01/20/2023
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATION OF GOD’S SALVATION PROGRAM FROM THE BEGINNING WHEN WE WERE NOTHING BUT DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS…
By Chris McCann
Ezekiel 37:9-14:
Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord JEHOVAH; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 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. 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 for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord JEHOVAH; 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. And ye shall know that I *am* JEHOVAH, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 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 JEHOVAH.
This is a beautiful illustration of God’s salvation program from the beginning when we were nothing but dead in trespasses and sins until God formed the “body” and then completes it by breathing the spirit of life and raising up the dead out their graves and placing them in the spiritual land of Israel, the Promised land of the new heaven and new earth.
In Genesis 2, verse 7, we can see God’s salvation program, can we not? JEHOVAH God formed man out of the dust of the ground, but he lacked life. He lacked the breath of life, so God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
Yes, it is a historical record of the creation of the first man Adam and the human race. We know that, but, at the same time, it is a wonderful historical parable pointing to God’s formation of the “new creatures” that He would create through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ that had already been finished from the foundation of the world. The people of God will “live.” These precious souls and blessed individuals that God selected will live. He chose certain ones on which to bestow His grace and extend the sceptre of His mercy and to grant them eternal life. Already with the creation of the first man, God is looking ahead to the creation of the “new man” and that creation will be forever.
