The Valley of Dry Bones: Israel Reborn To Nationhood!

Before there could be any fulfillment of Ezekiel 38 & 39, there had first to be a nation of Israel (That such a nation would ever arise again was unlikely, even in the eyes of a Jew.  That this nation would ever rise to the level of global hegemony must be something of a nightmare to those of the world of Islam and other Jew haters!  Nonetheless, God says it is to be!).  At the time of Ezekiel’s writing, the nation was largely ‘kaput’—that is, as the nation it was supposed to be, it did not exist.  Israel, the northern kingdom, had been destroyed and carried off by the Assyrians, centuries earlier.  Judah was in captivity, in Babylon…at the time of Ezekiel’s writing.  The stage upon which the Christ would be born had yet to be set.  Thus, the nation had to revive and die a second time, before Ezekiel’s confrontation could materialize.  Dead though it was in Ezekiel’s day, die it would again, as we shall see.

All the prophecies regarding the end-times are highly significant, worthy to be studied and mused upon by the child of God and student of scripture.  None should ever be taken lightly.  All, in context—being mindful of God’s heavy use of symbolism—can be taken literally.  Perhaps the pinnacle of all the eschatological prophecies, it might be argued, is this one:  the return of that most despised, beaten down, bruised and battered of all human beings from his lowly estate to sit once again as a people—in the face of all of his detractors—not just as a nation, but, to be actually ultimately elevated to a position so that his is—to the consternation of multitudes—above the nations.  This will occur during the millennial reign, yes, but the Bible makes it clear it will occur as well before His return.  All this, per the word and will of the Living God; his God, who Lives!—following two thousand years of often brutal, sometimes deadly mistreatment.