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Steve Webb: Words are unable to
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This is the Lifespring! One Year
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podcasting since 2004. I am Euro

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je Godcaster Steve Webb. It's
the daily podcast where we're

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reading through the entire Bible
in a year. Today is prophecy

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Friday and we're going to read
Ezekiel one through six. I'm

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calling the episode, wheels
within wheels. Let's get started

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with a word of prayer. Our
heavenly Father, Lord, we thank

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you so much for your love. And
we thank you for giving us the

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Bible so that we can know you. I
pray God that as we read today,

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you would teach us and I pray
this in Jesus name, amen. Okay,

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are you ready? Let's begin.

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Ezekiel chapter one. Now it came
about in the 30th year, on the

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fifth day of the fourth month,
while I was by the river, key

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bar among the exiles, the
heavens were opened and I saw

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visions of God. On the fifth of
the month, in the fifth year of

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King Jehovah kings exile, the
word of the Lord came expressly

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to Ezekiel the priest son abuse
I, in the land of the Chaldeans

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by the river key bar, and there
the hand of the Lord came upon

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him. As I looked, behold, a
storm wind was coming from the

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north, a great cloud with fire
flashing forth continually, and

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a bright light around it, and in
its midst, something like

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glowing metal in the midst of
the fire. Within it were figures

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resembling for living beings,
and this was their appearance,

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they had human form. Each of
them had four faces in four

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wings. Their legs were straight,
and their feet were like a

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calves hoof, and they gleaned
like burnished bronze. under

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their wings on their four sides
were human hands. As for the

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faces and wings of the four of
them, their wings touched one

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another. Their faces did not
turn when they moved, each went

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straight forward. As for the
form of their faces, each had

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the face of a man, all forehead,
the face of a lion on the right,

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and the face of a bull on the
left, and all four had the face

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of an eagle, such were their
faces. Their wings were spread

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out above each head to touching
another being and to covering

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their bodies. And each one
straightforward. Wherever the

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spirit was about to go, they
would go without turning as they

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went. In the midst of the living
beings, there was something that

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looked like burning coals of
fire, like torches darting back

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and forth among the living
beings. The fire was bright, and

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lightning was flashing from the
fire, and the living beings ran

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to and fro like bolts of
lightning. Now, as I looked at

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the living beings, behold, there
was one wheel on the earth

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beside the living beings, for
each of the four of them. The

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appearance of the wheels, and
their workmanship was like

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sparkling barrel, and all four
of them had the same form, their

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appearance and workmanship,
being as if one wheel were

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within another. Whenever they
moved, they moved in any of

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their four directions without
turning as they moved. As for

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their rims, they were lofty and
awesome. And the rims of all

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four of them were full of eyes
roundabout. Whenever the living

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beings moved, the wheels moved
with them. And whenever the

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living beings rose from the
earth, the wheels rose also,

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wherever the spirit was about to
go, they would go in that

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direction, and the wheels rose
close beside them, for the

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spirit of the living beings was
in the wheels. Whenever those

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went, these went. And whenever
those stood still, these stood

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still. And whenever those rose
from the earth, the wheels rose

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close beside them, for the
spirit of the living beings was

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in the wheels. Now over the
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there was something like an
expanse, like the awesome gleam

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of crystals spread out over
their heads. Under the expanse,

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their wings were stretched out
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Each one also had two wings
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and on the other. I also heard
the sound of their wings like

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the sound of abundant waters as
they went, like the voice of the

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Almighty, a sound of tumult like
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Whenever they stood still, they
dropped their wings, and there

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came a voice from above the
expanse that was over their

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heads. Whenever they stood
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Now above the expanse that was
over their heads, there was

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something resembling a throne
like lapis lazuli in appearance,

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and on that which resembled a
throne high up was a figure with

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the appearance of a man. Then I
noticed from the appearance of

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his loins and upward, something
like glowing metal that looked

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like fire all around within it.
And from the appearance of his

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loins and downward I saw
something like fire, and there

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was a radiance around him as the
appearance of the rainbow in the

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clouds on a rainy day. So was
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surrounding radiance. As such
was the appearance of the

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likeness of the glory of the
Lord. And when I saw it, I fell

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on my face and heard a voice
speaking.

