And He said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? Did it seem possible to human eyes that these dry bones would be restored to life again? And I answered, properly leaving the answer of the question to the Lord's almighty power, O Lord God, Thou knowest. With God nothing is impossible, and therefore the believers trust in Him to perform His mighty deeds at His own time.
Verse Ezekiel 37:3. _CAN THESE BONES LIVE?_] Is it possible that the persons whose bones these are can return to life?...
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...
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...
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1. LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. See note on Ezekiel 2:4....
To the question, Can these bones live? the prophet, looking at them, could not answer Yea (even to the Apostle attainment unto the resurrection of the dead was something ineffably lofty, Philippians 3...
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...
DISCOURSE: 1120 UNIVERSAL RESTORATION OF THE JEWS Ezekiel 37:1. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which teas fu...
CAN THESE BONES LIVE?— _Shall these bones revive?_ Houbigant, who observes very justly, that the question is not concerning the possibility of the fact; for the prophet well knew that God could do all...
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...
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. CAN THESE BONES LIVE? AND I ANSWERED, O LORD GOD, THOU KNOWEST - implying that, humanly speaking, th...
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...
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 V1 I fe
CAN THESE BONES LIVE? — The question is put to the prophet in order to emphasise the human impossibility of that which is immediately brought about by the Divine omnipotence. (Comp. Matthew 9:5.) It w...
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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...
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...
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...
The Lord's question is very striking. The Lord asketh, not for his information, but for ours. The Prophet's answer is truly modest and becoming. Humanly speaking, the bones could not live. But with Go...
_CAN THESE BONES LIVE?_ ‘Can these bones live?’ Ezekiel 37:3 I need not dwell upon any description of the actual vision itself. I. IN THE FIRST PLACE, UNDER THE FIGURE OF RESURRECTION OF DRY BONES,...
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,...
AND HE SAID UNTO ME, SON OF MAN, CAN THESE BONES LIVE?.... Is there any probability of it? is there any reason to believe they shall live? can any ways and means be devised, or any methods taken, to c...
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. Ver. 3. _Can these bones live?_] In the resurrection at the last day he knew they should, for among th...
_He caused me to pass by them round about_ To take an exact view of them; _and behold, there were very many in the open valley _ As if it had been a place where a great battle had been fought, and a v...
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...
HE SAID; the Lord, who brought Ezekiel hither, asks him what he thought. CAN THESE BONES LIVE? either, is it likely they should? or, is it a future thing that shall be, or possible, that they may live...
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‘And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord Yahweh, you know.” Then God questioned Ezekiel as to whether he thought that anything could bring the skeletons to life....
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...
Ezekiel 37:3 I. We may take Ezekiel's vision as a pledge that God does not abandon a good cause, however dark may appear its prospects at any particular time. There are in the world evils so great tha...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 37:3 The question CAN THESE BONES LIVE? anticipates the exiles’ view of their own situation (v. Ezekiel 37:11): total hopelessness. It also introdu
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...
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,...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 2:6; 2 Corinthians 1:10; 2 Corinthians 1:9; Acts 26:8;...
And he — The Lord....