Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000682
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00:15 Hello and welcome to "His Words are Life."
00:17 I'm Kelly Mowrer and today we're going to be reading 00:20 together from the Book of Ezekiel, 00:22 but first let's pray. 00:24 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much 00:26 that You're our redeemer and our shepherd 00:30 that You come after us and restore us to Yourself. 00:35 We need to be brought back home to You again. 00:39 Please be with us now as we read 00:41 and send Your Holy Spirit to help us 00:43 to understand the message You've for each of us. 00:46 We love You so much and thank You for loving us. Amen. 00:50 We're reading in the Book of Ezekiel 00:52 in Chapter 36 beginning with verse 34 00:56 and this is the King James Version. 00:59 "And the desolate land shall be tilled, 01:02 whereas it lay desolate 01:03 in the sight of all that passed by. 01:04 And they shall say, This land that was desolate 01:06 is become like the garden of Eden, 01:09 and the waste and desolate 01:10 and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. 01:13 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know 01:17 that I the Lord build the ruined places, 01:21 and plant that, that was desolate, 01:24 I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it. 01:28 Thus saith the Lord God, 01:29 I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, 01:32 to do it for them, 01:34 I will increase them with men like a flock. 01:37 As the holy flock, 01:38 as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts, 01:42 so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men, 01:46 and they shall know that I am the Lord." 01:51 Continuing to read in Ezekiel Chapter 37, 01:54 this is the King James Version. 01:57 "The hand of the Lord was upon me, 01:59 and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, 02:01 and set me down in the midst of the valley 02:04 which was full of bones, 02:06 And caused me to pass by them round about, 02:08 and, behold, there were very many in the open valley, 02:12 and, lo, they were very dry. 02:15 And he said unto me, Son of man, 02:18 can these bones live? 02:20 And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. 02:25 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, 02:29 and say unto them, 02:30 O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 02:34 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones, 02:37 Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, 02:41 and ye shall live, 02:43 And I will lay sinews upon you, 02:45 and will bring up flesh upon you, 02:47 and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, 02:50 and ye shall live, 02:51 and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 02:54 So I prophesied as I was commanded, 02:58 and as I prophesied, there was a noise, 03:02 and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, 03:06 bone to his bone. 03:08 And when I beheld, lo, 03:10 the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, 03:14 and the skin covered them above, 03:17 but there was no breath in them. 03:20 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, 03:24 prophesy, son of man, 03:25 and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God, 03:28 Come from the four winds, 03:30 O breath, and breathe upon these slain, 03:34 that they may live. 03:36 So I prophesied as he commanded me, 03:39 and the breath came into them, 03:41 and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, 03:45 an exceeding great army. 03:49 Then he said unto me, Son of man, 03:51 these bones are the whole house of Israel, 03:55 behold, they say, Our bones are dried, 03:58 and our hope is lost, we are cut off for our parts. 04:04 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, 04:06 Thus saith the Lord God, 04:08 Behold, O my people, 04:11 I will open your graves, 04:13 and cause you to come up out of your graves, 04:16 and bring you into the land of Israel. 04:19 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, 04:22 when I have opened your graves, 04:23 O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 04:27 And shall put my spirit in you, 04:29 and ye all live, 04:31 and I shall place you in your own land, 04:34 then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, 04:38 and performed it, saith the Lord. 04:41 The word of the Lord came again unto me, 04:43 saying, Moreover, thou son of man, 04:46 take thee one stick, and write upon it, 04:49 For Judah, and for the children of Israel 04:53 his companions, then take another stick, 04:56 and write upon it, For Joseph, 04:59 the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel 05:02 his companions, And join them one to another into one stick, 05:08 and they shall become one in thine hand. 05:10 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, 05:13 saying, Wilt thou not shew us 05:15 what thou meanest by these? 