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You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Eze. 3:12-13 12 Then the spirit [ruwach] took me up [nasa], and I heard [shama] behind [achar] me a voice [qowl] of a great [gadowl] rushing [ra`ash], saying, Blessed [barak] be the glory [kabowd] of the LORD [Yahovah] from his place [maqowm]. 13 I heard also the noise [qowl] of the wings [kanaph] of the living creatures [chay] that touched [nashaq] one [ishshah] another [achowth], and the noise [qowl] of the wheels [owphan] over against [ummah] them, and a noise [qowl] of a great [gadowl] rushing [ra`ash]. KJV-Interlinear 12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me, 'Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His place.' 13 And I heard the sound of the wings of the living beings touching one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, even a great rumbling sound. NASB The Spirit lifting Ezekiel was not a transport device, but an attitude lift in his state of mind. We'll see a bit more of this in verse 14 when we get there tomorrow. You'll also note that we have not yet advanced to the details of the scroll which Ezekiel was to eat (learn) and know. Ezekiel has seen the glory of God. He has seen the foundations upon which all of Gods policies are based. He has seen the scope and breadth and depth and height of Gods sovereignty and power. And, Ezekiel has seen the utter stupidity with which people in general (his people in particular) have disregarded God. Or rather we should say, the extent to which they have ignored God. The exiles can easily look around them and see the truth. They are in captivity. They have no control over their own daily life let alone their future. Any plans or goals they might make or might want to make, are completely under the control of their captors. Their captors are the Babylonians. The captives are Gods chosen people who have turned their back on God. They have left the security of the nation of Judah. They have left the safety of te city of Jerusalem, the 'city of peace.' They have left the mountain of vast wisdom in doctrine (Mt. Zion). And, they have traded all of that for a life in the jungle of the world. What have they gained? Slavery and they have lost control of their life. The contrast is now set into place. The people who have turned their backs on God hear the rumblings of the world. No that is not the rumblings that Ezekiel hears. These rumblings are not in our passage, but that is what the people who turn their backs on God hear. They hear the rumblings of the world. The enticements, the invented truths, the hopes of their desires. People who function in the jungle of the world live a lie. They make up their own beliefs and they manufacture them into what they want truth to be. As they do, they send Gods truth further and further away from their minds. As they delve deeper and deeper into their own fantasy world, they begin to exaggerate greater and greater lies. The nose dive eventually ends up in frustration, hate, and violence. It was true for those folks back in Ezekiel's day, and you can even witness it in the frustrated and hateful ravings of many crusader types (politicians, news media, individuals and so forth) of our current day. They exaggerate and twist the details of the war in Iraq. They exaggerate and twist the details of the recent storms. They exaggerate and twist the role of anyone they do not like, into outright lies. The very things they accuse others of, they themselves are guilty of, to the maximum. These are the ravings and the rumblings of the world. All who oppose truth, rave in their frustration, anger, and hateful lies. But what does Ezekiel hear? He hears the truth revving up. He hears the wheels of history from the one who controls history, beginning to turn. Those wheels, you recall, sit on the earth and rise all the way up into heaven. What the liberals, the fanatics, those negative toward truth want, they will never have. Their weak and false rumblings are drowned out by the higher rumblings of truth. Ezekiel hears of the pressures that will befall his people. He is under a lot of stress himself. But God relieves that stress with the truth and assurance that He, God, has everything under control. Those who rumble on the earth will be short lived. They have their tantrums. They struggle for that which they will never have - power, authority, recognition and so forth. Their rumblings will eventually fade into obscurity. But Gods rumblings will continue on forever, because He is the source of rumblings. 
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