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Welcome to the Cross References podcast on the Book of Ezekiel. In this study, you learn how every small piece of the Bible tells one big story- and most importantly, how they all connect to the cross and Christ.
Whether you’re a newbie Christian or a veteran Bible reader, my goal is that God’s Word will make more sense to you after every episode.
Host: Luke Taylor
What the Valley of the Dry Bones Really Means
Ezekiel 37:1-14
Ezekiel series, Part 69
Introduction
There are two chapters of the book of Ezekiel that I feel are most abused when it comes to interpretation. Two chapters that people seem to just want to allegorize and make them mean whatever they want. And one of those chapters is right here. Ezekiel 37.
Many Christians try to make this chapter about a future resurrection. That may be the most popular interpretation of this chapter. But Ezekiel 37 has a context, and that’s not it.
Some try to take this passage literally and say it’s about the power of our words. But Ezekiel 37 has a context, and that’s not it.
Some try to make this passage about the origin of the church. But Ezekiel 37 has a context, and that’s not it.
Some try to make this passage about how God can bring life to things that seem dead and revive things that looked long-gone and turn your whole life situation around. And God certainly can do all those things, but Ezekiel 37 is not about you. Ezekiel 37 has a context, and that’s not it.
So today, we’ll talk about the context of Ezekiel 37 to try and understand what it really means. It had a meaning back then, and it also has a meaning for modern times, and you’ll learn it today on the Cross References podcast.
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Welcome to the book of Ezekiel: a Cross References Bible study where we learn how every small piece of the Bible tells one big story- and how they all connect to the cross and Christ.
My name is Luke Taylor, and I’m a dispensationalist, as we talked about last time. Maybe not the best dispensationalist, but at least dispy. You can call me dispy. And we dispies like Ezekiel 37.
And as we enter chapter 37 today, we are also entering October. It was October of 2021 that I launched this podcast and immediately started into this podcast on the book of Ezekiel. I used to cover a lot of random topics as well. This year I’ve basically just settled in on only talking about Ezekiel and subjects that are tertiary to what we’re studying in Ezekiel. So as we close the book of September, we have completed 36 months of Ezekiel studies, and also completed 36 chapters, so we’re going at a pace of about one chapter per month.
Chapters 37 through 39 are the climax of this book. Chapter 37 is one of the most important chapters in Ezekiel, in eschatology, in Israelology, in Bible prophecy. If I had just jumped straight to chapter 37 without three years of verse-by-verse build-up, then getting into the climax would not have the same meaning that I enter into it today. And so I’m very relieved and excited to finally be here, and without any further ado, let’s get into it.
V1-6, Death Valley
This is the chapter of the vision of the dry bones. As I intimated in the opening, there are all kinds of interpretations of what this chapter means. There are countless songs that mention the dry bones. “Awaken you shall live.” You have undoubtedly heard sermons or bible studies on Ezekiel 37. And so many people seem sadly interested in just making this chapter mean whatever they want it to mean to them.
It makes me very sad because Ezekiel 37 is going to tell us what it’s about. It’s actually not that complicated; I think it’ll only take us two lessons to get through the chapter. It’s not a hard chapter to understand if you just let it mean what it says. But so many songs and sermons reference this event and don’t even tell you what it’s actually about, so I’m sad that the meaning gets lost. So let’s talk about what Ezekiel 37 really means today.
Ezekiel 37:1
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.
This is going to be a vision today, and since it’s a vision, I don’t take it that this is something that actually happened. As you probably know, these bones are going to come back to life. It may have happened, it might not. We never hear anything about a zombie apocalypse in the sixth century BC, so I’m doubting that this actually happened literally. It’s a vision that God picks Ezekiel up in the spirit and takes him to this valley where there are many dead bodies. Actually, just bones that have been left in the valley so long, they’re just dry and any flesh has rotted away.
Ezekiel 37:2-3
2 And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. 3 And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.”
These bones are going to come back to life. Whether it actually happened literally or not, this would be an astounding thing to witness with your own two eyes. Imagine if you saw every sock you ever lost in the dryer come walking out… you never thought you’d see them again, and here they are! Now we’re seeing hundreds or thousands of bodies come back to life. That might even be more amazing than getting all your socks back.
