DEM BONES ARE GONNA RISE AGAIN (4 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Ezekiel 37:1-14
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Dem Bones Are Gonna Rise Again (4 of 4)
Series: The Mighty Power of God
Jeff Strite
Ezekiel 37:1-14
(We began with this dramatic reenactment of the Ezekiel 37 passage found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lKpzzOEhyY)
What you just saw was a powerful reenactment of the vision that God gave to Ezekiel (the video showed a view of the valley of bones being bought to life while a narrator read the vision from Ezekiel 37). A valley of dead... dry... bones being brought to life again. It seems a little bizarre. But it was a such a powerful vision that it still catches the imagination of people to this day.
Ezekiel had been a priest of God until Nebuchadnezzar came down and captured Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple in 587 B.C. Most of the tribe of Judah had been led away in chains... including Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and Ezekiel. This was a time of hopelessness and despair for God's people. They'd been punished for their sins... just as God had warned them and now their lives were empty and miserable... and they felt dead inside, as if there were no more future. There was no way out. They were trapped.
And so God gives Ezekiel a vision. He shows him a valley filled dead, dry bones. Bones were everywhere, scattered by wild animals. There seemed no hope of them every being brought back together again. And then God asks Ezekiel: ''Son of man, can these bones live?'' Ezekiel 37:3
Now, that's a dumb question. Of course they can't live. They're dead!
They've been dead for a really, really long time.
They've been whitened by the sun, dried out by the wind and scattered all over the place. It would take (long pause) a miracle to bring them back together and give them life again. Oh yeah (pause)... a miracle would do it.
Now, Ezekiel's a pretty smart guy. He knows what God is asking. He knows God has presented him with an impossible situation, and there is no normal/natural way these bones would ever come back to life. Unless (of course) ...
Series: The Mighty Power of God
Jeff Strite
Ezekiel 37:1-14
(We began with this dramatic reenactment of the Ezekiel 37 passage found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lKpzzOEhyY)
What you just saw was a powerful reenactment of the vision that God gave to Ezekiel (the video showed a view of the valley of bones being bought to life while a narrator read the vision from Ezekiel 37). A valley of dead... dry... bones being brought to life again. It seems a little bizarre. But it was a such a powerful vision that it still catches the imagination of people to this day.
Ezekiel had been a priest of God until Nebuchadnezzar came down and captured Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple in 587 B.C. Most of the tribe of Judah had been led away in chains... including Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and Ezekiel. This was a time of hopelessness and despair for God's people. They'd been punished for their sins... just as God had warned them and now their lives were empty and miserable... and they felt dead inside, as if there were no more future. There was no way out. They were trapped.
And so God gives Ezekiel a vision. He shows him a valley filled dead, dry bones. Bones were everywhere, scattered by wild animals. There seemed no hope of them every being brought back together again. And then God asks Ezekiel: ''Son of man, can these bones live?'' Ezekiel 37:3
Now, that's a dumb question. Of course they can't live. They're dead!
They've been dead for a really, really long time.
They've been whitened by the sun, dried out by the wind and scattered all over the place. It would take (long pause) a miracle to bring them back together and give them life again. Oh yeah (pause)... a miracle would do it.
Now, Ezekiel's a pretty smart guy. He knows what God is asking. He knows God has presented him with an impossible situation, and there is no normal/natural way these bones would ever come back to life. Unless (of course) ...
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