Tues.'s Devo - Live Bones

Read: Ezekiel 37-39; 32:1-16
Every story in the Bible is for then and for all the generations yet to come. The vision of the valley of dry bones was a picture to the Israelites then of a rebirth of their nation. To us now it can be a person who is dead in sin or our nation which is steeped in idolatry. It is to show us that God can bring life to anything that is dead. His power is stronger than death that devastation. It is our hope for every situation. Notice, God told Ezekiel to prophesy to the wind of the Spirit and commanded the bones to live. We can do that over the people we are praying for and for our nation.
God told Ezekiel to take two sticks and write “for Judah” on one and “for Joseph” on the other. Judah and Joseph were not close growing up and were separated most of their lives. Joseph was a picture of Jesus and Judah was a picture of Israel. God told Ezekiel to put them together as one stick showing that one day, Israel would embrace their Messiah, Jesus Christ.
The rest of the reading has to do with end times. It is the picture of last war, Armageddon. The nations involved are Magog, Meshech, Tubal, and the house of Togarmah. These are described in Revelation 20:8 as the nations which are in the four corners of the earth. They are the nations that resist the Messiah and his people. They will be destroyed and eaten by the birds and beasts of the earth in a feast called the Feast of Leviathan. We will be enjoying the Marriage Feast of the Lamb. I can’t tell when this will happen but I do know this….we win!
Lord, breath life into our spirit and let us prophesy to the dry bones around us.