WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome to immerse: the daily bible reading experience. 00:00:02.890 --> 00:00:04.390 day 200 and 77 00:00:04.873 --> 00:00:08.473 again, a message came to me from the Lord Son of man. 00:00:08.893 --> 00:00:11.563 Take a piece of wood and carve on it these words. 00:00:12.223 --> 00:00:15.283 This represents Judah and its allied tribes. 00:00:16.183 --> 00:00:18.553 Then take another piece and carve these words on it. 00:00:19.453 --> 00:00:22.933 This represents Ephraim and the northern tribes of Israel. 00:00:23.923 --> 00:00:27.163 Now, hold them together in your hand as if they were one piece of wood. 00:00:28.078 --> 00:00:31.498 When your people ask you what your actions mean, say to them, this 00:00:31.498 --> 00:00:33.238 is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:00:33.868 --> 00:00:38.188 I will take Ephraim and the northern tribes and join them to Judah. 00:00:38.878 --> 00:00:41.488 I will make them one piece of wood in my hand. 00:00:42.568 --> 00:00:46.108 Then hold out the pieces of wood you have inscribed so that people can 00:00:46.113 --> 00:00:48.958 see them and give them this message. 00:00:48.958 --> 00:00:54.568 From the sovereign Lord, I will gather the people of Israel from among the nations. 00:00:55.138 --> 00:00:57.268 I will bring them home to their own land. 00:00:57.268 --> 00:01:00.538 From the places where they have been scattered, I will 00:01:00.538 --> 00:01:02.368 unify them into one nation. 00:01:02.368 --> 00:01:06.688 On the mountains of Israel, one king will rule them all. 00:01:07.348 --> 00:01:11.788 No longer will they be divided into two nations or into two kingdoms. 00:01:12.568 --> 00:01:15.568 They will never again pollute themselves with their idols 00:01:15.568 --> 00:01:18.358 and vile images and rebellion. 00:01:19.048 --> 00:01:22.138 For I will save them from their sinful apostasy. 00:01:23.188 --> 00:01:24.448 I will cleanse them. 00:01:24.913 --> 00:01:29.023 Then they will truly be my people and I will be their God. 00:01:30.223 --> 00:01:34.243 My servant David will be their king, and they will have only one shepherd. 00:01:35.053 --> 00:01:38.713 They will obey my regulations and be careful to keep my decrees. 00:01:39.433 --> 00:01:40.633 They will live in the land. 00:01:40.638 --> 00:01:45.853 I gave my servant Jacob, the land where their ancestors lived, they and 00:01:45.853 --> 00:01:50.443 their children and their grandchildren after them will live there forever. 00:01:51.223 --> 00:01:53.503 Generation after generation. 00:01:54.448 --> 00:01:57.238 And my servant David, will be their prince forever. 00:01:58.258 --> 00:02:02.398 And I'll make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant. 00:02:03.238 --> 00:02:07.258 I will give them their land and increase their numbers, and I will 00:02:07.263 --> 00:02:09.238 put my temple among them forever. 00:02:10.048 --> 00:02:11.938 I will make my home among them. 00:02:12.448 --> 00:02:15.958 I will be their God and they will be my people. 00:02:16.768 --> 00:02:21.568 And when my temple is among them forever, the nations will know that I am the Lord. 00:02:22.123 --> 00:02:23.743 Who makes Israel holy? 00:02:25.363 --> 00:02:31.393 This is another message that came to me from the Lord Son of man turn and face, 00:02:31.423 --> 00:02:36.403 Gog of the land of May, Gog the prince who rules over the nations of meshech 00:02:36.433 --> 00:02:39.193 and tubal and prophesy against him. 00:02:39.883 --> 00:02:44.653 Give him this message from the sovereign Lord Gog, I am your enemy. 00:02:45.523 --> 00:02:48.433 I will turn you around and put hooks in your jaws to lead 00:02:48.433 --> 00:02:49.993 you out with your whole army. 00:02:50.653 --> 00:02:54.823 Your horses and charioteers in full armor and a great horde. 00:02:54.823 --> 00:02:56.713 Armed with shields and swords. 00:02:57.613 --> 00:03:02.413 Persia, Ethiopia and Libya will join you too with all their weapons. 00:03:03.253 --> 00:03:07.963 Gomer and all its armies will also join you along with the armies of Beth Hogar 00:03:07.963 --> 00:03:10.513 from the distant North and many others. 00:03:11.353 --> 00:03:13.273 Get ready, be prepared. 00:03:13.723 --> 00:03:18.193 Keep all the armies around you mobilized and take command of them. 00:03:19.243 --> 00:03:22.153 A long time from now, you will be called into action. 00:03:23.023 --> 00:03:27.553 In the distant future, you will swoop down on the land of Israel, which will be 00:03:27.553 --> 00:03:33.163 enjoying peace after recovering from war and after its people have returned from 00:03:33.163 --> 00:03:38.773 many lands to the mountains of Israel, you and all your allies, avast, and 00:03:38.773 --> 00:03:45.193 awesome army will roll down on them like a storm and cover the land like a cloud. 00:03:46.303 --> 00:03:48.133 This is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:03:48.943 --> 00:03:52.123 At that time, evil thoughts will come to your mind and you 00:03:52.123 --> 00:03:53.983 will devise a wicked scheme. 00:03:54.703 --> 00:03:59.863 You will say, Israel is an unprotected land filled with un walled villages. 00:04:00.523 --> 00:04:04.573 I will march against her and destroy these people who live in such confidence. 00:04:05.353 --> 00:04:08.803 I will go to those formerly desolate cities that are now filled with 00:04:08.803 --> 00:04:10.573 people who have returned from exile. 00:04:10.573 --> 00:04:14.653 In many nations, I will capture vast amounts of plunder. 