

00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:54.480 align:start position:0%
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to hear that and then i think wow we get to do 
that in the kingdom and to be able to sing and  

00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:59.920 align:start position:0%
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not worry about whether our voices sound good or 
bad but to be able to just sing in perfect harmony  

00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:05.040 align:start position:0%
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those are some of the things that ezekiel tells us 
about and gives us little glimpses of young people  

00:47:05.040 --> 00:47:09.760 align:start position:0%
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that we can incorporate into our vision of what's 
going to happen in the kingdom and so we can see  

00:47:09.760 --> 00:47:15.120 align:start position:0%
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ourselves as being busy so when it talks about 
places of judgment you think to yourself oh  

00:47:16.080 --> 00:47:21.360 align:start position:0%
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a king has to be good in judgment i might have to 
do that i might have to have a turn in the temple  

00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:25.040 align:start position:0%
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away from my city that i might be in charge 
of as it were and actually have to do some  

00:47:25.040 --> 00:47:29.360 align:start position:0%
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judging some spiritual discernment for people 
who come up with difficulties and challenges  

00:47:30.160 --> 00:47:35.200 align:start position:0%
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so these are very real opportunities and 
privileges that god has given us now we're  

00:47:35.200 --> 00:47:42.080 align:start position:0%
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just about out of time we're just going to uh skip 
a number of things here anybody wants to know this  

00:47:42.080 --> 00:47:47.600 align:start position:0%
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is a depiction of the land promised to abraham 
you go through ezekiel and genesis you will see  

00:47:47.600 --> 00:47:52.640 align:start position:0%
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the borders of the area that was specifically 
designated to the jews as an inheritance  

00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:58.640 align:start position:0%
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it won't take time to deal with that what i want 
to just show you now as we go through is just some  

00:47:58.640 --> 00:48:05.360 align:start position:0%
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drawings some architectural drawings which have 
been done to give us an idea of some of what these  

00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:10.880 align:start position:0%
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things won't be like now these pictures won't 
be exact because god chose to give us words not  

00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:17.040 align:start position:0%
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pictures but the fact that god gave us intricate 
measurements doesn't that infer to you that he's  

00:48:17.040 --> 00:48:19.920 align:start position:0%
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giving us something we can do something with i 
mean do you think really you're going to get to  

00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:23.600 align:start position:0%
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the kingdom he's don't know i was just fooling 
those numbers you couldn't ever have worked out  

00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:30.080 align:start position:0%
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i don't think that's the way god works he says 
god does not mock us okay he's not out to mark  

00:48:30.080 --> 00:48:34.560 align:start position:0%
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us he may give us great challenges and we may not 
be able to figure it all out in exact detail but  

00:48:34.560 --> 00:48:39.680 align:start position:0%
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he gives us descriptions of the walls and the 
gates and the towers and the arches and the stairs  

00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:43.520 align:start position:0%
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and we can put some of that together 
to get a vision of this kingdom  

00:48:44.240 --> 00:48:47.520 align:start position:0%
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of what's going to be there i took these 
slides out of a different presentation so  

00:48:47.520 --> 00:48:53.520 align:start position:0%
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it doesn't all work but um here's a picture of 
what some of the measurements are of the gates  

00:48:53.520 --> 00:48:57.120 align:start position:0%
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okay so you enter up as you're coming in over here 
say for instance which you wouldn't because that's  

00:48:57.120 --> 00:49:02.880 align:start position:0%
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christ's area but if you were to walk in there you 
would see as you walked up you see a three-story  

00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:09.440 align:start position:0%
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um a wall this great wall that surrounds the city 
and it's incredible you got seven steps that walk  

00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:15.840 align:start position:0%
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you up now do you see this guy right here that is 
a scale drawing of how big can you all see that  

00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:21.360 align:start position:0%
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oh my god i think where is he there's a man six 
foot tall let's see so he's half the height of  