05:17 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, 05:20 Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, 05:22 which is in the hand of Ephraim, 05:24 and the tribes of Israel his fellows, 05:26 and will put them with him, 05:28 even with the stick of Judah, 05:29 and make them one stick, 05:31 and they shall be one in mine hand. 05:34 And the sticks whereon thou writest 05:37 shall be in thine hand before their eyes. 05:40 And say unto them, 05:41 Thus saith the Lord God, 05:43 Behold, I will take the children of Israel 05:45 from among the heathen, whither they be gone, 05:47 and will gather them on every side, 05:50 and bring them into their own land, 05:53 And I will make them one nation 05:54 in the land upon the mountains of Israel, 05:57 and one king shall be king to them all, 05:59 and they shall be no more two nations, 06:02 neither shall they be divided 06:03 into two kingdoms any more at all. 06:06 Neither shall they defile themselves 06:07 any more with their idols, 06:09 nor with their detestable things, 06:11 nor with any of their transgressions, 06:13 but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, 06:16 wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them, 06:20 so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. 06:26 And David my servant shall be king over them, 06:28 and they all shall have one shepherd, 06:30 they shall also walk in my judgments, 06:33 and observe my statutes, and do them. 06:36 And they shall dwell in the land 06:37 that I have given unto Jacob my servant, 06:40 wherein your fathers have dwelt, 06:42 and they shall dwell therein, 06:43 even they, and their children, 06:44 and their children's children for ever, 06:47 and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. 06:52 Moreover I will make 06:53 a covenant of peace with them, 06:55 it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, 06:58 and I will place them, and multiply them, 07:01 and will set my sanctuary 07:03 in the midst of them for evermore. 07:05 My tabernacle also shall be with them, 07:07 yea, I will be their God, 07:10 and they shall be my people. 07:13 And the heathen shall know that I the Lord 07:16 do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary 07:19 shall be in the midst of them for evermore." 07:24 Continuing with Ezekiel, Chapter 38, 07:27 this is the King James Version. 07:29 "And the word of the Lord came unto me, 07:31 saying, Son of man, 07:33 set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, 07:36 the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, 07:39 and prophesy against him, 07:40 And say, Thus saith the Lord God, 07:42 Behold, I am against thee, 07:43 O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, 07:47 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, 07:50 and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, 07:53 horses and horsemen, all of them 07:55 clothed with all sorts of armour, 07:57 even a great company with bucklers and shields, 07:59 all of them handling swords, 08:02 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them, 08:05 all of them with shield and helmetGomer, 08:08 and all his bands, 08:10 the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, 08:12 and all his bands, and many people with thee. 08:16 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, 08:19 thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, 08:22 and be thou a guard unto them. 08:24 After many days thou shalt be visited, 08:28 in the latter years thou shalt come into the land 08:30 that is brought back from the sword, 08:32 and is gathered out of many people, 08:33 against the mountains of Israel, 08:35 which have been always waste, 08:37 but it is brought forth out of the nations, 08:39 and they shall dwell safely all of them. 08:42 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, 08:44 thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, 08:46 thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. 08:50 Thus saith the Lord God, 08:51 It shall also come to pass, 08:53 that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, 08:57 and thou shalt think an evil thought, 08:58 And thou halt say, 08:59 I will go up to the land of unwalled villages, 09:02 I will go to them that are at rest, 09:05 that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, 09:09 and having neither bars nor gates, 09:12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey, 09:15 to turn thine hand upon the desolate places 09:18 that are now inhabited, and upon the people 09:20 that are gathered out of the nations, 09:21 which have gotten cattle and goods, 09:23 that dwell in the midst of the land. Sheba, 09:26 and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, 09:28 with all the young lions thereof, 09:31 shall say unto thee, 09:33 Art thou come to take a spoil? 09:35 hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? 09:39 to carry away silver and gold, 09:41 to take away cattle and goods, 09:43 to take a great spoil? 