00:04:15.088 --> 00:04:17.968 For the people are rich with livestock and other possessions. 00:04:17.968 --> 00:04:22.108 Now they think the whole world revolves around them. 00:04:23.128 --> 00:04:28.438 Cheba and Eden and the merchants of Tarshish will ask, do you really 00:04:28.438 --> 00:04:31.948 think the armies you have gathered can rob them of silver and gold? 00:04:32.578 --> 00:04:35.908 Do you think you can drive away their livestock and their 00:04:35.908 --> 00:04:37.528 goods and carry off plunder? 00:04:38.578 --> 00:04:41.698 Therefore, son of man prophesy against gog. 00:04:42.688 --> 00:04:45.088 Give him this message from the sovereign Lord. 00:04:45.898 --> 00:04:50.668 When my people are living in peace in their land, then you will rouse yourself. 00:04:51.658 --> 00:04:55.108 You will come from your homeland in the distant north with your vast 00:04:55.108 --> 00:05:00.028 cavalry and your mighty army, and you will attack my people Israel, 00:05:00.358 --> 00:05:02.428 covering their land like a cloud. 00:05:03.298 --> 00:05:07.018 At that time, in the distant future, I will bring you against my land as 00:05:07.018 --> 00:05:11.338 everyone watches, and my holiness will be displayed by what happens to you. 00:05:11.338 --> 00:05:11.788 Gog. 00:05:12.643 --> 00:05:15.523 Then all the nations will know that I am the Lord. 00:05:16.693 --> 00:05:18.583 This is what the sovereign Lord asks. 00:05:19.663 --> 00:05:23.773 Are you the one I was talking about long ago when I announced through Israel's 00:05:23.773 --> 00:05:28.393 prophets that in the future I would bring you against my people, but this is what 00:05:28.393 --> 00:05:34.243 the sovereign Lord says When God invades the land of Israel, my fury will boil 00:05:34.243 --> 00:05:37.693 over in my jealousy and blazing anger. 00:05:38.113 --> 00:05:41.593 I promise a mighty shaking in the land of Israel on that day. 00:05:42.223 --> 00:05:43.783 All living things. 00:05:43.873 --> 00:05:49.753 The fish in the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, the 00:05:49.753 --> 00:05:54.073 small animals that scurry along the ground and all the people on earth 00:05:54.523 --> 00:05:56.983 will quake in terror at my presence. 00:05:57.853 --> 00:06:01.483 Mountains will be thrown down, cliffs will crumble. 00:06:01.753 --> 00:06:03.493 Walls will fall to the earth. 00:06:04.483 --> 00:06:07.723 I will summon the sword against you on all the hills of Israel, 00:06:07.963 --> 00:06:08.983 says the sovereign Lord. 00:06:09.973 --> 00:06:12.433 Your men will turn their swords against each other. 00:06:13.003 --> 00:06:16.993 I will punish you and your armies with disease and bloodshed. 00:06:17.653 --> 00:06:22.333 I will send torrential rain, hailstones fire, and burning sulfur. 00:06:23.323 --> 00:06:23.893 In this way. 00:06:23.893 --> 00:06:28.273 I will show my greatness and holiness, and I will make myself known to 00:06:28.273 --> 00:06:29.773 all the nations of the world. 00:06:30.583 --> 00:06:32.653 Then they will know that I am the Lord. 00:06:33.613 --> 00:06:36.463 Son of man, prophesy against gog. 00:06:36.673 --> 00:06:38.683 Give him this message from the sovereign Lord. 00:06:39.613 --> 00:06:44.803 I am your enemy, oh Gog, ruler of the nations of Meshach and tubal. 00:06:45.523 --> 00:06:48.883 I will turn you around and drive you toward the mountains of Israel, 00:06:49.243 --> 00:06:50.983 bringing you from the distant north. 00:06:51.583 --> 00:06:55.243 I will knock the bow from your left hand and the arrows from your right 00:06:55.248 --> 00:06:57.823 hand, and I will leave you helpless. 00:06:58.633 --> 00:07:02.533 You and your army and your allies will all die on the mountains. 00:07:03.253 --> 00:07:05.893 I will feed you to the vultures and wild animals. 00:07:06.493 --> 00:07:08.323 You will fall in the open fields. 00:07:08.473 --> 00:07:08.593 I. 00:07:08.683 --> 00:07:13.933 For I have spoken, says the sovereign Lord and I will reign down fire on 00:07:13.933 --> 00:07:18.613 May Gog and on all your allies who live safely on the coasts, then 00:07:18.613 --> 00:07:20.683 they will know that I am the Lord. 00:07:21.823 --> 00:07:26.053 In this way, I will make known my holy name among my people of Israel. 00:07:26.713 --> 00:07:31.483 I will not let anyone bring shame on it, and the nations too will know that 00:07:31.483 --> 00:07:34.183 I am the Lord, the holy one of Israel. 00:07:35.008 --> 00:07:37.978 That day of judgment will come, says the sovereign Lord. 00:07:38.488 --> 00:07:41.068 Everything will happen just as I have declared it. 00:07:42.268 --> 00:07:45.448 Then the people in the towns of Israel will go out and pick up 00:07:45.448 --> 00:07:50.758 your small and large shields, bows and arrows, javelins and spears, 00:07:51.298 --> 00:07:53.038 and they will use them for fuel. 00:07:53.608 --> 00:07:56.398 There will be enough to last them seven years. 00:07:57.388 --> 00:08:01.168 They won't need to cut wood from the fields or forests for these weapons 00:08:01.168 --> 00:08:02.938 will give them all the fuel they need. 00:08:03.763 --> 00:08:08.233 They will plunder those who planned to plunder them, and they will rob those 00:08:08.233 --> 00:08:14.233 who plan to rob them, says the sovereign Lord and I will make a vast graveyard 00:08:14.238 --> 00:08:19.093 for Gog and his hordes in the Valley of the Travelers East of the Dead Sea. 00:08:19.933 --> 00:08:24.283 It'll block the way of those who travel there and they will change the name of 00:08:24.283 --> 00:08:27.043 the place to the Valley of Gogs hoards. 