Phase 2 -Page 3: Ezekiel 37 says God is going to resurrect the slain House of Israel and put His Spirit in them. As a result there stood up an exceeding great army as part of the process of the mass return.

Ezekiel 37
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,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off from our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.
15 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and
their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

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,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.

Ezek: 37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off from our parts.

  In Ezek 37:1,2 God shows Ezekiel a valley of dry bones describing the dead spiritual condition the Jews worldwide have been in for a long time. In phase 1, phase 2 page1, phase 2 page 2 we studied the 'Day of calamity' (see chart above), where Jews from many nations are being shipped and dumped in Egypt and cannot even sell themselves as slaves and to add insult to injury the land of Israel falls into the hands of their worst enemies. This invasion of Israel happens at a time when Jews 'time of iniquity' has ended which was 1967 A.D. concerning Jerusalem but before the Day of the Lord (see Ezekiel 4, Obadiah 1:13-15).
   God spoke in Ezekiel 36 (phase 2 page 2) to the mountains to get ready to bear fruit for the mass return (Jews from all nations) is about to take place. Here in Ezekiel 37 God tells the Jews worldwide and those already in Egypt what He is going to do to accomplish their mass return. God says that He is going to bring them up out of their graves (Ezek 37:12 - graves are the nations where they have been scattered for over 2500 years) and resurrect them into an exceedingly mighty army. They will then take their land back from their enemies who attacked during 'Day of Calamity' and be blessed above the days of David and Solomon (phase 3, phase 4 - see chart above). These events will be so miraculous in how God brings it about that it is like a resurrection from the dead because the Jews condition looks so hopeless. God will use wilderness of Egypt and their enemies to accomplish this mighty act of resurrection but God cannot do it until first they repent as a people and as a nation. God told Ezekiel in 37:11 that these bones symbolize the whole house of Israel - that is all 12 tribes scattered worldside. Ezekiel was taken in the spirit of the Lord and placed in the midst of an open valley which was full of these dead men's bones and in every direction he looked thay were very dry. The meaning is clear. The whole house of Israel has been scattered for over 2500 years without the Spirit of God in their lives.  God asked Ezekiel (37:3) can these bones live? - that is - be a people and a nation again. This is because the present condition of the Jews looks hopeless. They are dying off in the wilderness of Egypt and the land of Israel and Jerusalem is occupied by their worst enemies (this would be their condition after phase 1, phase 2 but before phase 3 - see chart above).  In the past the children of Israel had reached a high point of blessings under David and Solomon and then descended into this valley of death due to sin and disobedience to God's covenant made with them under Moses (see charts on timeframe 2 - intro page). This valley Ezekiel saw was an open valley (a wide plain) because spiritually the Jews have been at the bottom of that valley for over 2500 years. Ezekiel answers God (37:3) that only He knows whether they will live again and have the breath of God in them again - that is the Spirit of God in them.

4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

  God tells Ezekiel to prophesy to these bones. Ezekiel prophesying God's Word is a picture of what God is going to do with the whole house of Israel with His prophetic Word that He has written concerning these events - that is - God will fulfill all the written prophecies which are numerous (see phase chart above for listing of scriptures) that are connected with the mass return of all the Jews that have been scattered among all nations for over 2500 years. God says He is going to cause breath (His Spirit) to enter into them that they may live, but first God has to work with these bones (37:6). He must lay sinews upon them, then flesh, cover the flesh with skin and then finally put breathe in them - that is - His Spirit so that they may live.

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

Ezekiel covers the history of Jews from Zionist movement (turn of the 20th century) to Israel becoming a nation (May 1948 A.D.) but without breath (Spirit of God)

  Ezekiel prophesized as commanded and as Ezekiel prophesized there was a noise and a shaking and bones came to together, bone to bone. The fulfillment of these words has already taken place at the turn of the 20th century under the Zionist movement. The result of World War 1 was the Balfour Declaration of 1917 creating a home land for the Jews in Palestine. The creation of this homeland for the Jews took place in a time of great noise and shaking in the wars of W.W.1. A time when a more powerful form of dynamite was invented (by a Jew) and first time the world saw airplane warfare as bombs dropped causing a lot of shaking and noise. Because this homeland was created, Jews that were scattered among all nations for over 2500 years began to return in small numbers - bone to his bone.   Then  W.W.2 and Hitler came along and many Jews fled Europe. This was another time of great noise and shaking and sinews and flesh came upon these bones as they became a people and a nation in May, 1948. The bones now had form and had a visible face as a nation among nations. Since then the partial return of the Jews has continued on into the 21st century but the nation still has no breath - that is - Spirit of God upon them as a nation in covenant with Jehovah God as they were in the days of their fathers. We will see in phase 3 of the mass return God will cause them to turn to Him in repentance for their past sins and turn to obey Jehovah God of their fathers (future repentance required as Moses prophesized in Lev 26:40-45 before all Jews can return to their land). We will also see in phase 3 the reappearance of the Ark of the Covenant with mighty power as God's banner of Covenant Presense is with them and leads them out of Egypt as a mighty army to Mount Zion (phase 4). National repentance will allow the Spirit of God to be upon them in a Covenant relationship of blessings that they not perish as a nation and a people but demonstrate to the world God's Covenant faithfulness that He made with their Fathers (Ancestors - Lev 26:45). Moses spoke of this required repentance after they had been scattered among their enemies and their 'time of iniquity' that has come upon them (Lev 26:41) (which ends around 200? A.D. - see Ezekiel 4)

