week of 11/30

 Unit 15  Session 5

GOD'S REVIVAL PROMISED

EZEKIEL 37:1-14

 

Key Concept:

God revives His people when hope seems lost.

Ezekiel was brought up to be a priest in Jerusalem, but he was carried away to Babylon during the first wave of the Babylonian exile. Yet even there, the Lord's hand was on him, and he was called by the Lord as a prophet. Ezekiel prophesied to the people who remained in Judah that their hardheartedness and sin would result in the Lord's abandonment of the temple and the total destruction of Jerusalem. When God's judgment came to pass, the people understandably lost all hope. They had earned their punishment. But God still had a plan for His people, and Ezekiel prophesied their revival and spiritual new birth.

As you examine Ezekiel 37:1-14:

 

✞   Visualize Ezekiel's experience of God commanding him to 

    tell dry bones to come to life and them obeying.

     

✞   Reflect upon the role of the Holy Spirit in transforming us 

    and drawing us out of hopelessness.