Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.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.Therefore prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
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… Thus says the Lord God, I'm going to open your graves and bring you up from your graves. O my people, I will bring you back to the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord when I open your graves and bring you up from your graves. O my people, I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil, and then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act, says the Lord. Another translation, just a few verses from the contemporary English version says, Some time later, I felt the Lord's power take control of me, and His Spirit carried me to a valley full of bones. The Lord showed me around, and everywhere I looked, I saw bones, and they were dried out. He said, Ezekiel, son of man, can these bones come back to life? I replied, Lord God, only you can answer that. He then told me, dry bones, listen to what the Lord is saying. …
… says, therefore prophesy and say to them, this is what the sovereign Lord says, oh my people, I'm going to open your graves and bring you up from them. I will bring you back to the land of Israel, then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord when I open your graves, take your deadness, basically, and bring you up from them, and I will, check this out, 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. So the first thing the Holy Spirit's enabling us to do in Acts chapter 2 is to experience God's presence. All throughout the Old Testament, at different points, we see the Spirit of God coming upon people, but he didn't stay upon them. He would come and leave. When we get to Acts chapter 2, this wind comes, and it's a symbol of the presence of God, just like Ezekiel chapter 37, verse 13 and 14. It said, he said, I'm going to put my spirit not with you, but in you. The Spirit of God is not just going to dwell among you. The Spirit of God is going to live inside of you, and that's exactly what we see happening here in Acts chapter 2. The Spirit of God coming to dwell not just among his people, but in his people. And so the Holy Spirit …
… computers and right in this space right now so let us get ready for a word from the Lord. We'll be reading from Ezekiel chapter 37 verses 1 through 14 and it reads the hand of the Lord came upon me and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley. It was full of bones. He led me all around them. There were very many lying in the valley and they were very dry. He said to me, mortal, can these bones live? I answered, oh Lord God, you know. Then he said to me, prophesy to these bones and say to them, oh dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones, I will cause breath to enter you and you shall live. I will lay sea news on you and will cause flesh to come upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you and you shall live and you shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I had been commanded and as I prophesied suddenly there was a noise, a rattling and the bones came together bone to its bone and I looked and there were sinews on them and flesh had come upon them and skin had covered them, but there was no breath in them. …