270 - The Lord my Company

Wording of this Handout:

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The Lord my Company.

The eighth name of God is Jehovah Shammah which means the Lord is there.

This name was given when Ezekiel had a vision of the future. It is a most peculiar vision because it is all about the land of Palestine, and the building on it, and strips of land, and and a "Prince" who comes to it, and what looks like a demonstration of the sacrificial system being shown for tourists.

There are also geographic changes described, and mentioned of amazing trees whose leaves are potent medicine, and a river is described, flowing, apparently, from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea.

However you want to interpret this vision (ch. 40-48) it has a happy ending. It seems that God wants us to know that He has everything in order. The world may run amuck, and create confused messes, but God has a plan which He will set in place, and when He's finished everything will be where He wants it, nice and tidy.

The end of the vision is about a city which God says will be built in Palestine, with the names of the tribes of Israel on its gates - perhaps a symbol of restored Israel - and the name of the city will be "The Lord is there" - in other worlds, all the Israelites in the restored Kingdom will be Christians, because the Lord is there with them.

I'm here

I'm here too

And here

Here


The Bible says: "I will God them heart to know me.... and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return to me with their whole heart." Jeremiah 24:7 (King James version)