Posted By: Charity
The Judgment of the Living - Where is it in Scripture? - 05/21/11 07:27 PM
Today is May 21, 2011, Judgment Day for some. It’s a few minutes after noon EDT which is when the first shock waves are predicted. But rather than scorning our friends who are looking for a major quake event we should acknowledge that they're partly right. There is indeed a judgment going on today – one that will turn soon to the judgment of the Living.
So, today is an appropriate day, earthquake or no, to look at the above question. The Judgment of the Living is described in several places in Daniel and Revelation and other scripture and Lord willing, we’ll look at some of them, but perhaps the clearest single description of it is in Revelation 11. In Revelation 10 we have the Great Awakening of the Millerites and others who proclaimed a message of repentance and the soon return of Christ. They are symbolized by John who eats the bitter-sweet little book. But John is told to prophecy again and is given a new commission: To rise and measure the church symbolized by the temple, altar and those who worship there. This is the same message as given in Ezekiel’s temple where the Glory of God returns to Spiritual Israel and the very same items are measured and cleansed – the temple, the bronze altar and the inner court. What we have in Ezekiel is an amplification of the symbols in Revelation 11 of the measuring of God’s people at the judgment of the living. Ezekiel’s temple is a message of warning and of hope that we can be overcomers and fully clothed in the righteousness of Christ and reflectors of the Glory of God. Please study the passage below comparing it with the measuring message of Revelation 11 and with the full temple description in Ezekiel and share your thoughts.
Eze 43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
Eze 43:2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. . .
Eze 43:4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
Eze 43:5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
Eze 43:6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
Eze 43:7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
Eze 43:8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
Eze 43:9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
Eze 43:10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
Eze 43:11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
Eze 43:12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
So, today is an appropriate day, earthquake or no, to look at the above question. The Judgment of the Living is described in several places in Daniel and Revelation and other scripture and Lord willing, we’ll look at some of them, but perhaps the clearest single description of it is in Revelation 11. In Revelation 10 we have the Great Awakening of the Millerites and others who proclaimed a message of repentance and the soon return of Christ. They are symbolized by John who eats the bitter-sweet little book. But John is told to prophecy again and is given a new commission: To rise and measure the church symbolized by the temple, altar and those who worship there. This is the same message as given in Ezekiel’s temple where the Glory of God returns to Spiritual Israel and the very same items are measured and cleansed – the temple, the bronze altar and the inner court. What we have in Ezekiel is an amplification of the symbols in Revelation 11 of the measuring of God’s people at the judgment of the living. Ezekiel’s temple is a message of warning and of hope that we can be overcomers and fully clothed in the righteousness of Christ and reflectors of the Glory of God. Please study the passage below comparing it with the measuring message of Revelation 11 and with the full temple description in Ezekiel and share your thoughts.
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Eze 43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
Eze 43:2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. . .
Eze 43:4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
Eze 43:5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
Eze 43:6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
Eze 43:7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
Eze 43:8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
Eze 43:9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
Eze 43:10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
Eze 43:11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
Eze 43:12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.