How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

What God said he will do, he will do.

If we had to sum up this study on through the Bible in 10 words or less, that's what we'd say.

You know, I'm so glad that you're here as we hop aboard the Bible bus and travel to

Ezekiel 18, our current stop and our five-year journey through God's entire word.

But before we dive in, Dr. McGee recorded a special intro that will set the stage for us today.

Now this book is a very important book to the understanding of prophecy as we're

coming now to many prophecies concerning the nation of Israel that have already been fulfilled.

God had prophesied they would go into captivity, he prophesied that certain things would happen to them, he prophesied that certain things would happen to them.

He prophesied that they would return out of captivity.

Now all of that has been fulfilled, but a great deal of prophecy in Ezekiel is not fulfilled up to the day it's not fulfilled.

And we find that we are coming now shortly to God's judgment of the

nations that were contiguous to the nation Israel that is those nations that adjoined the nation Israel. That is those nations that adjoin the nation Israel.

And that's the reason nations are mentioned in scripture. It's always in connection

with the nation Israel and And that's the reason also that the United

States is not in prophecy because we are not geographically close to them.

The prophecies actually relate to the nation Israel

and the nations that are in that immediate area and these prophecies concerning these nations

for the most part have literally been fulfilled. Now scriptures made up in prophecy of that which is not fulfilled and that which has been

fulfilled and there are so many of these prophecies here that have been fulfilled.

And they've been fulfilled literally, so literal that actually it has to do with what the spayed in the ground is going to

turn up about the location of a city and things that are very specific and all of them have been

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