00:08:27.793 --> 00:08:31.513 It'll take seven months for the people of Israel to bury the bodies. 00:08:31.888 --> 00:08:33.268 And cleanse the land. 00:08:34.138 --> 00:08:38.818 Everyone in Israel will help for it will be a glorious victory for Israel. 00:08:38.908 --> 00:08:42.988 When I demonstrate my glory on that day, says the sovereign Lord. 00:08:44.098 --> 00:08:47.578 After seven months, teams of men will be appointed to search the 00:08:47.578 --> 00:08:51.748 land for skeletons to bury, so the land will be made clean again. 00:08:52.858 --> 00:08:57.478 Whenever bones are found, a marker will be set up so the burial crews will take them 00:08:57.478 --> 00:08:59.788 to be buried in the valley of Gogs Hoards. 00:09:01.033 --> 00:09:05.203 There will be a town there named Harmon, which means horde. 00:09:05.953 --> 00:09:08.263 And so the land will finally be cleansed. 00:09:09.313 --> 00:09:14.113 And now, son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says, call 00:09:14.118 --> 00:09:16.003 all the birds and wild animals. 00:09:16.543 --> 00:09:20.473 Say to them, gather together for my great sacrificial feast. 00:09:21.453 --> 00:09:25.063 Come from far and near to the mountains of Israel and there, 00:09:25.063 --> 00:09:26.953 eat flesh and drink blood. 00:09:27.643 --> 00:09:32.413 Eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of princes as though they were rams. 00:09:32.893 --> 00:09:37.693 Lambs goats and bulls all fattened animals from bian. 00:09:38.743 --> 00:09:41.353 Gorge yourselves with flesh until you are glutted. 00:09:41.683 --> 00:09:43.633 Drink blood until you are drunk. 00:09:44.323 --> 00:09:48.043 This is the sacrificial feast I have prepared for you. 00:09:48.913 --> 00:09:50.383 Feast at my banquet table. 00:09:50.683 --> 00:09:56.353 Feast on Horses and charioteers un mighty men and all kinds of valiant warriors. 00:09:56.698 --> 00:09:57.928 Says the sovereign Lord. 00:09:58.948 --> 00:10:02.308 In this way, I will demonstrate my glory to the nations. 00:10:02.968 --> 00:10:06.448 Everyone will see the punishment I have inflicted on them and the 00:10:06.448 --> 00:10:08.758 power of my fist when I strike. 00:10:09.658 --> 00:10:12.478 And from that time on, the people of Israel will know 00:10:12.478 --> 00:10:14.998 that I am the Lord their God. 00:10:15.868 --> 00:10:19.528 The nations will then know why Israel was sent away to exile. 00:10:20.128 --> 00:10:24.118 It was punishment for sin, for they were unfaithful to their God. 00:10:25.348 --> 00:10:28.678 Therefore, I turned away from them and let their enemies destroy them. 00:10:29.428 --> 00:10:32.578 I turned my face away and punished them because of their 00:10:32.578 --> 00:10:34.378 defilement and their sins. 00:10:35.488 --> 00:10:39.478 So now this is what the sovereign Lord says, I will 00:10:39.478 --> 00:10:41.308 end the captivity of my people. 00:10:41.908 --> 00:10:43.708 I will have mercy on all Israel. 00:10:44.098 --> 00:10:49.288 For I jealously guard my holy reputation, they will accept responsibility for 00:10:49.288 --> 00:10:51.538 their past shame and unfaithfulness. 00:10:51.943 --> 00:10:57.013 After they come home to live in peace in their own land with no one to bother them. 00:10:57.823 --> 00:11:02.683 When I bring them home from the lands of their enemies, I will display my holiness 00:11:02.683 --> 00:11:05.023 among them for all the nations to see. 00:11:05.923 --> 00:11:10.483 Then my people will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away 00:11:10.483 --> 00:11:13.123 to exile and brought them home again. 00:11:13.843 --> 00:11:18.973 I will leave none of my people behind and I will never again turn my face from them. 00:11:19.498 --> 00:11:22.678 For I will pour out my spirit upon the people of Israel. 00:11:23.488 --> 00:11:31.168 I, the sovereign Lord, have spoken on April 28th during the 25th year 00:11:31.168 --> 00:11:36.898 of our captivity, 14 years after the fall of Jerusalem, the Lord took 00:11:36.898 --> 00:11:39.298 hold of me in a vision from God. 00:11:39.298 --> 00:11:43.408 He took me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain. 00:11:44.098 --> 00:11:47.308 From there, I could see toward the south what appeared to be a city. 00:11:48.163 --> 00:11:52.663 As he brought me near, I saw a man whose face shone like bronze, 00:11:52.723 --> 00:11:54.523 standing beside a gateway entrance. 00:11:55.483 --> 00:11:59.803 He was holding in his hand a linen measuring cord and a measuring rod. 00:12:00.523 --> 00:12:04.393 He said to me, son of man, watch and listen. 00:12:05.203 --> 00:12:07.333 Pay close attention to everything I show you. 00:12:07.673 --> 00:12:10.963 You have been brought here so I can show you many things. 00:12:11.653 --> 00:12:14.503 Then you will return to the people of Israel and tell 00:12:14.503 --> 00:12:16.033 them everything you have seen. 00:12:17.338 --> 00:12:20.338 I could see a wall completely surrounding the temple area. 00:12:21.118 --> 00:12:25.228 The man took a measuring rod that was 10 and a half feet long and measured 00:12:25.233 --> 00:12:30.448 the wall, and the wall was 10 and a half feet thick and 10 and a half feet high. 00:12:31.618 --> 00:12:33.448 Then he went over to the eastern gateway. 00:12:34.048 --> 00:12:36.868 He climbed the steps and measured the threshold of the gateway. 