# Ezekiel’s Vision- Israel’s Revival - The Book of Ezekiel

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 16 Jan 2024, 13 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 132. Journey with Ezekiel to a valley filled with dry bones, a symbol of despair and hopelessness. Witness the miraculous moment when God commands Ezekiel to prophesy to these bones, leading to an awe-inspiring transformation where the bones come together, are covered with flesh, and are filled with breath, coming to life as a great army. This vision represents the revival and restoration of the nation of Israel. God's message to Ezekiel about the two sticks, representing Judah and Ephraim, further symbolizes the future unification of all Israel's tribes. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[0:01] Speaker 1: Dear God, you are bigger and stronger than anything else.
[0:03] Speaker 1: You can do anything. Thank you that you want to
[0:06] Speaker 1: be with us no matter what.
[0:07] Speaker 2: You will not forget us.
[0:08] Speaker 1: You want to fill us with your life forever. Please
[0:32] Speaker 1: use this story to remind us that we can always
[0:35] Speaker 1: have hope in your love and faithfulness. Thank you. We
[0:39] Speaker 1: love you. In Jesus' name, amen.
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[1:17] Speaker 4: Ezekiel's vision, Israel's revival. In our last story, Jerusalem was
[1:23] Speaker 4: besieged by Nebuchadnezzar and Jeremiah the prophet warned the people
[1:27] Speaker 4: of Judah to not go to Egypt, but they disobeyed.
[1:31] Speaker 4: In this story, we will learn about Ezekiel the prophet
[1:34] Speaker 4: who lived under the Babylonian captivity and his vision of
[1:38] Speaker 4: the Valley of Dry Bones and what it means for
[1:41] Speaker 4: God's people, as inspired by Ezekiel.
[1:48] Speaker 1: Hi there, it's Joya Sadler with the Kids Bible in
[1:50] Speaker 1: the Air podcast. I'm so happy you're here. Today we
[1:54] Speaker 1: get to hear a full story of hope about how
[1:57] Speaker 1: God will bring life back to his people in even
[2:01] Speaker 1: though they were taken away to Babylon. How did he
[2:04] Speaker 1: do it? Let's jump in and find out.
[2:09] Speaker 4: Ezekiel was a prophet of God. One day, the Spirit
[2:14] Speaker 4: of God led Ezekiel to a valley. The valley was
[2:17] Speaker 4: full of dry bones. The Spirit of God led Ezekiel
[2:21] Speaker 4: back and forth through the valley. Ezekiel noticed that there
[2:25] Speaker 4: were many bones in the valley. Then God asked Ezekiel,
[2:31] Speaker 4: Son of man, can these bones be brought back to life?
[2:35] Speaker 4: Ezekiel replied, God, you are in control of everything. Only
[2:41] Speaker 4: you know the answer to that question. Ezekiel was right.
[2:46] Speaker 4: Only God knows the answer to that question. So God
[2:51] Speaker 4: said to Ezekiel, Tell these bones to hear my word.
[2:56] Speaker 4: Tell them that I, God, am in control of everything.
[3:00] Speaker 4: Tell these bones that breath will enter them, and they
[3:04] Speaker 4: will come back to life. Tell them that I, God,
[3:08] Speaker 4: will cover them with flesh and skin, and I will
[3:12] Speaker 4: put breath back in them so they can come back
[3:15] Speaker 4: to life.
[3:16] Speaker 2: Then these bones will know that I, God, am the
[3:20] Speaker 2: one and only God.
[3:23] Speaker 4: Ezekiel listened to God, and he obeyed God. Ezekiel repeated
[3:28] Speaker 4: to the bones what God had said. As Ezekiel was
[3:31] Speaker 4: repeating what God said to the bones, there was a
[3:34] Speaker 4: great noise. All the bones in the valley began to rattle,
[3:39] Speaker 4: and bones were coming together. As Ezekiel watched, bones would join,
[3:45] Speaker 4: and flesh and skin would cover the bones. There was
[3:49] Speaker 4: only one problem. When the bones finished, there was no
[3:53] Speaker 4: breath in them. Then God said to Ezekiel, Son of man,
[3:59] Speaker 4: Tell the breath that I, God, am in control of everything.