Now, many interpreters try to say that this chapter is just teaching us about the resurrection at the end of time. Even in the Old Testament, we see that the biblically faithful are looking forward to a future resurrection. If you remember, Job said,
(Job 19:26)
And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,
And when Jesus comforted Martha after her brother Lazarus had died, he said,
(John 11:23-24)
“Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
So they had this concept of resurrection in the Old Testament, and in this story of resurrection, it’s easy to connect the two. But this chapter is not a prophecy about the future resurrection that all people will partake in. If that’s what Ezekiel was thinking about, he could have said, “Well yes Lord, of course they’ll rise again,” like Martha did. But that’s not what we see.
He kind of gives a vague, “Well you know, Lord.” Which I guess is always the right answer. Kind of like how in Sunday School, the answer to every question is always “Jesus.” If you ever answer a question with “Well you know, Lord,” you’re not gonna be wrong. At my radio station job, when I used to do the weather, people would get a little irritated sometimes because I might say it was gonna rain and it wouldn’t rain. Or I’d say there’s a 10% chance of rain and then it would pour all day. But I was just going by what the NOAA website said! I’m not a meteorologist.
So I eventually realized that if I just said there’s a 50% chance of rain, you can never go wrong. If you say there’s a 50% chance of something, then no matter what happens, you get credit for being right. I guess I might as well have got on the air and said, “Well the Lord knows if it’s gonna rain.” But that’s also not a very helpful answer. And it’s not super helpful for Ezekiel to say, “We’ll you know, Lord.”
Ezekiel 37:4-6
4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel is told to prophesy to the dead, dry bones. You know, I’ve preached to a tough crowd before, but this is just ridiculous! I remember watching Joel Osteen preach on this passage as a kid. I actually probably heard this sermon from him 5 or 6 times. Not kidding. I listened to a lot of Joel Osteen as a kid. I have a very low opinion of the guy now, so I’m a little ashamed to say that.
Osteen always made a big deal about the power of our words, and used this text to illustrate that; that Ezekiel brought the bones back to life with his words. Now, kind of like what I said before about the resurrection. Yes, I agree that our words have a lot of power. Yes, there is a future resurrection. But that is not what Ezekiel 37 is about. Let’s keep reading here.
V7-8, revival
Ezekiel 37:7
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
I actually just want to stop for a minute and imagine how creepy this is. There are bones scattered all over the valley. Not a sign of life anywhere in this valley other that Ezekiel and maybe a few buzzards. Actually, no buzzards, because there’s nothing left to eat. Just dry bones. It’s the elephant graveyard scene from The Lion King, just without hyenas.
And then the bones start to move. They start to come together. You hear the sounds of the bones knocking against each other as they reassemble. What was a jumble of bodies slowly starts too separate into individual bodies. Everything in the skeletons gets realigned where they should be. Reconstructed.
Verse 8
And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them.
So as he watches, the bones get reassembled into full skeletons, and then sinews start to form over them. The muscles and tissues inside our bodies. The ligaments between the bones. The tendons. All that gross stuff that most of us never see unless you’re a surgeon.
And then the flesh formed over the sinews. To Ezekiel’s great relief, if he’s on the squeamish side like I am. The flesh and the skin covers those bodies, all the wounds that killed these guys are sealed up, and now they’re just a scattering of dead bodies all over the valley. Fully formed, bloodless, clean, but still dead. The revival process has stopped. They bodies are formed. They may have looked like they all had just laid down for a nap, except that they aren’t breathing.
Ezekiel 37:9-10
9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
So now all the bodies have come together, they’ve revived, they’re back.
Verse 9 had something which is one of the most unique verses in the entire Bible. This is the only place in all of scripture that a prayer is addressed directly to the Holy Spirit. You might say, “well where was the Holy Spirit in this verse?” The Spirit has actually been all over this chapter.
If you remember in the past, I used to like to throw out a Word of the Day as we did these lessons. Oftentimes, especially in the Old Testament, and as we’ve observed here in this book, we see a concentration of a particular word in some passages. Today, that word has been Ruah. This is a unique word that can be translated as wind, breath, or Spirit. And we see it translated all those ways in this chapter. It’s a particular word, the cause and the effect, of a lot of the action going on.
