In this sermon Pastor Barry completes the introduction to the book of Ezekiel. Here he describes Ezekiel himself and his environment and his circumstances. Ezekiel’s contemporaries Jeremiah and Daniel are also mentioned to give further context. Various nations and the judgements meted out to them appear, with some reference to the background and reasons for the judgements. These things are also related to things that are happening in the modern world! There is a major chunk devoted to the city of Tyre: it’s significance and its demise and extended history related to it. Some of the declarations that God made through the prophets concerning the future of the Jews and their extensive history are described and Pastor Barry notes the ups-and-downs of the Israelite nation and the promise of their ultimate restoration.
Chapter 36 comes in for particular focus: “in the entire Bible, this is a wonderful chapter. It speaks of the regathering.” Strong recommendation for books by Dave Hunt appears, concerning reasons for the current state of affairs. The relation of Chapters 38 & 39 to what might soon come about is mentioned. Activities of Russia and Middle East countries are related to all these things too. Names of countries and their derivations from the names of people way back in the time of Noah provides a very interesting section.
The next section deals with the developments concerning the building of the Third Temple in Jerusalem, other events in progress around the world and sequences and timetables related to these events. In conclusion Pastor Barry briefly summarizes the general picture of the return of The Lord Jesus Christ.
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PS2 ::::: There is a “button” labelled “Save Video” (or “Download Video” sometimes). This is actually a text-file. 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 you heard 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! This transcript is in 2 forms (in the one file). One half consists of normal text arrangement of paragraph-blocks. The other is short bunches of words 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.
