diff --git a/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_37:15-28.md b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_37:15-28.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5aa0021 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_37:15-28.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ ++++ +title = "Ezekiel 37:15–28" +date = "2023-06-22" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ezekiel37.15-28) + +Now that the vision of the dry bones has been completed, Ezekiel brings +another message of peace and restoration to the exiles. To make a visual +aid for the Lord's message, he takes two sticks and writes on them the +names "Judah" and "Ephraim". These were the names of the two main tribes +of the southern and northern kingdoms of Israel, respectively. Though +these were the main tribes, the sticks each represent all of the tribes of +their kingdom. + +Ezekiel then joins the sticks together into one stick in his hand. The +people see this and they ask what he means by doing that. Now, they aren't +stupid; it's obvious what that signifies, so I'm sure they have an idea. +What they want him to do is to explain the details. He has their attention, +and now they want him to speak clearly. + +He tells them that the Lord has plans to bring together all of His chosen +people from the nations back to the land that He had promised their +forefathers. No longer will they be two nations and kingdoms, but one +people as they were before. When He does, He will set up His servant David +to be their king forever. Their children will multiply and inhabit the +land forever. But not only that, God Himself will set up His sanctuary on +earth and permanently dwell with His people forever. + +Two sticks being brought together in a hand certainly mean something +significant when the prophet of the Lord does it, but I doubt they expected +all this. They had had the Messianic prophecies of Isaiah and Micah for +about a hundred years by this point, but I don't think there was much +understanding about what His appearance would mean for them yet. + +* * * + +Your lovingkindness is bountiful and comforts Your people through all ages. diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix index 1feba0f..586b196 100644 --- a/flake.nix +++ b/flake.nix @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ defaultPackage = self.packages.${system}.blog; devShell = mkShell { - packages = [ just zola ]; + packages = [ helix just zola ]; shellHook = '' ln -fsn "${hermit-zola}" "themes/${themeName}" '';