Ezekiel 37 is a fascinating account. The Lord brings Ezekiel to a valley full of dry bones and commands him to prophesy over the bones. The message: The Lord will cause you to live. As Ezekiel preached over these bones, the miraculous happened! Bone came to bone, muscle formed over the bones, breath was given to them, and the valley of bones was transformed into a great, living army! The dead came to life! An impossibility made into reality!
The point of Ezekiel 37 is to illustrate the promise of Ezekiel 36.
Ezekiel 36 is a restatement of the New Covenant promise found in Ezekiel 11. Again in 36, the Lord promises to give His people a new heart and a new spirit. He will put His Spirit within them. He will remove their dead heart and replace it with a new one. He will cleanse them and deliver them from their uncleannesses. Then they will walk in His ways, He will be their God, and they will be His people. In other words, He is going to make a people for Himself! He is going to totally transform a people into His children.
How will He accomplish this creation of life from death? By His will and power through the preaching of His Word! So to illustrate, He carries Ezekiel to a valley full of dry bones!
As New Covenant believers today, the impossibility of bringing life from death is reality in us! We were dead in our sins, and God made us alive in Christ! He did this by His will and power through the preaching of His Word! Next time you read about the valley of bones, thank God for the day He rattled you and brought you to life in Christ!
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