The Lord Said: "New Life Is Coming!"

Ezekiel 37:3 And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” 4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

The further we get to the end of these prophesies of judgment, the closer we are to when Jerusalem fell. It was going to happen any day, so the illustrations become for vivid. The bones are good and dead - all dried out. They have been sitting in the sun, bleached out. Ezekiel had learned that "with God, all things are possible," and to wait and listen and watch.  God promised that the people of Israel would be brought back to life. The passage goes on to expand the details, with God's promise of resurrection.  As with many of these prophesies, there was a physical and spiritual fulfillment. Not only the breath of life, but the breath of the Spirit would come and fill His people.