Let me read verse 9 again: Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath (ruah); prophesy, son of man, and say to the (ruah), Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four (ruah), O (ruah), and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”
That word just keeps coming up. And as we know, the Holy Spirit is compared to wind as Jesus speaks of Him in
John 3:8
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
So the big takeaway from this is that the bodies were reconstructed. They were formed. They had the appearance of life by having their skin and flesh restored. But they were dead. They were dead as a doornail, until the ruah entered them.
So now we’ve established what happens in the vision. Now let’s talk about what it all means.
V11-14, What it All Means
It’s so easy to know what this all means, because it directly tells us. It’s not about the power of our words, or a future resurrection. It’s not about us. It’s about the rebirth of the nation of Israel.
Ezekiel 37:11-14
11 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. 14 And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.”
So that’s what it’s about. This is a passage about the regathering of Israel back into their homeland. That aspect of the story is undebatable. Because the Bible tells you what this vision means.
It doesn’t matter what other principles someone tries to bring out of it about the resurrection at the end of the age or the power of our words or what. If they don’t tell you what the passage is actually about, they haven’t taught you.
Now, here’s the part that can get a little sketchy. We may ask: which regathering is this talking about? Because in Ezekiel’s day, they were out of the land, but 70ish years later, we know that God is going to bring Israel back. So, perhaps this is just talking about that?
But then the Jews experienced another expulsion from the land in AD 70, after the time of Jesus. A few decades after Jesus left this earth, the Romans torched the cities of the Jews and scattered them throughout the world, and no stone of the temple was left upon another. That’s what Jesus was talking about. And for nearly 2,000 years, they had no homeland, until May of 1948 when they were brought back.
Even this was prophesied back in
Isaiah 11:11-12
In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time (a second time- A SECOND TIME!) to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
That was written back before the book of Ezekiel. That was written before they were scattered the first time, and Isaiah was already prophesying that they would be scattered and regathered a SECOND time. An absolutely amazing prophecy. That was about 1948.
So for nearly 2,000 years of church history, the most logical conclusion for scholars would be to read Ezekiel 37 and as about the first regathering. But now that they’ve been regathered again and Israel has been reinstituted as a nation, it begs the question: which regathering was Ezekiel prophesying about here? The first one, or like Isaiah in chapter 11, was he prophesying about the second time?
I’m going to make the argument here that Ezekiel was talking about the second regathering of Israel, because the sequence of events in this chapter actually aligns much more with what we see playing out before our eyes today, and it gives us a confirmation about where things are going for Israel in the future.
We’ll take a short break, and then I’ll lay all that out for you.
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Regathered and Restored
So what we have in this passage of Ezekiel is a multistage regathering of Israel. Well, I would call part one the regathering, then part two the restoration, then part three a regeneration.
It starts with the bones coming together, the regathering. In 1897, the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, resulted in Jewish people coming into the land from 108 nations of the world. They had what is called in Hebrew an “Aliyah,” a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
The Jews were supposed to go to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem every pilgrim feast day- passover, pentecost and tabernacles. Passover is in the spring, Tabernacles is in the fall, and Pentecost is in the middle.
Now, when we start talking about Bible prophecy as it relates to Israel, this always draws some negative comments from some Christians who say, “Why are you saying that the Jews are going to reinstitute the feast days and build a new Temple? Don’t you know that Jesus is the sacrifice for our sins and that we don’t need the practices of the Old Covenant anymore? Don’t you know that the religion of Judaism can’t save anyone anymore?”
Yes, I know all that. I’m not predicting that the Jews will practice their religion and build a new Temple because it’s going to obtain salvation. I predict they’ll do it because THEY think it’s going to obtain salvation. And that in the end time prophecies such as Revelation 11, it mentions a Temple in Jerusalem. So I predict that it’ll happen because the Bible says it will happen, and it just makes logical sense. The Jews in Israel talk about doing this all the time, they just believe they can’t do it yet because there’s a mosque on the site of the previous Temple. If they can ever get ownership of that parcel of land again, I believe they’ll build a new Temple right away. We’ll probably discuss more theories about that as we get into Ezekiel 38 and 39 again next time.
Back to 1897. In the end of the 19th century and throughout the first half of the 20th century, you saw movement being made to reestablish the nation of Israel back in its homeland. I believe this is what the bones coming together symbolizes.
