Resuscitating Dry Bones: Faith, Restoration, and the Sovereignty of God
When your hope feels gone and you feel completely cut off, listen for the dry bones rattling. Ezekiel 37 reminds us that God is fully able to deliver, heal, and restore whatever He wishes—bringing a small faithful remnant unto Himself. Keep an eye on eschatological timelines, stop chasing worldly finance capitals, and give God a workable heart.
This is the sound of dry bones rattling—bohm! bahm! bahm! down, down. I had to do that; that’s from the Zach Williams song called *Rattle*, and it’s based upon Ezekiel 37 through 39. In chapter 37, God talks about how these bones represent the people of Israel crying out that their bones are dried up, their hope is gone, and they feel cut off. In the song, it says my God is able to save, deliver, heal, and restore anything He wants to—so amen to that.
Those of you who know the story of my mother from a while back know she was on her way out and doctors couldn’t figure it out. Right immediately after I prayed with her—and she took so well to engaging with the Lord with me—they scrambled, got a new doctor, a new diagnosis and a new prescription. There was an instant pivot. You can’t tell me the Lord didn’t resuscitate those dry bones! Update for June 2026: she has been fine all this time in regards to her illness and is deeply in the faith for Jesus. Amazing! If you focus on what happens in Ezekiel 37, you can completely restore your own faith.
### **Ezekiel, the Son of Man**
Throughout this book, God refers to Ezekiel as the “Son of Man.” This immediately evokes questions of Ezekiel as a type of Christ. While he isn’t a type of Christ in the exact way Moses, Joshua, or Melchizedek are, he is one of the most messianic of the Old Testament prophets and a powerful voice of hope and future restoration. Jesus later used this exact term, “Son of Man,” to proclaim His own deity.
We also have to look at the eschatological side. You Tube influencers and internet wackos feel we are right on the verge of the Ezekiel 38 war, also known as the Gog-Magog War. While Iran, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya, and Turkey are involved in that lineup, it’s actually more likely we are looking at the Psalm 83 war cooking up right now—which involves Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. There is a possibility Ezekiel 38 and Psalm 83 will come together at the same time in a geopolitical conflict. Nobody knows for sure, but it doesn’t appear Ezekiel 38 is exactly what’s going on this very second.
### **The Gathering of the Remnant**
A massive part of Ezekiel 38 to 39 is when God says, *”I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone… and bring them back into their own land.”* When Jewish people arrive in Israel from New York or elsewhere, they kiss the ground because they feel the fulfillment of this prophecy in their bones. Yet, a lot of Jewish people in New York have not returned, choosing career and the capital of finance over going home to the center of everything biblical.
The majority of Jews consider their Jewishness a heritage or a cultural thing rather than a faith, reading the Talmud or nothing at all. I am a Levite and I grew up in that. Only a small remnant—about 1%—see through the veil and believe. New York has continuous issues. I grew up there in the 1970s—blackouts, heatwaves, 44 caliber homicides in 1977—it wasn’t great. Many have conflict in their hearts because they would rather chase careers in places like New York City under a Muslim mayor than return where God called them. If God says He will gather them and people don’t go, that’s a serious thing.
### **Keep an Eschatological Eye Open**
There’s no way to cover Ezekiel 37 through 39 in five minutes, but God will do His work in anybody who offers Him a workable heart. My mom had her 86-year-old Jewish dry bones brought back to life and to faith, praise the Lord! Keep an eschatological eye on Ezekiel; he didn’t eat cow dung for nothing.
I totally enjoy providing these for you daily, God willing. Take a bigger bite out of this word this week. See you around. Amen.
**PRAYER FOR WHOMSOEVERS**
Lord, we thank You that You are the God who breathes life into dry, dead places. Where our hope feels dried up or cut off, rattle the bones and let Your Spirit bring restoration. We pray for the remnant to see through the veil and return to You. Give us workable hearts, keep our eyes fixed on Your prophetic timeline, and strengthen our faith to trust Your healing power. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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### 7 Short Corroborating Scripture Quotes
* **Ezekiel 37:4**
*”Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.”*
* **Matthew 8:20**
*”And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.”*
* **Psalm 83:4**
*”They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.”*
* **Ezekiel 39:27**
*”When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;”*
* **Romans 11:5**
*”Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.”*
* **Jeremiah 32:27**
*”Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?”*
* **Ezekiel 4:15**
*”Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.”* (read the full scripture for context)
