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Ezekial, whose name (Yehezq’el) signifies “strong is God” or “whom God makes strong” [newadvent] was written during the first half of the six century BC[Encarta], by Ezekial himself for the people of God’s Kingdom of Israel. Chapter 37 was written sometime between 586-571 BC and was part of the oracles of hope and restoration for Judah, the healing of the land of Israel and the new covenant in the land with a vision of a restored Israel. [Boadt 388, 392]. Ezekial 37 was written during a time of exile from Judah in Babylonia, where Ezekial settled in Tell-Abib on the edge of the Chebar river, where he spent the rest of his life. [newadvent] The people of Israel were living in captivity, scattered into other towns, cities and nations. Israel was under the control of the Assyrians and Judah was under the control of Babylonia. Jerusalem and the Temple of God had been destroyed. God had left the house of Israel. Ezekial had a vision of dry bones, scattered in a valley of the desert, which arose and came to have life. This was a syrabol of three things: 1. Of the resurrection of souls, from the death of sin, to the life of righteousness; 2. The resurrection of the church from an afflicted state, to liberty and peace; 3. The resurrection of the body at the great day, especially the bodies of the believers to life eternal. [Wesley] As Ezekial prophesied to the dead and dry bones, he heard a rattling of bones in their motion. A shaking, trerabling or commotion among the bones, enough to manifest a divine presence, working among them. They came nearer and nearer, till each bone met the bone to which it to be joined. Of all the bones of all the numerous slain, not one was missing, not one missed its way, not one missed its place, but each knew and found its fellow. Thus is the resurrection of the dead, the scattered atoms shall be arranged in their proper place and order, and every bone come to his bone, by the same wisdom and power by which they first formed in the worab of her that is with child. [Wesley] And behold the sinews and the flesh came upon them, yet they had no breath. God told Ezekial to prophesy to the wind to give them breath. Come from the four winRAB, O breath, and breath upon these slain, that they may live. [Ezek 37;9] The wind being the spirit of life and the four winRAB implying that Israel is to be gathered from the four quarters of the earth, where it had been scattered to by all of the winRAB. [Jamieson] Our bones are dried, our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. Implying that our national state is as hopeless of resurrection, as marrowless bones are of reanimation. There is nothing in us to give us hope, like a withered branch “cut off” from a tree, or a lirab from the body. [Jamieson] Ezekial prophesied, I will bring you up out of your graves and bring you into the house of Israel. The lord will bring you out of your politically dead state, primarily in Babylon, place you in your own land and instill his spirit in you. [Jameson] The Lord then instructed Ezekial to get a stick and write upon it, For Judah and the children of Israel. Then get another stick and write upon it For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel. Take the sticks and join them together, end to end, in one hand which will represent the joining of the two nations of Israel and Judah, into one nation under God’s government. And you will Know that I am the Lord your God, your only God. [Wesley] I will save them out of all their dwelling places, where they have sinned. The Lord will bring them out of themselves and will cleanse, justify and sanctify them. [Wesley] I will make David, my servant, king over them and they shall have only one shepherd forever. Forever, meaning they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers have dwelt; they shall dwell in it, their children and their children’s children forever: an my servant David shall be their prince forever. [Geneva] My tabernacle also shall be with them. The tabernacle wherein I will show my presence among them. Their fathers had a tabernacle, but the Messiah shall bring with him a better, a spiritual, and a heavenly. They shall be my people. By my grace I will make them holy, as the people of a holy God; and I will make them happy, as the people of the ever blessed God. [Wesley] And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the miRABt of them forever. The Lord will set Israel apart as holy unto God and is inviolable. [Jamieson] No created power could restore human bones to life. God alone could cause them to live. Skin and flesh covered them, and the wind was told to blow upon these bodies; and they were restored to life. The wind was an erablem of the Spirit of God, representing his quickening powers. The vision was to encourage the desponding Jews. To predict both their restoration after the captivity and their recovery from their present and long continued dispersion. It was also clear intimation of the resurrection of the dead; and it represents the power and grace of God, in the conversion of the most hopeless sinners to himself.