God's Man for the Hour.

Ezekiel 37 is a powerful Revelation of God Resurrecting His people from being A Valley of Dry Bones, to Being An Exceeding Great Army.  This revelation appliies not only to the Israel of the Old Covenant, but also to Israel of the New covenant, the Church.  The Church of our Lord Jesus Christ, can, no doubt find itself fallen to a state in which it may be described as A Valley of dry Bones ( see Rev. 2-3).  But the Lord's Purpose is to Raise up that Church and Make of it An Exceeding Great Army.

But, for the Church to be Resurrected to such A Victorious Army, God Must have A Man for the Hour.  God needs A Man who can speak His Word for the Hour with Unique Power and Effectiveness.  God needs A Man, A Mighty Intercessor, through whose Intercession the Holy Spirit is poured out in such measure as to give life to dry bones and dead bodies, and raise them up, A Victorious Army.

God's Man For The Hour.

What kind of Man is this?

1.  He must be a Man who has Assimmilated the Word of God.  He has not only digested it.  He has Assimmilated it.  The word has become part of him.  In chapters 2 and 3 of his book, the Lord God says to Ezekiel,  "Open thy mouth and eat that I give thee.  And...a hand was sent unto me, and low a roll of a book was therein." Moreove, He said unto me, "Son of man, eat that thou findest.  Eat this roll and go, speak to the house of Israel,  So I opened my mouth and He caused me to eat that roll...Go, get thee to the house of Israel, and speak with my word unto them."  Ezekiel, digested, and assimmilated the word of God written on that roll.  The the Lord commanded him, "Get thee to the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them."

2.  He must be a man filled with, and contolled by the Holy Spirit.  As the Lord speaks to Ezekiel, the Spirit enters into him and causes him to stan upon his feet, Ez. 2: 2.  lifted him up, The Spirit took him up, 2: 12, 14.  The SpiritAfter he is commissioned by the Lord, the Spirit lifted him up and carried him and set him down among the captive people by the river Chebar.  The Spirit entered into him and commanded him to shut himsel in his house. 

Ezekiel often refers to 'the hand of the Lord being upon him, or the hand of the Lord falling upon him...Are these reference to the powerful working of the Spirit in him?  In chapter 37 the spoken word has caused bodies to be formed from the dry bones.  But there is no life in them.  It is when the Spirit comes into them that they lived, stood upon their feet, An Exceeding great army.  What is the river flowing from the temple, giving life to all it touches?  Is that also a reference to the work of the Holy Spirit?

So then, it is God using the man He has chosen to Speak His word and to Interceed for the Holy Spirit, that a valley of dry bones is resurrected to An Exceeding Great Army.