Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we finished our 30th book of the Bible. Congratulations. We've got a lot to cover in our

vision tour wrap up in addition to talking about the things I've told you to put a pin in for the last two days, so let's get to it.

In Chapter 46, we read about the feasts and festivals.

On our Israel tours, when we set on the steps of the Temple Mount, we talk about what God says here in 46-9.

He who enters by the North Gate to worship shall go out by the South

Gate, and he who enters by the South Gate shall go out by the North Gate. No one shall return by the way

of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead. Sure, this probably

helps with traffic flow, but because Hebrew culture is rich with symbolism, there's also symbolism in this, not just

efficiency. It represents the fact that each person will exit different than they came. It represents

the change that takes place in us when we come before God to worship him. In verses 16 through 18,

God forbids the political leader from acquiring any more land.

Remember how pre-exile there was a major problem with the leadership being greedy,

which led to them oppressing the poor in order to acquire more land for themselves?

Here, God raises the bar on this situation in a way that stops their greedy desires

before they become greedy actions. In Chapter 47,

Ezekiel sees a vision of water flowing from the temple through what is currently desert and into the

Dead Sea. By the way, the Dead Sea is called the Dead Sea because nothing can live in it. It's 33% salt.

That's 11 times saltier than our oceans. But in Ezekiel's vision,

the desert is blooming because of the water, and the water even purifies the dead sea basin

so that it's no longer dead. It's alive. How beautiful and symbolic is that? But in addition to it being

symbolic, it may also be literal. In 2011,

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