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Ezekiel 37:1

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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 was full of bones,

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Dry Bones Come Alive

By Todd Beiswenger


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God shows Ezekiel a valley of dry bones, then tells him to prophesy them back to life. Which he does. Amazing! While it is a vision of resurrection, it is for us a story of us going from knowledge to wisdom. Knowledge is like dry bones, but God breathes life into them and they become wisdom. You've got to have the bones, as knowledge is necessary to have wisdom, but without God's breath the knowledge is essentially dead.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 149, 8005; Ezekiel 37:1-10)