Ezekiel 43:2
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
After every part of the temple is carefully measured, the glory of the God of Israel comes into the house. The house is then shown to Israel so they may recognize their iniquities and measure the pattern. Its law and pattern express God's exact measure, showing that a righteous life is made up of honest, faithful dealing in every part.
His voice is like the noise of many waters, and the earth shines with His glory. The verse foretells God's deliverance of His people in the time of trouble. After they have fled from cities and villages and cried day and night for deliverance, one clear place of settled glory appears amid dark, heavy, clashing clouds. From that clear, settled place of glory in the heavens the voice of God comes and shakes the heavens and the earth.
The shaking occurs amid great disturbances in the sky, the mountains, and the sea. At that time the sun comes up, the moon stands still, streams cease to flow, the sky opens and shuts in commotion, mountains shake like a reed and cast out ragged rocks, and the sea boils like a pot and casts stones upon the land. From that glory God speaks the day and hour of Jesus' coming. The living saints recognize and understand the voice, while the wicked hear what seems to them to be thunder and an earthquake.
The living saints who understand the voice number 144,000. When God speaks, He pours out the Holy Spirit, and the faces of the saints shine with God's glory as Moses' face did after he came down from Mount Sinai. The earth shining with His glory means the saints' countenances are lighted up and shine with the glory of God, so that the wicked cannot look upon them. From that glory God also delivers the everlasting covenant to His people, speaking one sentence at a time with words rolling through the earth with awful solemnity like peals of the loudest thunder, while the Israel of God stands with eyes fixed upward listening and shouts praise at the end of every sentence.
When the never-ending blessing is pronounced on those who honored God in keeping His Sabbath holy, there is a mighty shout of victory over the beast and over his image. At the deliverance the same image is applied to a voice coming from a place of indescribable glory in the heavens declaring that it is done.