God tells Israel to put their dead kings far away from Him. 

Ezekiel 43:9

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“Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.” Ezekiel 43:9

The Old Testament is dead without Jesus Christ, and the Jewish people continue to serve their patriarchs of the times before the coming of Jesus. Without Christ, there is no resurrection of life, and the Jewish people are serving their dead ancestors, the carcasses of kings. “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son…” Hebrews 1:1-2 Jesus said “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” John 11:25-26

God calls the Jewish people to put far away from Him the carcasses of their kings. When they do that, God will live with them eternally through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit is the guarantee of that. “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.” Ephesians 1:13-14

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13

He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today!
He walks with me and talks with me along life’s narrow way.
He lives, He lives, salvation to impart!
You ask me how I know He lives?
    He lives within my heart.
[Church Song]

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….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,
I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.
I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11