Ezekiel 37 - Dead Bones

 

Ezekiel 37 – Dead Bones

 

God gives to Ezekiel a real living parable and to do so He takes him to the valley of the dead bones. They were very dry and scattered. He is looking out on this valley filled with dead bones, and he’s to speak to them.

 

A preacher speaks to those who are saved and those who are unsaved. For any preacher who understands the real state and condition of those who are lost recognizes his own helplessness in speaking to them.

 

Ezekiel speaks to the bones and gradually they come together, and the sinews and flesh come upon them. They are no longer bones, but bodies with flesh upon them. Then God breathed life into them. The appearance of life is there, the promise of life is there, but life does not come until God Himself breathes His own life into them. These human beings were the house of Israel. The vision is given to them to let them know they have hope, and it is for the whole house of Israel.

 

The nation Israel was buried and scattered in the nations of the world, and was dead to God, dead to the things of God. They had all the material things, but not spiritual life.

 

In joining the two sticks, one labeled Judah and the other labeled Ephraim, into one stick, God was promising to gather His people back and join them into one nation, instead of two. There will be no more northern kingdom (Israel) and a southern kingdom (Judah), but one nation known as Israel.

 

He promises a new covenant with Israel and He does this so that “all the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”

 

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