09:46 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, 09:50 Thus saith the Lord God, 09:53 In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, 09:56 shalt thou not know it? 09:58 And thou shalt come from thy place 10:00 out of the north parts, thou, and many people 10:02 with thee, all of them riding upon horses, 10:04 a great company, and a mighty army, 10:06 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, 10:09 as a cloud to cover the land, 10:11 it shall be in the latter days, 10:13 and I will bring thee against my land, 10:15 that the heathen may know me, 10:17 when I shall be sanctified in thee, 10:19 O Gog, before their eyes. 10:22 Thus saith the Lord God, 10:24 Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time 10:28 by my servants the prophets of Israel, 10:31 which prophesied in those days many years 10:34 that I would bring thee against them? 10:36 And it shall come to pass at the same time 10:39 when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, 10:42 saith the Lord God, 10:44 that my fury shall come up in my face. 10:47 For in my jealousy and in the fire 10:50 of my wrath have I spoken, 10:52 Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking 10:56 in the land of Israel, So that the fishes of the sea, 10:59 and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, 11:01 and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, 11:04 and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, 11:07 shall shake at my presence, 11:10 and the mountains shall be thrown down, 11:12 and the steep places shall fall, 11:14 and every wall shall fall to the ground. 11:18 And I will call for a sword 11:20 against him throughout all my mountains, 11:22 saith the Lord God, 11:23 everyman's sword shall be against his brother. 11:27 And I will plead against him 11:29 with pestilence and with blood, 11:30 and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, 11:33 and upon the many people that are with him, 11:35 an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, 11:39 fire, and brimstone. 11:42 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself, 11:46 and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, 11:50 and they shall know that I am the Lord." 11:55 Continuing in Ezekiel, Chapter 39 11:58 and this is the King James Version. 12:00 "Therefore, thou son of man, 12:03 prophesy against Gog, and say, 12:06 Thus saith the Lord God, 12:07 Behold, I am against thee, 12:10 O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, 12:13 And I will turn thee back, 12:15 and leave but the sixth part of thee, 12:20 and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, 12:22 and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel, 12:25 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, 12:28 and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. 12:31 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, 12:33 thou, and all thy bands, 12:35 and the people that is with thee, 12:37 I will give thee unto the ravenous 12:39 birds of every sort, 12:40 and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. 12:43 Thou shalt fall upon the open field, 12:46 for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. 12:49 And I will send a fire on Magog, 12:51 and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles, 12:55 and they shall know that I am the Lord. 12:59 So will I make my holy name known 13:01 in the midst of my people Israel, 13:04 and I will not let them pollute 13:05 my holy name any more, 13:08 and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, 13:11 the Holy One in Israel. 13:13 Behold, it is come, and it is done, 13:17 saith the Lord God, 13:18 this is the day whereof I have spoken. 13:22 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel 13:24 shall go forth, and shall set on fire 13:27 and burn the weapons, 13:28 both the shields and the bucklers, 13:30 the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, 13:32 and the spears, and they shall burn them 13:34 with fire seven years, 13:37 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, 13:39 neither cut down any out of the forests, 13:42 for they shall burn the weapons with fire, 13:44 and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, 13:47 and rob those that robbed them, 13:49 saith the Lord God. 13:51 And it shall come to pass in that day, 13:52 that I will give unto Gog 13:54 a place there of graves in Israel, 13:57 the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea, 14:01 and it shall stop the noses of the passengers, 14:04 and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude, 14:08 and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog. 14:13 And seven months shall the house of Israel 14:15 be burying of them, 14:17 that they may cleanse the land. 14:19 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them, 14:22 and it shall be to them a renown 14:24 the day that I shall be glorified, 14:26 saith the Lord God. 14:27 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, 14:31 passing through the land to bury with the passengers 14:34 those that remain upon the face of the earth, 14:36 to cleanse it, after the end of seven months 14:39 shall they search." |
Revised 2014-12-17