God Must Intervene. Only an intervention of God can change the state of His people, and Raise Up A New People through which He can transfor the Nation. But what will cause God to intervene?
1. The condition of His people, the condition of the Church. God will intervene because the Church is not what He ordained it to be. God is grieved at the failure, and the defeat of the Church, and only He can change it. So He takes Ezekiel down into the valley. He is, as it were, saying to Ezekiel, 'I know the state of My people, but I am about to change things. My people will no longer be a valley of very dry bones. I am going to Raise them Up, and Make them An Exceeding Great Army. You just let me use you, and Do as I Tell you.
He said to Moses, 'I have surely seen the affliction of My people...I have heard their cry...I know their sorrows; and I am come down to deliver them...and bring them unto a good land...unto a land flowing with milk and honey...' Just let me use you. 'Come, and I will send you unto Pharoah, that you may bring forth My people...out of Egypt.'
Similarly, God knows the condition of the Church, and God Will Intervene to ensure that His People become All that He intends them to be, and to do all that He intends them to do.
2. God's Purpose. God has an eternal purpose. God cannot fail. His purpose will and must be fulfilled. His people; His Church is part of that purpose. His people may fail. They may fall short. They may be unfaithful to the covenant that God has made with them. They may become like a valley of very dry bones. They may be dead. But God's purpose will be fulfilled.
So God intervenes. You see, there is no other created beings through whom God can work. God has decided that He will work through humanity to fulfill His purpose. For that reason He created Israel to be 'a light to the nations.' For that reason He has created A New Israel, the Church. At times He may have to chastise them very severely. But He will Raise Them Up. God has an eternal purpoae to set up His kingdom in this earth. For that reason He created mankind in His image and likeness. That is how it is in His kingdom. For that reason He created the Family. For that reason He created the Nations. For that reason He created His Peculiar People. When they fail, God intervenes in a unique way.
3. The Prayers of His People.
There is always A Faithful Remnant among God's people who cry out to Him day and night. Though God may seem to take a long time to respond to their cry, He does aznd will respond. We love to quote 2 Chronicles 7: 14. "If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; the will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins, and heal their land." He told Moses that He had "Heard the cry of His people..."
So when the faithful remnant among God's people cry out to Him day and night, because of the condition into which they had fallen; when they are determined not to cease until God intervenes; when they do not fail in their intercession, but stand between God and His people as mediators, as their representatives, and plead with God to be mindful of His people, God intervenes.
But the Remnant among God's people must do more than make intercession. They must engage in spiritual warfare. You see, God has an enemy, and the Church has an enemy. That enemy is determined to destroy God's purpose, if he could. So he attacks the Church. He attacks the leadership. He infiltrates the Church with false doctrines. He deceives members of the Church and draws them away into his own church, and his own systems. So the Church is engaged in a fight. The Remnant must fight and defeat God's enemy and the enemy of the Church. God has placed His people in a position; He has given them power and authority; He has given them weapons. They can fight with and defeat the enemies of the Church and of the purpose of God. They great revivals of the Church are no doubt cases of God's Intervention to Raise Up His People.
4. God Intervenes Because Only He Can Save. Only God can raise up the Church when it becomes dead. Only He can save the nation when the enemy goes all out to destroy the nation. Only He can raise up A Man for the Hour; saturate him with His word; and Anoint him with the Holy Spirit and Power to speak the life-giving word, and call for the life-giving Spirit to raise up His people from death; give them Life, and make of them An Exceeding Great Army. Only God can do that, so God Must Intervene. Otherwise His people will perish. The nations will perish, and God's purpose will not be accomplished. But it is impossible for God to fail. So God Intervenes.
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