The "glory of God" seems to be the key phrase to Ezekiel. It occurs twelve times in the first eleven chapters. Then it does not occur again until the forty-third chapter. The glory of the Lord was grieved away from the temple at Jerusalem by the idolatry of the people. God says, Ye have defiled my sanctuary, therefore I will make thee waste. In Ezekiel 8 we see Ezekiel in a vision transported to Jerusalem and he sees four kinds of idolatry which were practiced in the courts of the Lord's house, even to the worshiping of the sun, with their backs to the sancruary, while their faces were to the East. We see the glory of the Lord gradually grieved away from the inner sanctuary by the sin of idolatry, and the brightness filled the court. Then it departed to the threshold and rested over the cherubim. As the cherubim rose from the earth, the glory of the Lord abode above their pinions and mounted with them, forsaking the city and removing to the mountains (Ezekiel 10).
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