OUR LORD WHO REVIVES HIS PEOPLE

Ezekiel chapter 37 verse 14 says this;

I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’”

This verse concludes the famous passage in Ezekiel chapter 14 where the prophet wrote of his experience in the valley of dry bones.

In the Spirit, Ezekiel was taken to a valley littered with dry bones and the Lord commanded him to prophecy to the bones to be reconstituted into living bodies and that they would be revivified. 

Ezekiel did as he was commanded and the dry bones reassembled themselves and were covered with tissue and skin and then they were given breath and they arose to their feet - a vast army.

The Lord then explained the scene to Ezekiel telling him that the dry bones represented the people of Israel who had been in a state of hopelessness and despair as recorded in verse 11;

“Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’"

Proverbs 17 verse 22 echoes the condition they were in by saying;

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

The Lord, in His sovereignty, revived all the people who were dead and when they stood up, they were an army of men filled with the Spirit of God.

This is the vast army that the Lord mustered in  Isaiah chapter 13  verse 4 that appeared out of nowhere.

Listen, a noise on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations massing together! The Lord Almighty is mustering an army for war.

This army is also described in Joel chapter 2 verse 2;

Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was in ancient times nor ever will be in ages to come.

This spiritual army is now being conscripted. The people of God who were dead are being revived and they are learning their places in the formations under the command of the Lord Almighty.

Pray and intercede always for these are the prerequisites to be joined to the army of the Lord.

Amen.