[4:05] Speaker 4: Tell the breath to come from the four corners of
[4:08] Speaker 4: the earth and enter these dead bodies. Once the breath
[4:12] Speaker 4: enters them, they will come back to life. Ezekiel listened
[4:17] Speaker 4: to God again, and he obeyed God. Ezekiel repeated what
[4:21] Speaker 4: God had said. Then something incredible happened. Breath entered all
[4:28] Speaker 4: the dead bodies. and they came back to life. All
[4:32] Speaker 4: the bodies stood up on their feet, and Ezekiel noticed
[4:35] Speaker 4: it was a great army that came back to life.
[4:39] Speaker 4: Then God said to Ezekiel, Son of man, this is
[4:44] Speaker 4: all of the nation Israel. These bodies have no hope
[4:49] Speaker 4: because they are cut off from their homeland. Therefore tell
[4:53] Speaker 4: them that I, God, am in control of everything. I...
[4:58] Speaker 4: God will bring them back to their homeland, the land
[5:02] Speaker 4: of Israel.
[5:04] Speaker 2: I will put my spirit.
[5:05] Speaker 4: In everyone, and they all will live. Also I will
[5:11] Speaker 4: live with them.
[5:11] Speaker 2: In the land. Israel will know that whatever I say
[5:16] Speaker 2: comes to pass.
[5:18] Speaker 4: God finished speaking for a moment. Then he continued, saying, Ezekiel,
[5:25] Speaker 4: son of man, Take one stick and write Judah on it.
[5:30] Speaker 4: Then take a second stick and write Ephraim on it.
[5:35] Speaker 2: Join the two sticks together into one stick. Ezekiel, if
[5:39] Speaker 2: anyone asks you.
[5:41] Speaker 4: Why you did this, tell them that I, God, am
[5:45] Speaker 4: in control of everything. Tell the people that I, God,
[5:50] Speaker 4: will bring back all the shattered people of Israel. I
[5:55] Speaker 4: will reunite Israel and will bring them back to their homeland.
[5:59] Speaker 4: They will return to the mountains as one nation. They
[6:03] Speaker 4: will never be divided again, and they will never be
[6:07] Speaker 4: two nations again.
[6:09] Speaker 2: They will have one king.
[6:11] Speaker 4: They will no longer worship false gods, for I, God,
[6:15] Speaker 4: will save and cleanse them from all their sinful actions.
[6:19] Speaker 2: This time, they will follow my commands.
[6:23] Speaker 4: They will be careful on how they live, and they
[6:26] Speaker 4: will live in their homeland that I promised to their
[6:30] Speaker 4: ancestor Jacob. The people of Israel will live in the
[6:34] Speaker 4: land forever. I will make a peaceful covenant with them
[6:38] Speaker 4: that lasts forever. I will increase their numbers, and I
[6:43] Speaker 4: will live with them forever. Then the world will know
[6:47] Speaker 4: that I, God, am with Israel.
[6:56] Speaker 1: What a wonderful story of hope. After all the sorrow
[7:00] Speaker 1: the people of Judah had felt from being exiled to Babylon,
[7:03] Speaker 1: Ezekiel's words from the Lord had to feel like sunlight
[7:08] Speaker 1: shining through the clouds after a long, dark, stormy night.
[7:12] Speaker 1: Because those words told God's people that they were not forgotten,
[7:17] Speaker 1: that he hadn't given up on them. He would breathe
[7:20] Speaker 1: his life into them again, and they would live better
[7:24] Speaker 1: and stronger than ever. Ezekiel was in Babylon when he
[7:28] Speaker 1: received his vision from the Lord. But these ideas felt
[7:32] Speaker 1: kind of familiar, don't they? Do you remember another Bible
[7:36] Speaker 1: story where people had to leave their home because they sinned?
