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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, “Prophesy unto the wind.” That seems a very absurd thing to do, but there are no absurdities where God gives his commands.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And say to the wind, Thus saith the lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me,- Ezekiel was very obedient; he only wanted to know his Lord’s will, and then he raised no question, but did at once just as he was told to do: “So I prophesied as he commanded me.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. “There is no hope for us; we are dead, and worse than dead. Our case is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. There was to be a house of Israel after all. The nation seemed to be dead and buried, but God would revive and restore it. This is a promise which may apply...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, Great deliverances and almighty quickenings reveal God to us, and make us know how gloriously great Jehovah is.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. When the Jews get back to Canaan again,-as they will do,-they will then not only know that Jehovah is God, but also that Jesus Christ is the true Messiah. May the Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Moreover, thou son of man, Notice how the Lord constantly calls the prophet “son of man.” When God uses his servants much, and greatly honours them, he always takes care to keep them humble by reminding them of what they are in themselves. So, Ezekiel, you have prophesied to the dry bones, and they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick,- Or, rod, — Eze_37:16. And write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: They were divided into separate companies, they first wandered away from God, and then they wandered...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And join there one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. As he held them in his hand, they were to grow into one; and, when all the churches get into the hand of Christ, there will be perfect unity between them. Things that are near to the same thing are near to one another; but, until the Lord shall come, and take...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their GOD. This applies first to Israel literally, and then...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David my Servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. Oh, for the one king to reign over the one people, who shall keep the one law, and walk in holiness and humility before the one Lord!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. Surely God does not treat the saints now worse than he treated Israel in the days of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: Oh, that blessed word everlasting! A salvation which is not everlasting is not worth having; any promise that is not fulfilled, any grace that can fail, is not God’s promise or God’s grace.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. In the 23rd verse, the Lord’s promise was, “They shall be my people, and I will be their God,” and here, grace seems to ring the changes by reversing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.