Amen. Amen. Good evening. So glad you're here. You can be seated. Those of you online, we're so glad that you're joining with us as well.

I hope we don't mind, but we're just going to get right to it. Oh, I like that. So, you know, last week, of course, we finished chapter 39, which I know deeply profound,

comes after Ezekiel 38.

As we make our way through this book of Ezekiel, now we're on the home stretch, chapters

40 through 48. we turn a pretty

sharp corner and we go from this yet future prophesied invasion by this

alliance of nations of Israel isazekiel 3839.

And then subsequent to that, we go right into the millennium, which is after the tribulation,

which is what I want to really emphasize tonight, because from chapter 40 through to the rest of the book, chapter

48, it's prophetic about the temple in the kingdom age. Specifically a description of the

temple, then the worship in the temple, then lastly toward

the end of the book, that which surrounds the temple. Now this is during the 1,000-year

millennial reign where we rule and reign with Christ. But as we're about to see, Ezekiel in great detail, I mean great

detail, is given a vision of this temple during the millennium, which is after the seven-year tribulation, which is after the rapture,

which has to happen before the seven-year tribulation. Real quick. The next event prophetically

is the rapture of the church, which could be any time now.

Okay, never mind.

Then after the rapture, now we're not certain nor do we need to be, but there is a potential for, I can't see it being too much time but there could be

some time between the rapture and the commencement of the seven-year

tribulation because the rapture does not start the seven-year tribulation

what starts the seven-year tribulation is the fulfillment of Daniel 927.

When this confirmed peace agreement with many is enforced,

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