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Then the glory of the Lord {YHWH} departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim.
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Ezekiel who lived and prophesied during the Babylonian captivity was shown a vision by God of the glory of the Lord as it departed the Temple. Much later, the apostle John in his gospel records when that prophesy was fulfilled: Jesus had gone into the temple early one morning, and as He sat down to teach, the scribes and Pharisees who desired to accuse and condemn Him wound up in a verbal battle with the One who IS the Word.

And that Word, the Lord Jesus, is the radiance of the Father’s glory and the exact representation of the Father’s nature.{Heb.1:3} So when He was speaking with the apostles and Philip asked Jesus to show them the Father, He responded saying ‘he who has seen Me has seen the Father.’

It came to a place where, because of their rejection, Jesus would say to those proud religious leaders of Israel, “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies. But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.” {Jn.8:44-45)

That conversation reached a climax when, Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.’ Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself, and went out of the temple.” {Jn.8:58-59} THE GLORY DEPARTED!

That was the climax of their encounter with the Living Word, but it was not the end of the story! The very next chapter {Jn.9:1-38} details how Jesus miraculously heals a man who had been born blind and the result was that the man was put on trial by those religious leaders to discredit Jesus. He testified to those Pharisees of Jesus and His power and they answered and said to him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they put him out.” (John 9:34)

That puts us in very good company! Paul would write, speaking of the perilous last days, wrote that you and I, all true believers desiring to live godly, will be persecuted. {2Tim.3:12} Jesus had said that we would be hated by all because of His name. {Mat.10:22}

“Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” {1Cor.3:16} Hallelujah! THE GLORY IS BACK!

We are to be thankful to God because He always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. {2Cor.2:14} He is wherever we are, as ambassadors of Christ {2Cor.5:20} and ministers of His love. Always! He said I will never leave you nor forsake you. {Heb13:5}

Don’t focus on the trip, focus on the destination and perhaps along the way sing a rousing chorus of that old hymn ‘Do Lord’ that says ‘I’ve got a home in gloryland that outshines the sun, way beyond the blue.’ That is the land that God has prepared for us who love Him. {1Cor.2:9}

“But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18)

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