Brief Notes on Ezekiel 37

Brief Notes on Ezekiel 37

In the midst of the dry bones, we want the prophet. God brings the prophet to the valley—out of the midst of life to the midst of death.

The Lord not only showed the prophet the bones but placed him in the midst of them.

It was a fair chance for the prophet to show what he could do. He had to confess he could do nothing.

The Lord spoke of life in the very midst of death “Shall these bones live?” He did not ask the question when they were sick, or even dead, but when they were bones.

God is waiting to make the valley of death the valley of life. Many would like to be prophets but are they willing to be detached from everything and placed in the midst of death?—no sympathy, no life around Human bones there, but no human feeling.

God sent His Son from the life in glory to the death on earth. God cannot make prophets without bringing them through the Cross. He takes them from life to death, having first planted His own life in them. God cannot send them to the valley of death in their own power.

The earth is full of valleys of dry bones, and God waits for prophets. He cannot send any with no spark of Divine life in them. God waits to give the vision of the valley of death, but we cannot bear it without God’s life in us.

God is seeking to create prophets—they must have resurrection life in them.