00:12:37.408 --> 00:12:39.808 It was 10 and a half feet front to back. 00:12:40.738 --> 00:12:43.978 There were guard alcoves on each side built into the gateway passage. 00:12:44.728 --> 00:12:48.718 Each of these alcoves was 10 and a half feet square with a distance 00:12:48.718 --> 00:12:52.348 between them of eight and three quarters feet along the passage wall. 00:12:53.248 --> 00:12:56.968 The gateway's inner threshold, which led to the entry room at the inner 00:12:56.968 --> 00:13:01.288 end of the gateway passage was 10 and a half feet, front to back. 00:13:02.128 --> 00:13:04.528 He also measured the entry room of the gateway. 00:13:05.308 --> 00:13:09.838 It was 14 feet across with supporting columns three and a half feet thick. 00:13:10.528 --> 00:13:13.708 This entry room was at the inner end of the gateway structure. 00:13:14.038 --> 00:13:18.058 Facing toward the temple, there were three guard alcoves on each 00:13:18.058 --> 00:13:19.528 side of the gateway passage. 00:13:20.098 --> 00:13:23.278 Each had the same measurements, and the dividing walls separating 00:13:23.278 --> 00:13:24.658 them were also identical. 00:13:25.648 --> 00:13:29.548 The man measured the gateway entrance, which was 17 and a half feet wide 00:13:29.548 --> 00:13:33.238 at the opening, and 22 and three quarters feet wide in the gateway 00:13:33.238 --> 00:13:38.008 passage in front of each of the guard Alcoves was a 21 inch curb. 00:13:38.788 --> 00:13:41.968 The alcoves themselves were 10 and a half feet on each side. 00:13:43.123 --> 00:13:47.383 Then he measured the entire width of the gateway measuring the distance between 00:13:47.383 --> 00:13:49.813 the back walls of facing guard El Coves. 00:13:50.473 --> 00:13:53.623 This distance was 43 and three quarters feet. 00:13:54.433 --> 00:13:58.153 He measured the dividing walls all along the inside of the gateway up 00:13:58.153 --> 00:13:59.653 to the entry room of the gateway. 00:14:00.253 --> 00:14:02.713 This distance was 105 feet. 00:14:03.643 --> 00:14:07.303 The full length of the gateway passage was 87 and a half feet 00:14:07.453 --> 00:14:09.013 from one end to the other. 00:14:10.063 --> 00:14:13.873 There were recessed windows that narrowed inward through the walls of the guard 00:14:13.878 --> 00:14:16.273 El Coves, and there are dividing walls. 00:14:17.143 --> 00:14:19.153 There were also windows in the entry room. 00:14:19.753 --> 00:14:24.583 The surfaces of the dividing walls were decorated with carved palm trees, and then 00:14:24.583 --> 00:14:28.033 the man brought me through the gateway into the outer courtyard of the temple. 00:14:28.873 --> 00:14:32.833 A stone pavement ran along the walls of the courtyard, and 30 00:14:32.833 --> 00:14:36.253 rooms were built against the walls opening onto the pavement. 00:14:37.258 --> 00:14:40.948 This pavement flanked the gates and extended out from the walls 00:14:40.948 --> 00:14:44.668 into the courtyard, the same distance as the gateway entrance. 00:14:45.358 --> 00:14:49.348 This was the lower pavement than the man measured across the 00:14:49.348 --> 00:14:52.768 temple's, outer courtyard between the outer and inner gateways. 00:14:53.548 --> 00:14:56.158 The distance was 175 feet. 00:14:57.448 --> 00:15:02.308 The man measured the gateway on the north, just like the one on the east here too. 00:15:02.308 --> 00:15:04.378 There were three guard alcoves on each side. 00:15:04.783 --> 00:15:08.383 With dividing walls and an entry room, all the measurements 00:15:08.383 --> 00:15:10.033 matched those of the East Gateway. 00:15:10.993 --> 00:15:16.213 The gateway passage was 87 and a half feet long, and 43 and three quarters feet wide. 00:15:16.218 --> 00:15:18.643 Between the back walls of facing guard El Coves. 00:15:19.873 --> 00:15:24.103 The windows, the entry room, and the palm tree decorations were identical 00:15:24.108 --> 00:15:25.783 to those in the East Gateway. 00:15:26.593 --> 00:15:31.003 There were seven steps leading up to the gateway entrance, and the entry room was 00:15:31.008 --> 00:15:33.043 at the inner end of the gateway passage. 00:15:33.793 --> 00:15:38.383 Here on the north side, just as on the east, there was another gateway 00:15:38.383 --> 00:15:42.253 leading to the temple's inner courtyard, directly opposite this outer gateway. 00:15:43.153 --> 00:15:47.143 The distance between the two gateways was 175 feet. 00:15:48.343 --> 00:15:51.313 Then the man took me around to the south gateway and measured 00:15:51.313 --> 00:15:54.883 its various parts, and they were exactly the same as in the others. 00:15:55.663 --> 00:15:59.293 It had windows along the walls of the others did, and there was an 00:15:59.293 --> 00:16:02.743 entry room where the gateway passage opened into the outer courtyard. 00:16:03.688 --> 00:16:04.438 Like the others. 00:16:04.678 --> 00:16:09.178 The gateway passage was 87 and a half feet long, and 43 and three 00:16:09.178 --> 00:16:12.838 quarters feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves. 00:16:14.068 --> 00:16:19.138 This gateway also had a stairway of seven steps leading up to it and an entry 00:16:19.143 --> 00:16:23.548 room at the inner end, and palm tree decorations along the dividing walls. 00:16:24.598 --> 00:16:29.128 And here again, directly opposite the outer gateway was another gateway 00:16:29.128 --> 00:16:30.748 that led into the inner courtyard. 00:16:31.603 --> 00:16:35.623 The distance between the two gateways was 175 feet. 00:16:36.913 --> 00:16:40.453 Then the man took me to the south gateway, leading into the inner courtyard. 