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Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls containing the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come with me!

I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

Revelation 21:9 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/rev.21.9.NLT

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So if the priesthood of Levi, on which the law was based, could have achieved the perfection God intended, why did God need to establish a different priesthood, with a priest in the order of Melchizedek instead of the order of Levi and Aaron?

Hebrews 7:11 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/heb.7.11.NLT

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O Lord, listen to my cry; give me the discerning mind you promised.

Listen to my prayer; rescue me as you promised.

Let praise flow from my lips, for you have taught me your decrees.

Let my tongue sing about your word, for all your commands are right.

Give me a helping hand, for I have chosen to follow your commandments.

O Lord, I have longed for your rescue, and your instructions are my delight.

Let me live so I can praise you, and may your regulations help me.

I have wandered away like a lost sheep; come and find me, for I have not forgotten your commands.

Psalms 119:169‭-‬176 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/psa.119.169-176.NLT

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Then the man in linen clothing, who carried the writer’s case, reported back and said, “I have done as you commanded.”

Ezekiel 9:11 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/ezk.9.11.NLT

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Then he said to me, “The sins of the people of Israel and Judah are very, very great.

The entire land is full of murder; the city is filled with injustice.

They are saying, ‘The Lord doesn’t see it!

The Lord has abandoned the land!’

So I will not spare them or have any pity on them.

I will fully repay them for all they have done.”

Ezekiel 9:9‭-‬10 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/ezk.9.9-10.NLT

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While they were out killing, I was all alone.

I fell face down on the ground and cried out, “O Sovereign Lord!

Will your fury against Jerusalem wipe out everyone left in Israel?”

Ezekiel 9:8 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/ezk.9.8.NLT

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“Defile the Temple!” the Lord commanded. “Fill its courtyards with corpses.

Go!”

So they went and began killing throughout the city.

Ezekiel 9:7 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/ezk.9.7.NLT

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Then I heard the Lord say to the other men, “Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked.

Show no mercy; have no pity!

Kill them all—old and young, girls and women and little children.

But do not touch anyone with the mark.

Begin right here at the Temple.”

So they began by killing the seventy leaders.

Ezekiel 9:5‭-‬6 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/ezk.9.5-6.NLT

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Then the glory of the God of Israel rose up from between the cherubim, where it had rested, and moved to the entrance of the Temple.

And the Lord called to the man dressed in linen who was carrying the writer’s case.

He said to him, “Walk through the streets of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of all who weep and sigh because of the detestable sins being committed in their city.”

Ezekiel 9:3‭-‬4 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/ezk.9.3-4.NLT

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Then the Lord thundered, “Bring on the men appointed to punish the city!

Tell them to bring their weapons with them!”

Six men soon appeared from the upper gate that faces north, each carrying a deadly weapon in his hand.

With them was a man dressed in linen, who carried a writer’s case at his side.

They all went into the Temple courtyard and stood beside the bronze altar.

Ezekiel 9:1‭-‬2 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/ezk.9.1-2.NLT

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Then he brought me into the inner courtyard of the Lord's Temple.

At the entrance to the sanctuary, between the entry room and the bronze altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs to the sanctuary of the Lord.

They were facing east, bowing low to the ground, worshiping the sun!

“Have you seen this, son of man?” he asked.

“Is it nothing to the people of Judah that they commit these detestable sins, leading the whole nation into violence, thumbing their noses at me, and provoking my anger?

Therefore, I will respond in fury.

I will neither pity nor spare them.

And though they cry for mercy, I will not listen.”

Ezekiel 8:16‭-‬18 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/ezk.8.16-18.NLT

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He brought me to the north gate of the Lord's Temple, and some women were sitting there, weeping for the god Tammuz.

"Have you seen this?” he asked.

"But I will show you even more detestable sins than these!”

Ezekiel 8:14‭-‬15 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/ezk.8.14-15.NLT

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Then he brought me to the door of the Temple courtyard, where I could see a hole in the wall.

He said to me, “Now, son of man, dig into the wall.”

So I dug into the wall and found a hidden doorway.

“Go in,” he said, “and see the wicked and detestable sins they are committing in there!”

So I went in and saw the walls covered with engravings of all kinds of crawling animals and detestable creatures.

I also saw the various idols worshiped by the people of Israel.

Seventy leaders of Israel were standing there with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan in the center.

Each of them held an incense burner, from which a cloud of incense rose above their heads.

Then the Lord said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the leaders of Israel are doing with their idols in dark rooms?

They are saying, ‘The Lord doesn’t see us; he has deserted our land!’”

Then the Lord added, “Come, and I will show you even more detestable sins than these!”

Ezekiel 8:7‭-‬13 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/ezk.8.7-13.NLT

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“Son of man,” he said, “do you see what they are doing?

Do you see the detestable sins the people of Israel are committing to drive me from my Temple?

But come, and you will see even more detestable sins than these!”

Ezekiel 8:6 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/ezk.8.6.NLT