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Ezekiel chapter 43, verses 1 and 2.

Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing east.

And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east.

And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters and the earth shone with his glory.

I love that imagery. Just picture it.

Ezekiel sees the glory of God coming.

He says it's like the sound of many waters, like just hear the roar of waters. And the earth

shone, Ezekiel says, with his glory. Just picture that the earth shining with the glory of God.

Now, even as I say that, I think, Romans 1 makes clear that God's

glory is shining in creation. Right now, you and I can look out, just picture a sunset,

sunrise, picture his beauty in creation in so many different ways. We can picture everything

from the Grand Canyon to people around us that are a display of the glory of God, the way

he creates and forms people in his image. So God's glory, yes, is shining all around us, but it's marred in our lives and the world by sin

in us and around us. Just picture the day when there won't be any more sin to mar the beauty

of God's glory in the earth. Like his justice shining, no more injustice.

His righteousness shining, no more wicked, no more evil.

His glory shining in full measure.

That's the kind of glimpse Ezekiel is getting here.

And when I read it, I think, I want to see that.

Don't you want to see that? Don't you want to see that?

Don't you want to see God in all of his glory, all of his beauty, perfectly?

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