00:16:41.143 --> 00:16:44.983 He measured it and it had the same measurements as the other gateways. 00:16:45.793 --> 00:16:50.233 Its guard, alcoves, dividing walls, and entry room where the 00:16:50.233 --> 00:16:52.153 same size as those in the others. 00:16:52.963 --> 00:16:55.663 It also had windows along its walls and in the entry room. 00:16:56.698 --> 00:17:01.078 And like the others, the gateway passage was 87 and a half feet long, 00:17:01.438 --> 00:17:03.628 and 43 and three quarters feet wide. 00:17:04.618 --> 00:17:07.678 The entry rooms of the gateways leading into the inner courtyard 00:17:08.038 --> 00:17:12.238 were 14 feet across and 43 and three quarters feet wide. 00:17:13.168 --> 00:17:16.468 The entry room to the south gateway faced into the outer courtyard. 00:17:16.978 --> 00:17:20.368 It had palm tree decorations on its columns, and there were eight 00:17:20.368 --> 00:17:22.168 steps leading to its entrance. 00:17:23.383 --> 00:17:26.503 Then he took me to the east gateway, leading to the inner courtyard. 00:17:27.253 --> 00:17:30.433 He measured it and it had the same measurements as the other gateways. 00:17:31.123 --> 00:17:34.063 Its guard, coves, dividing walls, and entry room. 00:17:34.393 --> 00:17:38.443 Were the same size as those of the others, and there were windows along the walls. 00:17:38.448 --> 00:17:43.423 And in the entry room, the gateway passage measured 87 and a half feet long, 00:17:43.933 --> 00:17:46.093 and 43 and three quarters feet wide. 00:17:46.873 --> 00:17:49.243 Its entry room faced into the outer courtyard. 00:17:50.173 --> 00:17:53.833 It had palm tree decorations on its columns, and there were eight 00:17:53.833 --> 00:17:55.933 steps leading to its entrance. 00:17:57.223 --> 00:18:00.403 Then he took me around to the north gateway, leading to the inner courtyard. 00:18:00.973 --> 00:18:04.273 He measured it and it had the same measurements as the other gateways. 00:18:04.933 --> 00:18:08.983 The guardhouse coves dividing walls and entry room of this gateway had the 00:18:08.983 --> 00:18:12.613 same measurements as in the others, and the same window arrangements. 00:18:13.543 --> 00:18:17.743 The gateway passage measured 87 and a half feet long, and 43 00:18:17.743 --> 00:18:19.213 and three quarters feet wide. 00:18:20.008 --> 00:18:23.518 Its entry room faced into the outer courtyard, and it had palm 00:18:23.518 --> 00:18:25.168 tree decorations on the columns. 00:18:25.948 --> 00:18:28.408 There were eight steps leading to its entrance. 00:18:29.458 --> 00:18:33.718 A door led from the entry room of one of the inner gateways into a side room 00:18:34.288 --> 00:18:36.538 where the meet for sacrifices was washed. 00:18:37.438 --> 00:18:41.998 On each side of this entry room were two tables where the sacrificial animals 00:18:41.998 --> 00:18:46.318 were slaughtered for the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings. 00:18:47.248 --> 00:18:51.178 Outside the entry room on each side of the stairs going up to the north 00:18:51.178 --> 00:18:56.728 entrance, were two more tables, so there were eight tables in all four 00:18:56.733 --> 00:19:00.898 inside and four outside where the sacrifices were cut up and prepared. 00:19:01.738 --> 00:19:05.398 There were also four tables, the finished stone for preparation of the 00:19:05.398 --> 00:19:11.248 burnt offerings, each 31 and a half inches square and 21 inches high. 00:19:12.238 --> 00:19:15.418 These tables were placed the butchering knives and other implements for 00:19:15.418 --> 00:19:17.338 slaughtering the sacrificial animals. 00:19:18.208 --> 00:19:23.368 There were hooks each three inches long, fastened all around the foyer walls. 00:19:24.028 --> 00:19:28.558 The sacrificial meat was laid on the tables inside the inner courtyard 00:19:28.558 --> 00:19:33.538 were two rooms, one beside the north gateway facing south, and the other 00:19:33.538 --> 00:19:35.668 beside the south gateway facing north. 00:19:36.478 --> 00:19:40.993 And the man said to me, The room beside the north inner gate is for the priests 00:19:40.993 --> 00:19:42.853 who supervise the temple maintenance. 00:19:43.783 --> 00:19:46.963 The room beside the south inner gate is for the priests in charge of the 00:19:46.968 --> 00:19:49.183 altar, the descendants of zadak. 00:19:49.993 --> 00:19:54.043 For they alone of all the Levites may approach the Lord to minister to him. 00:19:54.353 --> 00:20:01.303 Then the man measured the inner courtyard and it was a square 175 feet wide and 00:20:01.303 --> 00:20:06.673 175 feet across the altar stood in the courtyard in front of the temple. 00:20:07.333 --> 00:20:09.583 Then he brought me to the entry room of the temple. 00:20:10.363 --> 00:20:14.353 He measured the walls on either side of the opening to the entry room, and they 00:20:14.353 --> 00:20:16.813 were eight and three quarters feet thick. 00:20:17.743 --> 00:20:22.723 The entrance itself was 24 and a half feet wide, and the walls on each side 00:20:22.723 --> 00:20:25.633 of the entrance were an additional five and a quarter feet long. 00:20:26.803 --> 00:20:30.883 The entry room was 35 feet wide and 21 feet deep. 00:20:31.663 --> 00:20:35.233 There were 10 steps leading up to it with a column on each side. 00:20:36.298 --> 00:20:39.688 After that, the man brought me into the sanctuary of the temple. 00:20:40.498 --> 00:20:43.288 He measured the walls on either side of its doorway, and they 00:20:43.288 --> 00:20:44.968 were 10 and a half feet thick. 