You might be turning to Revelation 21 in your Bibles. I would certainly encourage you to do that. You might want to bookmark Ezekiel chapter 40 as well. You're going to be picking up where we left off last Lord's Day evening, looking at the doctrine of the church in general, in particular. The idea that the church is the fulfillment of that promised eschatological temple, end times temple, that we see in the Old Testament. That's been taking us all over the Bible in studying that. We're kind of settled in somewhat in Revelation 21, if you'll recall. say somewhat because Revelation 21, in order to understand that, that's taken us back all over the Old Testament again to see the origins of kind of the imagery and the prophetic language that Revelation 21 has. So we're going to be doing that a lot back and forth again tonight between those two chapters, Revelation 21 and Ezekiel 40. Be kind of like Sunday school sword drills. Everybody like those? Josh is like, all right, yeah. So yep, you're going to get your fair share of that tonight, but it will be on the screen. But I do encourage you, at least in Revelation 21, to follow along. I think that'll be more rewarding or instructive. But let's go to the Lord in prayer. After we're going to read a few verses at the beginning of Revelation 21, and then we'll go to the Lord in prayer. So this is the word of the Lord. Then I saw, verse 1, then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, the sea was no more. I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. Let's get down to verse 9. Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me saying, come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the lamb. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great high mountain. and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. All right, let's pray. Lord, thank you for your word. Thank you for what we've just read, what we're about to read. Thank you for this time together tonight. We ask that your blessings would be upon it, that you would lead us into truth, and guard us from error, and help us to be edified by this, and we pray that you would be glorified. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, we'll look back at verse nine. Let's begin there, and let me point out something to you. It's going to bring us a little bit back into the book of Revelation. I want you to pay attention to the person who's speaking here. We read over verses 9 and 10 last time, but we didn't really expound them much. All we've been doing is just pointing out that they identify the new city Jerusalem as the church. But notice this because there's something that in studying for this this week. I felt like it was Worth pointing out notice who's speaking then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and Spoke to me the Apostle John speaking okay, so that's the speaker and One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls full of the seven last plates. Here's something interesting. If you've got your Bibles open, flip back to chapter 17. And notice that it appears to be this same angel that's introducing another woman, metaphorically, back in chapter 17. Verse 1. I'll wait until I hear the pages get done flipping. Notice this. Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, sound familiar? Yep, came and said to me, to John, come, notice the language, and I'll show you, notice the similarities, the judgment of the great prostitute who's seated on many waters, okay? Pay attention to the details, with whom He says of this woman whom he identifies as a prostitute, with whom the kings of the earth, notice that, have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk. Now watch, he carried me away in the spirit into a wilderness. Could be a desert, could be just a barren, uninhabited place. The place of haunts, that sort of thing. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names. And it had seven heads and ten horns. We're going to spend the whole rest of the time trying to identify those. I'm kidding. I'm not even going to talk about that. The woman, notice, was arrayed in purple and scarlet. and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand, so she's very enticing, very sensual. She's adorned herself in a way to draw people's attention to herself. But in her hand, a golden cup full of abominations, full of the impurities of her sexual immorality, okay? And on her forehead was written a name of mystery, Babylon. Where have we heard that before? The Old Testament, right? Babylon the Great, the mother of prostitutes and the mother of earth's abominations. So what do we have there? Another woman represented as a city, right? See the similarities, the contrast. This is a bad city. This is an unholy city. This is a city that's being symbolized by a woman who rebels against authority, right? By a woman who rebels specifically against God's authority, who does things that God forbids, okay? Now, bear all that in mind, go back to chapter 21. And notice the similarities in presentation and the stark contrast in these women, okay? Back to verse 9. Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, etc., spoke to me, saying, Come, I'll show you what? Not a rebellious prostitute, but a bride. A faithful, submissive bride. The wife of the lamb. These two women are being contrasted to each other. One a prostitute who has no allegiance, is under no authority, who is not faithful to her husband, if you will, to her master. The other A woman who's adorned in purity and chastity and beauty, and she's awaiting being presented to her husband. Now, keep all that in mind, okay? That imagery is going to show up later. Verse 10, okay? And notice the similarity. He carried me away in the Spirit to a great high mountain. And he showed me the holy city Jerusalem. See the correlations? He was taken to a wilderness or a desert or something like that to see the prostitute. Here he's taken to a great high mountain. There he was shown a rebellious, faithless, idolatrous, earthly city, a woman that represented, was called the name of that faithless, idolatrous, earthly city. Here he's shown a heavenly and holy city, right? Now, let's be clear again. Is this talking about earthly Jerusalem? Not in Revelation 21 for sure, right? Remember, verse 2, he calls it the new Jerusalem that's coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, okay? It's the same city of verse 9 that's called the bride, the wife of the Lamb, right? It's coming down, it's the holy city coming down out of heaven from God. Now, I'm going to hit the Old Testament because these descriptions, we may not realize it at first, but they bring to mind a number of different Old Testament passages. Here's the first, not the most important, but the first, and I do think it is an important factor. Deuteronomy 34, okay? Moses is about to die. God's told him that he's about to die because of his striking the rock in his little outburst of anger instead of speaking to it. And we read this. Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah. which is opposite Jericho. Jericho was on the other side of the Jordan immediately. And the Lord showed him all the land. So the Lord takes him up to the top of Mount Pisgah on the other side, shows him the promised land, right? Verse four, the Lord says to him, this is the land which I swore to your fathers. I'll give it to your offspring. He says, I've let you see it with your eyes, but you're not gonna go over there. So this was that holy land, right? That sacred place, that inheritance where God was gonna dwell with his people, right? That's why it was holy, right? You following along with me? Okay, that was the first thing. Watch the second. This is a motif, again, that shows up many times. Ezekiel 40, we're finally there, verse one. Watch the historical context. In the 25th year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the 10th day of the month, in the 14th year after the city was struck down, Jerusalem was destroyed, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me to the city. Seeing the similarities? The prophets being brought by the Lord to behold this sacred geography. Right? In visions of God, He brought me to the land of Israel. So it's prophetic. And look, lo and behold, He set me down on a very high mountain. Sound familiar? On which a structure like a city was to the south. Now that like a city is real important. Why? Because beginning in verse four he's going to describe this thing as a temple. And indeed, it's like what he's going to see is a temple complex complete with land inheritances surrounding it and everything like that. He's going to call it a city sometimes, he's going to call it a temple sometimes. Okay? That's important for Revelation 21. Now, that brings to mind other promises that predated it like this one. Isaiah chapter two, verse one. Just for context, the word that Isaiah saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, here it is, concerning Judah and Jerusalem. Verse two, it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord," what's that? That's temple language, right? The house of the Lord, the place where God dwells on earth, "...shall be established," look, "...as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills, and all the nations shall flow to it." Not just Israel, not just Judah, all the, like, see the imagery. It's gonna be lifted up so high, it's gonna be seen around the world, and it's light and glory, all the nations are gonna be drawn to it, right? See the language of the restoration of the holy city here, up on a big high mountain, right? Look, verse three, many peoples, plural, not just the Jewish people, many peoples, plural, shall come and say, that means Gentiles, come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths. That's disciple language, isn't it? Yes, that's what a disciple does. That's the relationship of the disciple to his master. And look, he shall judge between the nations and shall decide disputes for many peoples, plural, He won't be just the king of the Jews, he's going to be king of all the peoples, and the result will be the return of Shalom, the return of peace, right? They shall beat their swords, weapons of warfare, into plowshares, agricultural implements. They won't need them, right? Their spears into pruning hooks, because they won't need them for war. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. Okay? Guys, those were the promises about the Restoration. This is what Ezekiel is seeing. This is what's being intimated in the opening of Ezekiel chapter 40. These same promises. And guess what? This is what John is seeing as well. This is what's being intimated in our text. Again, notice the similarity of language in verse 10 of our text. He carried me away in the Spirit. It's prophetic. Ezekiel said he saw it in visions, right? John says he carried me away in the spirit to a great high mountain. You reckon it's the highest of the mountains? I would say the Jewish reader would have assumed so, right? Especially with, and there's more than I read here to contribute to this. And he showed me the city, right? The holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. I just want you to see how all this stuff connects. Now, let me show you something else in Ezekiel 43 that we had to omit last week, I think it was. Oh, sorry, I didn't put that up there. Watch this. I hope I'm not confusing people. He said to me, so this is So Ezekiel's chapter 40 through 48 are all pertaining to this revelation, this vision that Ezekiel's seeing of this eschatological temple, end times final temple. He said to me, son of man of this vision he's seeing of the temple on the great high mountain, This is the place of my throne. I'm gonna rule from here. It's gonna be the center of my kingdom, the temple, right? Remember, priest king. And the place of the soles of my feet. Again, we talked about this last week. What does that mean? Like the garden. Right, where God, they enjoyed the presence of God in the cool of the day, right? Where I will dwell, this is where I'll dwell in the midst of my people Israel forever. Remember all those promises? That it'd be like, here's land, here's cattle, I'm gonna bless this and bless that and bless this, and it always ends with, you'll be my people and I'll be your God. I'll dwell among you, et cetera, right? The promise of the presence. He tells Ezekiel, hey, this is where it's fulfilled. This is where it's fulfilled in this eschatological temple. I already put one to sleep and he about got killed over it. Be careful. Just kidding. I wouldn't have joked about that if it wasn't my son. Alright? So remember that. So Ezekiel's told, hey, this is what you're looking at. This is where those promises are going to be fulfilled. This is where I'm going to dwell among my people forever. Right? Well, what verse 3 said that we looked at two weeks ago after John sees the new heavens and new earth in the new city Jerusalem. This loud voice booms from the throne, saying, Behold, the dwelling place of God is not on earth, but with man, right? Not on the present earth at least. He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will be with them as their God. That's not a coincidence. That's fulfillment. And John's intending us, or I think the Holy Spirit is intending us to understand the connection back to those promises. Ezekiel's told, hey, this is it. This is going to be the place where the soles of my feet dwell forever among my people. John says, here it is. The heavenly city Jerusalem that God creates. Right? Transcendent and more resplendent in every way. And we'll get to proving that more today. But let's read on for now. So he carried me away, verse 10, in the spirit to a great, comma, high mountain, He showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. Look at the first description of it. Having the glory of God. That's what was the defining mark of every sacred space that we've looked at so far. Once it was built, once it was consecrated, the glory of God descended upon it. right? The tabernacle, the temple, etc. So what the first thing John says about this is it has the glory of God. Not the glory of God descends upon it. There's a permanence here. This isn't a temporary thing. Go back to Ezekiel 43. We're going to be jumping all around in there. I think The evidence here is overwhelming. Ezekiel 43, and we'll talk about what happens in between in a minute that we're skipping over. We'll come back to some of it. Then he led me to the gate. This is Ezekiel. The gate facing east. Why is that significant? Do you remember? From which direction had Adam and Eve been dispelled from the presence of God and the tree of life in the garden? From the east. What was placed there? A gate. Well, a cherubim, which was later embroidered on the curtain that served as a gate to the holy place in the temples, which also faced East, right? And from which direction had the glory of God, because as a judgment upon Israel's sin in Ezekiel 8-11, departed. from the east, right? Remember it went out of the Holy of Holies, then out of the temple, and then out of the city, and then up to a big high mountain. Remember that? It's kind of carted off by the cherubim, the guardians of glory. It was God leaving the earthly Jerusalem Ichabod because of their apostasy, okay? So now Ezekiel is seeing a vision of the glory of God returning back the same way that it departed. Verse 2, And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. The sound of His coming was like the sound of many waters. And look, the whole earth shone with His glory. See that? It's resplendent. It's magnificent. It fills up everything, the glory of God. Go back to now verse 11 in chapter 21. So John first describes the city as having the glory of God and then speaks of its radiance. What's that? It's the outraying, the shininess of that glory. Remember, this is in a day where there weren't electric lighting, or there wasn't electric lighting, right? It's hard for us to even fathom this, but those descriptions that John is going to go on and describe are some of the most like brilliant, magnificently, you know, photo, sensory things that existed at that time. The light refracting through these rare jewels of brilliant, beautiful