00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:27.120 align:start position:0%
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the reed makes sense this is two re-tied just to 
here and then it's umpteen other reeds before you  

00:49:27.120 --> 00:49:34.000 align:start position:0%
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get to the top of these arches that's amazing now 
if anybody's ever been to petra probably only tim  

00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:40.000 align:start position:0%
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right anybody else you've been to petra somebody 
else somebody's been to petra somewhere um  

00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:46.000 align:start position:0%
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and you go to petra and you see these magnificent 
pictures of petra yeah can you see or these other  

00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:50.560 align:start position:0%
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stone carvings of these ancients and these 
massive monuments and you go wow that's big  

00:49:50.560 --> 00:49:54.880 align:start position:0%
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then you see this little guy standing at the 
bottom well there's nothing compared to this  

00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:58.320 align:start position:0%
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and you get this little picture of this person 
here and you can imagine you'd be like going  

00:49:59.680 --> 00:50:03.120 align:start position:0%
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like i mean would you draw ever drop 
do you see that is this magnificent  

00:50:04.720 --> 00:50:11.440 align:start position:0%
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well there's also this corridor here that i think 
you can get a sense of so as you see this this uh  

00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:17.760 align:start position:0%
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this inner walkway in between here it's about 150 
feet across from here to here and as you come in  

00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:22.240 align:start position:0%
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you'd see all these multiple stories where they're 
going to have places for eating dining chambers to  

00:50:22.240 --> 00:50:26.800 align:start position:0%
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eat with those who've come up you've got this 
walkway that goes between here and the and the  

00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:32.800 align:start position:0%
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and the and the holy place within and you'd be 
going there you can imagine that all these people  

00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:35.760 align:start position:0%
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that are going to be there and you know what we 
talked with tikvah you know what she says to me  

00:50:36.640 --> 00:50:41.920 align:start position:0%
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we'll go to bed sometimes i'll be lying beside 
her she say daddy can you tell me about the king  

00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:50.400 align:start position:0%
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i say what do you want to know she says can 
you tell me about the temple and i say or  

00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:58.400 align:start position:0%
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you tell me about the temple well there's 
stairs how many stairs take them seven

00:51:01.200 --> 00:51:11.520 align:start position:0%
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so who are you going to see there titha moses ruth 
esther noah and she says tell me when we sit down  

00:51:11.520 --> 00:51:16.720 align:start position:0%
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and talk to moses because i tell her i see imagine 
we walked through the temple i'm going to tell her  

00:51:16.720 --> 00:51:21.840 align:start position:0%
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about the different parts that i've learned about 
and i say who do you want to talk to this thing

00:51:33.520 --> 00:51:42.560 align:start position:0%
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who are you uncle noah right what would you 
like to ask me what was it like on the art  

00:51:42.560 --> 00:51:48.800 align:start position:0%
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right and so a little child has all these ideas 
because we've been able to share with her the  

00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:52.880 align:start position:0%
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little things we've learned and you know we 
can chuckle at that but you know jesus says  

00:51:53.600 --> 00:52:00.000 align:start position:0%
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you have to have faith like what a child a little 
child believes those things that we teach them  

00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:05.920 align:start position:0%
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and we can each young people have that same 
confidence if we put ourselves and work at  

00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:10.480 align:start position:0%
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these things and they're some of them are tough 
and they take time but little by little we build  

00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:15.520 align:start position:0%
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a vision and you know what there's nothing wrong 
with you thinking to yourself when you're lying in  

00:52:15.520 --> 00:52:19.680 align:start position:0%
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your bed at night let me think about the kingdom 
who would i like to talk about and we can talk to  

00:52:19.680 --> 00:52:25.600 align:start position:0%
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in the kingdom i mean really do you not ever want 
to ask daniel what was it like in the lion's den  

00:52:27.120 --> 00:52:34.320 align:start position:0%
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i would what was it like to be in an art for a 
year what was it like esther to have to be there  

