How firm a foundation, the

the foundation, he saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

You know, the Bible has some pretty amazing scenes that are way more awesome and scary in any blockbuster movie.

Welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwets, your host, and we're continuing in our five-year study through the Bible

in Ezekiel 36 and 37, and I'll just warn you, there's a scene in this study that's so awesome

that no CGI special effects could ever really do it justice.

Our scene takes place in the ancient valley of dry bones. Our teacher Dr. J. Vernon McGee likens it to Death Valley.

Dismembered skeletons spread across a huge valley.

Can you picture it?

And what happens next defies the imagination. Dr. McGee sets the

stage with his opening remarks so let's listen and then we'll commit this time to

the Lord in prayer.

This is a great chapter that we're coming to chapter 37. It is the Valley of Dead Bones.

It's interesting that we got a great lesson by going to the cemetery and we see these bones

coming alive. Now that does not have anything to do with the resurrection of believers today.

I know that there are great many that spiritualize this passage of scripture

and you have to spiritualize it because Ezekiel is making it very clear and he's very careful.

He says here that these bones are the whole house of Israel. He's speaking now of the nation. It's the

national resurrection. The resurrection of the it very clear when he says in the 14th verse of the 37th chapter he says I

the Lord have spoken it and performed it saith the Lord and he says that I'll not only place you in that land but I will

place my spirit in you and shall put my spirit in you.

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