colors. Like think stained glass, but to a greater degree, a pure degree, not stained glass, but pure crystals and that sort of thing. Think that in the ancient world, okay? John describes the glory of God radiating from this city like this. He says it was similar to, not it was, by the way, okay? People get this wrong. It was like a most rare jewel, the best, the cream of the crop, perfect cuts, right? Like a jasper, clear as crystal. That's the light reflecting. I don't know if I'm using the word there, but you know what I mean. Okay, back in verse 4 of Ezekiel. Let's see. Did I not put that up before? Okay, I don't know what I did. I don't know where I'm at. Give me just a second. I messed up somewhere. Anywho, go to verse 4, and if you see it getting off, just somebody signal to me, and we'll get it figured out, because I can't yet. So we read, the glory of the Lord entered the temple by the gate facing east. The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, that's the inner part of the temple only a priest could go to, and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple. Now, here's something interesting. When the temple and the tabernacle were consecrated, where was the glory of the Lord manifested? It's a trick question, right? In the Holy of Holies, technically, but still people couldn't stand because of it. There's a permeation here that seems to be in view, but it is bringing that to mind. Let me show you why I point that out. Maybe this is a stretch. I don't think it is. I think this probably is meant to be understood as the fulfillment of this as well. Isaiah 60. Arise, shine, for your light has come. The glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Who's he talking to there? Judah, you would say, in a technical sense, right? We would say Israel. God's people. It says, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, thick darkness the peoples, those outside the walls, but the Lord, not the sun, but the Lord, He's their light, will arise upon you and His glory will be seen upon you. Now we're gonna jump ahead a little bit. But notice, back in Revelation 21, verse 23, what we're told of this city, who we've clearly established as the church. The city has no need of sun or moon to rise on it, to shine on it. Why? Because the glory of God gives it its light. See the correlation? It's lamp, it's luminary. Light bulb, we would say, is Christ. It's light is Christ. And in chapter 22, verse five, night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun. Again, why? Because the Lord God will be their light. See the connection to all these things? It's not accidental. These are not talking about separate things. It just happened to be described very similarly. One is the foreshadowing. This is the fulfillment. Look at verse 12. I'm going to take a turn here, away from... well, just to different things. You'll see. Revelation 21, verse 12. He described the glory, how replete it was, how brilliant, resplendent the glory of God was on the city. Now he's going to talk about its defenses, safety, security, and permanence. Okay, remember the city is a metaphor for the church. It had a great, comma, high wall. We're going to see how high in a minute. It's unbelievable, if I'm thinking correctly. With 12 gates, has that been a pretty significant number in the book of Revelation so far? Hell yeah, all the way through it is. And at the 12 gates, 12 angels. Guys, is this Jerusalem safe from invaders? Okay. Like the wall, I'll just go and give you a hint. It reaches the outer space and beyond, okay? Okay, we'll see that in a minute. Not literally, but like if it was on this earth, it would. Okay, it's got these huge, we're gonna see in a minute, 200 foot thick walls and gates. And not only that, okay, it's got angels guarding every entrance to the city, every gate. That's the way you get into a city, right? That keeps bad people out. Let's citizens in, okay? Is this a secure city? Is this city gonna last for a long time? Nothing's gonna overtake it, right? You following along with me? Okay, remember, think about, who was it, Elisha, maybe, who had the servant who was scared to death, because there was this army out there, and he's like, God opened his eyes and let him see, you know, and he's like, The armies of men are nothing compared to the, you know, power of the angels is an essential thing. So in any event, I think that would be the idea. But let's read on. So, and on the gates, what about that? The names of the 12 tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed. So what does that tell us that this city represents? the people of God, the totality of them. Right? Think chapter 7. What do we see there? What did John not see there? What did John hear? He said, I heard the number of the sealed of the servants of our God, 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. And I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number from every nation, kindred, tribe, and tongue. They were all redeemed by Jesus Christ." That was the church, right? There too, the church showing that the church is the fulfillment of the people of God, okay? Maybe that's not gonna convince you, but I think it will in time if you've not so far. Reading on for now, verse 13. On the east, three gates. On the north, three gates. On the south, three gates. And on the west, three gates. Okay? You ready for this? Turn to Ezekiel chapter 