Pastor Barry continues with the exposition, working through chapters 9 & 10. Before getting down to detail, though, there is a substantial commentary on present-day behaviour of various sections of our society and comparison with the things that Ezekiel was told to warn Israel about.
Pastor Barry stressed several times the “God protects His own”. Comparisons with the Book of Revelation were again highlighted. The significance of the 144,000 Jews in the end-times is outlined.
There is a section dealing with the events and behaviour in Gaza in the present day. On top of this, the fact that God is good, loving & just was stressed.
More details of Ezekiel’s vision follow, in the context of the nature of the “Mercy Seat”
The concept of “God’s presence leaving” a person or group is dealt with at some length, refering to several people and instances in ancient and modern times. The nature (and behaviour) of The Holy Spirit is expounded here (ref Saul, David, Samson, Ichabod, …).
To conclude, there is the clear assertion and substantiation that the salvation of believers “is assured”.
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PS1: ::: NEW FORMAT of the transcript.
To ease the processing and preparation of the transcript, and we hope improve the readability of the text, a new format was adopted in mid October. This breaks the text into sentences instead of arbitrarily-sized “paragraphs”. When the reader opens the file in a program such as Notepad (in MS Windows), then the appearance can be just like a newspaper column. The format is such that the user has many options available, depending on preferences and what software they like to use.
Any feedback on usefulness, improvement suggestions, or whatever, would be most welcome.
PS2 ::::: TRANSCRIPT OF THE SERMON
There is a “button” labelled “Save Video” (or “Download Video” sometimes). This actually links to a text-file to download. It is a transcript of the sermon. At present it is at an experimental stage: it is an aid to getting the most out of the sermon audio. There is no substitute for listening to the verbal delivery of a sermon. However, searching through an audio file lasting the best part of an hour can be somewhat difficult. When you approach the search knowing that you’re sure there is something about “redemption”, for example, then a transcript text-search can take you right there and show you the time in the recording where you will find it! The file is simple “text” rather than a more sophisticated form so that you can edit or reformat as you prefer. This transcript is in 2 forms (in the one file). One half consists of normal text arrangement. These ‘blocks’ were at purely arbitrary boundaries (boundaries were inserted at about 800 character intervals, purely to avoid having one huge unbroken deluge of text, i.e. no attempt at grammatical accuracy). The format has now been changed as described above in PS1. The other section is short bunches of words (8 to 12 nomally) beneath the TIMES at which they occur (for the whole sermon).
This facility is in development (“experimental” as mentioned above) so any feedback on usefulness, improvement suggestions, or whatever, would be most welcome.
