The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical ExpositionGaebelein, Arno Clemens
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The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition
Gaebelein, Arno Clemens
Bible. Ezekiel -- Commentaries
And Ezekiel was not the only prophet to whom was revealed the physical
blessing of the earth in the life and health giving stream. Isaiah had
the same vision. "And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the
thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of jackals where each
lay shall be grass with reeds and rushes" (Is. xxxv:7). "I will even
make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert" (Is. xliii:19).
"Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the
brier shall come up the myrtle tree" (Is. lv:13). "The desert shall
blossom like the rose" (Is. xxxv:1). Joel at the close of his great
vision concerning the still future day of Israel's tribulation and the
judgment of the nations following the time of trouble, and the Lord's
visible manifestation, also speaks of the blessings of the Millennium.
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop
down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of
Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the
house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim" (Joel iii:18).
Joel, one of the earliest prophets, living centuries before Ezekiel, saw
water coming forth from the house of the Lord for earthly blessings.
Still more definite is the great post-exilic prophet Zechariah. "And it
shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem;
half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the hinder
sea; in summer and in winter shall it be" (Zech. xiv:8).
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