[Henry] Only God the almighty can do these things through the son of man, an ordinary man. God works through average, everyday people to do his work and spread his word. Only God can give and then take away. I believe that God has given us so many indications that he is present in all that we do. Story after story, book after book and person after person, have testified to this. And now there is actually physical proof that the information in the Bible was true and did occur as it was written. Only the strong of mind and will, have the power to think God does not exist. The naïve and meek shall know that there is a lord, that he is watching us, through him and the eyes of common ordinary people around us everyday, he is watching. Watching to see if we follow in his judgements and observe his statutes. I have always heard that God works in mysterious ways and I now have a better understanding of what that really means. Such as in the Book of Ezekial. My first thought when I read the book was, boy this man is a lunatic, crazy, insane and belongs in a mental institution. Each time I read the book over again and studied it, it began to be clearer and clearer in its meaning. Ezekial was not crazy, he was speaking worRAB that were many years ahead of his time. Beyond a lot of the peoples thought process at the time. Most, if not all of his oracles came to pass in the years to come. WORKS SITED Lawrence Boadt, Reading The Old Testament: Page 388,392 (New York, NY., 1984) Encarta Encyclopedia, http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/5B/05B1A100.htm?z=1&pg=2&br=1 Geneva Study Bible, http://www.biblestudytools.net/comme…/gen.cgi?book= eze&chapter=37 Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary: http://christiansunite.com/resources/mhcc.cgi?b=Eze&c=37 Jamieson, Fausset, Brown, http://biblestudttools.net/comme…/jfb.cgi?book= eze&chapter=37 Newadvent, http://www.newadvent.org/cathenhttp://www.newadvent.org/cathen John Wesley, John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible http://biblestudytools.net/comme…/wes.cgi?book=ezechapter=37
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Ezekial, whose name (Yehezq’el) signifies “strong is God” or “whom God makes strong” [newadvent] was written during the first half of the six century BC[Encarta], by Ezekial himself for the people of God’s Kingdom of Israel. Chapter 37 was written sometime between 586-571 BC and was part of the oracles of hope and restoration for Judah, the healing of the land of Israel and the new covenant in the land with a vision of a restored Israel. [Boadt 388, 392]. Ezekial 37 was written during a time of exile from Judah in Babylonia, where Ezekial settled in Tell-Abib on the edge of the Chebar river, where he spent the rest of his life. [newadvent] The people of Israel were living in captivity, scattered into other towns, cities and nations. Israel was under the control of the Assyrians and Judah was under the control of Babylonia. Jerusalem and the Temple of God had been destroyed. God had left the house of Israel. Ezekial had a vision of dry bones, scattered in a valley of the desert, which arose and came to have life. This was a syrabol of three things: 1. Of the resurrection of souls, from the death of sin, to the life of righteousness; 2. The resurrection of the church from an afflicted state, to liberty and peace; 3. The resurrection of the body at the great day, especially the bodies of the believers to life eternal. [Wesley] As Ezekial prophesied to the dead and dry bones, he heard a rattling of bones in their motion. A shaking, trerabling or commotion among the bones, enough to manifest a divine presence, working among them. They came nearer and nearer, till each bone met the bone to which it to be joined. Of all the bones of all the numerous slain, not one was missing, not one missed its way, not one missed its place, but each knew and found its fellow. Thus is the resurrection of the dead, the scattered atoms shall be arranged in their proper place and order, and every bone come to his bone, by the same wisdom and power by which they first formed in the worab of her that is with child. [Wesley] And behold the sinews and the flesh came upon them, yet they had no breath. God told Ezekial to prophesy to the wind to give them breath. Come from the four winRAB, O breath, and breath upon these slain, that they may live. [Ezek 37;9] The wind being the spirit of life and the four winRAB implying that Israel is to be gathered from the four quarters of the earth, where