Amen and amen. Good evening. How are you guys doing tonight? Good. Blessed. All right.

Well, if you haven't already come up to get your elements for communion, you might want to do that at this time.

And also, for those of you joining us online, we're so glad that you are and you may if you plan on

partaking with us want to get the elements ready at this time at the conclusion of the

Bible study tonight will partate together actually it's going to be very interesting because

only God could do this is just going to be so interesting as we get to the end. It's going to just tie in beautifully to the communion celebration, which I'm very much looking forward to. So glad you're here tonight. Trust that you'll be blessed that you've come. We're making our way through the Bible, book by book, chapter by chapter.

We are currently in Ezekiel. I'm only going to take one chapter tonight.

Chapter 8, we completed six and seven last week. And I'm going to approach it a little bit differently, and I'm hoping that you'll understand why shortly.

So God is showing now Ezekiel four visions.

These visions encompass chapters 8 through chapter 11, and these visions are about the unspeakable abominations that were committed at the temple in Jerusalem.

So what we're going to see basically is in these visions and explanation of the origins of the counterfeit pagan religions that are alive and well today.

I'm hoping that maybe a lot of dots are going to get connected tonight.

And I'll try to do my best with the help of the Holy Spirit.

As we go through this, we are going to go verse by verse through the chapter.

And there's a couple of things I want to point out that I think are going

to be very important as we go through the chapter, but at the conclusion of the chapter, I do

want to kind of turn a corner. And this is why I want to talk about how it is and why it is that the counterfeit is that which

authenticates the genuine right and this is why it is by the way that you will

never see a counterfeit $70 bill are we good so far We're off to a good start, right?

So why will you never see a counterfeit $70 bill?

Because there's no such thing as a genuine $70 bill.

However, you will find many counterfeits of a $100 bill because that's the genuine article.

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