For 2000 years, the Jewish people had been scattered around the world ever since 70 AD. There was the Zionist Congress in 1897. There was the Balfour Declaration in 1917.
From Wikipedia: The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The text of the declaration was published in the press on 9 November 1917.
That was during WWI. After WWI, Britain received control of the land known as Palestine. If you remember from past episodes, or maybe you just already knew this, The Romans renamed Israel “Palestine” to insult the Jewish people, because Palestine sounds similar to Philistine, an ancient enemy of the Jews. There was never a nation of Palestine in history, it was just a name for the region. Nobody pretended Palestine was a country until this land was given back to the Jews in 1948 and the name Israel was restored.
So let’s talk about 1948. After the Holocaust and attempted extermination of the Jews in WWII, calls intensified for the Jewish people to have their own homeland. Great Britain gave this territory back to the Jews and withdrew British forces from the region. The official date of the relaunch of Israel was May 14, 1948.
So I believe that for the 50 to 60 years prior to 1948, what we saw was the bones coming together, the regathering of Israel. IN the 60 or 70 years since then, what we’ve witnessed was the restoration of Israel. The sinews forming, the flesh coming upon those bones.
Some important mile markers on the journey of Jewish sovereignty since 1948 include these:
Immediately after Israel was given its land back in 1948, Satan launched an attack on the Jews through an alliance of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. Despite being a brand new nation and standing basically on their own and being outnumbered, Israel stood their ground for 8 months and fought them off. This is known as the Arab-Israeli War.
There was the Suez Crisis in 1956, when Egypt tried to block shipping routes to Israel through the Suez Canal, crippling Israel. The UN had to resolve this diplomatically.
Then in the Six-Day War of 1967, Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran and joined with Syria, Jordan and other Arab nations for a coordinated attack on Israel. The Muslim nations who attacked Israel had two-to-three times as many troops, two-to-three times as many tanks, and two-to-four times as many aircraft. Yet Israel pulled off a win in just six days, and not only defeated their attackers but captured some of their land in the process: the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the Golan Heights. This was a huge victory for Israel, but also created some problems for them, as they now owned these territories such as the Gaza Strip, but they have always allowed the quote-unquote “Palestinian people” to continue to live in these areas rather than kick them all out. Therefore terrorists such as Hamas and Hezbollah have continued to live in these regions, thus giving them opportunities to attack and be a thorn in Israel’s side for decades.
So ever since, Israel has owned Gaza, but hasn’t settled it. That may have changed in the past year. On October 7 of 2023, Israel suffered that incredible attack where more than a thousand Jewish people were killed or taken hostage. If you compare populations with America, it would be ration of about 10 9/11s. Israel responded with a war for the past year of finally clearing the evil out of that land. So we’ll know more in the months ahead as the dust settles on that conflict, but what we’re watching as we see these headlines play out is the flesh and the skin growing back over those bones.
Other sinews and muscles that have grown over the past several decades: The Camp David Accords of 1978, in which Israel agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in exchange for recognition by Egypt of Israel’s right to exist. This was the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab State.
There has been a steady migration of Jewish people to citizenship in Israel, sometimes in rapid measure. In 1991, 1.3 million Russian Jews came to live in the land, an increase of one nation by 37%. Also that year, the greatest airlift in history took place when 42 aircraft transported 15,000 Ethiopian jews to Israel. 14 babies were born in flight.
The Oslo Accords of 1993 and 1995, which brought peace to the West Bank and East Jerusalem. And the Abraham Accords of 2020, a peace treaty between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain Sudan and Morocco.
When Israel was initially restored as a nation in 1948, 6% of the world’s Jews lived there. Today, that number is about 47%. So about half of the Jewish people are still scattered around the world. The next-highest concentration of Jewish people other than Israel is America. France, Canada, the UK, Argentina and Russia have the next highest amounts. However, I believe as we see rising anti-semitism around the world, including right here sadly in our own nation, this fulfills Bible prophecy by seeing more and more Jewish people migrate back to Israel.
It was in 2006, so less than 20 years ago, that the Jewish population of Israel surpassed that of the United States, making it the nation with the highest concentration of Jewish people in the world for the first time in 2000 years. Just in my lifetime, that mile marker was reached.
