I was listening to a good sermon before church this morning. The man said,
"You can spend too much time trying to figure it out, and you'll miss the miracle."
Hmm, for a guy like me that likes details, that a very good point!
Back to lasts week's church services for just a moment.
In the morning service, I had my eyes closed and I could see a vertical sheet of water, actually two of them; one on either side. The water was not still, it was glistening and rippling in all directions. Then, one of the ladies took off shouting and praising God as she walked all over the auditorium.
During the evening service, I could see a bed of hot coals. There was a stick or a torch that was beating the coals and causing them to throw sparks every where and flame upward. Then the pastor really had him a time. He was crying and had a very difficult time closing the service.
That was last week.
This morning was interesting. I was looking for a miracle, but didn't want to get lost in the details on the way there.
I saw something, but it is hard to describe.
Have you ever seen a lake or pond that was perfectly still? The reflection is a perfect image of what it is reflecting. Now throw a rock in it. The ripples move through the whole image.
What I saw was sort of like that, but it was on a vertical plain, kind of like a shock wave moving through everything around me in the church. This was 3D.
The ripples were moving through everything.
I told God I didn't understand what I was seeing, but I didn't want to get wrapped up in details and miss the "miracle".
Then it changed. This is even harder to describe. It was like rings inside of rings, the way the shock waves or ripples were moving and distorting everything on a vertical axis.
Then it hit me- rings inside of rings! Ezekiel's wheel! WOW!!!
I was trying to find the specific references in Ezekiel and discovered that what I saw today and last Sunday is related.
And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went. In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was flashing from the fire. Ezekiel 1:12-13 (NASB)
Spirit, coals, torches?
Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, for each of the four of them. Ezekiel 1:15 (NASB)
Whenever the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also. Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. Ezekiel 1:19-20 (NASB)
Wheels, spirits?
Ezekiel 10:15 says these "living beings" are cherubim.
Cherubim?
Above these 4 cherubim, is the throne of God, (Ezekiel 1:22-28).
Also called the "Glory of God", (Ezekiel 10:18-19).
So, coals of fire and torches last Sunday, the "wheels" today, visible evidences of God moving amongst His people...
Dare I say that the Glory of God was present?
Wow!
I guess we don't have to wish, hope, or pray that we will, some day, see the "glory of God" in church...
IT'S HAPPENING EVERY SUNDAY!!!
WOW!!!
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