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Welcome to another installment of fighting for the faith on YouTube.
We're gonna chalk this up to our twist busters series if you've ever been told
that Ezekiel 37 the valley of the dry bones is about some kind of
dryness in your life.
Yeah, hit the subscribe button and don't forget to ring the bell.
You've been deceived that that that ain't what Ezekiel 37 is about at all.
In fact Ezekiel 37 the the vision of the valley of the dry bones the same
chapter the same chapter Gives God gives us the interpretation of the vision.
And so there are a lot of bad Bible teachers false teachers out there who like to
Use Ezekiel 37 to make it look like it has something to do with some dryness in your life case in point.
Paula White yeah, Paula White the televangelist.
Paula White who's pretty much destroyed the band journey for me.
Just saying.
But anyway, she's got a message titled prophesy to it
and This is just a classic example of what not to do with Ezekiel 37.
It ain't about any of the stuff she's gonna make it about so grab some popcorn.
Let's just jump right into it.
Shall we here's Paula White?
Ezekiel 37 1 through 14 is where you're gonna keep studying for a while.
The hand of the Lord was upon me and Carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord.
That starts out good.
May the hand of God which means his power and authority be upon you and God carried out in the Spirit of the Lord and
Set me down in the midst of a valley.
Isn't it interesting that that going God's hand is upon you his powers upon you that God will still
allow you to be set in a valley.
What I.
Never have been set in a valley.
I really have no idea what you're talking about lady.
What do you mean.
So, isn't it strange, you know.
When when the hand of Lord's upon you, isn't it weird that he drops you in valleys and stuff, huh?
This is nonsense.
Me you think man the hand of the Lord is upon me and he set me on the mountain top.
That's awesome.
But sometimes God's hand you've got to understand there's prophetic purpose for that prison Joseph.
There's prophetic purpose.
Joseph's time in prison has nothing to do with the Valley of the Dry Bones.
It's not even a cross -reference here.
What are you doing for that barrenness Hannah?
There's prophetic purpose for things that we don't understand why we go through sometimes for that prison.
Paul and Silas there.
There's reasons and God takes what the enemy I'm not saying God sent but God used.
God takes what the enemy meant for bad.
And he does turn it around for the good not for everybody.
For those who love anybody love God who are the called according to his Purpose.
I declare that God is doing a turnaround right now in your life.
In Jesus God's doing the hokey pokey.
You put your right foot in you put your right foot out.
You put your right foot in.
You shake it all about.
You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around.
Yeah, apparently God's doing the hokey pokey right now snake.
Sits him down in the midst of the valley and it's full of bones.
Notice the.
Music playing behind her.
This is also part of the show.
It's part of the emotional manipulation going on here.
So people have showed up to church and you know.
And so they've got difficult Circumstances in their life because I don't know if you've noticed this this life could really be tough at
times and so they're showing up and then good percentage of the people they're going through stuff and they
think they're hearing from God because you know Paula White said that God plunked him down in the
middle of a valley of dry bones and stuff.
Yeah, that's not what this text is about.
Caused me to pass around about them and there were many in the open valley and low.
They were very dry notice the Word of the Lord.
They weren't just dry.
They were very dry.
I'm in an impossible situation.
Wait a minute one more strike against my child.
He goes away for good this time.
Yeah.
That see the the very dry thing.
That has nothing to do with whether or not your child going to prison if he gets another strike.
Do that's not the dryness being referred to here.
I Just don't know what she's doing with that.
So let's take a look at the text in question.
Shall we?
Ezekiel 37 we've all heard it, you know, the hip bones connected to the thigh bone and you know, I like kind of stuff
man.
Now here the Word of the Lord.
Anyway, Ezekiel 37 the hand of the Lord was upon me and he brought me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me Down in
the middle of the vet of the valley.
It was full of bones and he led me around among them and behold there were many on The
surface of the valley and behold they were very dry.
They've been dead for a while right and he said to me son of man.
Can these bones live.
And I answered Lord.
You know.
Right and notice the safe answer there and then he said to me will prophesy over these bones and say to them Oh
dry bones hear the word of the Lord.
Thus says Yahweh Elohim to these bones.
Behold, I will cause breath to enter you and you shall live and I will lay sinews upon you and
I will cause flesh to come upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you and you shall live and
you Shall know that I am the Lord.
Okay, so I prophesied as I was commanded and I prophesied and there was a sound of behold Rattling and the
bones came together bone to its bone and I looked and behold there were sinews on them and flesh had come
upon Them and skin had covered them.
But there was no breath in them and then he said to me prophesy to the breath.
Right and the prophesy son of man and say to the breath.
Thus says Yahweh Elohim come from the four winds.
Oh breath and breathe on these slain's that they may live so I prophesied as he commanded me and
breath came into them and they lived and stood on their feet an exceedingly great army.
Okay so far so good.
What's it mean?
It's kind of quick.
This is the vision of the valley of the dry bones.
Verse 11 helps us verse 11.
So then he said to me son of man These bones are the whole house of Israel.
Behold, they say our bones are dried up.
Our hope is lost.
We are indeed cut off therefore prophesy and say to them thus says Yahweh Elohim
behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your
graves, oh my people and I will bring you into the land of Israel and you shall
know that I am Yahweh when I open your graves and raise you from your
Graves.
Mm -hmm.
Oh my people I will put my spirit within you and you shall live and I will place you in your own land and then you shall know That I
am Yahweh.
I have spoken and I will do it declares the Lord.
What is this a prophecy about?
The resurrection of the dead.
Right.
Has this happened yet?
No, this will happen when Jesus returns in glory to judge the living and the dead
that being the case.
This is a prophecy regarding the resurrection.
The thing coming the new earth and stuff, you know God making his dwelling place with man see the back part of the
book of Revelation if you're unclear about the details.
But this isn't about Dryness in your life.
You're your son going to prison or you not being able to pay your credit card bills or you
having you know.
Some kind of an ailment, you know.
Plantar fasciitis and stuff like this ain't about that.
But see Paula White number one.
She shouldn't be doing what she yeah, she shouldn't be doing what she's doing right there.
No God's Word forbids women to preach so she's preaching.
She shouldn't be and not only is she preaching she's twisting up God's Word and boy.
She sure does like, you know.
Let's say she likes the very expensive clothing to wear as part of her wardrobe during her
sermons and stuff.
Hmm we continue.
This is very dry.
Yeah one more time.
I don't pay that bill.
I'm going into bankruptcy.
This is yeah, it's not talking about that either.
Very dry.
Anybody been in a very dry.
I mean, it's not just it's one thing to be dry.
It's another thing.
You're looking like man.
I'm right there on the edge.
It's as dry as Paula White's church when it comes to Having a drought
of the Word of God.
Notice the arid Desert -like climate in there does the rain of the of the Word
of God is clearly passing over them and they will not be Getting the life -giving rain of
God's Word properly taught.
It's a very dry situation.
And so he says it's very dry and he said to me son of man Can these bones live.
And that's the question that God's asking you right now?
The.
No, no.
Mm.
Yeah, no God God's not asking you or me.
Can these bones live?
You're looking at something that has the ability to bring forth structure, which means Reformation which is great
greater than revival.
Bring forth structure, which is greater than reformation, which is greater than revival.
That's word salad right there.
That didn't mean nothing.
Yeah, it means that literally you're you're an agent of change.
So, I know I'm preaching so I what.
What being an agent of change.
Okay a little while you're standing too, but it's like when Isaac was in Genesis chapter 26.
Remember it was famine in the land.
Yeah, and Isaac goes and said should I leave.
And God says what no don't leave.
Why.
Because what he wanted to know is your sin as an agent of change.
So I've so you notice the guy playing the keyboard in the background there that that's Jonathan from
Journey, like I said Paula White's ruined journey for me.
But you in a famine and I'm keeping you in that famine not because I want to hurt you.
Not because I'm a mean God not because I'm abusive because there's so much power on the inside of
you through my spirit.
That you are sent in a famine time to be an agent of change.
So that famine is she talking about?
Set to the famine.
Time to be an agent of change, you know during those dry seasons.
Right gonna change you Isaac.
You're about to change it.
I don't know who I'm here for but somebody's there for their money.
You're not there for them.
You're there to Basically lift dollars out of their wallets and put it into yours and as an agent of
change in their family.
An agent of change in their nation an agent of change.
And you've got to have a different perception a Prophetic perception the knowledge the wisdom of God to begin
to understand that God's not trying to hurt you.
He's a good God.
He's saying you're not a victim to the famine the famine.
God is saying I'm not a victim to the family.
More words salad here.
Even cheese crumbles couldn't make this palatable.
Them to who I am in you and so you're an agent of change you're about to bring Transformation in
that situation that looks barren.
I'm about to bring trans Transformation in that situation that looks barren.
Blue sleeps faster than Tuesday.
Totally solid.
As far as structure is concerned is sentence structure don't mean nothing though.
So we ask him he says son of man, what are you going to do?
And that's the real question.
You're in a valley.
It's very dry.
They're bones.
There's no structure.
What do you know structure?
There's bones everywhere, man.
It's like a Lego set when you first get it in the box and you open up the bag is No
structures is bricks.
Okay, you pastor Todd.
What are you gonna do BJ?
What are you gonna do Nelson?
What are you gonna do?
Doc, you're Felipe.
Because the question is not what God's going to do.
He wants to be glorified.
He wants to show off.
So you're you're ungodly.
He then say boo friends.
Come on I'm gonna look back and they're gonna go.
Did she say my boo friends?
Okay, look what the Lord has done in a cynical
Chaotic culture that we live in look what the Lord has done.
Where they think that that God's not moving and people just play in church.
God says I have a remnant in the earth I have a people I'm not in trouble.
They're gonna stand back and say look what the Lord has Done and so he said son of
He said can these bones live?
He puts it the ball back in his court and he answered Lord, you know again.
He said well then prophesy to these bones say to them old dry bones.
Hear the word of the Lord.
So what he's saying to you is you've received the word prophesy to your home
prophesy to your children.
That's Not what God said, you know, I read out the interpretation of
the vision and it's about the resurrection.
Yeah, it's not weird.
Yeah side to whatever is a dead structure.
Come on a dead bone.
Do you have any dead structures in your life you need to prophesy to them.
Thus saith the prophetess Paula white while twisting up Ezekiel
37 it don't mean nothing.
So yeah, there's a bazillion different ways to twist up Ezekiel 37.
But scripture gives us the interpretation of the vision of the valley of dry bones.
So, you know, all you need is good reading comprehension and you know what it actually
Refers to and means.
So yeah, hopefully you found this helpful so that you can protect yourself and others
because this is a famous passage that gets twisted up all the time and This is the technique that's being used.
But now, you know what it says, you know what it means.
So if you're sitting in church and Somebody tells you that you're in a dry situation in your life and you need to
prophesy to it.
You can Prophetically walk out that door and never return to that church because you know, you ain't being taught God's work
correctly at all.
That's kind of the idea.
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Amen.
You.