Today is the 18th day of November. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It's great to be here with you today.

As we move forward together, one step at a time, day by day.

And so our next step forward, the one we're taking today, leads us back into the book of Ezekiel.

We're reading from the new international version this week. Ezekiel chapters 37 and 38 today.

The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley.

It was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley.

Bones that were very dry. He asked me, Son of Man, can these bones live?

I said, Suffering Lord, you alone know. Then he said to me, prophesied to these bones and say to them,

Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Suffering Lord says to these bones.

I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin.

I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

I looked in tendons and flesh, appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

Then he said to me, prophesied to the breath, prophesied Son of Man and say to it, this is what the Sovereign Lord says,

Come, breath from the four winds and breathe into these slain that they may live.

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them. They came to life and stood up on their feet, a vast army.

Then he said to me, Son of Man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, our bones are dried up, and our hope is gone. We are cut off.

Therefore, prophesied and say to them, this is what the Sovereign Lord says,

My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them. I will bring you back to the land of Israel.

Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord. When I open your graves and bring you up from them, I will put my spirit in you, and you will live.

And I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.

The word of the Lord came to me. Son of Man, take a stick of wood and ride on it. Be longing to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.

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