Wednesday in Season after Pentecost

14Verse 14. When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies. 15Verse 15. For behold, the LORD will come with fire— His chariots are like a whirlwind— to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire. 16Verse 16. For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD. 17Verse 17. “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves — to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats — will perish together,” declares the LORD. 18Verse 18. “And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory. 19Verse 19. I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations — to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations. 20Verse 20. And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.” 21Verse 21. “And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD. 22Verse 22. “For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” “so your descendants and your name will endure. 23Verse 23. From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD. 24Verse 24. “As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

1Verse 1. Then the man brought me back to the gate that faces east, 2Verse 2. and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory. 3Verse 3. The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when He came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the River Kebar. I fell facedown, 4Verse 4. and the glory of the LORD entered the temple through the gate facing east. 5Verse 5. Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. 6Verse 6. While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple, 7Verse 7. and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name — neither they nor their kings — by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths. 8Verse 8. When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger. 9Verse 9. Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever. 10Verse 10. As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities. Let them measure the plan, 11Verse 11. and if they are ashamed of all they have done, then make known to them the design of the temple— its arrangement and its exits and entrances— its whole design along with all its statutes, forms, and laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its complete design and all its statutes and may carry them out. 12Verse 12. This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.