Leviticus 26:40-45
40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her Sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.
46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
 
  The Jews turning back to Jehovah God during the mass return is not them accepting Christ at this time, but a returning back to being a covenant nation with Jehovah God of their fathers so God can bless them. It will take another series of prophecies after the rapture that are connected with Daniel's 70th week (last 7 years before Christ returns - see chart above and also Daniel 11 page 3) to prepare the nation of Israel to accept Christ which they do and Christ returns (see Kingdom).
  The reason the Jews lost the land and were scattered for over 2500 years is because of sin and disobedience (see charts - intro). How long then can God allow the partial return of the land and Jews to continue into the 21st century, if they do not turn to obey God being sin and disobedience the very reasons why they were scattered all these years to begin with! Now here in the 21st century, the 'Day of calamity' is going to come upon the Jews and now they are dying off in the wilderness of Egypt (phase 1 - see chart above) and seeing their land in the hands of their worst enemies (phase 2 - see chart above). Can these bones live (37:3)? Only if they have breath can they be resurrected as a nation and as a people again.

9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

  Ezekiel's prophesies (37:9) to bring breath into them is a picture of many prophecies that will be fulfilled in phase 3 (see chart above) to cause the Jews to repent to Jehovah so they can have breath. When they do, to their joy. the Ark of the Covenant will reappear and the Spirit of God enters them as a nation to live. A nation and a people that was about to perish (slain) now stands up as an exceeding great army heading out of Egypt to Zion (Phase 4 - see chart above).
   Ezekiel is told to prophesy to the 4 winds - that is to the north, south, east and west and for the breath of God - His Holy Spirit - to come from each direction and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.  'Slain'   describes the spiritual condition of the whole house of Israel. No nation wants them, their enemies are in possession of their land and casting lots for Jerusalem, and those Jews that are still scattered among the Gentile nations are as ones buried in a grave having very dry bones. Ezekiel prophesized, the Spirit of God comes upon the slain and they lived and stood up upon their feet - an exceeding great army.  As I said earlier, the Jews  repent to Jehovah so they can have breath (phase 3 page 1). When they do, to their joy. the Ark of the Covenant will reappear and the Spirit of God enters them as a nation to live (phase 3 page 2). A nation and a people that was about to perish (slain) now stands up as an exceeding great army heading out of Egypt to Zion (Phase 4 - see chart above).

11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off from our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

  Again,  this is the state of the Jews during the 'Day of calamity' after phase 1, phase2 but before they repent in phase 3 (next study). Their hope is gone - that is - the land of Israel that became a nation in 1948 A.D. that they worked so hard for during the 20th century on into the 21st century. The land that they tried to find a compromise with the surrounding nations but in the end the surrounding nations wanted all of it - the complete and permanent extinction of Israel as a nation and as a people. The remaining Jews worldwide seeing the dreams of their enemies being realized and they now say -their hope is gone - they are cut off for their parts (verse 11).
  Ezekiel 37:12 now says to the Jews still scattered among all nations calling their nations 'graves', because the Jews have been, in a spiritual sense, buried there for over 2500 years and their bones are very dry (spiritual condition). God says He will cause them to come up out of their graves - meaning God is going to stretch out His mighty arm and cause circumstances to bring them out of what is seemingly an impossible situation. God says they will come to the land of Israel. But the next verse says that He will put His Spirit in them first that they may live. This then is the role of Egypt (see phase 3) where the majority of Jews are that were either deported there in phase 1 or fled Israel in phase 2.   God pleads with them in the wilderness of Egypt as He did with their fathers in the days of Moses. Those that do not repent shall die in Egypt but those that do will come out of Egypt as an exceeding great army let by the Ark of the Covenant and God will place them in their own land Israel (phase 4). When God does this they will know in their heart God has done this. 

15 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

  God is simply saying, that at the time when God is bringing them out of their graves and brings them into the land of Israel that the 12 tribes will be treated as one people. There will be no division. After all, it has been over 2500 years they have been scattered and intermarried among the Gentiles and what tribe they belonged to in the past is forgotten.

21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and
their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

  After the Jews repent and turn to God (phase 3) and the mass return is complete (phase 4); God now says they shall be one nation and not divided as in the days when they were divided after Solomon into two nations. They will have one king and that is David. This will be fulfilled in the millenium after Christ's visible return and the defeat of Antichrist and his armies (see Kingdom).   Israel will have accepted Jesus as their Messiah and King of kings and Lord of lords. David who also has been resurrected at the rapture and returned with Christ is now their prince and national king. The Jews will live in the land given by God to Abraham forever - they and their children and their children's children. God will make a covenant of peace. This would be the covenant Christ will make with them when the Jewish nations accepts Him as Messiah which will bring them everlasting righteousness and peace (see Daniel 9). God will put His sanctuary in their midst. This is the millenium sanctuary spoken by Ezekiel 40-48. However, before Christ returns they will build a temple to house the Ark of the Covenant (timeframe 3) after the mass return (timeframe 2). Remember now, all the prophecies connected with the mass return in timeframe 2 happen before the rapture (see rapture generation table above). The Jews turning back to Jehovah God during the mass return is not them accepting Christ at this time, but a returning back to being a covenant nation with Jehovah God of their fathers. It will take another series of prophecies after the rapture that are connected with Daniel's 70th week (last 7 years before Christ returns - see chart above and also Daniel 11 page 3) to prepare the nation of Israel to accept Christ which they do and Christ returns (see Kingdom).

Ezekiel 37
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,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off from our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.
15 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and
their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
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