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0:09 Good morning. Welcome to Stand on the Word. I bet you are familiar with the old spiritual dim bones. Remember that? Dim bones, dim bones, dim dry bones. Now hear the0:21 word of the Lord. And that's exactly what we're gonna do this morning as we look at Ezekiel chapter 38 verse 4. Then he said to me, prophesy over these bones and say to them, oh dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. In0:33 chapter 37, Ezekiel the prophet is speaking to bones and he's taping sticks together. And both have significant meaning. 2 prophetic messages. Now, in this passage, he is not0:45 just given a word. He is again taken up in the spirit and he visits a valley. And in that valley, he sees it filled with sun bleached, dry human bones.0:57 Now, this is not about the resurrection, although the use of the bodily resurrection allegorically affirms the reality of the resurrection. Alright? This1:08 prophecy, this prophecy is about the political and spiritual revival of a united Israel that will testify to the nations that the Lord is, in fact,1:20 God. Now, this biblical prophecy is about Israel. It's a prophecy that has been filled, is being filled, and is yet to be fulfilled. So let's look at1:32 the bones. Alright? Verse 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, and it was full of bones. And he led me around among them, and1:42 behold, there were many the surface of the valley and behold, they were very dry. The bones are the house of Israel, the Jewish nation. Verse 3. And he said to me, son of man, can these bones1:54 live? And I said, oh, Lord God, you know. In other words, with man, no, but with God all things are possible. Then he said to me, prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the2:05 Lord. Thus says the Lord God, to these bones, behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and you and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and2:17 put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord. Now don't miss this. There is life giving, miracle working power in the authorized, declared2:29 word of God. The word of God is powerful. Now, this progression. Hear the word of the Lord. And before we speak the word of God, and I would take this from a spiritual context,2:41 before we speak the word of the Lord, we need to pray that people will hear the word of the Lord, that the Holy Spirit, we need to pray the Holy Spirit open their ears to hear and their hearts to receive. Then we see2:53 after they hear the word of the Lord, muscle and flesh come on the bones, and then breath or life enters. Verse 7, So I prophesied, as I was3:04 commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. It all came together. And I looked, behold, there were3:16 sinews on them, and the flesh came upon them, and skin had covered them, but there was no breath in them. First, the scattered bones are reunited, but there is no breath in them, no3:28 life. This is the coming together, the scattered elements of the nation back into the land. Then there is a political rebirth of the nation which3:40 many, myself included, believe occurred in May of 19 48. On May 14, 19 48, as the British mandate ended and British troops withdrew from3:52 Palestine, David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish agency, read a proclamation declaring the creation of a Jewish state. And as he ended the reading, he struck the table and4:04 exclaimed, The name of our state shall be Israel. It was very secular. It's very fascinating to watch the evolution that's taking place there. But4:16 shortly after the bones started to rattle just moments after midnight in Palestine upon David Ben Gurion's declaration, President Harry Truman, despite opposition from his own Secretary of State4:28 officially recognized the Jewish State. After nearly 2500 years, Israel was once again a sovereign nation. Never happened before. Verse 84:40 of Isaiah chapter 66 says, who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a be born in 1 day? Shall a nation be brought forth in 1 moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor,4:52 she brought forth her children. Pretty fascinating, isn't it? Alright, let's go to verse 9 of chapter 37, where the Lord tells Ezekiel to proclaim the breath of life to come into the5:04 unified bones. 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 4 winds, O breath, and breathe on the slain, that they may5:15 live. 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. This is the spiritual rebirth of the nation5:27 Israel which is yet to come. While Israel is a Jewish state, it is a secular state, as I mentioned a few moments ago, that advances some policies, of course, like America, that are counter5:39 to Scripture. And just as we must remind and hold our leaders here in America accountable to the truth of God, so must we do with our allies in Israel. We don't give them a free5:51 pass. We support them, but we also have to speak truth. But this brings up an important point. Some believe that the Church has replaced Israel.6:03 Theology. But many passages refute that notion, many passages of Scripture. Among them is this passage: God is not finished with Israel. In fact, Paul has the same message6:15 in Romans chapter 11 where he writes of us, Christians, being grafted into the