I don't have one this time, but it's in a previous study. He says, so shall ye know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion. And Zion is another name for, it can refer to a particular portion of Jerusalem, but at other times it's just called, Jerusalem's just called Zion. It's interchangeable at times. And he says, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Now, This is a prophecy that has never been fulfilled and is yet future. And Ezekiel, I think we quoted this in the previous studies, I didn't go back and check, but it's a good one anyway, we'll quote it again. Says, 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 forever. He's making it clear this isn't to be spiritualized. He's talking about the soles of his feet. He's going to be standing on the land in Jerusalem, sitting on a throne in that temple that's going to be rebuilt. And it is the Lord himself. And here's a artist rendering, if you can see that. And this is one, I'll show you another one in a second. There's a couple different ways people think it'll be built. I don't understand why there's a debate about it, but we know it's gonna, the size of it, we just don't know exactly how everything will look. But if you look closely, that's you right there. That little tiny speck. So that gives you an idea of how big this complex is going to be. Much bigger than the previous temples. And the temple that will be built during the Tribulation period in a few years won't compare to this when it comes to size. But also pay attention to the fact that Jesus is inside that building right there. I mean, you're going to be able to go in there and see Him inside that temple. A day is coming. So, it says, Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. Now, it's just another future tense. This has never been true of Jerusalem. At all times, there's been strangers, meaning those who are not of the physical seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But during the millennium, Jesus is going to build that wall, and he's not going to allow illegals. Just telling you like it is. And the idea of borders is biblical. No borders is Antichrist. The idea of not allowing illegals into your country is biblical. The idea of open borders and allowing illegals is Antichrist. The eventual desire is no borders and just one big global government. That's what all the liberals, if they don't know that, then they're useful idiots. They're being used by the devil to set up the Antichrist system. But that's the end game. No borders. No real national status of any importance, global citizens as we heard Obama say when he ran and was elected by the useful idiots in 2008 and 2012. God established borders and separation of nations. He makes it clear that he establishes nations, not a global government. That's Babel. What did he do to Babel? Scattered it. And he's going to do the same thing when the Antichrist tries it. So verse 18 says, And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine. Now, don't get your hopes up, drunks. This isn't Candy Mountain, as the song says. Remember that? Burl Ives sang that? And that was before my time, but I listen to music before my time because it's much better than the crap they're singing today. But Burl, I've seen a song about, I think it was on the soundtrack to that movie. What was the movie? Old Brother, Where Art Thou? It was on that soundtrack too. But what it means is that grapes are going to grow larger and in mass quantities. So you're going to see people making wine like there's no tomorrow. Now the fundamentalists want to fight over whether or not that'll have alcohol in it or not. We know that it's not going to be drunkenness during the the Millennial Kingdom. So, you know, it could be that there's just a ration. People are only allowed to have so much because there's no need to have more because you're not allowed to get drunk. But if you go get drunk and all that, the Bible says there's harsh punishments for those things. So, back in Numbers, we saw a picture of this. When Joshua took the children of Israel into the Promised Land, In Numbers 13.23, by the way, he didn't fulfill all the requirements, and that's why the prophecies about there being a day like the one we're reading about now, we know is still future. Joel was written after Joshua was dead and gone by, you know, 1,500 years or whatever, but we also know this says it's future. Look what it says, and they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff. It took two men to carry a branch with one cluster of grapes. These were big men. These were stronger than, I'm sorry Doug and Jack and Mark and Johnny, but these men were probably twice as strong and twice as big as we were. And still, there were giants in the land who were bigger than them by several feet. Yeah, probably about three, three and a half feet taller than Charlie. A lot of them. Oh, now Dan's here. I have to change that. They're stronger than most of us here. I'm just kidding. I found this little picture. I think that's what it looked like. A cluster of graves. Some of you may not know this. It's about this big here today. You might find some a little bigger, but not from shoulder below my waist, this big around. But that day's coming. And it says, and the hills shall flow with milk. Now, that's because of the huge number of cows, goats, sheep, camel, all providing milk. It doesn't mean that there's gonna be, you know, this is the kingdom, not Willy Wonka. You don't have rivers of milk. If there were, then I'm sure the Lord would make sure there was at least one that was chocolate. But the brown cows will take care of giving you the chocolate milk. But, and this is another one that, you know, milk isn't going to walk up to you in the millennium and say, drink me. But what it means is there's, because they used to, you know, to this day people still do drink goat milk. Amen, Charmaine. Yeah. And I didn't know this, but we saw not too long ago, camels. They drink camel milk. I didn't know that. I guess if you can milk, if they can milk an almond, I mean, they have to be able to milk a camel. So the rest of the verse says, And all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters. So you don't have to buy bottled water. And a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord. Look at that. That's the amazing one right there. A fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord and shall water the valley of Shittim, which is the valley of the Dead Sea. And this is amazing. It's prophesied elsewhere. Let's look in Ezekiel 47. Ezekiel 47 and first nine verses. And I'll read while you're turning there. Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house. This is talking about the temple. Millennial Temple. And behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward. Well, we'll show you in a second, but the way the temple is built, when it comes off of the temple and eastward, guess where that water is going to go? The Valley of Shittim, where the Dead Sea is. So it's exactly where it's at. It says, for the forefront of the house stood toward the east and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house at the south side of the altar. and says, then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward. And behold, there ran out waters on the right side. And when the man that had a line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits and brought me through the waters. The waters were to the ankles. And he measured 1,000 and brought me through the waters. The waters were to the knees. So every 1,000 cubits, it got that much deeper. And again, he measured 1,000 and brought me through the waters were to the loins. And afterward, he measured 1,000. It was a river that I could not pass over for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over. Now, here's the fascinating thing here. Verse six says, and he said unto me, son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me and caused me to return to the brink of the water. That's the bank, we'd say bank of the water. Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. Then said he unto me, these waters issue out toward the east country and go down into the desert, which is today a desert. And it won't be a desert after this. and go into the sea. That's what we call the Dead Sea. Look what it says, which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. It will no longer be dead. You won't be able to float in it. You ever seen people in the Dead Sea? It's so filled with, is it salient? Yeah, there's a word for it. I'm thinking they call it the salient or not salient. Because of the amount of salt and minerals in the water, I saw a guy try to dive down and he couldn't get his whole body under the water. He tried to do it shallow, he's doing all this. It's just funny to watch. But another lady tried to do that and then she breathed in some of the water and got really sick. So don't try it, probably, if you're not a good swimmer. But it says in verse nine then, and it shall come to pass that everything that liveth, which moveth withersoever the river shall come, shall live. So this is gonna be more than just clean water. And there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither. For they shall be healed, and everything shall live whither the river cometh. And we'll have to stop there. But isn't that fascinating? That's what Joel's talking about. Expanded upon by Ezekiel. Now look over at Zechariah. Zechariah chapter 14 and verses 8 and 9. Zechariah 14 verses 8 and 9. And listen, and it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the former sea and half of them toward the hinter sea, meaning the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. In summer and in winter shall it be, read verse 9 with me, and the Lord shall be king over all the earth. In that day shall there be one Lord and His name one. There you go. That's where we're ending. And Joel, he's telling these folks, you're in trouble. But when it's all said and done, those who are God's children, those who know the Lord, have a wonderful, wonderful day ahead of them, an eternal day. Starts with a thousand year kingdom. And so back in Joel 3 verse 19 says, Egypt shall be a desolation and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness. This is during that thousand years. Why? For the violence against the children of Judah because they have shed innocent blood in their land. And innocent blood, according to the Bible, has a day of reckoning. You remember when Cain slew Abel and what did God say to Cain? Thy brother's blood cries out. And many times God refers to the fact that what he's doing to a nation is payback. And I thought I'd mention it. Maybe I've got another slide but I'm going to mention it here. Somewhere around 65 million babies' blood cries out. in the United States of America alone. When you read that great tribulation outpouring for seven years of seals, vials, and trumpets, and all the death, you got to remember, there's a reason for it. God's just not killing people for no reason. And He's not killing people who are innocent. He's killing people who have taken the mark. So verse 20 says, But Judah shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation, but not before the books are balanced. He reminds you again. Verse 21, look how it starts. For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed. There it is. I looked it up. According to statistics I found, 63 million abortions in the United States since 1973. You might do the math. After the rapture, I believe the population of the United States of America will still be around 300 million. What's one-fifth? A fifth of the population of America killed. Payback for all those babies were murdering with, by the way, government sanction and many of them with taxpayer money. Johnny, I just noted the fact that since 1973, so if they had not been, they would probably all still be alive