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Abomination of Desolation Study

Topic study: Abomination of Desolation Study

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Symbols

  1. Dagon AND threshold
  2. hand* AND threshold
  3. threshold AND (leap* OR tread)
  4. threshold AND glory
  5. glory AND (God OR LORD) AND cherub*
  6. cherub* AND linen
  7. cherub* AND fire
  8. cherub* AND cover*
  9. linen AND naked
  10. cloud AND (light OR bright*)
  11. glory AND depart*
  12. colour AND amber
  13. amber AND fire

The Tabernacle

  • Does God’s appearance in the tabernacle relate to the actions of the cherubim in the temple?
  • What is the significance of breaking the covenant of day and night? How does this relate to the covenant of the pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night?
  • The night will come when no man can workI
  • Why is it significant that the covenant of day and the covenant of night cannot be broken?
    • In this context, what do day and night represent?

Blood and Water

  • How does Jesus blood and water compare to the two birds blood and water?

Synonyms

thesholddoor
leaptread

Feet Purged by Fire or Washed with Water

Walking on the stones of fire is to be clean and purified just as how fire purifies gold or burnished brass. By contrast to have unclean feat is to be sinful and unsaved. Jesus washes the disciples feet. It is a shame to have one’s shoe or sandal plucked off.

Compare the stones of fire on the mountain of God walked upon by the covering cherub, with the pavement taken from the altar with tonges by the seraph above the throne of the LORD

  • [Pro 6:28 KJV] 28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
  • [Rev 1:15 KJV] 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
  • [Eze 1:7 KJV] 7 And their feet [were] straight feet; and the sole of their feet [was] like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
  • [Dan 10:5-6 KJV] 5 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins [were] girded with fine gold of Uphaz: 6 His body also [was] like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
  • [Jhn 13:10 KJV] 10 Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash [his] feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
  • [Exo 3:5 KJV] 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy ground.
  • [Eze 24:11-13 KJV] 11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and [that] the filthiness of it may be molten in it, [that] the scum of it may be consumed. 12 She hath wearied [herself] with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum [shall be] in the fire. 13 In thy filthiness [is] lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

Why would Aaron die without the incense covering the mercy seat?
[Lev 16:11-13 KJV] 11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which [is] for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which [is] for himself: 12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring [it] within the vail: 13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that [is] upon the testimony, that he die not:

Linen Clothes

  • [Lev 16:23 KJV] 23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy [place], and shall leave them there:
  • [Lev 16:32 KJV] 32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, [even] the holy garments:

Threshold

  • [Isa 6:4 KJV] 4 And the posts [h520: cubits] of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
  • [Eze 40:6 KJV] 6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold one reed broad.
  • [Eze 43:7-12 KJV] 7 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 for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, [neither] they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places. 8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. 9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. 10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write [it] in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. 12 This [is] the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about [shall be] most holy. Behold, this [is] the law of the house.
  • [Jdg 19:27 KJV] 27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down [at] the door of the house, and her hands [were] upon the threshold.
  • [1Ki 14:17 KJV] 17 And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: [and] when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
  • [Amo 9:1-4 KJV] 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them: 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
  • [Zep 2:14 KJV] 14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation [shall be] in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
  • [Exo 12:21-23 KJV] 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that [is] in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. 23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite [you].

Glory of God

  1. God makes the temple desolate because he is unwilling to give his glory to another; He is a jealous God
  2. What is the difference between the glory of the LORD and the glory of the god of Israel? Does the later refer to the abomination of desolation?
  3. What is the difference between the glory Ezekiel sees at the river Chebar and the glory he sees in the plain?
  4. It is God’s glory to be the door or threshold that admits mankind into the body of believers
  5. Sinful man makes his own door or threshold in an attempt to create a human-centered salvation plan
  6. Creating another door or threshold or hole in the wall is an attempt to steal God’s glory
  7. God is unwilling to give his glory to another, namely, the devil who mankind makes a pact with when trying to create or enter by an alternate door
  8. Thieves and robbers are those who enter by a door other than God
  9. In this context the god of Israel refers to a false idol that represents an alternate door or threshold leading into the body of believers
  10. The LORD (Jehovah) represents the true door or threshold to the body of believers
  11. When the slayers and the linen clothed scribe enter the door of the house crossing its threshold, the glory of the god of Israel lifts off the cherub and stands over the threshold
  12. Standing over the threshold is an illustration of standing guard as a gatekeeper
  13. This stolen glory of the god of Israel is the abomination of desolation
  14. Upon seeing the abomination, God first charges the scribe to mark the believers and then charges the slayers to kill all who are not marked
  15. The scribe and the slayers do their task within and without the house, all over the city
  16. Ezekiel sees the throne above the cherubs
  17. It is not mentioned whether anyone is sitting on that throne as in times past
  18. continue from Eze 10
  • [Isa 42:8 KJV] 8 I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
  • [Isa 48:11 KJV] 11 For mine own sake, [even] for mine own sake, will I do [it]: for how should [my name] be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
  • [Dan 10:5-6 KJV] 5 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins [were] girded with fine gold of Uphaz: 6 His body also [was] like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
  • [Dan 10:5-6 KJV] 5 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins [were] girded with fine gold of Uphaz: 6 His body also [was] like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
  • [Eze 1:26-28 KJV] 26 And above the firmament that [was] over their heads [was] the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. 27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness round about. This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw [it], I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
  • [Eze 3:12, 23 KJV] 12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed [be] the glory of the LORD from his place. … 23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
  • [Eze 10:18-19 KJV] 18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims. 19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also [were] beside them, and [every one] stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD’S house; and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above.
  • [Eze 11:22-23 KJV] 22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above. 23 ⁰And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which [is] on the east side of the city.
  • [Eze 28:2 KJV] 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart [is] lifted up, and thou hast said, I [am] a God, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou [art] a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
  • [Eze 43:4-5 KJV] 4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect [is] toward the east. 5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
  • [Eze 44:4 KJV] 4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
  • [1Co 15:40-41 KJV] 40 [There are] also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial [is] one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial [is] another. 41 [There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth from [another] star in glory.

