THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL.
Not only dry bones, but shattered, scattered bones in no order.
Most of us imagine seeing connected skeletons lying around on the valley floor. No, they were disjointed rubbish bleaching in the sun
God led Ezekiel back and forth among them and he saw a great many bones and the bones were very dry.
God asked Ezekiel,
“CAN THESE BONES LIVE AGAIN?”
Ezekiel replied,
“Sovereign Lord, You alone know.” (These bones were completely depleted of calcium and phospherous).
Bones are the last traces of the dead and seem to last forever.
God Commanded Ezekiel to speak to those bones and God would breathe life into them.
He would restore their tendons, flesh and skin, covering them, but there was no breath in them. God then told Ezekiel to call forth the four winds and breathe life into them.
As Ezekiel prophesied, the wind blew the breath of life into them.
The word in Hebrew is translated as ‘ruach’, meaning ‘God’s Spirit’. It is also translated in the Scriptures as wind, breath, and air.
Remember in Genesis, after God finished forming Adam from the dust of the earth, He breathed into his nostrils the,
‘BREATH OF LIFE’,
and Adam became a ‘LIVING SOUL.
Now, as Ezekiel prophesied, the wind blew the breath of life into them, and a vast army stood to their feet.
The Prophet was astounded at the miracle happening before his eyes. The army were dressed and ready for war.
This was a message to Israel. The dry bones represent the exiles whose political and religious conditions at the moment indeed were very dry indicating both a hopeless situation and a irreparable condition. This is well captured by the exile’s expression,
“Our bones are dried up, and our hope is gone.”
We are cut off. Verse 11.
The word (gazar) for cut-off is used here as an expression to indicate the separation, detachment,expulsion, and exclusion of the Israelites from their ancestral land and religion.
As those dry bones Israel was in a state of total deadness. The people were in a hopeless 😔 situation and a irreparable condition.
YET GOD CAN REVIVE !
He can REVIVE those of us who are dead in trespasses and sins.
He revives through His Word and Spirit, just as He did in Ezekiel’s vision.
This promise of restoration tells you that no matter how dire your circumstances, there’s always hope with God. God’s power to revive and restore what is dead or lost.
WHAT DOES THIS VISION MEAN FOR SOME OF US TODAY?
Do you feel like? The Walking Dead?’
You have tried to find happiness in Alcohol,
Drugs, Partying.
Gambling.
Cults. Witchcraft.
Sex, Pornography.
Violence, Theft.
Broken Marriages. Etc?
What a struggle it has been. You chose these addictions, but they chose you, and you struggle to be free.
You’ve tried and failed, tried and failed. Sometimes, you congratulate yourself for winning over all the adverse habits only to taste one drink, light up a cigarette, choose a sex partner, and soon you are back in the deep end, nowadays incarcerated and so disappointed with yourself but blaming everyone else.
THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON WHO CAN HELP YOU.
His name is:
JESUS CHRIST.
“He that has the Son has life, but he that does not have the Son has no life at all.“1John 5:12.
You can’t pull yourself up by your bootstraps! The moisture you need in those dry spiritual bones is the sweet Holy Spirit of God.
He changes you from within. You were dead in sins, but you come to life in Christ. As you follow Jesus and live a wholly surrendered life, He will change you from within and make you a copy of Himself.
He takes away your hardness and fills you with His sweetness 💕.
He can absorb all that anger and bitterness and replace it with forgiveness and love.
From sorrow and sighing into gladness and 😊 joy.
From sickness into wellness.
If you allow Him, He can change ‘everything’ about you.
YES!! “NOT I! BUT CHRIST WHO DWELLS WITHIN ME”
Hallelujah.
Please take that step of faith you can’t lose!
Amen.
Thank you for a great response to the book of Ezekiel. Next week, we will swim in the River of Life. Thank you for you who faithfully read these blogs.
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Extra, extra! This Scripture was in my reading today. 📚
“ON THAT DAY, A FOUNTAIN WILL BE OPENED FOR THE DYNASTY OF DAVID FOR THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM—A FOUNTAIN TO CLEANSE THEM FROM ALL THEIR SINS AND IMPURITIES.”
Zechariah 13:1.
Amen
Light in the Darkness! 