Can such things be? In Ezekiel’s vision, he saw before him a valley of dry bones. A multitude of God’s people dead, scattered, and dried out to bones. Then suddenly the bones began to come together among them with flesh, tendons, and muscle. Yet still dead, but just corpses, as a multitude of the dead before Ezekiel. God’s people were dead from their rebellion before Him. Laid to waste without life.
Until thereafter the Lord breathed again the breath of life to them all. As with creation and with Pentecost, to revive them. To give them life. A new life unlike anything before. His promise that He would restore the people of Israel. That “He would deliver them from the grave of exile, place His Spirit among them, and settle them once more in the promised land.”
A precursor of what was to come as written about in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:2-5). As now the Holy Spirit dwells within His people today.
Chisholm, R. B. (1998). The Major Prophets. In D. S. Dockery (Ed.), Holman concise Bible commentary (p. 327). Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers.
