Ezekiel and the Revelation of the 13 Scrolls – Scroll 1 Part 1

Ezekiel 8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was sitting in my house,and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Master יהוה  fell there upon me. The date is established: 6th year, 6th month, 5th day: 06/05/06! We established last week that Ezekiel titled Chapters – 1-4 cannot be numbered as within the first vision or scroll because in Ezekiel 4:4 we find Ezekiel is instructed to lie down for a total of 430 days! Ezekiel didn’t arise 10-30 days early! (30X14=420 days). We’re using bible hermeneutics and can safely proceed with the vision; Ezekiel 8:2 Then I beheld, and, lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal. Ezekiel 8:3  And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. Here we find within a generation, Shaphan’s son Jaazaniah fallen back into the very idolatry his father had been instrumental in cleansing. Ezekiel 8:4  And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain. Eze 8:5  Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. Manasseh placed the image of jealousy here in the north part of the sanctuary to try and seduce the people into thinking that their material success was dependent on idolatry not on יהוה. Leviticus 1:11 the material offerings:  And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before יהוה. And the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar. Ezekiel 8:6  And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But thou shalt again see yet other great abominations. The component of “seeing” is brought to the forefront all the way to the end of the chapter because this is an answer to the false claim of the sinners not seeing that what they do is an affront to יהוה. Ezekiel 8:7-10;  7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. 8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold, a door. 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about. Ezekiel is told to widen the hole to make it big enough that he can enter and see the idols the people were worshipping. Ezekiel 8:11  And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up. Look at the contrast between the Elders of Israel and a nation of Malki Priests in Exodus 24 – the BoC confirming meal;  and here the elders desecrating the BoL within the Levitical priestly realm!  These were the seventy judges of the Great Sanhedrin! Burning incense was one of the holiest of the offerings of the Temple! Ezekiel 8:12-15;  12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, יהוה  seeth us not; יהוה  hath forsaken the land. 13 He said also unto me, Thou shalt again see yet other great abominations which they do. 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gat