new covenant. If you want to be on the right side of history, you need to stand on the6:27 side of the word of God, because God is the 1 who writes history. It's his history. Alright. Verse 11. Then he said to me, son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, our bones are dried up6:38 and our hope is lost. We are indeed cut off. Therefore, prophesy and say to them, thus says the Lord God, behold, I will open your graves and raise you up from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land6:50 of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord when I open your graves and raise you up from your graves, O my people. And I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live. And I will place you in your own7:01 land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord. I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord. Now, in summary, this first prophetic word in chapter 37 speaks7:13 to a unified nation, north and south kingdoms. The resurrection from the grave is political. They are brought from nothing. They were not a nation. They were just7:24 for 2500 years, and so they are brought back. I think we can say that this has happened. Okay? The infusion of the spirit, the breath that comes into them,7:36 is something yet to happen. That comes at the return of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Now, let's go to the sticks, which is the second prophecy in this chapter.7:48 Just in case the message was missed in the first 1, this makes clear Israel will be united as 1 nation. Verse 15. The word of the Lord came to me, son of man, take a stick and write on it for8:00 Judah and the people of Israel associated with him. Then take another stick and write on it for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel associated with him. And join them together into 1 stick that8:12 they may become 1 in your hand. Now I'm not sure if he used duct tape or gorilla glue but Ezekiel is told to take 1 stick representing Judah and 1 representing the 10 northern8:24 tribes of Israel and put the 2 together. What does that mean? Well, this is not a hard 1. Verse 18, and when your people say to you, will you not tell us what you mean by these?8:36 Say to them, thus says the Lord God, behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph that is in and the tribes of Israel associated with him and I will join it with the stick of Judah, and make them 1 stick, that they8:48 may be 1 in my hand. Pretty clear. The divided nations shall be 1 again, which would suggest okay, that the 10 tribes were not lost.9:00 How will we know that this has been accomplished? Well, at verse 25. They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children, their children's children,9:12 shall dwell there forever. And David, my servant, shall be their prince forever. I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land, and multiply9:22 them and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who9:34 sanctifies sanctifies Israel when my sanctuary is in their midst forever. So here it is. A king from the line of David will reign over Israel again. Hasn't9:46 happened yet. The king from the line of David will reign over the nation again. The temple, my sanctuary will be in their midst. The tabernacle, the presence of the Lord in their midst. The testimony, the nations will9:57 know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore. It hasn't happened yet, but it does tell us. That's the direction God is going. God10:09 is not finished with Israel. But when he has completed the work that he has begun, there will be a spiritual rebirth of the reconstituted nation10:21 and then the entire world will know. So what does that mean for us? Well, as I said, it means God is not finished with Israel and that we should join him in what he is10:33 doing in this day, moving toward the fulfillment of his word. He'll do it, but we don't want to be countered to it. And that's why I say it's important that we pray for and support the nation of Israel and10:44 stand in defense of the Jewish people as we see this rise of anti Semitism. It doesn't mean everything that they do we agree with. But we know what the word of God says. We want to be10:56 on the side of what the Lord is doing. We want to join him in that work. Father, thank you for your word. And Lord, as we look at this from this application to Israel, we pray11:08 for the rebirth of the Jewish nation to be strengthened and protected, but we also pray for that spiritual rebirth. But, Lord, we pray for that even in the church. Lord,11:19 we pray that in our own nation, Lord, the dry bones would come together, that we would see a spiritual revival in our nation. Lord, we pray for the breath of the Holy Spirit and revive11:31 us, that, Lord, that we would be able to give testimony to your presence and to the work that you are doing in us and through us that the nations would know. So we thank you11:43 and we praise you in Jesus name. Amen. Alright. Thanks again for joining me and until next time. Keep standing on the word.11:53 Today's study comes from the Stand on the Word Bible reading plan, available for free at f r c dot o r g slash bible. By following along in just a few minutes a day,12:05 you can read through the entire Bible in just 2 years. 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