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Ezekiel chapter two. Then he
said to me, Son of man, stand on

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your feet that I may speak with
you. As he spoke to me, the

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spirit entered me and set me on
my feet, and I heard him

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speaking to me. Then he said to
me, Son of man, I am sending you

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to the sons of Israel to a
rebellious people who have

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rebelled against me, they and
their fathers have transgressed

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against me to this very day, I
am sending you to them who are

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stubborn and obstinate children,
and you shall say to them, Thus

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says the Lord God, as for them,
whether they listen or not, for

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they are a rebellious house,
they will know that a prophet

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has been among them, and US Son
of man, neither fear them, nor

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fear their words, though
thistles and thorns are with

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you, and you sit on scorpions,
neither of fear their words, nor

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be dismayed their presence, for
they are a rebellious house, but

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you shall speak my words to
them, whether they listen or

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not, for they are rebellious.
Now you son of man, listen to

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what I am speaking to you. Do
not be rebellious like that

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rebellious house, open your
mouth and eat what I'm giving

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you. Then I looked, and behold,
a hand was extended to me, and

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lo, a scroll was on it. When he
spread it out before me, it was

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written on the front and back,
and written on it were

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lamentations, mourning and woe.

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Ezekiel, chapter three. Then he
said to me, Son of man, eat what

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you find, eat this scroll and go
speak to the house of Israel. So

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I opened my mouth and he fed me
this scroll. He said to me, Son

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of man, feed your stomach and
fill your body with this grow,

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which I'm giving you, then I ate
it, and it was sweet as honey in

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my mouth. Then he said to me,
Son of man, go to the house of

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Israel and speak with my words
to them, for you are not being

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sent to a people of
unintelligible speech or

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difficult language, but to the
house of Israel, nor to many

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peoples of unintelligible speech
or difficult language whose

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words you cannot understand. But
I have sent you to them who

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should listen to you. Yet the
house of Israel will not be

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willing to listen to you, since
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to me. Surely the whole house of
Israel is stubborn and

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obstinate, Behold, I have made
your face as hard as their

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faces, and your forehead is hard
as their foreheads like Emory

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harder than Flint, I have made
your forehead. Do not be afraid

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of them or be dismayed before
them, though they are a

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rebellious house. Moreover, he
said to me, Son of man, take

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into your heart, all my words
which I speak to you and listen

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closely, go to the exiles to the
sons of your people, and speak

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to them and tell them whether
they listen or not, Thus says

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the Lord God, then the Spirit
lifted me up, and I heard a

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great rumbling sound behind me,
bless it be the glory of the

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Lord in his place. And I heard
the sound of the wings of the

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living beings touching one
another, and the sound of the

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wheels beside them, even a great
rumbling sound. So the spirit

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lifted me up and took me away.
And I went embittered in the

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rage of My Spirit, and the hand
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Then I came to the exiles who
lived beside the river, key bar

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at Tel Aviv. And I sat there
seven days where they were

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living, causing consternation
among them. At the end of seven

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days, the word of the Lord came
to me saying, Son of man, I have

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appointed you a watchman to the
house of Israel. Whenever you

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hear a word from my mouth, warn
them from me. When I say to the

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wicked, you will surely die, and
you do not warn him or speak out

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to warn the wicked from his
wicked way that he may live.

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That wicked man shall die in his
iniquity, but his blood I will

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require at your hand. Yet if you
have warned the wicked, and he

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does not turn from his
wickedness, or from his wicked

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way, he shall die in his
iniquity, but you have delivered

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yourself. Again, when a
righteous man turns away from

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his righteousness and commits
iniquity, and I place an

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obstacle before him, he will
die, since you have not warned

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him, he shall die in his sin,
and his righteous deeds which he

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has done shall not be
remembered, but his blood I will

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require at your hand. However,
if you have warned the righteous

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man, that the righteous should
not sin, and He does not sin, he

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shall surely live because he
took warning, and you have

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delivered yourself. The hand of
the Lord was on me there and he

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said to me, get up, go out to
the plane, and there I will

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speak to you. So I got up and
went out to the plane. And

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behold, the glory of the Lord
was standing there, like the

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glory which I saw by the river
key bar, and I fell on my face.

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The Spirit then entered me and
made me stand on my feet. And he

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spoke with me and said to me, go
shut yourself up in your house.

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As for us, Son of Man, they will
put ropes on you and bind you

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with them so that you cannot go
out among them. Moreover, I will

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make your tongue stick to the
roof of your mouth so that you

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will be mute and cannot be a man
who rebukes them for they are a

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rebellious house. But when I
speak to you, I will open your

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mouth and you will say to them,
Thus says the Lord God, he who

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hears let him hear, and he who
refuses, let him refuse, for

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they are a rebellious house.

