Monday, March 11, 2019

Jesus is coming back and I am looking

In Acts 1:9-11, The angels tell the disciples that Jesus will return from heaven just as they had seen Him go into heaven. 
The old Testament or Covenant in the book of Zechariah,  the inspired prophet tells us that when Jesus returns His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4).
 It is interesting to note that when the glory departed from the temple in the days of Ezekiel, the glory cloud departed from its place between the cherubim to the threshold of the temple; and then departed from the temple, and from the city itself to the mount on the east of Jerusalem, which is the Mount of Olives (Ezek. 9:3; 10:4; 11:23).

Ezekiel 9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;

Ezekiel 10:4 Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory.

Ezekiel 11:23   And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city

Why did the glory leave? Rejection. Why did The Christ die and leave in His earthly Kingdom? Rejection. He came unto His own and His own received Him not. Why is He not in some of the "churches" today? "Rejection. Look what is being taught in His Holy name today.  
But the time of the Gentiles will soon run out and read what Ezekiel then promises.

Ezekiel also foretold the return of the glory of the Lord, that it would come from the east of Jerusalem, enter the gate on the east of the city, enter and fill the temple (Ezek. 43:1-5). (The temple set up that is to come for the Kingdom Age)

Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.

As previous stated, Jesus Christ is the Glory of God. Now in the gospels we find Him  rejected, just as in Ezekiel's day, He left the temple, went out to the Mount of Olives and ascended into heaven. 

Some day He will return to that same Mount and enter Jerusalem and establish His glorious Kingdom with Israel.
When He left the temple in the Ezekiel day, the temple never missed Him. They just kept on temple worship and it seems, no one even noticed the power of God and the Glory was gone.  
Has it gone that far today?  Think on that one a while.

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