2017-06-21 20:45:09 +00:00
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Ezekiel continues to describe his vision.
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## a windstorm ##
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This is a storm that has a lot of wind.
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## coming from the north ##
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North is the direction to your left when you look toward the sun while it is rising.
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## a great cloud with fire flashing within it ##
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This could be translated as a new sentence: "The storm had a very large cloud with fire flashing in it."
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## fire flashing ##
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Possible meanings are 1) "flashing lightning" or 2) "constant lightning."
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## and brightness surrounding it and inside of it ##
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"and a very bright light was around the cloud and inside of it"
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## the color of amber ##
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Alternate translations: "bright yellow like amber" or "bright yellow" or "glowing yellow"
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## amber ##
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a hard yellow resin that is used as a beautiful decoration on jewelry
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## In the middle ##
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"Inside the storm"
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## was the likeness of four living creatures ##
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"there were things that looked like four creatures" or "there was what looked like four creatures"
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## This was their appearance ##
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"This is what the four creatures looked like"
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## they had the likeness of a man ##
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"the four creatures looked like people"
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## but they had four faces each, and each of the creatures had four wings ##
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"but each of them had four different faces and four wings"
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