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Ezekiel chapter four. Now you
son of man, get yourself a

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brick, place it before you and
inscribe a city on it,

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Jerusalem, then lay siege
against it, build a siege wall,

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raise up a ramp, pitch camps,
and place battering rams against

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it all around. Then get yourself
an iron plate and set it up as

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an iron wall between you in the
city and set your face toward it

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so that it is under siege and
beseech it, this is assigned to

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the house of Israel. As for you,
lie down on your left side, and

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lay the iniquity of the house of
Israel on it, you shall bear

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their iniquity for the number of
days that you lie on it. For I

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have assigned you a number of
days corresponding to the years

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of their iniquity 390 days, thus
you shall bear the iniquity of

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the house of Israel. When you
have completed these, you shall

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lie down a second time, but on
your right side and bear the

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iniquity of the house of Judah.
I have assigned it to you for 40

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days a day for each year. Then
you shall set your face toward

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the siege of Jerusalem with your
arm bared and prophesy against

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it. Now behold, I will put ropes
on you so that you cannot turn

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from one side to the other until
you have completed the days of

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your siege. But as for you take
wheat, barley, beans, lentils,

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millet and spelt, put them in
one vessel and make them into

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bread for yourself. You shall
eat it according to the number

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of the days that you lie on your
side. 390 days, your food which

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you eat shall be 20 shekels a
day by weight, and you shall eat

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it from time to time. The water
you drink shall be the sixth

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part of a hen by measure, you
shall drink it from time to

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time. You shall eat it as a
barley cake, having baked it in

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their sight over human done.
Then the Lord said, Thus will

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the sons of Israel eat their
bread unclean among the nations

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where I will banish them. But I
said, Ah, Lord God, Behold, I

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have never been defiled. For
from my youth, until now I have

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never eaten what died of itself,
or was torn by beasts, nor has

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any unclean meat ever entered my
mouth. Then he said to me, see,

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I will give you cow's dung in
place of human dung over which

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you will prepare your bread.
Moreover, he said to me, Son of

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man, behold, I'm going to break
the staff of bread in Jerusalem,

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and they will eat bread by
weight, and with anxiety and

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drink water by measure and in
horror, because bread and water

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will be scarce, and they will be
appalled with one another, and

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waste away in their iniquity.

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Ezekiel chapter five. As for
you, Son of man, take a sharp

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sword. Take it, use it as a
barber's razor on your head and

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beard, then take scales for
weighing in divide the hair 1/3,

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you shall burn in the fire at
the center of the city, when the

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days of the siege are completed,
then you shall take 1/3 and

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strike it with the sword all
around the city, and 1/3 You

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shall scatter to the wind, and I
will Unchi the sword behind

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them. Take also a few in number
from them, and bind them in the

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edges of your robes, take again
some of them and throw them into

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the fire and burn them in the
fire. From it, a fire will

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spread to all the house of
Israel. Thus says the Lord God,

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this is Jerusalem, I have set
her at the center of the nations

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with lands around her, but she
has rebelled against My

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ordinances more wickedly than
the nation's and against my

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statutes more than the lands
which surround her, for they

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have rejected My ordinances, and
if not walked in My statutes.

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Therefore, Thus says the Lord
God, because you have more

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turmoil than the nations which
surround you, and have not

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walked in My statutes, nor
observed My ordinances, nor

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observed the ordinances of the
nations which surround you.

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Therefore, Thus says the Lord
God, Behold, I, even I am

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against you, and I will execute
judgments among you in the sight

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of the nations. And because of
all your abominations I will do

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among you what I have not done,
and the like of which I will

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never do again. Therefore,
fathers will eat their sons

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among you, and sons will eat
their fathers, for I will

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execute judgments on you and
scatter all your remnant to

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every wind. So as I live,
declares the Lord GOD, surely

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because you have defiled my
sanctuary with all your

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detestable idols, and with all
your abominations, therefore, I

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will also withdraw and my I will
have no pity and I will not bear

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1/3 of you will die by plague or
be consumed by famine among you

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1/3 will fall by the sword
around you, and 1/3 I will

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scatter to every wind and I will
unsheathed the sword behind

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them. Thus my anger will be
spent, and I will satisfy my

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wrath on them, and I will be
appeased, then they will know

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that I the LORD have spoken in
my zeal when I have spent my

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wrath upon them. Moreover, I
will make you a desolation and a

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reproach among the nations which
surround you in the sight of all

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who passed by. So it will be a
reproach, a reviling a warning

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and an object of horror to the
nation's which surround you when

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I execute judgments against you
and anger, wrath and raging

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rebukes. I the LORD have spoken,
when I sinned against them, that

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deadly arrows of famine which
were for the destruction of

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those whom I will send to
destroy you, then I also will

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intensify the famine upon you,
and break the staff have bred.