00:20:45.808 --> 00:20:50.158 The doorway was 17 and a half feet wide, and the walls on each side of it were 00:20:50.163 --> 00:20:51.748 eight and three quarters feet long. 00:20:52.588 --> 00:20:56.698 The sanctuary itself was 70 feet long and 35 feet wide. 00:20:57.868 --> 00:21:00.598 Then he went beyond the sanctuary into the inner room. 00:21:01.348 --> 00:21:03.688 He measured the walls on either side of its entrance. 00:21:03.973 --> 00:21:06.013 And they were three and a half feet thick. 00:21:06.583 --> 00:21:10.363 The entrance was 10 and a half feet wide, and the walls on each side of the 00:21:10.363 --> 00:21:12.643 entrance were 12 and a quarter feet long. 00:21:13.573 --> 00:21:18.553 The inner room of the sanctuary was 35 feet long and 35 feet wide. 00:21:19.603 --> 00:21:22.933 This, he told me is the most holy place. 00:21:24.343 --> 00:21:27.943 Then he measured the wall of the temple and it was 10 and a half feet thick. 00:21:28.873 --> 00:21:31.693 There was a row of rooms along the outside wall. 00:21:32.173 --> 00:21:33.943 Each room was seven feet wide. 00:21:34.633 --> 00:21:38.143 These side rooms were built in three levels, one above the other 00:21:38.563 --> 00:21:40.423 with 30 rooms on each level. 00:21:41.323 --> 00:21:45.673 The supports for these side rooms rested on exterior ledges on the temple wall. 00:21:46.213 --> 00:21:47.923 They did not extend into the wall. 00:21:48.153 --> 00:21:51.853 Each level was wider than the one below it corresponding to 00:21:51.853 --> 00:21:53.443 the narrowing of the temple wall. 00:21:53.443 --> 00:21:57.433 As it rose higher, a stairway led up from the bottom level through 00:21:57.433 --> 00:21:58.933 the middle level to the top level. 00:22:00.163 --> 00:22:03.613 I saw that the temple was built on a terrace, which provided a 00:22:03.613 --> 00:22:05.353 foundation for the side rooms. 00:22:06.073 --> 00:22:08.053 This terrace was 10 and a half feet high. 00:22:08.893 --> 00:22:12.673 The outer wall of the temple side rooms was eight and three quarters feet thick. 00:22:13.573 --> 00:22:17.503 This left an open area between these side rooms and the row of rooms along 00:22:17.503 --> 00:22:19.423 the outer wall of the inner courtyard. 00:22:20.293 --> 00:22:25.273 This open area was 35 feet wide, and it went all the way around the temple. 00:22:26.308 --> 00:22:29.788 Two doors opened from the side rooms into the terrace yard, which was 00:22:29.788 --> 00:22:31.408 eight and three quarters feet wide. 00:22:32.098 --> 00:22:34.348 One door faced north and the other south. 00:22:35.428 --> 00:22:39.058 A large building stood on the west facing the temple courtyard. 00:22:39.658 --> 00:22:47.128 It was 122 and a half feet wide and 157 and a half feet long, and its walls were 00:22:47.128 --> 00:22:49.318 eight and three quarters feet thick. 00:22:50.308 --> 00:22:54.628 Then the man measured the temple and it was 175 feet long. 00:22:55.258 --> 00:22:58.198 The courtyard around the building, including its walls, was an 00:22:58.198 --> 00:23:00.748 additional 175 feet in length. 00:23:01.558 --> 00:23:06.028 The inner courtyard to the east of the temple was also 175 feet wide. 00:23:06.988 --> 00:23:12.358 The building to the west, including its two walls, was also 175 feet wide. 00:23:13.438 --> 00:23:17.488 The sanctuary, the inner room, and the entry room of the temple were 00:23:17.488 --> 00:23:21.418 all paneled with wood as were the frames of the recessed windows. 00:23:22.243 --> 00:23:26.623 The inner walls of the temple were paneled with wood above and below the windows. 00:23:27.583 --> 00:23:31.063 The space above the door leading into the inner room and its walls 00:23:31.068 --> 00:23:33.493 inside and out were also paneled. 00:23:34.273 --> 00:23:38.503 All the walls were decorated with carvings of cherub, each with two 00:23:38.508 --> 00:23:42.403 faces, and there was a carving of a palm tree between each of the cherub. 00:23:43.543 --> 00:23:47.293 One face that of a man looked toward the palm tree on one side. 00:23:48.163 --> 00:23:51.733 The other face that of a young lion looked toward the palm tree and the 00:23:51.733 --> 00:23:56.353 other side, the figures were carved all along the inside of the temple 00:23:56.833 --> 00:24:01.513 from the floor to the top of the walls, including the outer wall of the sanctuary. 00:24:02.593 --> 00:24:06.133 There were square columns at the entrance to the sanctuary, and 00:24:06.133 --> 00:24:09.193 the ones at the entrance of the most holy place were similar. 00:24:10.063 --> 00:24:13.363 There was an altar made of wood, five and a quarter feet high, 00:24:13.363 --> 00:24:14.953 and three and a half feet across. 00:24:15.838 --> 00:24:18.808 Its corners, base, and sides were all made of wood. 00:24:19.708 --> 00:24:24.298 This the man told me is the table that stands in the Lord's presence. 00:24:25.468 --> 00:24:29.038 Both the sanctuary and the most holy place had double doorways 00:24:29.398 --> 00:24:31.258 each with two swinging doors. 00:24:32.038 --> 00:24:35.698 The doors leading into the sanctuary were decorated with carved cherub 00:24:35.878 --> 00:24:40.678 and palm trees just as on the walls, and there was a wooden roof at the 00:24:40.678 --> 00:24:42.418 front of the entry room to the temple. 00:24:43.468 --> 00:24:46.408 On both sides of the entry room were recessed windows 00:24:46.708 --> 00:24:48.718 decorated with carved palm trees. 00:24:49.588 --> 00:24:52.738 The side rooms along the outside wall also had roofs. 