00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:40.080 align:start position:0%
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in the house of the women wondering whether or not 
god wants you to go and talk to who has awareness  

00:52:40.080 --> 00:52:43.840 align:start position:0%
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and are you going to lose your life you want to 
you want to learn about that and actually know  

00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:49.120 align:start position:0%
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ground level i mean those are real things we 
need to think about and it's helpful for us  

00:52:49.120 --> 00:52:55.200 align:start position:0%
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to to me to make it more real it is real but it 
can sometimes seem far away and distant from us

00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:03.920 align:start position:0%
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here's another view of of the temple as it 
will likely be and looking at it from down  

00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:08.560 align:start position:0%
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in here so you're looking along this river and 
here's the tree of life on either side the water  

00:53:08.560 --> 00:53:12.560 align:start position:0%
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clearest crystal that's sort of flown down 
out of the off the altar and underneath  

00:53:12.560 --> 00:53:16.800 align:start position:0%
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the thresholds here i mean the amount of 
engineering geniuses is phenomenal when you  

00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:21.520 align:start position:0%
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think of what's got to happen here but it's 
all possible man can do it in measure today  

00:53:22.720 --> 00:53:29.200 align:start position:0%
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so with the spirit of god in design working 
this through it's absolutely realistic and  

00:53:29.200 --> 00:53:32.880 align:start position:0%
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you look at the size of the people here's all 
these all these people are coming up and you  

00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:36.400 align:start position:0%
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know did you know that you had to actually 
get across the river to get to the temple  

00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:40.080 align:start position:0%
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do you know that you know i it's the other thing 
i tell the kids and they laugh because they've  

00:53:40.080 --> 00:53:45.840 align:start position:0%
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heard again he says but we do the readings in 
ezekiel and it says and as ezekiel walked around  

00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:53.120 align:start position:0%
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he actually he goes here and he says and he walked 
across the river here and it was up to his ankles  

00:53:54.400 --> 00:54:00.160 align:start position:0%
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okay and he walks down a thousand cubits and 
it's up to his i think it's his knees i can't  

00:54:00.160 --> 00:54:03.120 align:start position:0%
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remember and he goes down another 
thousand cubits and it's up to us  

00:54:04.160 --> 00:54:07.760 align:start position:0%
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yeah something i may have the physical 
measurements wrong and then when you get  

00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:14.640 align:start position:0%
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down here it was so deep you had to right so i 
always say this this vision to ezekiel is so real  

00:54:14.640 --> 00:54:19.360 align:start position:0%
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he has to climb upstairs he has to climb or climb 
up and climb down he has to walk around the city  

00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:23.280 align:start position:0%
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he probably breaks into a sweat possibly as 
he goes round and round and up and down you  

00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:26.480 align:start position:0%
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follow those green lines i've gotten here that's 
where he has to walk through this whole vision  

00:54:27.120 --> 00:54:30.640 align:start position:0%
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and then he gets the point where he actually has 
to walk ankle deep in water i mean how do you know  

00:54:30.640 --> 00:54:37.600 align:start position:0%
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it's ankle deep why didn't angel just say put your 
stick in that side because there's the reality of  

00:54:37.600 --> 00:54:41.840 align:start position:0%
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the vision he's walked across the river he walks 
down a thousand places he walks across he goes

00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:49.440 align:start position:0%
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walks across wasted i don't know how he quite 
measured when he's swimming right because it's  

00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:55.360 align:start position:0%
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so deep i had to swim across that's how real this 
was to ezekiel and i say well he woke up from the  

00:54:55.360 --> 00:55:00.800 align:start position:0%
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vision he goes how come i'm so wet oh he's just 
been swimming across the river that's how real  

00:55:00.800 --> 00:55:07.040 align:start position:0%
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this vision was to him and so real has got to 
be to us young people because it's the vision  

00:55:07.040 --> 00:55:12.080 align:start position:0%
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that enables us not to perish now we may not 
have all this detail and you may be going wow  

