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"Through the Bible" Week 46

"Through the Bible" Week 46. "Can These Bones Live?". Ezekiel is known for "dry bones" - it could be also known for "dry reading.". Ezekiel at 25 taken to Babylon as a priest trainee at age 30, the visions, and his prophetic ministry began. Ezekiel's visions:

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"Through the Bible" Week 46

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  1. "Through the Bible" Week 46 • "Can These Bones Live?"

  2. Ezekiel is known for "dry bones" - it could be also known for "dry reading."

  3. Ezekiel • at 25 taken to Babylon as a priest trainee • at age 30, the visions, and his prophetic ministry began

  4. Ezekiel's visions: • Vision of lightening, four strange creatures, and the intersecting wheels. (1) • Vision of a man of fire who takes Ezekiel by the hair to the temple in Jerusalem. (8) • Vision with eagles and vines. (17) • Vision of temple, walls, gates and furnishings. (40-48)

  5. Ezekiel's dramatic skits: • Eat the scroll (3). • Make sketch of city, build siege walls; lay on one side for 390 days and the other for 40 (4). • Shave head, burn some of the hair, strike some with a sword, and scatter most of the rest of it to the wind. (5) • Dig a hole and take belongings through the wall. (12) • Not allowed to mourn his wife's death. (Chapter 24)

  6. The best-known vision - the vision of the Valley of Dry Bones.

  7. Ezekiel cried, "Dem dry bones!" (3xs) - "Oh, hear the word of the Lord.“ • The toe bone connected to the heel bone, • The heel bone connected to the foot bone . . . . • Dem bones, dem bones gonna walk aroun' (3xs) - Oh, hear the word of the Lord.

  8. The Dry Bones Valley vision is a continuation of the prophecy given in the previous chapter – • 36:24-36.

  9. The "hand of the Lord" was on Ezekiel. • Also said of Elijah (I Kings 18:46), Elisha (II Kings 3:15) and Ezra (Ezra 7:6).

  10. In this graveyard, nameless warriors have been dead a long time, larger beasts of prey have pulled these bodies apart bone from bone, and the bones have been picked clean by the vultures.

  11. It is not the prophet who brings life, nor is it the words; • it is the Sovereign Lord.

  12. The immediate interpretation of the vision is given in verses 11-14; the people of Israel are totally demoralized; their hope is gone; they are just as good as dead; but restoration is promised.

  13. The message of this vision may be seen as is a prophecy concerning the resurrection.

  14. This message of Ezekiel is for people who feel: • DEFEATED • DISABED • DISJOINTED • DRY

  15. The change from death to life involves these three steps: • Hearing the word. • Receiving the Spirit. • Becoming an army.

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