00:24:53.938 --> 00:24:57.418 Then the man led me out of the temple courtyard by way of the North gateway. 00:24:58.198 --> 00:25:01.648 We entered the outer courtyard and came to a group of rooms against the 00:25:01.648 --> 00:25:03.418 north wall of the inner courtyard. 00:25:04.138 --> 00:25:08.728 This structure whose entrance opened toward the north was 175 feet 00:25:08.728 --> 00:25:11.878 long and 87 and a half feet wide. 00:25:12.553 --> 00:25:16.393 One block of rooms overlooked the 35 foot width of the inner courtyard. 00:25:16.993 --> 00:25:20.563 Another block of rooms looked out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard. 00:25:21.343 --> 00:25:25.333 The two blocks were built, three levels high and stood across from each other. 00:25:26.113 --> 00:25:30.073 Between the two blocks of rooms, ran a walkway 17 and a half feet wide. 00:25:30.733 --> 00:25:36.613 It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex and all the doors faced north. 00:25:37.453 --> 00:25:40.963 Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it. 00:25:41.818 --> 00:25:45.118 The upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them. 00:25:46.198 --> 00:25:48.988 Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting 00:25:48.988 --> 00:25:50.548 columns as in the courtyards. 00:25:51.208 --> 00:25:54.058 Each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it. 00:25:55.108 --> 00:25:58.378 There was an outer wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard. 00:25:58.768 --> 00:26:00.898 It was 87 and a half feet long. 00:26:01.888 --> 00:26:05.428 This wall added length to the outer block of rooms, which extended 00:26:05.428 --> 00:26:07.228 for only 87 and a half feet. 00:26:07.978 --> 00:26:12.718 While the inner block, the rooms toward the temple extended for 175 00:26:12.718 --> 00:26:16.858 feet, there was an eastern entrance from the outer courtyard to these 00:26:16.863 --> 00:26:19.978 rooms on the south side of the temple. 00:26:20.308 --> 00:26:23.608 There were two blocks of rooms just south of the inner courtyard between 00:26:23.613 --> 00:26:25.258 the temple and the outer courtyard. 00:26:26.128 --> 00:26:28.978 These rooms were arranged just like the rooms on the north. 00:26:29.728 --> 00:26:33.418 There was a walkway between the two blocks of rooms, just like the complex 00:26:33.423 --> 00:26:34.708 on the north side of the temple. 00:26:35.563 --> 00:26:39.703 This complex of rooms was the same length and width as the other one, and 00:26:39.703 --> 00:26:41.593 it had the same entrances and doors. 00:26:42.283 --> 00:26:46.753 The dimensions of each were identical, so there was an entrance in the wall 00:26:46.753 --> 00:26:50.683 facing the doors of the inner block of rooms and another on the east 00:26:50.803 --> 00:26:52.543 at the end of the interior walkway. 00:26:52.543 --> 00:26:57.013 Then the man told me, these rooms that overlook the temple from the 00:26:57.013 --> 00:27:00.073 north and south are holy here. 00:27:00.073 --> 00:27:04.363 The priests who offer sacrifices to the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. 00:27:05.143 --> 00:27:08.863 Because these rooms are holy, they will be used to store the sacred 00:27:08.863 --> 00:27:13.123 offerings, the grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings. 00:27:13.933 --> 00:27:16.873 When the priests leave the sanctuary, they must not go 00:27:16.873 --> 00:27:18.553 directly to the outer courtyard. 00:27:19.153 --> 00:27:22.303 They must first take off the clothes they wore while ministering. 00:27:22.308 --> 00:27:27.073 Because these clothes are holy, they must put on other clothes 00:27:27.103 --> 00:27:30.193 before entering the parts of the building complex open to the public. 00:27:31.588 --> 00:27:35.158 When the man had finished measuring the inside of the temple area, he 00:27:35.158 --> 00:27:38.518 led me out through the East Gateway to measure the entire perimeter. 00:27:39.358 --> 00:27:44.728 He measured the east side with his measuring rod, and it was 875 feet long. 00:27:45.478 --> 00:27:49.768 Then he measured the north side and it was also 875 feet. 00:27:50.668 --> 00:27:57.028 The south side was also 875 feet, and the west side was also 875 feet. 00:27:58.063 --> 00:28:04.033 So the area was 875 feet on each side with a wall all around it to separate 00:28:04.033 --> 00:28:06.463 what was holy from what was common. 00:28:08.023 --> 00:28:11.413 After this, the man brought me back around to the east gateway. 00:28:12.223 --> 00:28:15.793 Suddenly, the glory of the God of Israel appeared from the east. 00:28:16.693 --> 00:28:20.893 The sound of his coming was like the roar of rushing waters and the 00:28:20.893 --> 00:28:22.993 whole landscape shown with his glory. 00:28:23.803 --> 00:28:26.143 This vision was just like the others I had seen. 00:28:26.563 --> 00:28:30.133 First by the Key Bar River, and then when he came to destroy Jerusalem, 00:28:30.973 --> 00:28:35.323 I fell face down on the ground and the glory of the Lord came into the 00:28:35.323 --> 00:28:36.943 temple through the East Gateway. 00:28:37.813 --> 00:28:41.863 Then the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner courtyard, and the 00:28:41.863 --> 00:28:43.933 glory of the Lord filled the temple. 00:28:45.043 --> 00:28:48.793 And I heard someone speaking to me from within the temple while the man who 00:28:48.793 --> 00:28:50.443 had been measuring stood beside me. 00:28:51.283 --> 00:28:56.683 The Lord said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne and 00:28:56.683 --> 00:28:58.393 the place where I will rest my feet. 00:28:59.053 --> 00:29:00.283 I will live here forever. 