Defeat of Satan on Earth

See Eze 30-32

Miscellaneous

Eze 28:14 ∪ Eze 28:16 = {cherub*, cover*, mountain, God, midst, stones, fire}

[Gen 12:7-8 KJV] 7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

[Zec 14:4 KJV] 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

  • seraph* AND coal [h7531: pavement]
  • wheel vs whirlwind
  • to stand on the threshold is to be cut off?
  • threshold, door, passover, death of firstborn, mark, forhead
  • image, jealousy, Dagon, gate, entry, threshold, north*, altar
  • a witness is that which observes
    • to see, hear, or know by personal presence and perception:
    • a person or thing that affords evidence
    • a person who gives testimony, as in a court of law

Timeline of the Abomination of Desolation

  1. God is depicted on the throne Eze 1
  2. God, now off the throne, shows the abominations defiling the temple Eze 8
  3. The elect are marked for salvation Eze 9
  4. The non-elect are killed, further defiling the temple and the holy city Eze 9
  5. The glory of God departs the temple Eze 11
  6. The temple is left desolate Eze 11
  7. The temple is purified Eze 43
  8. The glory of God returns to the temple and to the holy city Eze 43

The Abomination(s)

See Eze 8

  • door of the inner gate
  • seat of the image of jealousy
  • the way toward the north
  • gate of the altar
  • image of jealousy in the entry
  • sanctuary
  • door of the court
  • hole in the wall
  • a door in the wall
  • creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall. stood seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up
  • door of the gate of the LORD’S house toward the north
  • sat women weeping for Tammuz
  • inner court of the LORD’S house
  • door of the temple of the LORD between the porch and the altar
  • 25 men with their backs to temple worshipping the sun toward the east

The Desolation

See Eze 8-11

  • God brings Ezekiel to the door of the inner gate that look towards the north where the seat of jealousy was being purchased
  • The glory of the god of Israel was there
  • God says son of man lift up your eyes the way toward the north and see northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry
  • God shows Ezekiel three additional cases of abomination
  • Six men came from the way of the higher gate, each with a slaughter weapon in hand
  • One man clothed in linen with the scribe’s inkhorn at his side
  • They went in and stood beside the brasen altar
  • The glory of the god of Israel was gone up from the cherub to the threshold of the house
  • God called to the man clothed in linen and said mark the foreheads of the men that sigh and cry for the abominations done
  • To the others God said to smite all but those with the mark and defile the house and fill the courts with the slain
  • They went forth and slew in the city
  • The man clothed in linen reported the matter saying I have done as commanded
  • In the firmament above the cherubims appeared a sapphire stone in the likeness of a throne
  • God tells the man in linen to fill his hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims and scatter them over the city
  • The man in linen is seen to do so
  • The cherubims stood on the right side of the house when the man went in and the cloud filled the inner court
  • The glory of the LORD went up from the cherub to the threshold of the house and the house was filled with the cloud and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’S glory
  • The sound of the cherubims’ wings was heard in the outer court as the voice of the almighty God when he speaks
  • When He had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in and stood beside the wheels
  • One cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims and took and put into the hands of the man clothed with linen, who took, and went out
  • There appeared in the cherubims the form of a man’s hand under their wings
  • It was cried to the wheels: Oh whirlwind
  • The cherubims were lifted up
  • The wheels went with the cherubim
  • The glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims
  • The cherubims lifted up their wings, mounted up from the earth, and went out with the wheels beside them, then stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD’S house with the glory of the God of Israel above
  • The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings
  • Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel above
  • And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain on the east side of the city

The Purification