Presents
Pamphlet #4034
Presents
Pamphlet #4034
My Note: Dead people are alive Ref. Scripture Ezekiel 44:23-25
Dead people are alive!
Scripture: Ezekiel 44:23
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane,
and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
24 And in controversy
they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments:
and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and
they shall hallow my sabbaths.
25
And they shall come at no dead person
to defile themselves: but for
father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for
sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
26 And after he is cleansed,
they shall reckon unto him seven days.
During the Millennium It would be awfully hard to come at your father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or sister if they weren't still able to meet with you.
He certainly doesn't mean physically dead. He means spiritually dead but not yet consumed by God who is a consuming fire.
He also means that during the Millennium, you being already given eternal life, can still minister to them salvation although it be by works; not by grace during that 1000 years. You should be better able to do this because Satan will be locked in the bottomless for those 1000 years.
Ezekiel 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
13 ¶And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits:
The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit,
and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round
about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle
shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle
even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and
upward shall be four horns.
16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square
in the four squares thereof.
17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen
broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half
a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs
shall look toward the east.
18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD;
These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it,
to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of
the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the
Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the
four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border
round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.
21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and
he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats
without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as
they did cleanse it with the bullock.
23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer
a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests
shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering
unto the LORD.
25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering:
they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without
blemish.
26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they
shall consecrate themselves.
27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the
eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings
upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith
the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 44:1 ¶Then he brought me back the way of the gate
of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall
not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God
of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat
bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate,
and shall go out by the way of the same.
4 ¶Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the
house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house
of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold
with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning
all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof;
and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the
sanctuary.
6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of
Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you
of all your abominations,
7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised
in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute
it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they
have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye
have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart,
nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger
that is among the children of Israel.
10 ¶And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when
Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they
shall even bear their iniquity.
11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge
at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay
the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand
before them to minister unto them.
12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and
caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted
up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their
iniquity.
13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of
a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most
holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which
they have committed.
14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for
all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
15 But the priests the Levites, the
sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of
Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto
me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood,
saith the Lord GOD:
16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near
to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
17 ¶And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at
the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments;
and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of
the inner court, and within.
18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall
have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with
any thing that causeth sweat.
19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the
utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they
ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other
garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks
to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into
the inner court.
22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that
is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel,
or a widow that had a priest before.
23 And they shall teach my people the
difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between
the unclean and the clean.
24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they
shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and
my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
25 And they shall come at no dead person
to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for
daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may
defile themselves.
26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven
days.
27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the
inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,
saith the Lord GOD.
28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance:
and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and
the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every
oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's:
ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may
cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself,
or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
I'm sure you realize if
you've studied this Book of Revelation from the beginning with us
that Satan is coming
to this earth disguised as Jesus Christ
(and I'll bet you know
that he comes before the true Christ).
This final generation then will be tested by the false messiah, right?
Those
who fail,
who
do not overcome and who don't partake of the first resurrection,
will
go through the Millennium and be taught of and with discipline for 1000
years,
which
is how much time they have to get their act together.
After
they have been taught there will be another test,
a
final exam if you will,
which
they must pass before they can receive their diploma of eternal life.
That test is Satan's release
once again upon the world,
but this time without
the political beast and the role of antichrist.
And
no, it is not a second chance because they never came to a full knowledge
of the truth
in
this generation because of the "famine" (Amos 8:11),
and
as such never had a prayer of a first chance.
Next we will learn what reward comes with being part of the first resurrection.
[4] And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
And there are two groups in this verse who sit upon them.
(1) The first group are the martyrs down through the ages, those who have been beheaded, i.e. killed or executed for the (a) the witness of Jesus, and (b) for the Word of God. It would include the two witnesses also.
(2) The second group are those of this final generation who had the seal of God in their foreheads and who overcame the beast.
Note: In our previous studies we've covered in great detail the beast (Satan), his image (role as Jesus), his mark upon their foreheads (deception), and his mark in their hands (doing his work).
Now, did you read the
last phrase in verse 4,
"and
they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years"?
What an honor and a privilege!
If
you ever are in want of some encouragement to continue to fight the good
fight,
then
just refer to Rev. 20:4.
For
if you are one of God's elect then you will be part of the first resurrection
at His coming,
and
you will reign with Jesus Christ for the entire 1000 years during the Millennium.
[5] But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
You
will then be tested that short season by Satan who will be released temporarily,
and
then you will be judged at the Great White Throne Judgment
when
the books are opened (vs. 12).
Only then can you be part of the Second Resurrection and receive eternal life.
Until
then you are called "dead" because you are still subject to the second
death,
which
is the destruction of your soul in the lake of fire (vs. 14).
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