Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Bible Study Brief: Ezekiel 37

Wednesday, March 9 

Ezekiel 37:1-14  

This story of the Dry Bones is probably the most familiar from Ezekiel. In this vision, God promises to re-create life from death, a sort of second creation using the raw material of what is left of the Israelites. In exile, they feel that they are cut off from their source of life (away from Jerusalem = away from God), and so they have dried up, wasting away to only bones. God promises to bring them back together so they are whole, including flesh, sinew, skin, and bone, and to breathe God’s spirit into them for new life.


Remember, in Hebrew as well as in Greek there is one word for spirit, wind, and breath, which is the source of life for these new creations. With these parallel images to resurrection and new life, this is a perfect story for the Easter Vigil! 

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