48. Either God really likes to build things like this or they're all talking about the same thing. Okay? I'm being facetious. They're talking about the same thing. Ezekiel 48. Verse 30, notice the similarities, okay? Whoa, cheating. Man, I am all out of sorts. Sorry. Sorry about my technological failures here. We'll try to get through it. Help me remember to come back to that. So important, so important. These shall be the exits of the city. So this is the city that, Temple City that Ezekiel's seeing. On the north side, which is to be 4,500 cubits by measure, cubits about a foot and a half, so you can do the math. I can't. Three gates on the north side, Reuben, Judah, Levi. Guess what? The names of the 12 tribes are on the gates. There's three per side. The city's four square, right? It's being named after the, Tribes of Israel, verse 31. On the east side, guess what? 4,500 cubits, three gates, named after three tribes. South side, 4,500 cubits, three gates, three tribes. West side, 4,500 cubits. It's four square, right? And three tribes, okay? Now here's the graphic. It's not the graphic. This is killing me. I don't know what I've done, okay? Let me show you this while we're here, okay? I've shown you guys this years ago if you were here, but for our, was that the Haggai study, Scott? Yeah, okay. So this was the court of the tabernacle, okay? Here is the actual little temple in the tabernacle, holy place. Okay, that was the little mobile thing. These are size scale comparisons. This was Solomon's grand and glorious temple, one of the wonders of the ancient world. You can see it dwarf the tabernacle. By the way, this is American football field for scale. Now this, Well, let's go to here. This, in comparison, is the size of the temple that Ezekiel was described. The eschatological temple. It dwarfs Solomon. You see how it dwarfs Solomon's temple? See how Solomon's temple would have been considered inglorious in comparison to Ezekiel's temple? Do you remember us reading in the book of Ezra how the people who had seen Solomon's temple, when they saw Zerubbabel's temple, the one that was rebuilt after the exiles came back, how the old people cried when they saw the foundation laid? Well, and when we studied Haggai, I said, well, here's why, I think, because they were expecting this. That was the eschatological temple. At the very least, they were expecting it to be like this. What they got was something very tiny that eventually got renovated by the pagan, I shouldn't say pagan, the wicked Idumean King Herod, that became the whole complex became this big, the temple itself being right here, okay? Now, that's the history of the temples. This one never having been constructed, these existed, okay? Are any of them Ezekiel's temple? Okay, you see my point. If we're gonna take Ezekiel 40 as like being very literal brick and mortar dimensions and that sort of thing, We got a problem. Furthermore, this guy right here, I've said before, it don't fit right here. It don't fit on the temple mount, okay? Where they say it's gonna be. People who take that very literally, okay? So that dog don't hunt. You gotta find some other way of explaining that other than this is actually gonna be built with stone and gold and brick and mortar. Let's move on, OK? Keep that in mind. We're going to show another graphic later that I hope will make you gasp, OK? Probably won't, but that's my hope. 35, reading on Ezekiel 48, I want to just point out one thing. The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. That circumference is the distance around, 4,500 times 4. And look, the name of the city from the time that it's built on shall be not Jerusalem, the Lord is peace, but the Lord is present from that time on, from that time on. Okay. The Lord is there. Okay. Think about this that we read before. I'm trying to show you how it all connects together. Isaiah 62. Remember we read the nations shall see your righteousness and all the kings your glory. We read the previous part of that. And you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will give. Okay? You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, a royal diadem in the hand of your God, treasured jewel. Okay, see the correlations. Remember, we already saw intimations of this in Revelation before, chapter 3, verse 12, right? When it says, one who conquers, I'll make him a pillar in the temple of my God. I'll write on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God. What's the name? In the old Jerusalem, it's the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from God. Right? The place where God dwells with man, Revelation 21-3, it's all interconnected. You following along? Am I confusing people? I'm not confusing... Alright, Scott went this way, I didn't know if he meant... He's not following along, or I am confusing, okay. Alright, look at verse 14. They've all come together. I think, I hope. I'd love to get to this next graphic. I bet you I won't. Man, it's frustrating. Should have started sooner. And the wall of the city, so what's supporting those giant walls, had 12 foundations. On them, the thing upon which the city was built, the city where God dwells forever, were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, the Lamb. Do you remember why that's important? Remember Ephesians 2? What did it say? Remember that? You're no longer strangers and aliens speaking to Gentiles. You're fellow citizens with