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attributes of the Overcomer: “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sakes we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord“(NET, see also 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; Ephesians 3:1-19 and 1 Timothy 1:14-15).

Ezekiel observed thirty chambers on the lower pavement, but now his gaze is fixed towards the next level; the higher pavement, which is yet another step towards man’s completeness in his Savior. Surprisingly the Hebrew word used here for pavement is Ritspah [7531], it is a feminine noun transliterated, “hot stones,” “red hot,” or “glowing stones.” Remarkably Ritspah is also transliterated in English to describe a female Israeli! This fact symbolically reveals something quite grand, because Yeshua is preparing His bride whom He will present to the Father following her cleansing. This cleansing will be rather painful, but in the end it will produce reconciliation, healing and renewal.

In Esther 1:5-6 it is recorded: “And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace; where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black marble.” In verse six Ritspah is also used for “pavement” and it is clearly associated with an invitation for a celebration where both rich and poor alike are invited to attend. In 2 chronicles 7:1-3 Ritspah now focuses on a celebration that breaks out in jubilant worship and praise unto the LORD: “When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. And the priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD’S house. When all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped and