Two Weeks Ago

1. Two Weeks Ago Ezekiel 34:1-10

2. Last Week The Sheep Are NOT Innocent

3. Ezekiel 34:18 • Seemethit a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures?

4. The Ultimate Shepherd Promises an Awesome Future Kingdom for His Sheep Ezekiel 34:22-31

5. New Heaven and New Earth New Jerusalem Premillennial Eschatology Second Coming Christ and His Saints Great White Throne Judgment Release of Satan Mosaic Cov. G & M T Church Age/ Fullness of Gentiles 1000 Years 1st Resurrection Rest of the Dead

6. Let’s Look @ V. 31 Before we look at V. 22

7. Ezekiel 34:31 • And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men [humans], • and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.

8. Ezekiel 34:22 What a God—the same God who saves the flock is the judge who judges between sheep and sheep. • Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; • and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

9. Ezekiel 34:23 David was Dead • And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; • he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

10. 2 Samuel 7:18 Nathan the prophet speaking to David • And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: • thy throne shall be established for ever.

11. Davidic Covenant Four Components • House (dynasty or posterity) • Kingdom (land, people, dominion) • Throne (authority and power) • Forever (could go on and on)

12. Matthew 1:1 “son of David” occurs 16x in the NT • The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

13. Christmas is Coming Turn to Luke 1:26-33

14. Matthew 21:15 The Triumphal Entry • And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,

15. Ezekiel 34:24 Christ—the Messiah—the Prince • And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.

16. Daniel 9:25 • Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

17. Isaiah 9:6 • For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

18. Who Ezekiel 34:25 • And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

19. Dividing Questions What is this future covenant of peace referring to? And when is this fulfilled?

20. Look @ the Mosaic Law Leviticus 26:1-9

21. 1Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. 2Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. 3If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 7And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

22. A Dividing Question Is this the church or Israel?

23. A Dividing Question Is Christ’s rule in heaven the same as what is described in Ezekiel 37?

24. Turn over to Ezekiel 37:15-28 Listen for Joseph, Judah, David, King, Shepherd, Land, Heathen

25. Did the Jews Accept Christ as their Shepherd-King when He was on this earth? John 19:12-15

26. And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. • When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. • And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! • But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

27. Question How is the LORD God going to fulfill His Promises to Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and David?

28. Ezekiel 34:26 • And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; • and I will cause the shower [rain] to come down in his season; • there shall be showers of blessing.

29. This doesn’t sound like the new heaven and new earth Ezekiel 34:27 • And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.

30. Ezekiel 34:28 This doesn’t sound like the new heaven and new earth • And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.

31. Ezekiel 34:29 There are NO heathen in the new heaven. • And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

32. Ezekiel 34:30 When is the church called the “house of Israel?” • Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.

33. Question How and when is this promise to be fulfilled?

34. Answer = millennium Merriam-Webster 1 a : the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20 during which holiness is to prevail and Christ is to reign on earth b : a period of great happiness or human perfection 2 a : a period of 1000 years

35. The central Q is: “Is God going to fulfill His promises to Israel in a literal 1000 year kingdom or is God finished with the Jews?” Three Options A-millennial Post-millennial Pre-millennial

36. I believe the future holds a millennial kingdom for the House of Israel. In which Christ, Himself, will shepherd the fulfillment of what the LORD promised to Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and David.

37. Question If God does not have a future plan for ethic Jews—what is a rational answer for their survival as a race against seemingly all odds?

38. Application What does this have to do with me?

39. Finally Revelation 19:11ff

40. New Heaven and New Earth New Jerusalem Premillennial Eschatology Second Coming Christ and His Saints Great White Throne Judgment Release of Satan Mosaic Cov. G & M T Church Age/ Fullness of Gentiles 1000 Years 1st Resurrection Rest of the Dead