00:29:00.313 --> 00:29:04.663 Among the people of Israel, they and their kings will not defile my holy 00:29:04.668 --> 00:29:09.613 name any longer by their adulterous worship of other gods, or by honoring 00:29:09.613 --> 00:29:11.683 the relics of their kings who have died. 00:29:12.583 --> 00:29:17.713 They put their idol altars right next to mine with only a wall between them and me. 00:29:18.283 --> 00:29:21.913 They defiled my holy name by such detestable sin. 00:29:22.588 --> 00:29:24.898 So I consume them in my anger. 00:29:25.648 --> 00:29:30.178 Now, let them stop worshiping other gods and honoring the relics of their kings, 00:29:30.538 --> 00:29:32.608 and I will live among them forever. 00:29:33.718 --> 00:29:38.668 Son of man, describe to the people of Israel, the temple I have shown you. 00:29:39.178 --> 00:29:41.398 So they will be ashamed of all their sins. 00:29:42.208 --> 00:29:45.988 Let them study its plan, and they will be ashamed of what they have done. 00:29:46.798 --> 00:29:49.738 Describe to them all the specifications of the temple. 00:29:50.113 --> 00:29:53.923 Including its entrances and exits and everything else about it. 00:29:54.763 --> 00:29:57.313 Tell them about its decrees and laws. 00:29:57.853 --> 00:30:02.803 Write down all these specifications and decrees as they watch, so they will 00:30:02.808 --> 00:30:04.753 be sure to remember and follow them. 00:30:05.683 --> 00:30:08.113 And this is the basic law of the temple. 00:30:08.623 --> 00:30:10.093 Absolute holiness. 00:30:10.633 --> 00:30:13.843 The entire top of the mountain where the temple is built is holy. 00:30:14.623 --> 00:30:17.533 Yes, this is the basic law of the temple. 00:30:18.793 --> 00:30:20.503 These are the measurements of the altar. 00:30:21.223 --> 00:30:25.933 There is a gutter all around the altar, 21 inches deep and 21 inches 00:30:25.933 --> 00:30:30.523 wide with a curb nine inches wide around its edge, and this is the 00:30:30.528 --> 00:30:32.563 height of the altar from the gutter. 00:30:32.568 --> 00:30:37.123 The altar rises three and a half feet to a lower ledge that surrounds the altar 00:30:37.453 --> 00:30:42.673 and is 21 inches wide from the lower ledge, the altar rises seven feet to the 00:30:42.673 --> 00:30:45.463 upper ledge that is also 21 inches wide. 00:30:46.348 --> 00:30:51.628 The top of the altar, the hearth rises another seven feet higher with a horn 00:30:51.628 --> 00:30:53.938 rising up from each of the four corners. 00:30:54.838 --> 00:30:59.248 The top of the altar is square, measuring 21 feet by 21 feet. 00:31:00.028 --> 00:31:04.888 The upper ledge also forms a square measuring 24 and a half feet by 24 and a 00:31:04.888 --> 00:31:10.708 half feet with a 21 inch gutter and a 10 and a half inch curb all around the edge. 00:31:11.518 --> 00:31:13.948 There are steps going up the east side of the altar. 00:31:15.088 --> 00:31:20.068 Then he said to me, son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says, 00:31:20.938 --> 00:31:24.778 these will be the regulations for the burning of offerings and the sprinkling 00:31:24.778 --> 00:31:26.368 of blood when the altar is built. 00:31:27.118 --> 00:31:31.528 At that time, the Levitical priests of the family of Zadak who minister before 00:31:31.528 --> 00:31:36.538 me are to be given a young bull for a sin offering, says the sovereign Lord. 00:31:37.288 --> 00:31:41.338 You will take some of its blood and smear it on the four horns of the altar, the 00:31:41.338 --> 00:31:45.508 four corners of the upper ledge, and the curb that runs around that ledge. 00:31:46.048 --> 00:31:48.958 This will cleanse and make atonement for the altar. 00:31:49.738 --> 00:31:53.878 Then take the young bull for the sin offering and burn it at the appointed 00:31:53.878 --> 00:31:55.618 place outside the temple area. 00:31:56.668 --> 00:32:00.808 On the second day, sacrifice as a sin offering a young male goat 00:32:00.868 --> 00:32:02.698 that has no physical defects. 00:32:03.478 --> 00:32:06.058 Then cleanse and make atonement for the altar again. 00:32:06.643 --> 00:32:08.323 Just as you did with the young bull. 00:32:09.313 --> 00:32:13.003 When you have finished the cleansing ceremony, offer another young bull 00:32:13.003 --> 00:32:15.673 that has no defects and a perfect ram. 00:32:15.678 --> 00:32:20.023 From the flock, you are to present them to the Lord, and the priests are 00:32:20.023 --> 00:32:23.923 to sprinkle salt on them and offer them as a burnt offering to the Lord. 00:32:25.063 --> 00:32:31.213 Every day For seven days, a male goat, a young bull, and a ram from the flock 00:32:31.393 --> 00:32:33.283 will be sacrificed as a sin offering. 00:32:34.108 --> 00:32:37.018 None of these animals may have physical defects of any kind. 00:32:37.678 --> 00:32:42.148 Do this each day for seven days to cleanse and make atonement for the 00:32:42.148 --> 00:32:47.908 altar, thus setting it apart for holy use on the eighth day and on each day 00:32:47.908 --> 00:32:52.198 afterward, the priests will sacrifice on the altar, the burnt offerings 00:32:52.198 --> 00:32:53.818 and peace offerings of the people. 00:32:54.478 --> 00:32:55.978 Then I will accept you. 00:32:56.728 --> 00:32:59.008 I the sovereign Lord, have spoken. 00:33:01.018 --> 00:33:03.853 This concludes today's Immerse Reading experience. 00:33:03.973 --> 00:33:05.203 Thank you for joining us.