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Week Forty-Two

Monday:  Ezekiel 33-36; 1 Peter 4

Tuesday: Ezekiel 37-39; 1 Peter 5; Psalm 110

Wednesday: Ezekiel 40-41; 2 Peter 1; Psalm 145, 128

Thursday: Ezekiel 42-45; 2 Peter 2

Friday: Ezekiel 46-48; 2 Peter 3

Study points:

Monday

• Ezekiel 33:6 – But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.

• Ezekiel 33:17-20 – Yet the children of your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.” But it is their way which is not fair! ¹⁸ When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it. ¹⁹ But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live because of it. ²⁰ Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.” O house of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his own ways.

• Ezekiel 33:31 – So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain.

• Mount Seir is associated with the Edomites.

• The restoration of Israel we see spoken of at the end of Ezekiel 36 is happening before our very eyes today.

• 1 Peter 4:9 – Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

• 1 Peter 4:15-16 – But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters. ¹⁶ Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.

Tuesday

• Ezekiel 37:22 – and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again.

• Ezekiel 37:26-28 – Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore. ²⁷ My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ²⁸ The nations also will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.

• 1 Peter 5:2-4 – Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; ³ nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock; ⁴ and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.

Wednesday

• God’s explanation of the building of the new temple shows us how exactly how He is and how even the littlest things matter.

• 2 Peter 1: 5-8 – But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, ⁶ to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, ⁷ to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. ⁸ For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Psalm 145:8-9 – The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy. ⁹ The Lord is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works.

Thursday

• Ezekiel 45:18-25 shows us that the Feasts of God are still important in the new temple.

• 2 Peter 2:1 – But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.

Friday

• Ezekiel 47:12 – Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine.”
  

• 2 Peter 3:8 – But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

   

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