Ezekiel 37 Finished

Verses 14-28

One Nation Under One King

Point four.  

I'm not doing all the back story lol.

If you've been following along you already know it.

If you don't you can search on the site under Ezekiel 37 and find it.

Our last point in this series (Point three) concerned how God's nation would be set up, everlasting, passed down through generations, comfortable, etc. The charter by which they shall be granted this shall be indefeasible, it is simply not able to be lost, annulled, or overturned.  

Which brings us finally to:

 Point four.

They (the two nations of Israel, The two witnesses, Christ and his church, Jew and gentile in the end times shall all be the subjects of one king so they can not help but become one. The Jewish people after their return from exile most definitely will be under one government and not divided as they were before. But these verses look farther, to the coming kingdom of Christ, he is that one king in allegiance to whom all God's spiritual nation will cheerfully unite, the one under whose protection they shall all be gathered. All believers united in one Lord, one Faith, and one baptism.

How many times you think I've shared this with you Lucy? And you've only been around the last six years, not the 30+ I've been singing it lol. 

What is looked at here and I've been saying this all along, is that this is not just a prophecy of the two kingdoms of Israel reuniting, but also the uniting of Jews and Gentiles in the gospel church, their becoming one fold under Christ the one great Shepard (among the other things as well I've touched on in earlier post). By Christ the partition wall between these two groups (Jews and Gentile) was taken down, the hostility slain and the two of them were made as into one man. Ephesians 2:14-15, "For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace," Matthew 27:51, "At that moment (Christ death) the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split." The curtain of the temple spoke of here is the entrance to the Holy of Holies, the inner sanctum of the tabernacle where only the Jewish high priest could enter, and only then once a year on the day of atonement, to offer the blood of sacrifice and incense. Even then the High priest was to sanctify himself before entering. No more. Christ death and the splitting of the curtain meant that all were able to present themselves before God. Jew and Gentile alike. 

It is also promised that God's people will be cured of their inclination to idolatry. This is the happy fruit of that affliction, the taking away of sins. Ezekiel 37:23, "They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God." Idols lol. Not lil man made gold calfs. Anything that comes between you and God. Anything that you place a higher importance on than worshiping him = idolatry. This? Idolatry? In this kingdom that comes when Jew and Gentile are united? Forever Removed. Forever.  Also removed? All their former transgressions. All sin is removed. Psalm 103:12, "as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us." Colossians 2:13, "When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins. Not just some, not just the old ones, not just the current ones, not just the future ones, not any which way you want to slice it and dice it and add it all back together again, ALL. Period. Any questions? You getting this Lucy honey? Thank you Brother Brian's bible study a few weeks back :-). When one kind of sin is sincerely parted with?, all sin is abandoned as well. For he that hates sin, will hate all sin. And people who are cured of their spiritual idolatry, their disproportionate large affection to the world and the flesh, those that no longer make a god of their money or their belly, shall have a happy blow given to the root of all their transgressions. There are two ways God will cure these two kingdoms of their idolatry, and us as well. The first is to bring them out of the way of temptation to it. "I will save them out of all their dwelling-places wherein they have sinned, because they met with the occasion of sin and allurements to it." It is wise to avoid the places where we have been overcome by temptations to sin, to not remain in them, or to return to them, but to save ourselves out of them, as we would infected places. Zechariah 2:7-9, “Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!” For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye— I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them. Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me. Revelation 18:4, "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." And it is a great mercy when God, in his protective care, saves us out of the dwelling-places where we have sinned, and keeps us from harm by keeping us out of harm’s way, in answer to our prayer, Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 

Some of us? 

Lucy and I among them? 

Are going to be diving headfirst into these infected place under God protective care, to show that: God designs the sanctification of those among whom he sets up his sanctuary. And blessed and holy are those who, enjoying the privileges of the sanctuary, give such proofs and evidences of their sanctification that the heathen may know it is no less than the almighty grace of God that sanctifies them. Such have God’s sanctuary in the midst of them, the kingdom of God within them, in the principles of the spiritual life, and shall have it so for evermore in the enjoyments of an eternal life.

It is not a task for the faint of heart, or for a spiritual novice. 

Not at all.

Prayers please everybody.

Were not that far away.

Love you Lucy.

Stay strong.