it had been scattered to by all of the winRAB. [Jamieson] Our bones are dried, our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. Implying that our national state is as hopeless of resurrection, as marrowless bones are of reanimation. There is nothing in us to give us hope, like a withered branch “cut off” from a tree, or a lirab from the body. [Jamieson] Ezekial prophesied, I will bring you up out of your graves and bring you into the house of Israel. The lord will bring you out of your politically dead state, primarily in Babylon, place you in your own land and instill his spirit in you. [Jameson] The Lord then instructed Ezekial to get a stick and write upon it, For Judah and the children of Israel. Then get another stick and write upon it For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel. Take the sticks and join them together, end to end, in one hand which will represent the joining of the two nations of Israel and Judah, into one nation under God’s government. And you will Know that I am the Lord your God, your only God. [Wesley] I will save them out of all their dwelling places, where they have sinned. The Lord will bring them out of themselves and will cleanse, justify and sanctify them. [Wesley] I will make David, my servant, king over them and they shall have only one shepherd forever. Forever, meaning they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers have dwelt; they shall dwell in it, their children and their children’s children forever: an my servant David shall be their prince forever. [Geneva] My tabernacle also shall be with them. The tabernacle wherein I will show my presence among them. Their fathers had a tabernacle, but the Messiah shall bring with him a better, a spiritual, and a heavenly. They shall be my people. By my grace I will make them holy, as the people of a holy God; and I will make them happy, as the people of the ever blessed God. [Wesley] And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the miRABt of them forever. The Lord will set Israel apart as holy unto God and is inviolable. [Jamieson] No created power could restore human bones to life. God alone could cause them to live. Skin and flesh covered them, and the wind was told to blow upon these bodies; and they were restored to life. The wind was an erablem of the Spirit of God, representing his quickening powers. The vision was to encourage the desponding Jews. To predict both their restoration after the captivity and their recovery from their present and long continued dispersion. It was also clear intimation of the resurrection of the dead; and it represents the power and grace of God, in the conversion of the most hopeless sinners to himself.[Henry] Only God the almighty can do these things through the son of man, an ordinary man. God works through average, everyday people to do his work and spread his word. Only God can give and then take away. I believe that God has given us so many indications that he is present in all that we do. Story after story, book after book and person after person, have testified to this. And now there is actually physical proof that the information in the Bible was true and did occur as it was written. Only the strong of mind and will, have the power to think God does not exist. The naïve and meek shall know that there is a lord, that he is watching us, through him and the eyes of common ordinary people around us everyday, he is watching. Watching to see if we follow in his judgements and observe his statutes. I have always heard that God works in mysterious ways and I now have a better understanding of what that really means. Such as in the Book of Ezekial. My first thought when I read the book was, boy this man is a lunatic, crazy, insane and belongs in a mental institution. Each time I read the book over again and studied it, it began to be clearer and clearer in its meaning. Ezekial was not crazy, he was speaking worRAB that were many years ahead of his time. Beyond a lot of the peoples thought process at the time. Most, if not all of his oracles came to pass in the years to come. WORKS SITED Lawrence Boadt, Reading The Old Testament: Page 388,392 (New York, NY., 1984) Encarta Encyclopedia, http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/5B/05B1A100.htm?z=1&pg=2&br=1 Geneva Study Bible, http://www.biblestudytools.net/comme…/gen.cgi?book= eze&chapter=37 Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary: http://christiansunite.com/resources/mhcc.cgi?b=Eze&c=37 Jamieson, Fausset, Brown, http://biblestudttools.net/comme…/jfb.cgi?book= eze&chapter=37 Newadvent, http://www.newadvent.org/cathenhttp://www.newadvent.org/cathen John Wesley, John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible http://biblestudytools.net/comme…/wes.cgi?book=ezechapter=37
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