saw came over me” (Ezekiel 11 : 1 , 24 ). The spirit lifted Ezekiel up and he
heard the earth tremble behind him (Ezekiel 3 : 12 , 14 ). The spirit lifted
him up between earth and heaven, and led him away to Jerusalem where
he saw abominable things (Ezekiel 8 : 3 – 4 ). He saw four creatures that
were angel guardians and various details about them (Ezekiel 1 and 10 ).
Then he saw a new earth in the form of a new temple, and an angel
measuring the temple (Ezekiel 40 – 48 ). At that time he was in a vision
and in the spirit (Ezekiel 40 : 2 ; 43 : 5 ).
[ 2 ] The same thing happened to Zechariah when an angel was with
him and he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1 : 8 – 9 );
when he saw four horns and a man who had a string in his hand for
measuring (Zechariah 1 : 18 ; 2 : 1 – 2 ); when he saw Joshua the high priest
(Zechariah 3 : 1 , 6 ); and when he saw four chariots with horses headed off
between two mountains (Zechariah 6 : 1 – 3 ).
Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts rising up out of
the sea, and many details about them (Daniel 7 : 1 – 8 ); and when he saw
battles between a ram and a goat (Daniel 8 : 1 – 14 ). He was in a vision when
he saw those things (Daniel 7 : 1 , 2 , 7 , 13 ; 8 : 2 ; 10 : 1 , 7 , 8 ). In a vision he saw
the angel Gabriel and spoke with him [Daniel 8 : 15 – 27 ].
[ 3 ] The same thing happened to John when he wrote the Book of
Revelation. He said he was in the spiriton the Lord’s day (Revelation
1 : 10 ); he was carried off into the wilderness in the spirit(Revelation 17 : 3 );
and he was on a high mountain in the spirit(Revelation 21 : 10 ). He was
seeing things in a vision(Revelation 9 : 17 ).
Elsewhere [in the Book of Revelation] he says that he sawthe things he
described. For example, he saw the Son of Humankind in the middle of
seven lampstands. He saw a tabernacle, a temple, an ark, and an altar in
heaven; a book sealed with seven seals and horses that came out of it; four
creatures around a throne; twelve thousand chosen people, some from
every tribe; a lamb on Mount Zion; locusts rising up from an abyss; a
dragon and its war with Michael; a woman giving birth to a male child and
running away into a desert because of the dragon; two beasts, one rising up
out of the sea and another out of the land; a woman sitting on a scarlet
beast; a dragon thrown into a lake of fire and sulfur; a white horse and a
great supper; the holy city Jerusalem coming down, with details of its
entrances, its wall, and the wall’s foundations; a river of living water; and
trees of life producing different types of fruit every month; and so on.
Peter, James, and John were in the same state when they saw Jesus
transfigured, as was Paul when he heard ineffable things from heaven.
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