Cloud and Fire

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It will happen again.

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In the wilderness, the Israelites were guided by a cloud by day, and a fire by night.

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When Messiah comes, the cloud and the fire will be back.

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Jerusalem will be purified, and will become holy again.

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Then things will return to the way it was:

Isaiah 4:

The Branch of the Lord

2 In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.

3 Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem.

4 The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

5 Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory will be a canopy.

6 It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.

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It is amazing that God’s Word endures forever.

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All that God has ordained is good.

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Imagine the day when we can “go up” to the mountain of God, and see the cloud and the fire, showing God’s glory to all who come.

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