From 59164c8569d7edd2001bc9084fa1cd1789dda910 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 23:44:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Ezekiel 47:1-12 --- content/bible_journal/ezekiel_47:1-12.md | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/ezekiel_47:1-12.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_47:1-12.md b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_47:1-12.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0fb9996 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_47:1-12.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ ++++ +title = "Ezekiel 47:1–12" +date = "2023-07-19" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ezekiel47.1-12) + +With new law for the temple prescribed and written down, Ezekiel is shown +something new. A fountain of water springs up inside the temple, trickling out +of the southern half of the east threshold, which is the front entrance. It +goes south of the altar, presumably through the courts, and out the eastern +wall that has the gate sealed shut. Several other passages of Scripture mention +a river flowing from Jerusalem, and this isn't even the first one. [Psalm +46](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Psalm46) speaks of a river that makes the city +where God dwells glad. Jerusalem has never had a river, even in ancient times, +but that psalm goes on to describe the end of war because God takes His throne +on the earth. [Zechariah 14](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Zecharaiah14) and +[Revelation 22](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Revelation22) also describe a +river (or two) flowing from the city of God in the end times. + +The angelic surveyor guides Ezekiel out of the city and every 500 yards they +go, they see how deep the water is.It gets deeper the further east they go: +first it is ankle-deep, then knee-deep, and then waist-deep, and finally it is +too deep to cross, possibly because Ezekiel can't swim or it is just too +dangerous for anyone to cross. As strange as it is for a trickle of water to +become a torrent further from its source, it is not the most remarkable thing +about this river. It flows into the Dead Sea, but its water will become fresh +because of the river flowing from the temple. Fish will inhabit the +no-longer-dead sea, as many as can be found in the Mediterranean Sea, and trees +will grow on both banks of the river providing food all year round. + +The Dead Sea is so salty because it has no outlet streams, so all the water +that comes into it from the Jordan River and other sources simply evaporates. +The surrounding land contains salt deposits which are dissolved in the river +water and flow into the sea where they are deposited. It is feasible that +simply pouring a bunch of water from Jerusalem into the sea bed so that it +overflows could actually wash out the salty water and make it suitable for +marine life. I don't know if that would take a supernatural amount of water to +do that, but considering how it starts, this is not an ordinary river. + +* * * + +You will heal Your broken world when You establish Your kingdom.