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mised to be a little sanctuary to the scattered Jews in
the countries whither they came; and that they should
be gathered from the peoples and have the land given
them; and this too with one heart and a new spirit, the
heart of stone being supplanted by one of flesh in order
to obedient ways and true recognition of and by God,
while the obdurate idolaters should meet with the due
reward of their deeds.
“ Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the
wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of
Israel was over them above. And the glory of Jehovah
went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the
mountain which is on the east side of the city.”
(Ver. 22, 23.) Then there is a farther removal of the
divine glory, not from the temple only but from Jeru­
salem. It went up from the midst of the city and
stood on mount Olivet. “ Then the Spirit took me up,
and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into
Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that
I had seen went up from me. Then I spake unto them
of the captivity all the things that Jehovah had shewed
me.” (Ver. 24, 25.) It reminds one of Matthew xxviii.
where the risen Jesus is seen on a mountain of Galilee,
giving His great commission to the disciples as to all
the nations, without saying a word about His ascension
to heaven. It is Jerusalem left aside indeed, a remnant
sent out by the Lord resuming His Galilean place in
resurrection, the beautiful pledge of His return spite of
present rejection. The curtain drops over the Shechinah
when it reaches Olivet, till we hear of its reappearance
in the last chapters for the latter day. Compare also
Zech. xiv. 4 with Acts i. 9—12.
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