the saints, members of the household of God, built on the foundation of The apostles and prophets, those who brought the word, the revelation of God, the authoritative revelation of God, Christ Jesus being the cornerstone of that, in whom the whole structure being joined together grows into a holy temple in the Lord. in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the work of the Spirit. Remember all that? The people of God established on the Word of God being built up by the Spirit of God. You see the correlations to that? The foundation of this city wherein God dwells forever, the glory of God emanates, radiates in its fullness. Guys, it's the church. It's the church. It's the same exact thing that Paul says there in Ephesians 2. I don't think there's any question here what's going on. John is saying, as Hebrews 11, 10 says, the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. Remember what it says? We won't read it all, but it says those folks who had faith in the Old Testament, like Moses, who was willing to suffer the reproach of Christ rather than have the treasures of Egypt, they were doing so because they desired a better city. This city. Not the earthly Jerusalem, but the heavenly Jerusalem, right? The city whose builder and maker is God, right? Following along with me? It all connects, right? This is the bride. This is the wife of the Lamb, verse 9. This is clear reference, guys, to the Church of Jesus Christ. Alright. Man, I just ain't gonna get to my picture. This is so disappointing. Yeah, you know, I hate it more than you know, but that's a really good transition point, and it would be best if I stopped there, because it'll be a while before we have another one, and it's 7.30. So, sorry for that. I didn't realize the time and got started late. Anybody got any questions about any of this? I know I went through it quickly, but I hope it was not confusing. No questions? We're not even late. Anybody still kind of skeptical, like, ah, Tyler, you raised your hand. Yeah, Amy, you're skeptical? My kids, wow. They're the harshest critics, you know? Well, the main disagreement would be with those that would say that all those Old Testament promises about the restoration of Israel, Jerusalem, land promises that their fulfillment is in a physical way, not in a spiritual substance, like through the work of Christ in the church. And the reason it's so big for many is they attach God's faithfulness to his word, to him fulfilling those promises in the way that seems most plausible to them, i.e. physically. I don't say literally, because this is the literal fulfillment, but physically. So like, in other words, I always thought that Well, I say always. If you go back far enough, I thought, you know, first there's going to be some Jews are going to reclaim Israel, and then there's going to be an Antichrist that makes a covenant with the Jews and breaks the covenant. There's a rapture before that, and then in the middle of that. I don't know, you know, that kind of moves around a little bit, depending on who you talk to. Well, God was going to establish in a millennial, literal thousand year, chronologically speaking, kingdom on the earth, this Jewish kingdom. that's gonna be so much greater than any Jewish kingdom that's ever been. And there's gonna be this grand, glorious temple and all these promises are gonna be fulfilled in that. Land and yeah, yeah. And yeah, so it's just that kind of idea that for God to fulfill this, literally he has to fulfill it physically. And yeah, so I think that would be the primary pushback. You know of another, of a different one? Yeah, I can't think of a big one. But that's a big one in, you know, the day in which we live. Not been a big one for a long time. It's kind of a new understanding, ironically. It's big right now, so certainly that was my kind of preconceived notion early on in life. And so I think that's why I'm stressing so much things like this graph that says, hey, like, this ain't happening on the Temple Mount over in Jerusalem after they find them a red cow. You know, like you see people on the TV all the time, oh, they found the red heifer, and you know, they're gonna tear down that dome of the rock over there and build this eschatological temple that's gonna bring in, usher in all these promises, and they just don't fit. But what does fit very clearly is what we're seeing here, that the scripture interprets the scripture for itself, and shows us how God fulfills that. He doesn't diminish those promises in doing it. He expands on them, makes them greater, right? That's my thesis anyway. Any other questions? No? All right, well, we'll stop there. get to my other graphic next time. And it won't even be next week, I don't think. It's just sad. It's going to be great. At least the picture is going to be great. All right, let's pray. Lord, we do thank you for your word. Thank you for your faithfulness to keep it Thank you for your promises that you've included us in your promises, those of us who had no claim on you by nature of our birth, and certainly not by nature of our own righteousness, that you've extended your grace and compassion, saving love to us in Christ. We praise you for that. Help us to cling to Him. Help us to cherish and delight in Your people and to appreciate the fact that You dwell among us and do so permanently and forever. Help us never take it for granted. We're asking Jesus' name. Amen.