SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 42 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common. [Ezekiel 42:20] To highlight the separation between a holy God and a sinful humanity, God set up the symbolism of holy places,…
my life’s purpose
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 41 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: And he measured the length of the inner sanctuary; it was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits across the end of the main hall. He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.” [Ezekiel 41:4] The man said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.” [Ezekiel 41:22]…
beyond the symbols
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 40 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then he measured the court: It was square—a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple. [Ezekiel 40:47] Oh no, more boring, detailed instructions about the temple… brings me back to when we read chapter after chapter on the building of the tabernacle (Exodus 25ff)….
everyone will one day know
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 39 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the LORD am the Holy One in Israel. It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign LORD. This is the day…
Improving Our Sound System
[May 4, 2011] Every Sunday our sound team sets up our audio equipment for our worship services. They have done an amazing job, especially lately as the equipment has started to show its age. We are working with the school to upgrade our equipment and theirs, each sharing the cost of the equipment we would…
a comforting thought?
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 38 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign LORD. In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts…
breathe prayer
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 37 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came…
for His Name’s sake
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 36 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone. [Ezekiel 36:22] God’s problem is that He wants to restore…
the poison of bitterness
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 35 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax, therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did…
the good shepherd
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 34 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice. [Ezekiel 34:16, compare Luke 15:3-6] Some days it is easy to find a connection to Jesus; today…