terça-feira, 30 de janeiro de 2018

The Valley of dry bones and the adjustment of every part

Again He said to me, Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the Word of Jehovah. (Eze 37:4)

We must to understand that the dry bones was a picture of the nation of Israel, as seen in verse 11. There is a clear ordinance to the Church (Israel of God): "Hear the word of the Lord." After the word has been prophesied, it resulted in an outpouring of a Spirit from the Lord, creating life.

"I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live" - ​​Ezekiel 37:5

Once the word was proclaimed theose bones began to gather.
The prophet Ezekiel says that once he began to prophesy  there was great meeting and great noise like rattles and bone to bone, began to gather. We need to prophesy to the Church of the Lord, the word that generate unity. We can’t allow the church to become a pile of bones over a valley. The church cannot be a place of rottenness, stench, segregation, a place of death. As the Word was prophesied by Ezekiel, tendons, flesh and skin were lining that gathering of bones. That is: first, each part, each piece of bone was placed in its proper place. It shows the sense of our Father, setting up His home and  body. Our Father is very organized. He took the world from chaos and arranged the whole earth. The Apostle Paul also makes this statement: Everything must be done decently and in order - 1 Cor. 14:40

Once everything was in place, then began to emerge tendons (connecting bones), meat (the mass of the body) and skin (covering). But there was still one detail: it was now a Valley of the dead. It was necessary to prophesy the Spirit upon them so that they could live. This reference is very similar to the creation of man from dirt. There was a dead body, properly adjusted and connected by every joint, but without life. Then the Lord breathed into them the Spirit, the breath of life. The bones were connected, recovered by meat, completed, but missed the spirit.

So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the Spirit came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army. (Eze 37:10)


An wonderful detail: "A great army" that is the Lord's Church. A body adjusted and well-connected moved by the Holy Spirit. It leads us to something that the Apostle Paul said in the  second letter to the Corinthians: “…who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive” (2Co 3:6)

The word released to the nation of Israel (Church) sounded like a trumpet, brought gathering and unification. It was for the whole nation, for all tribes, for the whole Church. There’s no 
denominations in God's mind, divisions, mutilated and divided body parts, walking and fighting for themselves, like zombies, bodies without a spirit and with involuntary movements, disorganized, without purpose. The church is not a "zombie nation", but is the Body of Christ quickened by the Spirit!


But knowing their thoughts, He said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. And a house divided against a house falls. (Lk 11:17)

And you, son of man, take a stick and write on it, For Judah and for his companions, the sons of Israel. And take another stick and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel, his companions. And join them to one another into one stick. And they shall become one in your hand. (Eze 37:16-17)

And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and one King (JESUS) shall be king to them all. And they shall not still be two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. (Eze 37:22)

The word prophesied calls the Church out of their graves. It brings the church back to the place it belongs. The last detail that I want to highlight in this scripture is that the Lord commanded the prophet to gather all the kingdoms into one, in a single rod. Who is the rod? Who is the the perfect one? Who is the true vine? People from all languages, races, tribes and nations, receiving Jesus as Lord, as being head of one body, one church, forming a huge army!

But that you, speaking the truth in love, may in all things grow up to Him who is the Head, even Christ; from whom the whole body, fitted together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of each part, producing the growth of the body to the edifying of itself in love. (Efs 4:15-16)

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