Page 18 - BV4

sion which I saw -- like the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the city. The vi-
sions were like the vision which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face. And
the glory of the LORD ["Cavod YHVH"] came into the Temple by way of the gate
WHICH FACES TOWARD THE EAST. The spirit lifted me up and brought me into the
inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD ["Cavod YHVH"] filled the Temple.
Then I heard Him speaking to me from the Temple while a man stood beside me. And he
said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My
feet, where I will dwell [shakan] in the midst of the children of Israel FOREVER. NO
MORE shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their harlo-
try or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places. -- Ezekiel 43:2-7.

This event, which Ezekiel experienced in vision, will be fulfilled in the near future when
God's "Shekinah" returns to this earth and habitates, once again, a newly built Temple! We find
this SAME event recorded in Zechariah 2 -- where he says: "Sing, Jerusalem, and rejoice! For I
have come to live [shakan] among you, says the LORD [YEHOVAH, YHVH]. AT THAT TIME
[of the end] many nations will be converted to the LORD [YEHOVAH, YHVH], and they too shall
be my people; I will live [shakan] among them all. Then you will know it was the LORD of Hosts
[YEHOVAH, YHVH] who sent me to you....Be silent, all mankind before the LORD [YEHOVAH,
YHVH]; FOR HE [IN THE FORM OF THE "SHEKINAH"] HAS COME TO EARTH FROM
HEAVEN, FROM HIS HOLY HOME" (10-13).

The Golden Age to come, which Zechariah said was to follow the return of the "Shekinah"
at the end of the age, describes the city and surrounding areas as being at peace in an age when
people can grow old in a secure environment. To those who lived in Jerusalem, in the hearing of
Zechariah, that would seem like a miracle -- so great was the desolation of the place. But of the
conditions that would follow the RETURN of the "Shekinah" to the Temple at the end of the age,
Zechariah records:

Thus said the LORD [YEHOVAH, YHVH]: I have RETURNED TO ZION, and I will
dwell [shakan] in Jerusalem....Thus said the LORD [YEHOVAH, YHVH] of hosts: There
shall yet be old men and women in the squares of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand be-
cause of their great age. And the squares of the city shall be crowded with boys and girls
playing in the squares. Thus said the LORD [YEHOVAH, YHVH] of Hosts: Though it
will seem impossible to the remnant of this people IN THOSE DAYS, shall it also be im-
possible to Me? -- declares the LORD [YEHOVAH, YHVH] of Hosts. -- Zechariah
8:4-6.

Revelation 19

Now what about the New Testament -- does the New Testament record the RETURN of
God's glory or "Shekinah" to this earth and to a NEW Temple in Jerusalem? Indeed it does, and in
a passage that Christians (in their confusion) have taken to refer to the return of Christ for more
than 1,700 years!! Incredible as it may seem, Satan has blinded millions over the centuries to the
TRUE identity of the Person pictured in Revelation 19 --

18