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all the numbers i'm swarmed don't worry 
about that build up little by little what  

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you've got now take care ezekiel 38 your 
daniel chapter 2 and nebuchadnezzar's image  

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add to it some of the things we've been 
talking about this weekend you know when we did  

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the cards in our little chart in our 
exercise yesterday the prophecy cards  

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what do we call it god reveals the deep and 
secret things we start off just with four cards  

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now if i'd thrown all 25 cards at 
you what would you guys have done

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right i think that would have been overwhelming 
would have been overwhelming for me and now you  

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made up the cards but by giving you four cards 
and saying just place those you go okay i think  

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you can get this christ returns god's on and off 
two landmarks everything else prophetical is going  

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to fit in between those things this relates to the 
kingdom right then you find your armageddon card  

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and you go yeah i think that fits in between 
them and oh the temple is built there we go  

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and then we gradually added a few more cards 
each time you opened an envelope you were able  

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to add just a few more pieces to the picture 
and you're able to manage that weren't you some  

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of them were challenging someone you said 
somewhere here that's good enough for now  

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then you find another card we gotta bump this one 
and bump that one and gradually you put the pieces  

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together well that's what you just got to do day 
by day month by month year by year pay attention  

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in your classes pay attention to bible schools 
and cycs participate sometimes too and what's  

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going to happen is you're gradually going to get 
this vision that grows and grows and grows and you  

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find that you're constantly adding your little 
cards to the picture and gradually this vision  

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grows and you you go to bible school and you hear 
something on ezekiel's telling you oh yeah i know  

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a little bit about that i'm not scared of that 
anymore and it starts to build this real picture  

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and you know you can get to a point where you say 
to yourself you know all i want to do is be there  

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because i want to see it for real not just on a 
projector screen here's another picture of the  

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gates there i love that picture there because 
it just shows you the perspective remember our  

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little guy six cubits is right there okay 
it's just massive place and you know would  

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it be anything less for almighty god and for 
his son for a house of prayer for all nations  

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where they're going to come just a few 
more little drawings here as we close up

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and you just get this this immense picture there's 
some drawings i've seen where people have drawn  

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in all the people it's just magnificent and 
you just imagine just bumping into people  

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old uncle so-and-so who died last year 
right so he didn't die he fell asleep  

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don't ever say they died they fell asleep 
if they're in christ right they didn't pass  

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on they didn't go anywhere they're dead in the 
grave but they're just sleeping that's all right  

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so we've got this joyful picture of people 
who were once dead and and they've been made  

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alive they've been quickened and they're 
going to be there with us in the temple  

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so just as we conclude ask yourself this 
question are you ready for your future career  

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in the temple of almighty god to live and 
reign with christ for a thousand years  

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and then to move on to whatever it 
is that god has beyond that in store  

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are you ready for that what preparations are 
you making today and tomorrow to take you from  

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wherever you are today in whatever state 
you're in today to take yourself forward  

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whether you're just learning and coming to a 
knowledge of the truth whether you've been growing  

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up in sunday school and you're teetering do i 
want to get baptized are these things real or not  

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or if you've been baptized for a few 
years for being baptized for 25 years  

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what am i doing what am i doing to further 
prepare myself for my career in the future  

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am i continuing my education am i continuing my 
walk in the way of the tree of life i want to  

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leave you with that question to just keep thinking 
about now as we do some of you may have seen this  

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little presentation before but i think it's 
magnificent because it just gives you just a  

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little very simple inadequate vision of what it 
might be as you were walking up to this temple

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notice the mountain in the background 
you can see up on top is the altar

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so

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you know what's wrong with that 
picture you're not in that picture yet  

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not something that determines whether you 
are not is going to determine what you do  

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so the last two verses we read 
together the last verse of psalm 1  

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the last verse of psalm 2 just to give us 
the greatest encouragement that we can get  

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for yahweh knows the way the righteous blessed 
are all day that put their trust in him