I believe in my lifetime we’ll see more and more Jewish people, like Ben Shapiro right here in America, decide that the safest place for them and their families is actually in Israel itself. And this will set the stage for the end times to play out.
So these have marked the process of Israel being reconstituted as a nation. The regathering of the people as the bones came together, and then the restoration of the nation and its land on the world scene as the flesh reforms over those bones.
But there is one more step in the process that I don’t believe we’ve seen yet, which is the breath of the Spirit being re-breathed into this body. We’ll talk about that in just a minute as we close down today.
Next time
Next time on this podcast, we’ll read the second half of Ezekiel 37, which discusses more of the regathering of the Jewish people. We’ll tackle the question of: were there really 10 lost tribes after the Northern Kingdom of Israel was destroyed? And does that mean anything for today?
And that episode will come out on the one-year anniversary of October 7, so we’ll probably have some reflections on that as well and what that has meant as we think about Bible prophecy.
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Regenerated
In closing today, I just want to speak about what comes next for Israel. We are between verses 8 and 9 of Ezekiel 37. Let me read that section again and I’ll talk about what comes in Israel’s future with verse 9 of that chapter.
Ezekiel 37:7-8
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them.
So that’s where Israel is now. The bones are regathered. The flesh is restored. It’s continuing to be restored. But this body is dead. It has not experienced regeneration. There is no breath in them.
Remember, the breath is the Spirit. Ruah. The regenerative power of the Holy Spirit. If you remember from the chapter just prior to this in Ezekiel, God said He wanted to put a new heart and a new spirit within them. The Holy Spirit. The blessing of the new covenant, the new life that’s offered to all people through faith in the Messiah, Jesus.
Sadly, despite all the blessings and preservation that God has offered the Jewish people, they have never accepted Jesus as their Messiah in a broad sense. Only about 1% of Jewish people around the world today are actually saved.
So God has brought this nation back together. It has came back from the dead. Something that no other country has done, and that the Bible told us would happen, and has happened.
Yet the body is dead. They don’t have the Spirit within them. The nation isn’t saved.
Despite all of God’s favor that He has shown them, the vast majority of Jewish people- if they died today- would end up in hell. They are dead in their sins.
I’m not saying anything against them by pointing them out. They are no worse than any gentile out there in regards to salvation. They need Jesus just as much as I did before I got saved. They’re no worse than any other sinner who needs to get saved. But the point remains, they need to get saved.
So what comes next for Israel.
Ezekiel 37:9-10
9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
Israel is prophesied to get saved someday. When is this gonna happen? Sadly, they’re going to face some more hardship before they finally turn to Christ. The Bible teaches that there is going to be this man called the Antichrist who, at first, looks like a savior riding in on a white horse. I believe the Jewish people will, at first, actually think that he is a candidate for that Messiah that they’re still looking for.
They’ll flock to him in the early part of the seven-year tribulation that the Bible prophesies is to come on this earth. They’ll believe he has good intentions for the Israeli people, bringing them peace and security. If their Temple isn’t already built by that point, he’ll make a way for them to finally have it. They’ll believe he is a safeguard of their religion. They’ll be dead wrong.
At the halfway point of the 7-year tribulation, the antichrist will turn on them. He will march into their Temple, declare himself to be “God,” and initiate a second holocaust that’s even worse than the first.
The Jewish people, once again, will be scattered. But in this process, they’ll turn away from this false messiah to the true messiah. From the antichrist to the actual Christ. And when they do that, with however many Jews who are left, they will finally get saved and life will enter this body. They’ll realize that when the first Messiah came, they killed him. They got Jesus wrong the first time, but they’ll finally get Him right. They will stand up in courage against this Antichrist and not back down as He tries to flood them out, and Jesus will be their deliverer.
Ezekiel 37 will be totally fulfilled, when it says
the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
Zechariah 12 will be totally fulfilled, when it says
8 On that day the Lord will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the Lord, going before them. 9 And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
Romans 11 will be totally fulfilled, where Paul said,
25 Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,“The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;“and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
The Jewish people have not always had a happy story. But they are promised a happy ending.
Thanks for listening to this Cross References Bible Study on the Book of Ezekiel. This has been Luke Taylor.
Prophecy is being fulfilled. Christ is coming back to this earth. I hope you’re ready for what’s coming next.