[7:39] Speaker 1: One where God also promised to fix everything and make
[7:43] Speaker 1: it even better than it was before? Yes, the story
[7:48] Speaker 1: of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Edom. You see,
[7:51] Speaker 1: from the very beginning of the Bible, God promised, has
[7:55] Speaker 1: wanted to share his home with people. Back when the
[7:58] Speaker 1: world was still perfect, he walked with Adam and Eve
[8:01] Speaker 1: in the garden. When life in the garden was just
[8:04] Speaker 1: a memory, God still wanted to share his home with people.
[8:08] Speaker 1: So he told Moses to build a house for him
[8:12] Speaker 1: called a tabernacle. Israel was just becoming a nation, and
[8:16] Speaker 1: so God walked with his people through the desert. When
[8:20] Speaker 1: life in the desert was just a memory, God still
[8:23] Speaker 1: wanted to share his home with his people. So King
[8:27] Speaker 1: Solomon built a house for God called the temple. Israel
[8:31] Speaker 1: was thriving as a glorious kingdom. And so God stayed
[8:35] Speaker 1: with his people in Jerusalem. But then the people sinned
[8:40] Speaker 1: a lot. They didn't care that God wanted to share
[8:42] Speaker 1: his home with them. And so one day Ezekiel had
[8:45] Speaker 1: a different vision. It was of God's presence leaving the temple.
[8:50] Speaker 1: Soon after, God's people were forced to leave Jerusalem. There
[8:56] Speaker 1: was no garden, tabernacle, or temple in Babylon. Was God
[9:01] Speaker 1: even there? His people hadn't worshipped him for so long.
[9:05] Speaker 1: They probably felt like their faith had died, like their
[9:08] Speaker 1: souls were nothing but hot, dry, dusty old bones. But
[9:12] Speaker 1: from the very beginning, God has wanted to share his
[9:16] Speaker 1: home with his people. And no matter what his people
[9:20] Speaker 1: did or how much they sinned, they could not change
[9:24] Speaker 1: his mind. Nothing you can do can change God's mind either.
[9:31] Speaker 1: He always wants to be with you because God's love
[9:35] Speaker 1: is bigger and longer and higher and stronger than you
[9:39] Speaker 1: or I could ever imagine. And he doesn't give up.
[9:43] Speaker 1: Even if your faith feels like nothing but dry, dusty
[9:46] Speaker 1: old bones. If we are faithless, he remains faithful. For
[9:51] Speaker 1: he cannot deny himself. He'll take what seems dead and
[9:56] Speaker 1: he'll bring it to life again. Breathe life into yourself.
[10:00] Speaker 1: soul just like he breathed life into adam back when
[10:04] Speaker 1: the world was still perfect you see in god's hands
[10:07] Speaker 1: even a faith that feels dead can come back to
[10:11] Speaker 1: life again that's what the lord wanted his people to
[10:14] Speaker 1: know when they were exiled in babylon that they were
[10:18] Speaker 1: not forgotten And he hadn't given up on them, that
[10:22] Speaker 1: he still wanted to share his home with them, that
[10:25] Speaker 1: their faith would come back to life. And years later,
[10:29] Speaker 1: when life in Babylon was just a memory, Jesus came
[10:33] Speaker 1: and made his home in Israel. He walked with his
[10:38] Speaker 1: people and told them, if you love me and keep
[10:41] Speaker 1: my teaching, my father and I will come and make
[10:45] Speaker 1: our home with you. Now, all these years later, nothing
[10:49] Speaker 1: has changed. To God, you are not forgotten. You are invited.
[10:55] Speaker 1: He won't give up on you. He invites you to
[10:58] Speaker 1: be in his family and accept Jesus as your savior. Today,
[11:03] Speaker 1: when you love Jesus, when you accept Him as your Savior,
[11:07] Speaker 1: ask Him to forgive you and receive His Holy Spirit,
[11:10] Speaker 1: He'll come and make His home in your heart. And
[11:14] Speaker 1: years from now, when life on earth is just a memory,
[11:17] Speaker 1: we'll walk again with God in His home, alive in
[11:22] Speaker 1: a way that's better and stronger than we've ever been.
[11:25] Speaker 1: And it will be perfect. I'm so glad you joined
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[11:33] Speaker 1: special boys from Judah that God used to do amazing
[11:36] Speaker 1: things in Babylon. Remember, the Bible is the best story
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