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Verse Ezekiel 37:12. _I WILL OPEN YOUR GRAVES_] Here is a pointed
allusion to the _general resurrection_; a doctrine properly credited
and understood by the Jews, and to which our Lord refers, John 5...
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CHAPTER S 37-48
The Future Blessings of Israel, the Nation Regathered,
Their Enemies Overthrown, the Millennial Temple, and the Division of
the Land
_ 1. The vision of the dry bones and Judah and I...
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE PEOPLE. Those fair ideals, however, cannot
abolish the melancholy reality. The truth is that the exiled people
are as good as dead and in their graves (Ezekiel 37:11 f.). Over...
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The figure is varied here, the people are regarded as dead and buried
and their revival is an opening of their graves. The phrase "bring you
into the land of Israel" shews, however, that the language...
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The vision of Israel's resurrection from the dead
The vision seems suggested by the saying current among the people,
"our bones are dried, our hope is lost; we are wholly cut off." This
idea and feel...
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DISCOURSE: 1121
SOULS QUICKENED BY THE GOSPEL
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; w...
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BEHOLD, O MY PEOPLE— That is, you who are truly such: for this most
gracious appellation seems evidently taken from the words of the
covenant so often mentioned; _I will be their God, and they shall b...
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II. THE REBIRTH OF THE NATION 37:1-28
Ezekiel had been promising God's people a bright future with new
leadership and a new Canaan. However, these promises were met with as
much skepticism as his earl...
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Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up
out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
O MY...
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37:12 graves, (c-27) See Daniel 12:2 . land (d-36) or 'soil,' as ver.
21; ch. 36.24....
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THE NEW ISRAEL (EZEKIEL 33-48)
So long as the Jewish kingdom remained in existence Ezekiel's
prophecies (those in Ezekiel 1-24) dealt almost exclusively with the
nation's sin, and with the certainty o...
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EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD”
GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS
EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 37
THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES – EZEKIEL 37:1-14
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OPEN YOUR GRAVES. — In Ezekiel 37:2 it is said that the bones were
“in the open valley,” literally, _upon the face of the valley._
This was a necessity of the vision, in order that they might be seen;...
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לָכֵן֩ הִנָּבֵ֨א וְ אָמַרְתָּ֜
אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם כֹּֽה...
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LIFE FROM THE DEAD
Ezekiel 37:1
The most formidable obstacle to faith on the part of the exiles in the
possibility of a national redemption was the complete disintegration
of the ancient people of Is...
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THE RESURRECTION OF A DEAD NATION
Ezekiel 37:1-14
A marvelous chapter-the vision is so graphic. Time does not rob it of
its significance. Indeed every sign points to speedy fulfillment. The
Jewish na...
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The wonderful vision of the valley filled with bones was now granted
to the prophet. As he gazed on them, he was asked, "Son of man, can
these bones live?" His utter abandonment to God, even in the ma...
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See, Reader, how the Lord himself hath graciously explained this
vision to the Prophet. Whether, as some read it, the subject refers to
the restoration of Israel from Babylon, temporally considered; o...
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Chapter 37 reveals the definitive blessing of the people as a fact,
without entering into any details of the events that terminate in this
blessing. The dry bones of Israel, of the nation as a whole,...
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THEREFORE PROPHESY, AND SAY UNTO THEM,.... For their comfort, in order
to revive their hope, and encourage their faith, in these distressed
circumstances:
THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, O MY PEOPLE: th...
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Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of
your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Ver. 1...
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_These bones are the whole house of Israel_ These bones represent the
forlorn and desperate condition to which the whole nation of Israel is
reduced; _they say, Our bones are dried_, &c. Our affairs a...
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Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold,
O My people, I will open your graves, the countries in which they
were, in a manner of speaking, buried, AND CAUSE YOU TO COME UP...
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THE VISION OF THE RESURRECTION...
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1-14 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 then told to blow upon these bodies; and they were restored...
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PROPHESY; tell them their mistake, and revive their hope by a new
promise and declaration of my purposes of mercy towards them. SAY UNTO
THEM; these poor desponding, dejected Israelites. BEHOLD; consi...
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Ezekiel 37:12 prophesy H5012 (H8734) say H559 (H8804) says H559
(H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 people...
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THE VISION OF THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES (EZEKIEL 37:1).
This vision is not directly an illustration or promise of physical
resurrection. Ezekiel nowhere gives any indication of expecting a
resurrection...
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‘Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house
of Israel. Behold they say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is
lost. We are cut off for us (or ‘our thread of life has been cut
o...
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Ezekiel 37:1. _The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in
the spirit of the LORD,_
God's servants learn nothing until they have an experience similar to
that of Ezekiel. They must be led...
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CONTENTS: Vision of the valley of dry bones. Sign of the two sticks.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ezekiel, Joseph, Ephraim, Judah.
CONCLUSION: He who made man so fearfully and wonderfully can in li...
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Ezekiel 37:14. _I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live._ A
moral resurrection shall pass upon the people of Israel; the Lord
shall “bring them up out of their graves,” where they have long
bee...
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_Therefore prophesy and say unto them, thus saith the Lord God;
behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up
out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel._
DESP...
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_Son of man, can these bones live?_
THE VISION OF A TRUE REVIVAL
I. Such a revival often seems utterly hopeless. The condition of a
nation in some of its eras of misfortune; the condition of the hum...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 37:1 This vision is one of the most famous
passages in Ezekiel. While it stands on its own as a statement of
God’s power to re-create his people, the context is significant. Th...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 37:12 I WILL OPEN YOUR GRAVES AND RAISE YOU
FROM YOUR GRAVES, O MY PEOPLE. The vision of national revival changes
into the metaphor of a cemetery, which seems to be related to...
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THE VISION OF THE DRY BONES REVIVIFIED A SYMBOL OF THE DEATH AND
RESURRECTION OF ISRAEL. (Chap. 37.)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 37:1. “THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS UPON
ME.” “The abrupt commencement witho...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter embraces, in its earlier section (Ezekiel 37:1), the
concluding portion of the "word of God" begun at Ezekiel 36:16; in its
later section (Ezekiel 36:15), an additional "word,...
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CHAPTER 37.
THE VISION OF THE DRY BONES RESTORED TO LIFE AGAIN, AS SYMBOLICAL OF
ISRAEL'S DEATH AND RESURRECTION.
THE preceding prophecies have unfolded, in all essential particulars,
the future salv...
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Now in chapter 37, again, a prophecy of the restoration of the nation
of Israel, the rebirth of the nation.
The hand of the LORD was upon me, carried me out in the Spirit of the
LORD, and set me down...
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1 Thessalonians 4:16; Amos 9:14; Amos 9:15; Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel
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I will open — Though your captivity be as death, your persons close
as the grave, yet I will open those graves....