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Moreover, I will send on you
famine and wild beasts and they

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will be review of children,
plague and bloodshed also will

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pass through you and I will
bring the sword on you, I, the

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LORD have spoken.

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Ezekiel chapter six. And the
word of the Lord came to me

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saying, Son of man, set your
face toward the mountains of

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Israel and prophesy against them
and say, mountains of Israel,

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listen to the word of the Lord
God. Thus says the Lord God to

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the mountains, the hills, the
ravines and the valleys. Behold,

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I myself am going to bring a
sword on you and I will destroy

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your high places, so your altars
will become desolate and your

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incense altars will be smashed,
and I will make your slain fall

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in front of your idols, I will
also lay the dead bodies of the

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sons of Israel in front of their
idols, and I will scatter your

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bones around your altars. In all
your dwellings, cities will

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become waste in the high places
will become desolate, that your

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altars may become waste and
desolate, your idols may be

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broken and brought to an end,
your incense altars may be cut

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down, and your works may be
blotted out, the slain will fall

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among you, and you will know
that I am the Lord. However, I

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will leave a remnant for you
will have those who escaped the

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sword among the nations when you
are scattered among the

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countries, then those of you who
escaped will remember me among

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the nations to which they will
be carried captive, how I have

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been hurt by their adulterous
hearts, which turned away from

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me, and by their eyes, which
played the harlot after their

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idols, and they will load
themselves in their own site for

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the evils which they have
committed for all their

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abominations, then they will
know that I am the Lord, I have

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not said in vain that I would
inflict this disaster on them.

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Thus says the Lord God, clap
your hand, stamp your foot and

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say, alas, because of all the
evil abominations of the house

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of Israel, which will fall by
sword, famine and plague, he who

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is far off will die by the
plague, and he who is near will

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fall by the sword, and he who
remains in his besieged will die

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by the famine. Thus, I will
spend my wrath on them, then you

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will know that I am the Lord
when they're slain are among

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their idols around their altars
on every high hill, on all the

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tops of the mountains under
every green tree, and under

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every leafy oak, the places
where they offered soothing

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aroma to all their idols. So
throughout all their

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habitations, I will stretch out
my hand against them, and make

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the land more desolate and waste
than the wilderness toward

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Dibbler. Thus, they will know
that I am the Lord.

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Well, beloved, regarding the
visions that Ezekiel saw in

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chapter one, I've got to say
that it's hard to envision what

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he describes, don't you think? I
can only imagine that he must

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have been just absolutely
terrified. The storm the four

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beings, which some commentators
say are angels, with the four

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faces and wings, and hands and
legs and eyes, and nothing like

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these beings had ever been seen
before by a human that we know.

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Now you and I have seen all
sorts of strange creatures,

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Thanks to Hollywood special
effects. But a zekiel had

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absolutely no frame of
reference. And then the wheels

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within wheels. It's sort of a
wonder that Ezekiel was even

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able to put any of this into
words, but then again, he was

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given the words to write by the
Holy Spirit, wasn't he? But

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still, imagine how dumbfounded
he must have been at these

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visions? And the sounds he
heard? Sounds like tremendous

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waterfalls in the tumult of an
army camp. Have you ever stood

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close to a large waterfall? It's
almost deafening, isn't it? And

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the sound is unrelenting. That
just makes you feel so small and

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insignificant, such enormous
power. And then over the beings

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and the wheels above the mall
was something like a throne that

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looked like a kind of jewel,
with a man sitting on the

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throne. But His appearance was
like no ordinary man and the

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radiance around the throne was
unlike anything seen on Earth.

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So who was this man? Well, we
know him as Jesus, we generally

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think of him as he appeared on
Earth. But think of it his time

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here was just a flash of time.
But for all of eternity past,

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present, and future, except for
those 33 years, he Jesus is in

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this place, which our words are
unable to describe adequately.

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We think of Jesus kind of like a
buddy or a Big Brother, don't

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we, but seeing him like this, I
think we would just have to fall

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on our faces. And of course, we
know that that's probably what

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we'll do. When we see him at
some point in the future. I

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think for sure, that is
precisely what I'm going to do.

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And to be honest, I can't wait.
Can you imagine being in

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