Ezekiel, Can These Bones Live?

Audio reading: Genesis 24:53-67, Ezek 35:1-36:38, James 1:1-18, Psalm 116:1-19, Prov 27:23-27

Audio reading: Genesis 25:1-11, Ezek 37:1-38:23, James 1:19-2:17, Psalm 117:1-2, Prov 28:1

Ezekiel is shown a huge field of dry bones. YHVH asks him, “Son of Man, can these dry bones live?”
Who do the dry bones represent? What is this tremendous prophecy all about? Why has their hope been lost? How will that hope be restored? Hint: the answer is found in Ezekiel 37:11:

Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

Next, YHVH tells Ezekiel to take two sticks and upon one stick he is to write “Judah” and on the other stick he is to write “Ephraim”. Then the two sticks are joined as ONE in the hand of YHVH. What is this a prophetic picture of? How does it impact you and me? Listen in and find out!

“Then say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land. Ezekiel 37:21