today. Well, the percentage, that's a good question, actually. I looked that up some time ago. And there's a percentage that would have died by various means. But you would still not only have them, but most of them, or all of them, going up to about the year 2000 would be procreating themselves. And that would be people working and paying money into Social Security and other things like that, by the way. The verse then ends, he says, for the Lord dwelleth in Zion. You see, Joel is telling them, he keeps reminding them, there's a judgment, there's a payday, there's going to be blood. But in the end, God is going to restore Eden. Look over at Genesis 2, we'll close this up here, but I want to go to Genesis 2, beginning verse 8. Genesis is real easy to find. It's the first book in your Bible, just so you know. And chapter 2, so it's real close to the beginning. And verse 8 says, And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. Now, we had a little discussion in our MeWe chat, Monk Mark, Shane Hintz, I can't remember who else was involved in it. Mark Vass, we call him Monk Mark because that's what he calls himself. He's in some tea call, but we're gonna get in that. But where was Eden? You will never find Eden. The flood wiped out everything before the flood. So Eden's gone. Those rivers that you read about, they're gone. But that doesn't mean that God doesn't know the location of where it was. It just means you're not gonna find it, so don't waste your time and money trying to find Eden. A lot of people try to point and say it's probably in Babylon because after the flood, it appears that civilization kind of got its bearings around that area, Shinar. But Shane Hintz said this, and I agree with him, that if there's a location that God's pinpointed, I believe that location is in Jerusalem. I just think that wherever it was that God had to kill that animal for coats for Adam and Eve and that blood dropped right there in Jerusalem, where Jerusalem is. You can't dig and find it though. But I don't want people to misunderstand me because I'll say you'll never find Eden. It doesn't mean God doesn't know where it was. You're just not going to find Eden. And I believe that animal he killed to cover Adam and Eve was right there where Jesus shed his blood. It's right where Abraham offered Isaac before God stopped him. It's where the temple, that whole area is called Moriah, Mount Moriah region. And that whole area is considered, I believe, where Eden was. And may have been even Something to do with the whole Dead Sea thing. We've got to move on. Verse 9 says, And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And it says, verse 10, And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads, and those rivers are gone. Wouldn't it be something if this is where the temple sits, and that's where this same water is coming out of the temple? Same location? I can't prove it, but come on, man. Look at chapter 3, verses 8 through 10, again. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. What do you do when you walk? You plant the soles of your feet. Right there in Eden, just like we read is gonna happen in Jerusalem in the temple. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. So, That just seems to connect there, the dots. And then chapter 3 at the end, verse 22 says, And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us to know good and evil, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever. Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man, and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword, which turned every way, to keep the way of the Tree of Life." That's why I believe there's more than just a couple of cherubs, cherubim. Satan was one, he fell. There's still two at the mercy seat, and then there were some at the Garden of Eden, so there's more than three right there. Plural, so there's at least five or more. But that's just pointing out how that what was lost in Eden is what Joel has told us God is restoring. And we've run all those references. If you missed any of the studies, they're all available online. And you can find them at our website, bbfohio.com. But that concludes our study of the book of Joel. And we're going to close with the All Ball theme song in honor of Jenny making it back. She flew in from Washington to be at church today and boy are her arms tired. I just had to say this. Some of you have read Dante, at least a couple of you have. Maybe you're college kids, maybe, maybe. Your college tuition was worth it then. Jack read it? Oh, Milton. Yeah, not Dante. I've read it but I forgot who wrote it. I read Dante too by the way. John Milton. Paradise lost becomes paradise regained. Of course, it's not the Bible. There's some imagery in there that's not biblical and all that. But it's a very interesting read. And John Milton, one of the great authors, poets, So, Revelation 21, three says, and I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God. Isn't that something? We just kind of get used to it, I think. We get used to just reading this stuff. But think about that. There's coming a day when we're going to live in a world ruled and reigned by Jesus Christ. He's going to be walking around. We're going to be able to see Him, be in His presence. I believe we're going to get to walk right in that temple and see Him on His throne. John 14 and Acts 4 12 If you don't believe these then you're gonna go to hell You won't get away with calling Jesus a liar And all who reject the way end up in the fire God has given us all free will We can choose to run or just stand still We can read His Word or just let it lie Trust in Him or run till we die One of these days judgment will come When the day comes there's no place to run John 14 and Acts 4-12 You don't believe these and you're gonna go to hell You won't get away with calling And all who reject the wind end up in the fire. Jesus said it is and that makes it so. What you believe decides where you go.